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Diddy Trial: Jury Returns with Everything Decided but the Racketeering Charge | Crime Alert 6AM 07.02.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grays breaking crime news. Now. The
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  Speaker 1: jury deliberates a third day in the Shawncombe sex trafficking trial.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Drew Nelson for the latest in the courtroom. Drew,
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  Speaker 1: What's happening, Nancy. The jury ending its first full day
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  Speaker 1: of deliberations in the federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial
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  Speaker 1: without reaching a final verdict, but they're getting closer after
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  Speaker 1: more than twelve hours across two days. Jurors sent a
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  Speaker 1: note to Judge Arun Subermanian late Tuesday saying they had
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  Speaker 1: reached a decision on four counts but remained deadlocked on
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  Speaker 1: the racketeering conspiracy charge. They wrote that they were unanimous
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  Speaker 1: on counts two through five, two sex trafficking charges and
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  Speaker 1: two counts of transporting women for prostitution, but they said
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  Speaker 1: there were quote unpersuadable opinions on both sides about count one.
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  Speaker 1: The judge declined to take a partial verdict and staid
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  Speaker 1: he instructed the panel to keep going. Both the prosecution
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  Speaker 1: and defense supported SUPERMANI and telling them, quote, discuss and
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  Speaker 1: weigh your respective opinions dispatchly. No juror should surrender his
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  Speaker 1: or her conscientious beliefs for the purpose of returning a
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  Speaker 1: unanimous verdict. Combs fifty five, faces life in prison if
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  Speaker 1: convicted of racketeering. The charge requires jurors to find that
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  Speaker 1: he joined a criminal enterprise, committed at least two qualifying crimes,
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  Speaker 1: and that those crimes affected interstate or foreign commerce. Earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the day, jurors sent multiple notes. One asked if
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  Speaker 1: giving someone drugs when they asked for them counted as distribution.
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  Speaker 1: Supermanian answered by pointing to the jury instructions, which said
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  Speaker 1: that quote distribution does not require a sale. The defense objected,
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  Speaker 1: but the judge denied their request to revise the wording.
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  Speaker 1: Jurors also requested part of Cassie Ventura's testimony, including the
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen assault at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty thirteen trip to can and her interactions with
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  Speaker 1: Mael Escort. Daniel Phillip Venturea testifying that Combs beat her,
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  Speaker 1: threatened her, and forced her into sex acts during the
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  Speaker 1: so called freak cous Phillips describing similar events, saying he
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  Speaker 1: was paid to have sex with Ventura while Comb's watched, directed,
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  Speaker 1: and filmed. He said that during one encounter at the
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  Speaker 1: Essex Hotel in New York. He heard venture A crying
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  Speaker 1: and Comb's slapping her. Outside the courthouse, Comb's family members
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  Speaker 1: could be seen coming and going. Supporters were handing out
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  Speaker 1: t shirts that read quote, A freeco is not a
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  Speaker 1: reco Inside the court room, Comb's appearing anxious, at one point,
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  Speaker 1: leaning toward his mother and whispering quote, just relax, It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be all right. Outside of federal court, a
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  Speaker 1: new civil suit has been filed against Comb's A man
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  Speaker 1: accuses him of drugging and raping him at a party
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. The man claims he drank champagne
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  Speaker 1: at the party and blacked out. When he woke up,
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  Speaker 1: someone was unbuttoning his pants. A voice said, quote, you're
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  Speaker 1: about to get that. Did he love?
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  Speaker 2: The suit alleged that Combs sexually assaulted him despite his protests.
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  Speaker 2: The jury was dismissed just before five pm. They are
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  Speaker 2: set to return at nine am. If they don't reach
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  Speaker 2: a verdict by the end of the day, court will
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  Speaker 2: recess for the July fourth holiday.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Drew. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: Barry Morfew is back in Colorado to face a murder
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  Speaker 2: charge in the death of his wife, Suzanne, whose remains
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  Speaker 2: were found last year after she'd vanished Mother's Day of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty. He was arrested in Arizona. A hearing was
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  Speaker 2: set for today. Suzanne disappeared after reportedly going for a
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  Speaker 2: bike ride. Her bike later found down a ravine. Barry
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  Speaker 2: suggested she may have been kidnapped, but friends told police
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  Speaker 2: the couple was having trouble and that Suzanne may have
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  Speaker 2: had a boyfriend in another state. A drug used to
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  Speaker 2: sedate large animals was found in her system. Records showed
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  Speaker 2: that Barry, as a big game hunter, was one of
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  Speaker 2: the only individuals not a veterinarian to have access to
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  Speaker 2: the drug. New information in the case of fourteen year
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  Speaker 2: old Emily Pike the Pinal County Medical Examiners as her
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  Speaker 2: autopsy indicates she died from blunt force trauma to the
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  Speaker 2: head before her body was dismembered and dumped in garbage
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  Speaker 2: bags along a remote stretch of Highway Sixtyth, Arizona. The
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  Speaker 2: full report remained sealed. Emily was a member of the
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  Speaker 2: San Carlos Apache tribe. She vanished January twenty seventh of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four after slipping out a window of a
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  Speaker 2: group home in Mesa on February fourteenth. Workers found her
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  Speaker 2: remains north of Globe, nearly one hundred miles from where
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  Speaker 2: she was last seen. Her torso and head were inside
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  Speaker 2: one bag, her legs were inside another. Her arms and
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  Speaker 2: hands have never been recovered. A Queen's New York man
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  Speaker 2: is sentenced to twenty five years to life for the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two stabbing murder of FDN y EMS Captain
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  Speaker 2: Allison Russo, who was a nine to eleven first responder.
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  Speaker 2: A jury found Peter Zasopolis guilty of second degree murder
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  Speaker 2: and weapons charges. Russo, aged sixty one, was in uniform
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  Speaker 2: and on duty in Astoria when she stepped out of
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  Speaker 2: her station house to grab some lunch. Zazopolis rushed her,
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  Speaker 2: shoved her to the ground, and stabbed her twenty times.
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  Speaker 2: She died at Mount Sinai. Queen's surveillance footage captured the stabbing.
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  Speaker 2: A bloody knife was found in Zazopola's pocket. DNA on
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  Speaker 2: the weapon matched both him and Russo. Russo was posthumously
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  Speaker 2: promoted to captain. She had served twenty four years and
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  Speaker 2: helped with recovery efforts after the nine to eleven attacks,
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  Speaker 2: A section of forty second Street is now named Captain
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  Speaker 2: Allison Russo Way. More than a year after three Kansas
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  Speaker 2: City Chiefs fans were found dead of an overdose in
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  Speaker 2: the backyard of a home after a football watch party,
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  Speaker 2: two men have been charged with murder. Jordan Willis and
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  Speaker 2: co defendant Ivory Blade Carson now faced three counts of
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  Speaker 2: second degree felony murder and one count of drug distribution.
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  Speaker 2: The victims, Clayton mcguiney thirty six, David Harrington thirty seven,
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  Speaker 2: and Ricky Johnson thirty eight, were found dead in Willis's
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  Speaker 2: backyard on January ninth of twenty twenty four. They had
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  Speaker 2: gathered at his home to watch the Chiefs play The
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  Speaker 2: Chargers January seventh. Family members were understandably worried when they
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  Speaker 2: did not come home. Mcguinea's fiance found their bodies two
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  Speaker 2: days later. A medical examiner ruled all three died from
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  Speaker 2: a mix of fentil and cocaine. Prosecutors say Willis supplied
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  Speaker 2: some and Carson supplied more in the days leading up
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  Speaker 2: to the deaths. Under Missouri law, someone can face murder
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  Speaker 2: charges if a death happens during a felony crime like
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  Speaker 2: drug dealing, even if there was no intent to kill.
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