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String of Unexplained Bodies Discovered Across Minneapolis Sparks Investigation | Crime Alert 08.22.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Sydney,
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  Speaker 1: Silvanni and unsettling mystery is unfolding in Minnesota, where law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement agencies are investigating a baffling series of unexplained deaths
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  Speaker 1: after multiple bodies were discovered within days of each other
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  Speaker 1: across Minneapolis. The latest discovery occurred Monday afternoon around one
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  Speaker 1: pm near the Mississippi River and the Stone Arch Bridge
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  Speaker 1: in downtown Minneapolis. University of Minnesota police are leading that investigation,
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  Speaker 1: though officials have not yet released the victim's identity or
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  Speaker 1: official cause of death. That body was discovered just two
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  Speaker 1: miles down the Mississippi River bank from where another body
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  Speaker 1: was found Saturday evening around six pm in a wooded
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  Speaker 1: area near East River Parkway. Police have identified that victim
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  Speaker 1: as fifty six year old Karen Lynn Sonia Sand of
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  Speaker 1: Maple Grove. Meanwhile, a third body was found Sunday morning
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  Speaker 1: around eleven thirty am near the shoreline of bide Mikoska Lake,
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  Speaker 1: roughly five miles northeast of the Stone Arch Bridge. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, who are leading the
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  Speaker 1: lake investigation, noted that the remains were found in a
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  Speaker 1: severe state of decomposition. The identity and cause of death
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  Speaker 1: in that case also remain unreleased. While the string of
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  Speaker 1: discoveries has raised serious concerns among local residents, a spokesperson
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  Speaker 1: for the Minneapolis Police Department stated Thursday that while MPD
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  Speaker 1: is familiar with all three cases, there is currently no
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  Speaker 1: known connection between them or to any other active incidents.
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  Speaker 1: Adding to the grim week, Minneapolis Police confirmed a fourth
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  Speaker 1: person was found dead Wednesday morning under the Hennepin Avenue
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  Speaker 1: Bridge in what authorities describe as an apparent suicide. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen miles away in Invergrove Heights, the Dakota County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: Office is seeking information regarding forty year old Timothy Bryan Standish, Junior,
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  Speaker 1: of Minneapolis, who is found dead last Friday in the
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi River. Authorities are asking anyone with information regarding Standish,
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  Speaker 1: his recent activities, or his associates to call the decos
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  Speaker 1: Joda County Sheriff's Office at six five one four three
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  Speaker 1: eight eight four seven seven. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this. In Massachusetts, a statewide manhunt is under way
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  Speaker 1: for a presumed armed and dangerous woman sought in connection
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  Speaker 1: with the death of her police officer husband. Authorities in
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  Speaker 1: Worcester are searching for fifty eight year old Karen Solomon
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  Speaker 1: after her husband, fifty seven year old veteran patrolman Kurt Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: was found dead inside their home early Tuesday morning. Officers
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  Speaker 1: responded to the residence for a medical emergency call, only
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  Speaker 1: to discover the distinguished officer's body. Kurt Solomon was a
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  Speaker 1: thirty one year veteran of the wester Police Department, a
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  Speaker 1: father of two adult sons, and was nearing retirement, according
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  Speaker 1: to Officer Thomas Duffy, president of NYPBA Local nine one one.
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  Speaker 1: Surveillance camera footage released by police captured Karen Solomon calmly
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  Speaker 1: walking away from the couple's residence at five forty one
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, just ten minutes after officers received the emergence.
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  Speaker 1: She was seen wearing a T shirt, shorts, and flipflops.
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  Speaker 1: The Western Police Department warned the public to remain vigilant,
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  Speaker 1: emphasizing that they believe she remains armed. While a cause
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  Speaker 1: of death for Officer Solomon has not been released, the
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  Speaker 1: Western County District Attorney's Office confirmed Karen Solomon is actively
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  Speaker 1: being sought for questioning. What makes the search particularly shocking
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  Speaker 1: to the community is Karen Solomon's national prominence as an
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  Speaker 1: award winning first responder advocate. Inspired by her son after
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  Speaker 1: a school interaction, Solomon told CBS Boston in a twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixteen interview that she dedicated herself to highlighting police officers experiences.
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  Speaker 1: She developed first Help dot net, an organization providing critical
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  Speaker 1: mental health and crisis resources to first responders. Solomon also
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  Speaker 1: co chaired the Data and Research Committee of the National
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  Speaker 1: Consortium on Law Enforcement Suicide Prevention, participated in National Officers
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  Speaker 1: Safety summits, and won the twenty twenty three Community Hero
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  Speaker 1: Award from the Greg Hill Foundation for her tireless work.
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  Speaker 1: In South Florida, a woman accused of posing as a
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  Speaker 1: bank representative to scam a senior citizen allegedly carried her
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  Speaker 1: crime scheme all the way behind barbs. Thirty one year
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  Speaker 1: old Monique Love Turnbull of Miami was arrested by the
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  Speaker 1: Martin County Sheriff's Office after deputies alleged she showed up
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  Speaker 1: at an elderly residence home pretending to work for their bank.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say Turnbull told the victim their account had been
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  Speaker 1: compromised and attempted to collect their debit and credit cards
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  Speaker 1: under the guise of disposing of them. The suspicious victim
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  Speaker 1: immediately alerted law enforcement. While deputies were investigating, they received
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  Speaker 1: another call identifying Turnbull as a suspect in a similar
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  Speaker 1: fraud case nearby. Martin County deputies located Turnbull driving near
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  Speaker 1: Interstate ninety five and conducted a traffic stop caught on
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  Speaker 1: bodycam video. Before she could leave the county. She was
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  Speaker 1: arrested on charges including scheme to defraud, felony use of
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  Speaker 1: a two way communication device, and fraudulent use of credit
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  Speaker 1: or debit card without consent involving a victim sixty or older. However,
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  Speaker 1: the case took an even more bizarre turn. After Turnbull
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  Speaker 1: was processed at the local jail, authorities revealed that Turnbull
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  Speaker 1: entered the prison with three two hundred dollars in cash
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  Speaker 1: hidden inside her body. The Martin County Sheriff's Office noted
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  Speaker 1: that while it is unclear who the money was taken from,
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  Speaker 1: the cash has been sealed in evidence. Turnbull now faces
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  Speaker 1: an additional charge of introduction of contraband into a prison,
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  Speaker 1: with bond set at five hundred thousand dollars. Sheriff's officials
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  Speaker 1: are warning the public never to hand over cash, cards,
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  Speaker 1: or valuables to anyone who unexpectedly shows up at a
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  Speaker 1: home claiming to represent a bank or government agency. For
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  Speaker 1: more crime and justice news, be sure to join us
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sidney Silvanni.