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Nick Reiner Schizophrenia Treatment, New Meds Before Parents Murder "Made Him Erratic" | CRIME ALERT RECAP SATURDAY 12.20.2025 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now. I'm Nicole Parton with breaking details in the shocking
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  Speaker 2: Brentwood double homicide involving Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his
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  Speaker 2: wife Michelle Singer Reiner. According to TMZ, their son Nick Reiner,
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  Speaker 2: who's now charged with their murders, had been diagnosed with
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  Speaker 2: schizophrenia in the weeks leading up to the killings. His
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  Speaker 2: behavior reportedly became erratic and dangerous after a change in medication.
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  Speaker 2: Two sources with direct knowledge say Nick was under psychiatric
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  Speaker 2: care and had recently been treated at a Los Angeles
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  Speaker 2: high end rehab facility specializing in mental illness and substance abuse.
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  Speaker 2: That facility cost about seventy thousand dollars a month, and
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  Speaker 2: it's known for catering to wealthy families. TMZ reports that
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  Speaker 2: about a month before the murders, doctors adjusted Nick's medication
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  Speaker 2: in an effort to stabilize him, but instead his condition worsened.
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  Speaker 2: One source set quote Nick was out of his head.
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  Speaker 2: Substance abuse reportedly compounded his schizophrenia. Legal experts believe this
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  Speaker 2: case is headed toward a not guilty by reason of
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  Speaker 2: insanity plea. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has
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  Speaker 2: released the Reiners' bodies to their family. Funeral arrangements will
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  Speaker 2: be announced later. The autopsy confirmed both victims died from
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  Speaker 2: multiple sharp force injuries. Nick Reiner remains in custody without
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  Speaker 2: bail and is scheduled for arraignment in January.
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  Speaker 1: Freut Hospital did not just drop the ball on a
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  Speaker 1: grandmother's recovery. They allegedly tossed a chunk of her skull
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  Speaker 1: in the trash and tried to pay off the family
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  Speaker 1: with a measly twenty five dollars gas card. Edna Burton,
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  Speaker 1: a beloved nana and twenty year veteran employee of Ascension
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  Speaker 1: Saint John Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, is now at the
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  Speaker 1: center of a scathing negligence loss suit after a routine
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  Speaker 1: medical procedure devolved into a grotesque administrative blunder. Daughter Erica Burton,
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  Speaker 1: spoke to News for Detroit, it ain't.
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  Speaker 2: Even about the may y'all don't even know what y'all
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  Speaker 2: took from us.
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  Speaker 1: The nightmare began when Burton was rushed into emergency surgery
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  Speaker 1: following a devastating stroke. To save her life, surgeons performed
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  Speaker 1: a hemicraniectomy, removing a significant section of her skull a
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  Speaker 1: bone flap to allow her brain to swell safely. Standard
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  Speaker 1: protocol dictated the bone be preserved and reattached once the
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  Speaker 1: pressure subsided. However, when doctors prepped for the follow up
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  Speaker 1: procedure months later, they made a stomach churning discovery the
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  Speaker 1: bone was gone. According to the lawsuit filed on December
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth and Wayne County Circuit Court by the Oliver Bell Group,
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  Speaker 1: staff allegedly confused Burton with another patient named Edna Brown
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  Speaker 1: and misplaced or discarded the vital anatomy. Forced to improvise,
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  Speaker 1: medics installed a synthetic plastic plate instead of her god
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  Speaker 1: given bone. The result has been catastrophic. Burton's family says
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  Speaker 1: the prosthetic has left her in agony, largely bedbound with
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  Speaker 1: painful sores, unable to eat, and stripped of her voice.
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  Speaker 1: Adding insult to the literal injury, hospital Hanchos reportedly offered
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  Speaker 1: the family a twenty five dollars gas card as an apology,
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  Speaker 1: a gesture her daughter slammed as beyond insulting, to say
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  Speaker 1: the least. While henry Ford Health, which took over operations
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four is trying to distance itself from
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  Speaker 1: the previous administration's botch. The Burton family is demanding justice
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  Speaker 1: for the loss of their matere Criarch's quality of life.
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  Speaker 1: The suit seeks unspecified damages from medical malpractice and emotional distress.
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  Speaker 1: Ascension says they cannot comment on pending litigation.
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  Speaker 2: The individual suspected of last week's mass shooting at Brown
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  Speaker 2: University has been discovered dead in a storage facility in Salem,
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  Speaker 2: New Hampshire, following a six day multi state manhunt. According
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  Speaker 2: to law enforcement officials, the suspect has been identified as
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  Speaker 2: forty eight year old Claudio Nevas Valente, a Portuguese national
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  Speaker 2: who attended the university in Providence, Rhode Island, approximately twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years ago. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez stated that
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  Speaker 2: video surveillance and tips from the public guided investigators to
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  Speaker 2: a car rental facility where they matched Valente's name to
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  Speaker 2: their person of interest. Authorities also suspect that the man
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  Speaker 2: was involved in a murder of a professor at Massachusetts
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  Speaker 2: Institution of Technology met just two days after the December
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  Speaker 2: thirteen shooting at Brown. No motive has been disclosed for
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  Speaker 2: either incident. Brown University President Christina Packson confirmed that Valente
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  Speaker 2: was enrolled at the university from fall two thousand until
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  Speaker 2: spring two thousand and one, pursuing a PhD in physics,
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  Speaker 2: but he did not have any current affiliation with the institution.
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  Speaker 2: Officials suspect the man fatally shot MIT Professor nu No
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  Speaker 2: Gomez forty seven in his Brookline home, located roughly fifty
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  Speaker 2: miles from Providence. Both the victim and the suspect were
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  Speaker 2: reported to have studied at the same university in Portugal
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  Speaker 2: in the late nineteen nineties. The connection between the two
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  Speaker 2: cases was established when Valente's vehicle was identified through CCTV
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  Speaker 2: footage and a witness account from Brown University. Rhode Island
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General Peter Narona reported that Valente was found with
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  Speaker 2: a satchel and two firearms. Evidence discovered in a near
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  Speaker 2: vehicle matched that from the Providence scene, and that same
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  Speaker 2: car was seen close to the site of the professor's shooting.
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  Speaker 2: Preliminary investigations suggests that Valente died from a self inflicted
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  Speaker 2: gunshot wound, but police have not commented on how long
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  Speaker 2: he may have been inside that storage unit. Although the
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  Speaker 2: suspect has been found dead. Our investigation is far from over.
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  Speaker 2: There are numerous questions that still need to be answered,
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  Speaker 2: said Special Agent in Charge Ted Dox, noting that approximately
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  Speaker 2: five hundred agents had been deployed to aid local authorities.
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  Speaker 2: Lea Foley, the US Attorney for Massachusetts, remarked that Valente
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  Speaker 2: was using a cell phone that obscured tracking, indicating he
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  Speaker 2: was skilled at evading detection.
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  Speaker 3: Federal agents found niece valente Dad from a self inflicted
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  Speaker 3: gunshot wound. This is what we learned during this multi
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  Speaker 3: jurisdictional investigation. Needs Valente studied at Brown University in Providence,
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  Speaker 3: Rhode Island, on an F one visa around two thousand
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  Speaker 3: to twenty twenty one. He eventually obtained legal permanent residence status. Previously,
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  Speaker 3: he attended the same academic program as the MIT professor
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  Speaker 3: Nunou Lurierro in Portugal between nineteen ninety five and two thousand.
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  Speaker 3: Although Nieves Valente appeared to reside in Florida between November
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  Speaker 3: twenty six and November thirty of this year, he rented
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  Speaker 3: a hotel room in Boston. On December first, he rented
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  Speaker 3: a great Nissan CenTra with Florida plates from a car
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  Speaker 3: rental agency in Boston. That same day, he drove to
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  Speaker 3: the vicinity of Brown University, where his car was observed
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  Speaker 3: intermittently between December one and December twelfth. On December thirteenth,
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  Speaker 3: Neves Valente entered an auditorium on Brown University's campus during
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  Speaker 3: his study session and began shooting at students.
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  Speaker 2: In response to the shoe, the US has suspended its
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  Speaker 2: Green Card lottery program, with Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome
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  Speaker 2: asserting that Valente quote should never have been allowed in
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  Speaker 2: our country. Nom explained that Valente entered the US in
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  Speaker 2: twenty seventeen through the Diversity Lottery immigrant visa program and
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  Speaker 2: subsequently received a green card. The program grants up to
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand visas each year through a random selection that
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  Speaker 2: countries with low immigration rates to the US, and Nome
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  Speaker 2: has paused that program under President Donald Trump's directive to
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  Speaker 2: prevent further harm to Americans. She says, public frustration grew
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  Speaker 2: over the investigation into the Brown University shooting, which occurred
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  Speaker 2: when a gunman opened fire in the engineering building during
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  Speaker 2: a study session before finals. Two students were killed and
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  Speaker 2: nine others were put in the hospital. Six of them
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  Speaker 2: still listed in critical condition. The victims have been identified
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  Speaker 2: as nineteen year old Ella Cook from Alabama an eighteen
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  Speaker 2: year old muhammad U Mirzova, a USBEC American first year student.
