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Public Speculation on a Serial Killer in New England Rises | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 04.19.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update, breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jackie Howard. Is there a serial killer in New England?
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  Speaker 1: At least six bodies have been found in just over
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  Speaker 1: a month's time, four in Connecticut, one in Massachusetts, and
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  Speaker 1: one in Rhode Island. All are within a couple of
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  Speaker 1: hours of each other and on the Atlantic Coast. Two
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  Speaker 1: bodies were found on March sixth in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 1: The body of Page fan and thirty five was recovered
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  Speaker 1: by the Norwalk Police, scuba team and fire rescue team.
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  Speaker 1: She had been reported missing out of West Islip on
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  Speaker 1: Long Island. The next day, she was reportedly seen in
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  Speaker 1: New Haven. Her clothes and personal items were found on
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  Speaker 1: the bank of the Norwalk River. There's little information on
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  Speaker 1: the body found in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Unnamed, no information on
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  Speaker 1: gender or age. The remains were found by a hunter
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  Speaker 1: realizing the bones looked human, authorities were notified. Officials determined
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  Speaker 1: the bone was the top half of a human skull
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  Speaker 1: and its jaw and nasal area missing. The body of
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  Speaker 1: a nun named female forty to sixty years old was
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  Speaker 1: recovered inside a suitcase near a cemetery March sixteenth in Groton, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: Groughton is eighty miles east of Norwalk. The body of
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  Speaker 1: Denise Leary, fifty nine, was found March twentieth in new Haven, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: She went missing last September. The remains were found in
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  Speaker 1: a wooded area in an advanced state of decay. New
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  Speaker 1: Haven is about fifty miles west of Groughton. Michelle Romano,
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  Speaker 1: fifty six, was found March twenty sixth, eight months after
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  Speaker 1: she disappeared. Her remains were also found in a wooded
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  Speaker 1: area of Foster, Rhode Island. Another unidentified body was found
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  Speaker 1: April ninth in killing Lee, Connecticut. So far, police say
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  Speaker 1: there is no information connecting these crimes, but public speculation continues.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after.
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  Speaker 3: This, I'm Nicole Pardon. A tragic update from Florida State
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  Speaker 3: University's Tallahassee campus, where two people have died and six
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  Speaker 3: others have been injured following a mass shooting. The alleged shooter,
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  Speaker 3: twenty year old student Phoenix Eichner, opened fire near the
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  Speaker 3: student union during lunchtime on Thursday. According to authorities, Eichner
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  Speaker 3: is the son of a Leon County sheriff's deputy and
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  Speaker 3: reportedly used his mother's former service weapon in the attack.
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  Speaker 3: Eichner is a political scientist major at FSU. Law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: responded swiftly, and officers shot Eichner after he did not
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  Speaker 3: follow their commands. Unfortunately, two men who were not students
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  Speaker 3: were killed in the shooting. Five others were injured by gunfire,
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  Speaker 3: while a sixth individual was hurt while fleeing the scene.
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  Speaker 3: The injured victims are currently reported to be in fair
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  Speaker 3: condition at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare. Police confirmed that Eichner, who
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  Speaker 3: was hospitalized with injuries that are non life threatening, used
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  Speaker 3: his mother's former service firearm, which she had retained for
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  Speaker 3: personal use after the department transitioned to new equipment. Leon
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  Speaker 3: County Sheriff Walter McNeil expressed his sorrow over the incident.
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  Speaker 2: This is obviously a heinous crime. Our deepest condolences go
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  Speaker 2: out to the FSU family, the families of the students
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  Speaker 2: who are here, and we understand that you all have
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  Speaker 2: been devastated because of this person's actions. The question as
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  Speaker 2: relates to who is a shooter. The shooter is twenty
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  Speaker 2: year old Phoenix Eckner Eichner, and he's a son of
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  Speaker 2: a Land County sheriff Deputy. Our Deputy Deputy Eichner has
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  Speaker 2: been with the LeAnn County Sheriff's Office for over eighteen years.
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  Speaker 2: She has a tremendous job that she's done. Her service
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  Speaker 2: to this community has been exceptional. Unfortunately, her son had
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  Speaker 2: access to one of her weapons and that was one
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  Speaker 2: of the weapons. That's what's found at the scene.
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  Speaker 3: No motive on the shooting has been given at this time,
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  Speaker 3: but the investigation is certainly ongoing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Drew Nelson. An eighty year old man in South
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  Speaker 4: Carolina opens fire inside a neighbor's home, killing an eleven
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  Speaker 4: year old girl that admits to killing his wife earlier
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  Speaker 4: that same night. Wednesday night, deputies rushed to Floyd Drive
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  Speaker 4: in Sumter County after reports of gunfire. They found a
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  Speaker 4: child shot dead and an elderly man, Reuben Arthur Leonard,
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  Speaker 4: being held down by the girl's family members. The child
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  Speaker 4: was later identified as Ashley McFarlane, a fifth grade student
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  Speaker 4: at Kingsbury Elementary School. She was shot in the front
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  Speaker 4: room and died instantly.
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  Speaker 2: I was in shock last night, in shock.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't believe it. A neighbor of the victims, speaking
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  Speaker 4: to WIS Chief Deputy Hampton Gardner says Leonard used an
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  Speaker 4: assault rifle and fired at everyone he saw and.
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  Speaker 3: For vote sinceless something like this should never occur.
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  Speaker 4: About ten people were inside the home. Leonard had walked
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  Speaker 4: roughly one hundred yards through the woods from his own house.
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  Speaker 4: He had long complained about target shooting in the backyard
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  Speaker 4: of the Floyd Drive home. Deputies had responded several times.
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  Speaker 4: Days earlier, Leonyard had been charged with breach of peace
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  Speaker 4: for an argument at that address.
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  Speaker 3: Nowhere near his yard.
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  Speaker 2: Again, He's through a wood line on another street, so
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  Speaker 2: he'd been going over and talking to them about the shooting.
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  Speaker 4: Although the shooting practice was legal, Leonard threatened to end
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  Speaker 4: it quote one way or another. On Wednesday, just hours
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  Speaker 4: before the killings, the sheriff had warned Leonard to call
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  Speaker 4: law enforcement instead of taking matters into his own hands.
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  Speaker 4: After his arrest, Leonard told deputies he had already killed
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  Speaker 4: his wife. Officers checked his home on Saltwood Road. They
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  Speaker 4: found seventy six year old Felicia Leonard shot to death
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  Speaker 4: in the garage. Police have not found a clear reason
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  Speaker 4: for her murder.
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  Speaker 3: He did not deserve to neither one of them.
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  Speaker 4: He was a sick man, and we kept trying to
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  Speaker 4: tell him he needed help. Gardner said Leonard had both
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  Speaker 4: an ar style rifle and a handgun. He was injured
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  Speaker 4: during the incident and is still in the hospital. When
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  Speaker 4: he is released, he will be taken to the county
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  Speaker 4: jail facing two murder charges.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Jennifer Gould. A Long Island family's home became a
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  Speaker 5: scene of unimaginable horror when a seemingly ordinary punishment over
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  Speaker 5: a computer allegedly triggers a brutal and deadly attack. A
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  Speaker 5: fifteen year old boy, enraged after his mom and grandmother
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  Speaker 5: discussed taking away his beloved computer as a consequence for
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  Speaker 5: missing school, unleashed a violent fury that left his grandmother
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  Speaker 5: dead and his mother fighting for her life playing dead
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  Speaker 5: to escape the teen's rage, authority say. Defense attorney Pete
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  Speaker 5: Meyer spoke to the media at the courthouse.
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  Speaker 3: There's a fifteen year old child here, okay, and he
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  Speaker 3: is presumed innocent.
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  Speaker 4: We have a presumption of innocence in America.
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  Speaker 5: The deadly confrontation erupted on the night of April seventh
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  Speaker 5: in the family's Selden residence. According to the Suffolk County
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  Speaker 5: District Attorney's office, the thirty six year old mom, Vanessa Chandemi,
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  Speaker 5: had confronted her son about skipping classes, a disciplinary measure
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  Speaker 5: that her fifty six year old mom, Concetta Chandemi supported,
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  Speaker 5: but the mere suggestion of taking away his device allegedly
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  Speaker 5: sent the fifteen year old into a murderous tantrump. The irighteen,
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  Speaker 5: whose identity has not been released due to his age,
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  Speaker 5: reportedly grabbed a knife and first turned his rage on
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  Speaker 5: his granny, stabbing her multiple times. He then allegedly turned
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  Speaker 5: the weapon on his own mom. According to the DIA's office,
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  Speaker 5: after being stabbed, Vanessa Chandemi fell to the ground, instinctively
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  Speaker 5: playing dead in a desperate attempt to survive the onslaught. Undeterred,
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  Speaker 5: the still armed teen allegedly continued his vicious assault on
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  Speaker 5: his grandmother, stabbing her more than thirty five life times
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  Speaker 5: in total before fleeing the scene. Neighbor DJ Cortes spoke
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  Speaker 5: to CBS New York, could.
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  Speaker 3: You possibly heard your grandmother and your mother like that?
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  Speaker 3: Like obviously, I'm assuming he just wasn't in the right
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  Speaker 3: state like mentally.
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  Speaker 5: Miraculously, the injured mom managed to stumble outside her home
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  Speaker 5: and flag down a passing driver. That good samaritan allowed
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  Speaker 5: her inside their car and called nine one one. When
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  Speaker 5: police arrived at the Old Town Road residence, they found
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  Speaker 5: the lifeless body of Conchitah riddled with multiple stab wounds.
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  Speaker 5: Vanessa was rushed to a local hospital, where she continues
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  Speaker 5: to recover from the injuries she sustained in that brutal attack.
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  Speaker 5: The fifteen year old boy was caught later that night
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  Speaker 5: and charged with second degree murder and attempted second degree murder.
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  Speaker 5: He was arraigned before a judge and ordered to be
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  Speaker 5: held without bail as the legal proceedings unfold. If convicted,
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  Speaker 5: the teen could face a sentence of fifteen years to
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  Speaker 5: life behind bars. The teen is due in court on
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  Speaker 5: May twenty first. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 5: app with this crime Alert. I'm Jennifer Gould.
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  Speaker 4: How