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Crime Alert 04.01.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Michigan
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  Speaker 1: cops respond to reports of injured child at the girl's home.
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  Speaker 1: They find the unresponsive eight year old has bruising, swelling
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  Speaker 1: to the head and next so severe her face is
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  Speaker 1: quote unrecognizable. She's pronounced dead at the hospital. Mom Chelsea
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  Speaker 1: Duprion says the girl fell downstairs, but medical staff says
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  Speaker 1: those injuries are more consistent with abuse and were caused
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  Speaker 1: at least a day earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, we're learning the little girl's name was Lila Cassell.
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  Speaker 2: When cops began to question Mom Chelsea Duprion, she eventually
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  Speaker 2: told police a ghost or spirit caused her to attack
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  Speaker 2: the girl when she began quote acting crazy. When first
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  Speaker 2: responders arrived, Lila was not breathing, and prosecutors have said
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  Speaker 2: photos of her condition were horrific. Duprion is currently held
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  Speaker 2: without bond.
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  Speaker 1: Chelsea Duprion thirty, charged with child abuse and felony murder.
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  Speaker 1: You ever wonder how you improve a crime in space?
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  Speaker 1: Georgia crime scene investigator Zach Kowalski teams up with researchers
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  Speaker 1: at universities to study blood patterns in low gravity as
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  Speaker 1: space tourism continues to expand. Using a syringe, he simulates
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  Speaker 1: blood spray while aboard a parabolic aircraft and it creates
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  Speaker 1: brief periods of weightlessness. He finds that blood spatter patterns
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  Speaker 1: much smaller than in normal gravity conditions. Hear me, now,
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  Speaker 1: even in space, you cannot get away with murder. 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 Lunch John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin in New York as a woman stands accused
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  Speaker 3: of beating her five year old daughter to death nearly
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  Speaker 3: three months ago and concealing the body, which has still
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  Speaker 3: not been located. With more here Sidney Sumder with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty nine year old Latasha Mott of Syracuse has now
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  Speaker 2: been arraigned on charges of manslaughter and disposing of a
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  Speaker 2: corpse in connection to the death of her daughter, for
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  Speaker 2: Titi Harris. Prosecutors alleged that on January sixth, as Nefertiti
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  Speaker 2: was taking a shower, Mott killed her by striking her
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  Speaker 2: with a belt several times. They added that Mott then
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  Speaker 2: concealed the body. According to our friends with the Syracuse
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  Speaker 2: Post Standard, police conducted a search in nearby fields and
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  Speaker 2: woodlands utilizing a drone. The newspaper says that Onundaga County
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  Speaker 2: District Attorney William Fitzpatrick stated that relatives who were concerned
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  Speaker 2: about Nefertiti's whereabouts contacted police, marking the beginning of the investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Fitzpatrick says that when Mott was questioned by police, she
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  Speaker 2: admitted to killing the child and concealing the body in
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  Speaker 2: a wooded area. Mott entered a not guilty plea at
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  Speaker 2: her arraignment. Her lawyer, Don Kelly said his client as
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  Speaker 2: being held on a million dollar bond or five hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars cash.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly said that he received the case on the day
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  Speaker 3: of the arraignment and it is too soon to provide
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  Speaker 3: any further details on the case. While searching a suspect's
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  Speaker 3: house and car, police in rural Pennsylvania investigating the death
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  Speaker 3: of a pregnant Amish woman had found six firearms, a
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  Speaker 3: variety of ammunition, and a pair of tennis shoes that
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  Speaker 3: might match treadmarks found at the crime scene. Once again
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  Speaker 3: crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: According to search warrant documents now made public, twenty three
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  Speaker 2: year old Rebecca Buyler was shot in the head and
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  Speaker 2: sustained multiple sharp force wounds to her neck during the
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  Speaker 2: attack at her home on the twenty sixth of February.
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  Speaker 2: After a preliminary hearing on March fifteenth, truck driver Sean
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Cranston was charged with two counts of homicide and
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  Speaker 2: additional offenses. The case was then sent to county court
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  Speaker 2: for trial. A state trooper stated in a recently made
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  Speaker 2: public search warrant affidavit that Rebecca Buyler's two year old
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  Speaker 2: daughter and three year old son were present during the murder.
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  Speaker 2: In the boy informed detectives that his mother had been
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  Speaker 2: slain by a man wearing sneakers around lunchtime on February
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixth. Around lunchtime on February twenty sixth, Andy Buyler,
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  Speaker 2: Rebecca Buyler's husband, and a woman who had been driving
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  Speaker 2: him and another man to look at roofing jobs, returned
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  Speaker 2: to the Builer residence and found her dead in the
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  Speaker 2: living room. The children were found unharmed. Trooper she Seddler
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  Speaker 2: set at a preliminary hearing that red and black Nike
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  Speaker 2: sneakers were discovered inside a tent at Cranston's Corey, Pennsylvania home,
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  Speaker 2: hidden beneath the mattress. Seddler said that the pattern on
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  Speaker 2: the bottom of the shoes was similar to ones he
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  Speaker 2: photographed inside Rebecca Buyler's home. Cranston, who has been behind
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  Speaker 2: bars without bail since his arrest on March second, provided
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  Speaker 2: police with his DNA and fingerprints. Gary Allen Kern, the
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  Speaker 2: public defender for Cranston, said at the preliminary hearing that
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  Speaker 2: the prosecution had failed to provide a motive or a
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  Speaker 2: murder weapon. Detectives say that tire treads from Cranston's cheep
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  Speaker 2: appear to match tire imprints found at the crime scene
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  Speaker 2: that were taken from muddy terrain. In the hours following
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  Speaker 2: Rebecca Buyler's death, police say a camera on a shop
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  Speaker 2: across the street from Cranston's residence captured someone matching his
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  Speaker 2: description taking goods to the camper and lighting a fire.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators stated that they intend to gather burn pile remnants
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  Speaker 2: found outside Cranston's home.
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  Speaker 3: The fifty two year old Cranston is charged with two
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  Speaker 3: counts of homicide in addition to trespassing and glory thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Mary Johnson of to Laylap, Washington, sees her family
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday and makes plans to meet up with a friend Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: She walks to her friends down Fire Trail Road, sending
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  Speaker 1: a text she's almost there, but she never shows up.
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  Speaker 1: Two weeks go by before she's reported missing. Her husband,
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  Speaker 1: Eric Johnson, makes the report, hires a lawyer, then changes
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  Speaker 1: his phone number and moves California. According to her family,
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  Speaker 1: cops find that after Mary's text messages, her phone pinged off.
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  Speaker 1: Cell towers thirty minutes north then shut off. No trace
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  Speaker 1: of Mary Johnson. If you have info on Mary Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: called to Layla Washington Tribal PD. Three six zero seven
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  Speaker 1: one six four six zero eight. 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 Nancy Grace