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  Speaker 2: Police say the investigation is still ongoing.
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  Speaker 4: The arrest of a once celebrated children's pastor now stands
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  Speaker 4: as the latest reckoning in a case survivors say took
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  Speaker 4: more than forty years to reach this moment. Sixty eight
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  Speaker 4: year old Joe Campbell was arrested Wednesday on child sex
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  Speaker 4: abuse charges after US marshals took him into custody in Missouri.
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  Speaker 4: He is charged with first degree rape and lude or
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  Speaker 4: indecent acts involving a child under sixteen. Oklahoma prosecutors say
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  Speaker 4: the case centers on abuse alleged to have occurred decades ago,
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  Speaker 4: when Campbell was a rising Pentecostal preacher working closely with children.
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  Speaker 4: Authorities say Campbell is being held in the Green County
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  Speaker 4: Jail in Springfield while awaiting extradition to Oklahoma. If convicted,
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  Speaker 4: he faces life. Campbell's arrest follows months of renewed scrutiny
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  Speaker 4: triggered by an NBC News investigation into abuse allegations within
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  Speaker 4: the Assemblies. Of God. Five women say Campbell sexually assaulted
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  Speaker 4: them as children. Ins in the nineteen seventies and eighties.
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  Speaker 4: Nine more people, including four men, reported that he showed
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  Speaker 4: them pornography, made sexual comments, or touched them inappropriately while
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  Speaker 4: acting as a trusted youth minister. At the center of
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  Speaker 4: the case is Carrie Jackson, who says Campbell abused her
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  Speaker 4: repeatedly in Tulsa, starting when she was about nine years old.
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  Speaker 4: Prosecutors revived the case using a frontier era Oklahoma law
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  Speaker 4: that pauses the statute of limitations when the suspect leaves
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  Speaker 4: the state. In sermons aired nationally for years, Campbell often
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  Speaker 4: described himself as a man chosen by God after surviving
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  Speaker 4: a violent car crash, and one recorded message obtained by
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  Speaker 4: NBC News, he framed his survival as a divine bargain.
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  Speaker 4: NBC News reporters say Campbell used that testimony repeatedly to
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  Speaker 4: build credibility with congregations and parents. Survivors say the same
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  Speaker 4: language was later used to gain access to children, foster trust,
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  Speaker 4: and silence victims. In sermons reviewed by invests instigators, Campbell
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  Speaker 4: repeatedly emphasized authority, obedience, and loyalty inside the church. One
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  Speaker 4: message delivered at a men's conference.
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  Speaker 3: Don't show me your building and thank God for buildings.
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  Speaker 4: Don't show me all your equipment and your drama on
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  Speaker 4: your pretty props. Show me your men. Don't tell me
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  Speaker 4: about your bank account, tell me about your disciple account.
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  Speaker 2: Show me your churches.
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  Speaker 4: The allegations against Campbell are not new, according to church
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  Speaker 4: records and interviews reviewed by NBC News, Complaints reached Assemblies
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  Speaker 4: of God leaders as early as nineteen eighty three. One accuser,
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  Speaker 4: by the name of Phedra Creed, reported abused to police
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  Speaker 4: in Missouri in the late nineteen eighties after living with
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  Speaker 4: Campbell and his family as a teenager. A medical examination
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  Speaker 4: confirmed she had been sexually assaulted. Campbell was arrested at
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  Speaker 4: the time, but the case never went to trial. After
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  Speaker 4: Creed withdrew her case under pressure, the Assemblies of God
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  Speaker 4: expelled Campbell from the denomination in nineteen eighty nine. Despite that,
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  Speaker 4: he continued working with children. He later founded a non
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  Speaker 4: denominational church and a youth camp in the Missouri Ozarks.
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  Speaker 4: The camp became a gathering place for people accused or
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  Speaker 4: convicted of sex crimes. Campbell also joined the PTL television
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  Speaker 4: network in twenty sixteen, the one made famous by Jim
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  Speaker 4: and Tammy Fay. His sermons were broadcast nationwide until earlier
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  Speaker 4: this year. NBC News says its Pastors and Prey series
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  Speaker 4: prompted Oklahoma investigators to reopen the case. Attorney General Gentner
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  Speaker 4: Drummond called the allegations horrific and said his office would
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  Speaker 4: pursue accountability for survivors who said they were ignored for decades.
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  Speaker 4: Drummond said in his statement, quote, this arrest is about
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  Speaker 4: justice delayed, not justice denied. The Assemblies of God said.
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  Speaker 4: It is grateful to those who came forward and hoped
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  Speaker 4: the legal process brings healing. Campbell has not responded publicly
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  Speaker 4: to the charges. More Crime and Justice News after this