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Crime Alert 04.06.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, I mean see grace breaking crimes Now. Reginald McLaren,
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  Speaker 1: eighty one calls Colorado cops to report his wife and
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  Speaker 1: adult daughter have been murdered. Cops find the women's bodies
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  Speaker 1: in two trash cans inside the home, one dismembered. McLaren
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  Speaker 1: then admits he killed them as an act of quote mercy,
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  Speaker 1: because the family faced eviction. Crime onlines John Lemley. Nancy McLaren,
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  Speaker 1: who had recently lost his job, knew quote what a
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  Speaker 1: miserable life they would have had if they lost their home,
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  Speaker 1: so he killed his family, knowing they are quote in
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  Speaker 1: a better place. McLaren's wife, Bethany, and daughter Ruth were
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  Speaker 1: both attacked with an axe. Cops also located a hacksaw
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  Speaker 1: used in the dismemberment. McLaren now charged with two counts
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  Speaker 1: of murder and abuse of a corpse. Have you heard
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  Speaker 1: of swatting? It's when a person makes a false nine
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  Speaker 1: one one call in order to get an armed response
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  Speaker 1: from police at an innocent person's home. Ashton Garcia makes
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  Speaker 1: multiple such calls, reporting threats or even major crimes. Garcia
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  Speaker 1: records the calls, then post them to discord as quote entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: Garcia is accused of making more than twenty of these
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  Speaker 1: calls in a bid to extort victims for money, sexual photos,
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  Speaker 1: or their credit card information. Law enforcement entered victims homes
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  Speaker 1: with guns drawn on several occasions, but thankfully, Nancy, no
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  Speaker 1: one was hurt. Garcia twenty now facing ten felony counts
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  Speaker 1: of threat, hoax and extortion. More Crime in Justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime in Justice breaking
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  Speaker 1: news Crime Onlines. John Lemley, a man with a hatchet
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  Speaker 1: jumped over a wall and invaded a daycare center in Brazil,
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  Speaker 1: killing four children and wounding at least five others. The
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  Speaker 1: assailant turned himself in at a police station and did
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  Speaker 1: not appear to have any connection with the center, which
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  Speaker 1: offers nursery, serve, preschool education, and after school activities. The
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  Speaker 1: dead were between the ages of five and seven. A
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  Speaker 1: police detective says authorities are still searching for a motive
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  Speaker 1: for the attack, which took place in Bluemenow, a city
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  Speaker 1: in southern Brazil near the Atlantic coast. Images broadcast on
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  Speaker 1: network showed weeping parents outside the private daycare. According to
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  Speaker 1: the local affiliate of television network Globo, the attack took
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  Speaker 1: place on the center's playground. The TV station showed a
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  Speaker 1: photo of the suspect with a closely shaved head. Police
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  Speaker 1: have yet to confirm his identity. Bluemenow's mayor suspended classes
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  Speaker 1: and said he will declare a thirty day morning period.
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  Speaker 1: The state government said in the statement that rumors circulating
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  Speaker 1: on social media of other potential attacks were false. Back
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  Speaker 1: in this country now, a fifth suspect has been arrested
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  Speaker 1: in a March fourth mass shooting at a sixteenth birthday
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  Speaker 1: party in suburban Atlanta, an attack that killed two teens
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  Speaker 1: and wounded seven others. For more, we turned to Sidney
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  Speaker 1: Sumner with Crime Online to kell Marquise Beverly Smart, a
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  Speaker 1: twenty one year old resident of Dallas, Georgia, was arrested
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  Speaker 1: in connection with the shooting at a house in the
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  Speaker 1: city of Douglasville. In addition to two counts of murder,
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  Speaker 1: Beverly Smart is facing forty counts of participating in gang activity,
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  Speaker 1: nine counts each of aggravated assault and aggravated battery, and
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  Speaker 1: twenty counts of being a party to a crime. Beverly Smart,
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  Speaker 1: like the four other suspects arrested so far, was denied bail.
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  Speaker 1: Arrested earlier were three seventeen year olds and one eighteen
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  Speaker 1: year old. They all face murder and gang charges, while
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  Speaker 1: two also face aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and gun charges.
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  Speaker 1: The Sheriff's office didn't detail Beverly Smart's alleged role in
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  Speaker 1: the killings or say who is believed to have fired
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  Speaker 1: the guns. The two victims in the shooting have been
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  Speaker 1: identified as fifteen year old Samuel Moon and fourteen year
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  Speaker 1: old A John ye Hill. The Justice Department says it
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  Speaker 1: has tentatively settled a lawsuit over the twenty seventeen mass
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  Speaker 1: shooting at a Texas church that will pay victims and
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  Speaker 1: their families more than one hundred forty four million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: More than two dozen people were killed when Devin Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Kelly opened fire during a Sunday service at First Baptist
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  Speaker 1: Church of Sutherland Springs. Kelly, who died of an apparent
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  Speaker 1: self inflicted gunshot wound after he was shot and chased
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  Speaker 1: by two men who heard the gunfire at the church,
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  Speaker 1: had served in the Air Force prior to the attack.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities put the official death toll at twenty six because
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  Speaker 1: one of the twenty five killed was pregnant. US District
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  Speaker 1: Judge Xavier Rodriguez had previously ruled that the Air Force
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  Speaker 1: was quote sixty percent liable for the attack because it
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  Speaker 1: failed to submit Kelly's assault conviction during his time in
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  Speaker 1: the Air Force to a national database. The Justice Department
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  Speaker 1: says the settlement is still subject to court approvals. A
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska judge has rejected a challenge to the death penalty
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  Speaker 1: and the case of a man charged in the killings
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  Speaker 1: of four people last summer in a small town in
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  Speaker 1: the northeastern corner of the state once again Crime Online's
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  Speaker 1: Sydney Sumner. Judge Bryan Meismer said in a ruling that
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  Speaker 1: the lawyers representing forty two year old Jason Jones didn't
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  Speaker 1: prove that Nebraska's death penalty law is unconstitutional, and it's
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  Speaker 1: too soon to determine if that penalty is appropriate in
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  Speaker 1: this case because it is still early in the process.
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  Speaker 1: Jones has yet to officially enter a plea in the case.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors said in January that they intend to seek the
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  Speaker 1: death penalty in this case because the killings were done
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  Speaker 1: at the same time other felonies were committed, and at
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  Speaker 1: least two of the killings were carried out to conceal
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  Speaker 1: the other two plus. Prosecutor said Jones set fire to
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  Speaker 1: the victim's homes in an effort to help conceal his identity.
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  Speaker 1: Jones is charged with arson, weapons counts and four counts
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  Speaker 1: of first degree murder and the August killings of an
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  Speaker 1: elderly couple, their daughter, and a neighbor. Jones is being
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  Speaker 1: held without bond. He is now scheduled to appear in
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  Speaker 1: court May twenty second. A Utah mom takes her two
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  Speaker 1: children out for dinner, but says she doesn't feel okay
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  Speaker 1: and she sure doesn't act okay. The mom pulls the
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  Speaker 1: car over, strips naked, and walks off. Forgiving her children
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  Speaker 1: in the car. The woman trudges through the snow as
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  Speaker 1: her oldest child, a daughter, follows barefoot. The woman bangs
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  Speaker 1: on doors, Cops are called, the children are taken to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. The mom, who is high on meth, now
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  Speaker 1: charged with child endangerment, abandonment, lewdness, and public drunk. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: Mommy for the way this crime in justice news. Go
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace