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Crime Alert 03.06.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace Breaking crime news now. Brian
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  Speaker 1: Smith's date steals a cell phone while he sleeps, she
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  Speaker 1: discovers video Smith violently killing a woman. Terrified, the date
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  Speaker 1: secretly copies the video and returns the cell phone. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as Smith leaves, she turns the video over to
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  Speaker 1: Alaska cops, who id the woman pictured as Kathleen Henry.
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  Speaker 1: After his arrest, Smith admits to a second murder of
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  Speaker 1: Veronica Abouchuk Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: Both victims were Alaska Native women. Police had discovered Veronica
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  Speaker 2: Abu Chuck's body, but did not correctly identify her until
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  Speaker 2: Smith's confession. At trials, Smith's date was a key witness,
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  Speaker 2: and while the graphic video was only played for jurors,
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  Speaker 2: observers were allowed to hear the audio. The jurors came
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  Speaker 2: to a verdict after only two hours of deliberation.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Smith, fifty two, found guilty fourteen charges, including murder,
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  Speaker 1: sex assault, and tampering with evidence. In Florida, the events
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  Speaker 1: of a movie Cocaine Bear are a pair real life.
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  Speaker 1: After several close encounters an attack from black bears, the
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  Speaker 1: state Senate has approved a bill allowing residents to shoot
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  Speaker 1: bears deemed quote an eminent threat. The bill has been
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  Speaker 1: nicknamed the Cocaine Bear Bill after Representative Jason schof says
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  Speaker 1: Laridians have the right to protake themselves, I guess bears
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  Speaker 1: that are on crack. If passed, the bill eliminates fines
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  Speaker 1: and penalties for killing bears that threaten residents and pets.
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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 these Crime onlines John Linley.
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  Speaker 3: Following the discovery of a pregnant Amish woman's body last week,
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  Speaker 3: a Pennsylvania man has now been taken into custody and
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  Speaker 3: charged with her murder. Here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online
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  Speaker 3: with more.
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  Speaker 2: We are now learning through court filings that fifty two
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  Speaker 2: year old Shawn C. Cranston, a resident of Corey, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 2: is facing charges of criminal homicide, criminal homicide of an
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  Speaker 2: unborn child, burglary, and criminal trespasses. At a preliminary arraignment,
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  Speaker 2: Cranston was denied bond and is currently being held at
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  Speaker 2: the Crawford County Jail, with a preliminary hearing set for
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  Speaker 2: March fifteenth. It was less than a week after twenty
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  Speaker 2: three year old Rebecca A. Byler was discovered dead in
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  Speaker 2: the living room of her Spartansburg area home that Cranston
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  Speaker 2: was arrested. Buyler looked to have cut wounds on her
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  Speaker 2: head and neck, according to police, and the defendant is
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  Speaker 2: charged in a criminal complaint with killing the victim by
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  Speaker 2: quote shooting her in the head and or slashing her throat.
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  Speaker 2: A spokesperson with the court has said an affidavit detailing
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  Speaker 2: the specifics of what police belief happened will be made
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  Speaker 2: public later. The murder was a complete shock to the
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  Speaker 2: residence of the rural northwestern Pennsylvania community, a place where
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  Speaker 2: the Amish are known to live in harmony with their neighbors.
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  Speaker 2: Andy Byler, the victim's husband, discovered his wife's body inside
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  Speaker 2: the home just after noon on February twenty sixth, prompting
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  Speaker 2: the police investigation. Our friends with the Associated Press spoke
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  Speaker 2: with Trooper Cynthia Schick, who says that the autopsy and
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  Speaker 2: investigation have provided police with a potential murder weapon. Has
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  Speaker 2: stated that the two young Builer children were at the
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  Speaker 2: residence but were unharmed. The Builer's home is situated in
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  Speaker 2: a relatively isolated rural farming area along a dirt road.
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  Speaker 2: Locals say that the Amish are well integrated into the
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood and have lived in the area for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Residents have also reported that Amish and non Amish socialize
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  Speaker 2: at one another's homes, and that the Amish also labor
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  Speaker 2: for the non Amish and attend fish fries and other
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  Speaker 2: activities together.
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  Speaker 3: Neighbors in the area have been raising funds in support
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  Speaker 3: of the Biler family. Authorities in North Carolina say that
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  Speaker 3: a mother has been accused of killing her twin four
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  Speaker 3: year old sons, whose bodies were found by their father
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  Speaker 3: when he arrived to pick them up. Once again Crime
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  Speaker 3: Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: According to the Cherokee County Sheriff's Apartment, the father arrived
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  Speaker 2: at the Murphy, North Carolina home of his wife, Genevieve
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  Speaker 2: Ellen Springer. The father had visited the house for a
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  Speaker 2: custody exchange because the couple are separated. When exactly the
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  Speaker 2: children died is something that the investigators are still working
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  Speaker 2: to determine. The father, whose identity are not revealing at
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  Speaker 2: the moment, claimed to have last seen the children on
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  Speaker 2: February twenty sixth. The Cherokee County Sheriff's Department has released
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  Speaker 2: a statement seeing that the victims will undergo autopsies, which
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  Speaker 2: should provide information on when exactly the children died. Springer
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  Speaker 2: is currently being jailed without bond at the Cherokee County
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  Speaker 2: Detention Center after being charged with two counts of first
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  Speaker 2: degree murder.
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  Speaker 3: The Sheriff's office has reported that Springer was hospitalized for
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  Speaker 3: a short while following her arrest.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Jimminy Posey Means Sam with her boyfriend in
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  Speaker 1: Fort Tott, North Dakota, just before she gives birth to
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  Speaker 1: their child. After the baby turns seven months, jem and
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  Speaker 1: I tells her mom she thinks she's moving back to
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  Speaker 1: Devil's Lake for more help with the baby, and even
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  Speaker 1: brings home some of her things, but ends up going
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  Speaker 1: back to Fort Tout and shortly after, jim and I
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  Speaker 1: tells her boyfriend she's going out with a friend one afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: but when she doesn't come home that evening, he gets concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Jemini's family spans days trying to get a hold of her,
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  Speaker 1: and the nie mom is reported missing four days later.
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  Speaker 1: No one saw who picked her up that afternoon, and
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  Speaker 1: searches of the area turn up nothing. If you have
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  Speaker 1: info on Gemini Posey, now missing two months, please call
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  Speaker 1: Fort Taunton, North Dakota PD seven zero one seven six
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  Speaker 1: six four two three one. For the latest crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.