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Crime Alert 07.15.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, I may see grace breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 1: Davidson County, North Carolina sheriff starts surveilling a home after
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  Speaker 1: they get reports it's overrun with dogs. They quickly learn
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  Speaker 1: an elderly woman lives in the home with a caretaker,
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  Speaker 1: Melvin Berry, and forty four zero wolf dog hybrids. Cops
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  Speaker 1: determine the homes uninhabitable. They go inside to remove the woman.
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  Speaker 1: They find her severely injured and the wolf dogs ferral Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: We now know the wolf dogs did cause the woman's injuries.
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  Speaker 2: She is still in serious condition at a hospital. It
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  Speaker 2: is illegal to own these kinds of dogs in North
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  Speaker 2: Carolina and several other states due to their aggressive and
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  Speaker 2: wild nature. While all efforts were made to send the
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  Speaker 2: dogs to a rehabilitation center, they were ultimately euthanized due
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  Speaker 2: to their risk to public safety.
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  Speaker 1: Melvin Barry now charged with elder abuse and twenty counts
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  Speaker 1: animal cruelty news Tharna Beach police called to the local
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  Speaker 1: airport after a flight instructor reports a man with a
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  Speaker 1: blue crouched on the wing of a plane in a
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  Speaker 1: non public area of a tarmac. The man reportedly asked
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  Speaker 1: the instructor how he the man with the bag could
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  Speaker 1: fly a plane. When police arrived, Robert Stringstra is in
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  Speaker 1: the co pilot's seat. Seinstra again ask officers to explain
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  Speaker 1: how to fly before jumping out the emergency exit. Cops
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  Speaker 1: quickly get the twenty two year old incuffs and discover
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  Speaker 1: he's carrying both marijuana and meth. Seinstra now charged with trespassing,
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  Speaker 1: grand theft, and drugs. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime
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  Speaker 1: Onlines John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin in Texas as a suspect has now been
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  Speaker 3: arrested and charged in connection with the fatal shooting of
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  Speaker 3: a Houston area sheriff's deputy. This following a police manhunt
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  Speaker 3: initiated after an assault at a local pizzeria. We turned
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  Speaker 3: as Sidney Sumner of Crime Online for more.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty eight year old Deputy Fernando Esqueda was killed on
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  Speaker 2: the morning of July eleventh by a suspect who allegedly
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  Speaker 2: pistol whipped a pizza ria clerk just hours earlier. Harris
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  Speaker 2: County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez provided details on the incident during
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  Speaker 2: a news conference on the night of the shooting. Ronald
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  Speaker 2: Palmer Junior, was taken into custody around seven pm that
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  Speaker 2: evening after an intensive manhunt. Initially charged with aggravated assault
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  Speaker 2: against the Little Caesar's Pizza employee, Sheriff Gonzalez later confirmed
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  Speaker 2: via social media that Palmer had also been charged with
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  Speaker 2: capital murder for the death of Deputy Esqueda. The sequence
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  Speaker 2: of events began just after ten pm on July tenth,
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  Speaker 2: when Harris County Sheriff's deputies responded to an assault report
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  Speaker 2: at the Little Caesars Pizza in the Houston area. Chief
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  Speaker 2: Deputy Mike Lee explained that a customer, upset over an
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  Speaker 2: incorrect order, assaulted the clerk by pistol whipping him before
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  Speaker 2: fleeing the scene. The clerk was able to provide a
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  Speaker 2: description of the suspect's vehicle in its license plate number,
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  Speaker 2: which deputies traced to a specific location. Deputy Esqueda located
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  Speaker 2: the vehicle around midnight. Officers later found a Squada shot
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  Speaker 2: multiple times and rushed him to a hospital, where he
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  Speaker 2: was pronounced dead.
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  Speaker 3: At the time of the incident, Deputy Esqueta, along with
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  Speaker 3: all other Sheriff's Department staff, had been working extended twelve
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  Speaker 3: hour shifts to provide security and prevent looting in the
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  Speaker 3: aftermath of Hurricane Barrel. A man has been sentenced in
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  Speaker 3: connection with the death of Dennis Day, a beloved original
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  Speaker 3: cast member of Walt Disney's nineteen fifties TV show The
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  Speaker 3: Mickey Mouse Club. Once Again crime online Sydney Sumner, forty one.
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  Speaker 2: Year old Daniel Berta has received a sentence of just
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  Speaker 2: over four years in prison after entering a modified guilty
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  Speaker 2: plea days earlier. Berta, who was working as a living
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  Speaker 2: handyman at Day's home in Phoenix, Oregon, pleaded no contest
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  Speaker 2: to charges of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of a corpse.
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  Speaker 2: This plea means he acknowledges that the state has enough
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  Speaker 2: evidence to prove the charges at trial, effectively carrying the
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  Speaker 2: same weight as a guilty plea. Prosecutors revealed that Berta
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  Speaker 2: was responsible for causing Day's death and subsequently using his
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  Speaker 2: identity to make unauthorized purchases. The seventy six year old
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  Speaker 2: Day had been attempting to evict Berta around the time
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  Speaker 2: he went missing in mid twenty eighteen. Tragically, Dennis Day's
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  Speaker 2: badly decomposed body was not discovered for nine months, found
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  Speaker 2: beneath a pile of clothes in his home. This delay
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  Speaker 2: has led to a lawsuit against the Phoenix Police Department
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  Speaker 2: by Day's family, who claimed the department's repeated visits to
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  Speaker 2: the house without finding his remains caused significant emotional distress.
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  Speaker 2: According to the lawsuit, during one search, officers even stepped
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  Speaker 2: on Day's body, resulting in fractures to the corpse. Despite this,
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  Speaker 2: the body was not located until April twenty nineteen, when
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  Speaker 2: Oregon State Police brought in a cadaver sniffing dog. This
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  Speaker 2: delayed discovery prevented the medical examiner from determining an exact
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  Speaker 2: cause of death. Berta's case experienced multiple delays due to
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  Speaker 2: assessments of his mental fitness and other legal challenges. Court
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  Speaker 2: records indicate he faced additional charges while out of custody,
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  Speaker 2: and has recently been sentenced to an additional two years
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  Speaker 2: in a separate burglary case, bringing his total time in
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  Speaker 2: prison to just over six years.
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  Speaker 3: Phoenix Police Department has denied any wrongdoing, with the trial
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  Speaker 3: set to begin in October in Jackson County Circuit Court.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Taylor, casey forty one travels from Chicago to
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  Speaker 1: the Bahamas for a month long yogat retreat. Taylor's been
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  Speaker 1: practicing yoga fifteen years and this is fulfilling her dream
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  Speaker 1: of becoming a certified instructor. She regularly updates friends and
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  Speaker 1: family on progress and she's looking forward to sharing what
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  Speaker 1: she's learned. She's to come home in two weeks. Taylor
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  Speaker 1: doesn't show up to morning classes. Staff at the Shivanada
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  Speaker 1: Oushram Retreat immediately report her missing. NASA authorities use drones, CA, nines,
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  Speaker 1: and divers to search. Her cell phone's recovered from the
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  Speaker 1: ocean not far from the hotel. Taylor Casey African American,
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  Speaker 1: five ten, one hundred and forty five pounds, brown hair,
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  Speaker 1: brown eyes, often covers her hair with a bandana. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info on Taylor Casey, now missing two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: called the Royal Amma's Police two four two three two
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  Speaker 1: two four four four four. For the latest crime injustice
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  Speaker 1: needs go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace