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California Children Make Grim Discovery on Easter Egg Hunt | Crime Alert 04.07.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. What began as a sunny Easter Sunday
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  Speaker 2: celebration in Long Beach ended in a disturbing discovery that
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  Speaker 2: has left a local community in shock. At around five
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  Speaker 2: pm yesterday, a family gathering at DeForest Park took a
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  Speaker 2: tragic turn during an Easter egg hunt. Witnesses say children
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  Speaker 2: were scouring a dirt path for colorful eggs when they
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  Speaker 2: stumbled upon what appeared to be human remains. The family
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  Speaker 2: immediately alerted authorities, describing the find as a human skull,
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  Speaker 2: possibly that of a young child, with smaller bones located nearby.
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  Speaker 2: Images from the scene were a stark contrast of holiday
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  Speaker 2: joy and grim reality, showing plastic Easter eggs scattered just
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  Speaker 2: feet away from the discovery site. Long Beach police responded quickly,
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  Speaker 2: cordoning off the trail and calling in the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 2: County Medical Examiner to take over the scene. Michael Fuentes
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  Speaker 2: was nearby celebrating with his own family when he overheard
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  Speaker 2: about their discovery. Walked our friends at ABC seven through
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  Speaker 2: what happened next.
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  Speaker 1: We're literally like like like three like spots down and
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  Speaker 1: the family was over there, like they had like put
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  Speaker 1: the eggs down, and then the kids were finding them,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know where. We just hear like, hey, damn, mom,
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  Speaker 1: there's like some bones over there, you know, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we just everybody went over there. They called the police
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  Speaker 1: and then that's that's when they showed up, and it
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  Speaker 1: was really tragic. I started crying to hurt my soul,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Neighbors who returned to the park later that evening expressed
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  Speaker 2: heartbreak not only for the person whose remains were found,
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  Speaker 2: but for the children who made the discovery. Local resident
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Cain called the incident terrible, noting that no child
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  Speaker 2: should ever have to witness something so haunting while simply
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  Speaker 2: trying to enjoy a holiday at this hour. The Long
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  Speaker 2: Beach Police Department says the investigation is ongoing. The Medical
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  Speaker 2: Examiner's office is working to officially identify the remains and
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  Speaker 2: determine a cause of death. As of now, police have
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  Speaker 2: not released any information regarding how long the remains may
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  Speaker 2: have been in the park or if they are linked
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  Speaker 2: to any act of missing persons cases. Violence erupted outside
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  Speaker 2: an East Harlem grocery store early Monday morning, ending in
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  Speaker 2: a police involved shooting after a man allegedly charged at
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  Speaker 2: officers with a massive kitchen knife. According to the NYPD,
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  Speaker 2: the chaos began around one fifteen am inside the City
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  Speaker 2: fresh Market on East one hundred and twentieth Street. Police
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  Speaker 2: say a fifty three year old man became irate and
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  Speaker 2: disorderly during a verbal argument with another person, forcing store
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  Speaker 2: employees to physically remove him from the building.
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  Speaker 3: Following the dispute, the mail suddenly became irate and disorderly
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  Speaker 3: and how to be physically removed from the store by
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  Speaker 3: multiple employees. A short time later, the subject returned to
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  Speaker 3: the store. When he returned, he had a large kitchen
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  Speaker 3: knife in his hand and was banging on the extoria
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  Speaker 3: exterior glass of the window with the knife.
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  Speaker 2: The situation escalated minutes later. Investigators say the man returned
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  Speaker 2: to the market armed with a thirteen inch kitchen knife.
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  Speaker 2: Terrified employees locked the doors and called nine one one.
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  Speaker 2: When officers arrived just after one thirty am, they repeatedly
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  Speaker 2: ordered the man to drop the weapon.
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  Speaker 3: The officers gave multiple verbal commands to drop the knife
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  Speaker 3: and attempted to create physical distance between himself and the subject,
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  Speaker 3: but the subject quickly advanced towards the offices with the
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  Speaker 3: knife extended.
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  Speaker 2: Out Instead, police say the suspect quickly advanced toward them
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  Speaker 2: with the knife extended. One officer opened fire, striking the man.
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  Speaker 2: The suspect was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he underwent
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  Speaker 2: surgery and is currently listed in critical but stable condition.
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  Speaker 2: While his name has not been released, the NYPD confirmed
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  Speaker 2: he has a history of prior arrests and was well
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  Speaker 2: known to law enforcement.
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  Speaker 3: Once again, we are reminded of the dangers that our
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  Speaker 3: officers confront every time they put on their uniform, and
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  Speaker 3: this morning was no difference.
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  Speaker 2: Inspector Andrew Nato confirmed no officers were injured in a
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning news conference, praising officer's quick response and rendering
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  Speaker 2: medical aid to the suspect immediately after the shooting. Investigators
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  Speaker 2: recovered seven shell casings at the scene, and the investigation
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  Speaker 2: remains active. More crime and justice news after this. For decades,
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen seventy four disappearance and murder of seventeen year
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  Speaker 2: old Laura and Amy remained one of Utah's most haunting
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  Speaker 2: cold cases. While Ted Bundy was long suspected, it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: until recently that investigators officially attributed the crime to the
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  Speaker 2: notorious serial killer, but the closure for the Amy family
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  Speaker 2: has opened a new door for forensic scientists who are
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  Speaker 2: now using Laura's case to study a chilling pattern why
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  Speaker 2: Bundy chose his victims in the first place. Recent advancements
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  Speaker 2: in facial comparison software have provided a breakthrough in understanding
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  Speaker 2: the type of woman Bundy targeted. By analyzing the facial
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  Speaker 2: structures of Bundy's known victims, including Laura and Amy, alongside
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  Speaker 2: women from his own past, researchers have found and a
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  Speaker 2: startling correlation. The technology indicates that Bundy, like several other
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  Speaker 2: prolific serial killers, often selected targets who bore a physical
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  Speaker 2: resemblance to figures from their early lives, specifically those who
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  Speaker 2: would cause them deep emotional or psychological harm. In Bundy's case,
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  Speaker 2: the software highlights a recurring facial architecture that mirrors his
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  Speaker 2: first serious girlfriend, as well as his mother, whom he
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  Speaker 2: was raised to believe was his sister for years. The
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  Speaker 2: prevailing theory was that Bundy targeted women who simply shared
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  Speaker 2: a similar hairstyle or fashion sense. However, this new data
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  Speaker 2: suggests a much deeper, subconscious drive. Scientists believe these killers
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  Speaker 2: are re enacting a past trauma, choosing victims who represent
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  Speaker 2: a person they felt powerless against. Only this time the
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  Speaker 2: killer exerts absolute control. The study of Laura and Amy's
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  Speaker 2: features through this software shows she fit this exact anatomical profile.
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  Speaker 2: This victim matching behavior isn't unique to Bundy. Forensic psychologists
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  Speaker 2: are now looking at and other serial offenders to see
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  Speaker 2: if facial comparison technology can predict future targets or link
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  Speaker 2: unsolved cold cases. While the technology offers a fascinating look
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  Speaker 2: into the dark psychology of a killer, for the family
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  Speaker 2: of Laura and Amy, the focus remains on the girl herself,
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  Speaker 2: a teenager who vanished on Halloween night five decades ago.
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  Speaker 2: This new scientific link doesn't change the tragedy of her loss,
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  Speaker 2: but it does provide a clearer understanding of the calculated,
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  Speaker 2: predatory nature of the man who took her life. For
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  Speaker 2: With this crime Alert, I'm Sidney Sumner.