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Crime Alert 03.23.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. An
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  Speaker 1: emaciated woman with cuts on her face runs up to
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  Speaker 1: construction workers begging them to call nine one one Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: Copslaw and her boyfriend, Brenton Bell, has kept her lot
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  Speaker 1: in a closet nearly two months without food or water.
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  Speaker 1: Five onlines, John Lemley Nancy. The woman was so scared
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  Speaker 1: that she hid underneath the new home build where she
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  Speaker 1: found the construction workers until the police arrived. The woman
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  Speaker 1: told officers she was only allowed out for about an
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  Speaker 1: hour a day while she pointed out the house where
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  Speaker 1: she was kept. The woman weighed less than one hundred
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  Speaker 1: pounds when she was checked into the hospital for treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Bell thirty, now charged with aggravated kidnap. Michigan police execute
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  Speaker 1: an arrest warrant at Andre Hardaway's home, knocking and identifying
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  Speaker 1: themselves several times before breaking through the door. Officers met
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  Speaker 1: with gunshots from Hardaway, who injures two officers before he
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  Speaker 1: also was hit. Hardaway barricades himself in a room with
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  Speaker 1: his wife and child for over three hours before surrendering.
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  Speaker 1: Hardaway had an outstanding warrant for several weapons charges in
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  Speaker 1: court Hardaway's defense for the shooting was that it was
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  Speaker 1: a no knock warrant and he thought someone had broken in,
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  Speaker 1: but his wife and child admitted they knew police were there,
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  Speaker 1: and body camp footage clearly shows police identifying themselves and
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  Speaker 1: knocking no less than seven times before entering the home.
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  Speaker 1: Hardaway busted on assault with a tent to murder and
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  Speaker 1: the original gun charges. More Crime in Justice news after
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  Speaker 1: this Now with the latest Crime in Justice breaking Knees
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  Speaker 1: Crime Onlines John Lemley. Two school administrators have been shot
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  Speaker 1: at a Denver high school after a gun was found
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  Speaker 1: during a search of a student. The juvenile suspect remained
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  Speaker 1: at large and the gun was not immediately recovered. Following
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  Speaker 1: the shooting at East High School about ten am Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: one of the administrators was critically injured and the second
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  Speaker 1: was stable condition. East High School, not far from downtown,
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  Speaker 1: near a busy street that cuts through the city, was
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  Speaker 1: placed on lockdown as police investigated the shooting. It was
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  Speaker 1: unclear if the shooting happened inside or outside the school.
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  Speaker 1: Denver Public Schools confirmed the victims were administrators. Earlier this month,
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  Speaker 1: students from the same school skipped class and marched to
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  Speaker 1: Colorado's state capital to demand stricter gun laws following the
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  Speaker 1: death of a fellow student who was shot while sitting
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  Speaker 1: in a car near school. A mother whose son was
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  Speaker 1: found dead in the middle of a South Carolina road
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  Speaker 1: eight years ago is opening a private investigation into his
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  Speaker 1: death after raising ninety thousand dollars amid the publicity surrounding
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  Speaker 1: the murder trial of Alec Murdoch, Sidney Sumner is with
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  Speaker 1: crime online. Lawyers for the mother say there is no
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  Speaker 1: current evidence linking Stephen Smith's death to the Murdoch family.
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  Speaker 1: State investigators, who are also looking into Smith's death have
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  Speaker 1: remained tight lit about taking over the case, which was
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  Speaker 1: reopened during the investigation into Paul Maggie Murda's murders, crimes
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  Speaker 1: for which Alex Murda is now serving a life sentence,
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  Speaker 1: But the lack of evidence hasn't stopped speculation, and that attention,
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  Speaker 1: in turn helps Sandy Smith raise more than eighty seven
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars through go fund me in less than two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Her goal was fifteen thousand dollars, enough to pay to
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  Speaker 1: exhume her son's body and have a private autopsy. Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Smith was found dead in the middle of a two
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  Speaker 1: lane Hampton County road on July eighth, two fifteen. His
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  Speaker 1: car was found a short distance away, with the gas
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  Speaker 1: cap removed and his wallet still inside. Police said it
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  Speaker 1: appeared he ran out of gas and was walking for help,
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  Speaker 1: but a Smith family attorney says Stephen Smith didn't make
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  Speaker 1: any calls on his cell phone and his shoes, which
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  Speaker 1: were tied loosely, were still on his feet. People hit
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  Speaker 1: by cars are often found without their shoes from the
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  Speaker 1: force of the wreck. His family thinks Stephen Smith's injuries,
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  Speaker 1: including head injuries and a dislocated arm bent behind him,
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  Speaker 1: indicate he was beaten to death and dropped on the highway.
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  Speaker 1: According to another Smith family attorney, there were no skid
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  Speaker 1: marks on the road or debris like broken glass or
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  Speaker 1: mirror parts found nearby. A fifteen year old boy died
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  Speaker 1: and five young women were injured in a Milwaukee shooting
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  Speaker 1: and the latest violence to target the city's young people.
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  Speaker 1: The fifteen year old boy died at the scene following
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  Speaker 1: the shooting that occurred at about eleven thirty pm Monday
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  Speaker 1: on the city's north side. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's
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  Speaker 1: Office identified the boy as Daviyond Patterson. Five women ages eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty one, and two twenty two year olds were
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  Speaker 1: taken to a hospital for treatment of non fatal injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators said they were looking for unknown suspects and trying
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  Speaker 1: to learn what led up to the shooting. Jacqueline Moore
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  Speaker 1: told our friends at WTMJTV her sixteen year old daughter
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  Speaker 1: was shot and killed in the same area nearly three
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  Speaker 1: years ago. A former truck driver about to face trial
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  Speaker 1: for a shooting massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue more than
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  Speaker 1: four years ago, has schizophrenia and structural and functional brain impairments.
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  Speaker 1: This according to the defendant's lawyers. Crime Onlines Sidney Sumner
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  Speaker 1: brings us more details. Lawyers for Robert Bowers told a
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  Speaker 1: federal judge they were concerned a prosecution proposal to have
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  Speaker 1: their own psychiatric experts examine or evaluate him would be
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  Speaker 1: a quote broad ranging, invasive and constitutionally problematic investigation into
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  Speaker 1: his life, mind, and body. The defense said prosecutors should
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  Speaker 1: be limited to looking for evidence that would dispute defense assertions,
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  Speaker 1: and argued they should not be allowed to investigate every
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  Speaker 1: possible aspect of his mental health. A message seeking further
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  Speaker 1: comment was left with defense attorneys, and the US Attorney's
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  Speaker 1: office in Pittsburgh declined to comment. Jury selection is scheduled
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  Speaker 1: to begin next month and Bowers trial for shooting to
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  Speaker 1: death eleven people and wounding seven others at the Tree
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  Speaker 1: of Life synagogue and the nation's most deadly attack on
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  Speaker 1: Jewish people. Bowers has offered to plead guilty in return
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  Speaker 1: for a life sentence, but prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
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  Speaker 1: Carline Biswanger gets angry with her boyfriend and starts throwing
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  Speaker 1: things out. I'm including a metal rod and an avocado
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  Speaker 1: that hits him in the face, leaving him with a
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  Speaker 1: black eye. A neighbor in their senior living community witnesses
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  Speaker 1: the altercation and calls Florida cops. Biswanger, thirty nine, now
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  Speaker 1: charged with battery on a senior Well, that's just pitiful.
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  Speaker 1: Get it avocado pip for the ladies. Crime and Justice
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  Speaker 1: news go to crime online dot com with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace