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Crime Alert 12.25.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news. Now. A
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania's six year old gets off the school bus very
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  Speaker 1: upset with red marks on his neck. He tells his
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  Speaker 1: parents that the bus aide MacArthur Wilson choked him. Wilson's
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  Speaker 1: been asked to sit with the boy as the bus
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  Speaker 1: nears his stop. Surveillance footage shows Wilson struggling with the
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  Speaker 1: boy's seat belt and putting his hands around the boy's
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  Speaker 1: neck until the driver yelled at him.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy aids on school buses transporting young children typically helps
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  Speaker 2: students get ready to get off the bus at the
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  Speaker 2: correct stop. Wilson was choking the boy just about a
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  Speaker 2: minute before the bus reached his stop. Neither the bus
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  Speaker 2: driver or Wilson informed the boy's parents of the incident.
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  Speaker 1: Wilson's seventy two, now charged with strangulation, reckless endangerment, and
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  Speaker 1: assault on the little boy. A Florida woman calls cops
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  Speaker 1: convinced she hears a baby crying in the woods. Cops
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  Speaker 1: find a newborn placenta still attached alone in fifty degree weather.
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  Speaker 1: They named the baby Angel Grace for surviving the cold
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  Speaker 1: and crying loudly. Enough to be heard. Ten months later,
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  Speaker 1: just in time for Christmas, a Florida family officially adopts Angel.
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  Speaker 1: The family fostered the baby while cops tried to locate
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  Speaker 1: the birth mom, and the parents say welcoming Angel to
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  Speaker 1: the family is the best Christmas ever. Wow, some miracles
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  Speaker 1: do still happen. More Crime and Justice news after this
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime
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  Speaker 1: Onlines Jackie Howard.
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  Speaker 3: The Idaho hole where four college students were stabbed to
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  Speaker 3: death will be demolished in just a few days, and
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  Speaker 3: now both the prosecution and defense have been inside before
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  Speaker 3: it happens. The prosecution team was granted access last week,
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  Speaker 3: but no specific reason was given as to why or
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  Speaker 3: what was done. The defense was given access to collect
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  Speaker 3: photos and measurements and other relevant material. Families of three
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  Speaker 3: of the victims, however, have expressed their preference for the
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  Speaker 3: house to be preserved. Here with Moore Sidney Sumner with
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  Speaker 3: Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Brian Coburger stands charged with four counts of murder and
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  Speaker 2: last November's killings at the rental house about a block
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  Speaker 2: from the university campus in Moscow, Idaho. Earlier this year,
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  Speaker 2: a court filed a not guilty plea on Coburger's behalf.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutor Bill Thompson Avlada County has stated that he plans
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  Speaker 2: to pursue the death penalty, although a trial date has
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  Speaker 2: not yet been scheduled. According to the university, Coburger's defense
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  Speaker 2: team had access to the house on two subsequent days.
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  Speaker 2: University officials say they intend to start destruction on December
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighth. The residents that claim the lives of students
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  Speaker 2: Ethan Shape and Santa Kernodle, Madison Mogan, and kay Leagan
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  Speaker 2: Solvis was donated to the university earlier this year in
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  Speaker 2: order to lessen the impact that the fatalities have had
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  Speaker 2: on the several students who live nearby. The university plans
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  Speaker 2: to demolish the house. Coburger was a graduate student at
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  Speaker 2: Washington State University, located just over the state line from
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  Speaker 2: the location of the killing, where he was studying criminology.
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  Speaker 2: The unusual facts of the case have sparked a great
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  Speaker 2: deal of interest. Since Coburger was taken into custody at
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  Speaker 2: his parents Pennsylvania home, Researchers have assembled DNA evidence, cell
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  Speaker 2: phone records, and security footage to establish a connection between
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  Speaker 2: Coburger and the killings.
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  Speaker 3: After demolition, and university representatives will collaborate with students to
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  Speaker 3: create a memorial garden to replace the home. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 3: prosecutors in Brian Coburger's murder trial have asked that the
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  Speaker 3: trial take place over six weeks this summer. Prosecutors want
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  Speaker 3: the trial scheduled while local high schools and the university
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  Speaker 3: are out. Prosecutors say that a summer trial would alleviate
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  Speaker 3: parking concerns and increase pedestrian safety around the courthouse. The
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  Speaker 3: high school is located right next door. A Western Michigan
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  Speaker 3: mother has been found guilty of murder and child abuse
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  Speaker 3: by a jury in connection with the starvation death of
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  Speaker 3: her fifteen year old disabled son. The boy weighed just
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  Speaker 3: sixty nine pounds at the time of his death, liberating
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  Speaker 3: for a little over an hour. The jury in Muskegon
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  Speaker 3: County Circuit Court found forty four year old Shanda van
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  Speaker 3: Ark of Norton Shore's guilty of Timothy Ferguson's death on
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  Speaker 3: July sixth, twenty twenty two. The teen died from hypothermia
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  Speaker 3: and malnourishment. According to an autopsy, His death was determined
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  Speaker 3: to be homicide by the medical examiner. In his most
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  Speaker 3: recent bankruptcy plan, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has proposed to
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  Speaker 3: pay Sandy Hook families at least fifty five million dollars
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  Speaker 3: over a ten year period, once again crime on lines
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  Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The amount proposed by Jones is just a small portion
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  Speaker 2: of the one point five billion dollars that the relatives
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  Speaker 2: of those killed in the twenty twelve Newtown School tragedy
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  Speaker 2: were granted in litigation against Jones. Meanwhile, the families have
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  Speaker 2: submitted their own plan, in which they want to sell
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  Speaker 2: almost all of Jones's possessions, including his media company Free
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  Speaker 2: Speech Systems, and distribute the money to themselves and other creditors.
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  Speaker 2: A final ruling dictating Jones's require payment amount will be
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  Speaker 2: issued following two months of discussion and challenges to the
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  Speaker 2: competing proposals, which were filed in Houston's US bankruptcy court.
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  Speaker 2: Hearings are set for February. Following the family's awards of
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  Speaker 2: more than one point four billion dollars in a Connecticut
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  Speaker 2: lawsuit in an additional fifty million dollars in a Texas action,
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  Speaker 2: Jones and Free Speech Systems, both located in Austin, Texas,
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  Speaker 2: filed for bankruptcy last year in a related case concerning
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  Speaker 2: Jones's host conspiracy. The parents of a different child slain
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  Speaker 2: in the school massacre have filed a third trial, which
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  Speaker 2: is currently under way in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: The latest round of bankruptcy filings occurred a day after
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  Speaker 3: the eleventh anniversary of a gunman's killing of twenty first
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  Speaker 3: graders and six educators on December fourteenth, twenty twelve, at
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  Speaker 3: Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Jackie Austin Tice, a Texas Marine veteran who served
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  Speaker 1: two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, becomes a war reporter,
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  Speaker 1: shoveling to Syria twenty twelve to cover the civil war.
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  Speaker 1: September twenty twelve, all communication with Tys stops. Weeks later,
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  Speaker 1: a video services of him blindfolded and bound. It's belief
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  Speaker 1: he was kidnapped by the Syrian government. Twenty eighteen, US
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  Speaker 1: officials confirmed Tys is alive, negotiations for release underway. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, the President reiterates the belief Tys is still
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  Speaker 1: being held by the Syrian government. Negotiations for his return
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  Speaker 1: on going. The US government offering a reward of up
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  Speaker 1: to one million dollars for info leading directly to Austin
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  Speaker 1: Tys's safe location, recovery and return. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: concerning Austin Tye, contact the FBI at tips dot FBI
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  Speaker 1: dot gov or find Austin Tice at FBI dot gov.
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  Speaker 1: You can also contact your local FBI or the nearest
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  Speaker 1: American embassy or concellent, Let's bring Austin Tice home. For
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  Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline dot
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  Speaker 1: com with this crimeal art. I'm Nancy Grace.