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Stepmom Locks 11-year-old in Room for 20 Years | Crime Alert 03.31.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert im Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now an
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  Speaker 1: eleven year old boy in Connecticut hidden away from the
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  Speaker 1: world by a stepmom after his father dies. Kimberly Sullivan
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  Speaker 1: allegedly holds her steps and captive in their Waterbury home,
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  Speaker 1: isolating him from the world and rationing food. A neighbor
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  Speaker 1: report seeing a little boy in the window. He waves,
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  Speaker 1: she waves, she looks away, then he's gone. She never
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  Speaker 1: sees him again. Aged fourteen or fifteen, he stops leaving
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  Speaker 1: the house entirely. Sullivan reportedly liking him in an eight
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  Speaker 1: by nine foot room, no heat, no ac starving him
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  Speaker 1: and just allowing him two cups of water a day.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. The now thirty two year old man escaped his
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  Speaker 2: captivity by setting a fire in the room. While Sullivan
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  Speaker 2: escaped unharmed, he suffered burns and smoke inhalation, resulting in hospitalization.
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  Speaker 2: The man was severely emaciated, weighing just seventy pounds at
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  Speaker 2: five foot nine, with matted hair and decaying teeth. The
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  Speaker 2: man says he was only allowed out of the room
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  Speaker 2: for maybe a minute a day and had not beabed
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  Speaker 2: or used in actual toilet in years. He had to
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  Speaker 2: devise a way to relieve himself, using a makeshift funnel
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  Speaker 2: made from straws to direct urine out the window.
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Sullivan now facing charges of kidnap and cruelty. A
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  Speaker 1: beloved giraffe dies at the zoo. Taxidermist Darren Wayner hired
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  Speaker 1: to preserve the animal for a museum. He picks up
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  Speaker 1: the giraffe transports it through McCombe County, Michigan in the
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  Speaker 1: bed of his pickup. Drivers notice the unusual site and
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  Speaker 1: share photos online the giraffe's long neck drooping over the side.
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  Speaker 1: Winner confirms the giraffe is real. He says he loves
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  Speaker 1: animals and his work is ethical. He owned Saint Clair
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  Speaker 1: Flat's Taxidermy and partners with South African Safaris to support
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  Speaker 1: conservation and tranquilizer based green hunts. He reassures the public
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  Speaker 1: his work respects wildlife conservation. The giraffe is currently sixty
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  Speaker 1: hours into the home preservation process. Now that's a tall tale.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Alaunze John Lenley.
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  Speaker 3: New details are emerging in the case against Brian Coburger,
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  Speaker 3: the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students
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  Speaker 3: in November twenty twenty two. Prosecutors say Coburger bought a
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  Speaker 3: k bar knife and sheath online months before the murders.
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  Speaker 3: Evidence they want to present at trial. Court documents reveal
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  Speaker 3: that a housemate saw a masked man with quote bushy
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  Speaker 3: eyebrows in the home the night of the killings. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 3: planned to show a photo of Coburger from that same
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  Speaker 3: day and let the jury decide if he fits the description.
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  Speaker 3: DNA evidence has also linked Coburger to a knife sheath
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  Speaker 3: found at the crime scene. His defense team tried to
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  Speaker 3: have that evidence thrown out, but a judge denied the request. Coburger,
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  Speaker 3: charged with four counts of murder in the deaths of
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  Speaker 3: Ethan Chapin, Zana Kernodle, Madison Mogan, and Kaylee Ganzalvez, is
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  Speaker 3: set to go on trial August eleventh. Prosecutors are seeking
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  Speaker 3: the death penalty. The US government has released thousands of
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  Speaker 3: previously classified documents related to President John F. Kennedy's nineteen
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  Speaker 3: sixty three assassination as crime Online. Sidney Sumner tells US
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  Speaker 3: the move shed's new light on a case that has
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  Speaker 3: fueled conspiracy theories for decades.
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  Speaker 2: The National Archives has declassified over sixty three thousand pages
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  Speaker 2: of records tied to JFK's assassination following an order by
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  Speaker 2: the White House. While much of the collection was already public,
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  Speaker 2: this release includes previously redacted details. Historians, including Mary Sabadeo
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  Speaker 2: of the University of Virginia, say it will take time
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  Speaker 2: to analyze the documents. Some files reveal Cold War era
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  Speaker 2: intelligence operations, including CIA efforts against Cuba. A nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 2: one CIA memo suggests the KGB closely monitored Lee Harvey
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  Speaker 2: Oswald in the Soviet Union, but never controlled him. It
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  Speaker 2: also noted Oswald was a poor marksman at the time.
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  Speaker 2: Despite this disclosure or some records remain classified citing national
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  Speaker 2: security concerns. Jefferson Morley of the Mary Farrell Foundation called
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  Speaker 2: the release an encouraging start, but noted many promised files
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  Speaker 2: are still missing. The War and Commission concluded in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: sixty four that Oswald acted alone, but speculation continues. While
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  Speaker 2: these documents may not end the debate, they offer new
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  Speaker 2: insights into one of America's most scrutinized events.
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  Speaker 3: Historians will continue to comb through these documents hoping to
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  Speaker 3: fill gaps in the jfk assassination story. Whether they put
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  Speaker 3: lingering doubts to rest remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Sixteen year old Daniel ted Yuwen vanishes from
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  Speaker 1: the SID School, a facility known for taking in runaways
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  Speaker 1: running Springs, California. Since the day he arrived, he's threatened
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  Speaker 1: to run away. Daniel struggles with depression and after a breakup,
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  Speaker 1: tails parents. He's afraid of other students FAB eight. He
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  Speaker 1: tells classmates he's going to buy cigarettes. He takes no
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  Speaker 1: ID or personal belongings. His family hires a PI who
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  Speaker 1: scours San Diego's Hilltop Community Park. Witnesses say Daniel is panhandling.
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  Speaker 1: A caller leaves a voicemail stating Daniel is safe but
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to be found. Another witness describes seeing him
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  Speaker 1: in San Diego with a woman and child. Daniel is
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  Speaker 1: Asian five six one hundred and twenty five pounds, now
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  Speaker 1: missing since two thousand and four. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on Daniel ted Yuenn, please call Sanborn and Dino County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriffs nine zero nine three eight seven three six nine
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  Speaker 1: to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace