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Crime Alert 01.12.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs now. A
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  Speaker 1: prominent Washington State chiropractor and her husband have not been
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  Speaker 1: seen since November thirteen. Police perform a welfare check at
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  Speaker 1: the home of Karen Kopp and her husband de Vito,
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  Speaker 1: and allegedly find two large pools of blood, big enough
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  Speaker 1: to make cops believe someone was killed. Cops say there
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  Speaker 1: was also a strong smell of bleach in the residence.
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  Speaker 1: Deputies allegedly find evidence suggesting the bodies had been dragged
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  Speaker 1: into the garage. Police have a suspect in custody, tenant
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  Speaker 1: Timothy Burke.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy were now learning that the couple's bodies were discovered
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  Speaker 2: on a military base just a mile from the property
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  Speaker 2: they were renting to Timothy Burke. They both died of
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  Speaker 2: several gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen. The couple
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  Speaker 2: leaves behind two adult sons, who say they are grateful
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  Speaker 2: they no longer have to worry and wonder what happened
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  Speaker 2: to their parents.
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  Speaker 1: Burke now charged with two counts of murder. Stephanie boy
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  Speaker 1: gets in an argument with her husband, storms out of
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  Speaker 1: their Missouri home, getting in her car to leave in
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  Speaker 1: a desperate attempt to stop her. The husband hops on
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  Speaker 1: top of the car, boy takes off, trying to throw
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  Speaker 1: him off the hood. Boy drives seven miles, even getting
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  Speaker 1: on the interstate with the husband desperately clinging to the car.
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  Speaker 1: Passing copspots. The man on the car chases boy down,
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  Speaker 1: charging the thirty eight year old with domestic assault and
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  Speaker 1: resisting arrest. Wow, next time, just let her go. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news. Crime on Lunk's John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: Oscar Pistorius, an Olympic sprinter and double amputee who rose
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  Speaker 3: to fame by racing at the pinnacle of his sport
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  Speaker 3: on carbon fiber blades, has now been freed from prison
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  Speaker 3: following a nearly nine year prison sentence for the murder
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  Speaker 3: of his girlfriend, Model Reva steamcap with Moore. Here's Sidney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: According to the South African Department of Corrections, who released
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  Speaker 2: a statement to our friends with the Associated Press, the
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven year old Pistorius quietly departed the Ata Ridgeville
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  Speaker 2: Correctional Center in Pretoria and was processed at a parole
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  Speaker 2: office before being released to his family. Corrections declined to
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  Speaker 2: provide additional details, calling Pistorius's release a quote operation to
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  Speaker 2: avert a media frenzy. After being ordered to serve thirteen
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  Speaker 2: years and five months in prison for Steencamp's murder on
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  Speaker 2: Valentine's Day twenty thirteen, Pistorius completed almost nine years of
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  Speaker 2: his sentence. Once he completed at least half of his term,
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  Speaker 2: he was eligible for early release. In November, his parole
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  Speaker 2: application was granted. Pistorius insists that he mistakenly killed twenty
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  Speaker 2: nine year old Steamcamp in a bathroom of his Pretoria
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  Speaker 2: mansion in the middle of the night. Thinking she was
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  Speaker 2: a dangerous intruder. He shot Steamcamp four times through the
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  Speaker 2: locked door of a toilet cubicle, striking her in the hand,
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  Speaker 2: hip and skull. He said he didn't know it was
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  Speaker 2: his girlfriend in the cubicle when he fired, and what
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  Speaker 2: he thought was self defense. During his trial, the prosecution
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  Speaker 2: claimed that he killed her on purpose out of rage
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  Speaker 2: during the late night quarrel. A reality TV star and
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  Speaker 2: law graduate, Stemcamp pursued a career in modeling in addition
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  Speaker 2: to her activism against the pervasive problem of violence against
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  Speaker 2: women in South Africa. A cruel irony considering her own
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  Speaker 2: untimely death. It had only been a couple months since
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  Speaker 2: she and Pastoria started.
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  Speaker 3: Dating until December of twenty twenty nine. Pastorius will be
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  Speaker 3: subject to stringent parole requirements, which will include a prohibition
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  Speaker 3: on speaking to the media. A judge has determined that
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  Speaker 3: a Tennessee man suspected of raping a woman a year
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  Speaker 3: before being charged with kidnapping and killing a school teacher
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  Speaker 3: will have his fate decided by a Memphis area jury
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  Speaker 3: when he goes on trial in this sexual assault case.
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  Speaker 3: According to various news outlets, Julie Gangoli, an attorney for
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  Speaker 3: Cleota Abstin, had submitted a move for a change of
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  Speaker 3: venue for the trial, but Shelby County Judge Lee Coffee
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  Speaker 3: dismissed that request. Gngooli contended that the significant media coverage
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  Speaker 3: surrounding the murder of Eliza Fletcher in twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 3: and the rape in twenty twenty one prevented Abstin from
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  Speaker 3: receiving a fair trial from Shelby County. Jurors claim that
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  Speaker 3: because this sexual assault kit took a long time to process,
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  Speaker 3: Abstin was not detained on rape charges prior to Eliza
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  Speaker 3: Fletcher's death. In both cases, Abstence has entered a not
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  Speaker 3: guilty plea. According to British media, a US fugitive suspected
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  Speaker 3: of staging his own death to get out of a
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  Speaker 3: Utah rape case has been extradited back to the United
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  Speaker 3: States once again, Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The Utah County Prosecutor's office has charged thirty six year
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  Speaker 2: old Nicholas Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alaverdian, with
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  Speaker 2: sexually abusing a former girlfriend and orm Utah in two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and eight. He is also the target of numerous
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  Speaker 2: allegations of domestic abuse in Rhode Island. Police Scotland would
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  Speaker 2: only state that it had aided law enforcement agencies and
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  Speaker 2: extraditing a thirty six year old man when asked by
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  Speaker 2: our friends with the Associated Press about rumors that Rossie
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  Speaker 2: had been repatriated to the United States after being recognized
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  Speaker 2: by someone at a Glasgow hospital while receiving treatment for
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  Speaker 2: COVID nineteen. Rossie's criminal career took an odd turn before
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  Speaker 2: he was arrested in December of twenty twenty one. He
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  Speaker 2: claimed he had never been in the United States and
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  Speaker 2: was an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight.
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  Speaker 3: It remains unclear when Rossi departed Scotland or where he
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  Speaker 3: was headed.
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  Speaker 1: De Andrea Ford gets a ride home from coworker Otis
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  Speaker 1: Parker when shots ring out. Parker owed a third party,
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  Speaker 1: Gitana Taylor, money, so Taylor pulls together a three man
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  Speaker 1: crew to rob Otis Parker. Parker shot dead. DeAndre Ford,
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  Speaker 1: who's just trying to get a ride, barely escapes, ducking
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  Speaker 1: out of the passenger's seat and running. The day before
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  Speaker 1: the very last suspect of the shooting was formally indicted.
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  Speaker 1: Ford never comes home from her job at a Houston bar.
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  Speaker 1: Surveillance video shows her getting in a van with the
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  Speaker 1: customer sitting in the parking lot about an hour then
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  Speaker 1: they take off. Ford's family unsure if her disappearance has
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  Speaker 1: to do with being state's witness number one in a
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  Speaker 1: capital murder case, but no, she would never leave her
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  Speaker 1: taut girl. DeAndre Ford now missed four months. If you
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  Speaker 1: have info on DeAndrea Ford, called Houston PD eight three
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  Speaker 1: two three nine four eighteen forty. For the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this
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  Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace