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Crime Alert 10.17.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Prime Alert, I'mancy Grace breaking crime news Now, Michael Arnold
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  Speaker 1: puts the move on a married New York cafe owner,
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  Speaker 1: Cassie Willis. Willis makes it clear she's not interested, and
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  Speaker 1: Arnold continues. The pilot uses his plane to circle her
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  Speaker 1: home for hours, He follows her in his car, and
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  Speaker 1: he sends her threatening emails. Well, that's one way to
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  Speaker 1: win a woman over Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: The harassment began nearly four years ago, with increasing escalation,
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  Speaker 2: Arnold flew so low over Wialush's home, the windows shook,
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  Speaker 2: and on several occasions Arnold threw things at the home
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  Speaker 2: from the plane. Arnold also sent disturbing messages to Walush,
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  Speaker 2: including one that said her Karmo was responsible for her
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  Speaker 2: husband's colon cancer death and her teen daughter is next.
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  Speaker 2: Arnold also claims Walush is crazy and has no idea
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  Speaker 2: who she is. A protective order banning Arnold from flying
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  Speaker 2: led to his arrest at an upstate New York hanger.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Arnold now facing nine counts criminal contempt and stalking.
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  Speaker 1: A group of thieves target and Nebraska Vintage clothing shop,
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  Speaker 1: first trying to wiggle the front door open, then breaking
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  Speaker 1: a display window to get inside. Surveillance footage shows the
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  Speaker 1: three men ransacking the store, trying and failing to get
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  Speaker 1: into a locked back room. The owners worked with cops
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  Speaker 1: to estimate the damage, and although the thieves make off
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  Speaker 1: with nearly twenty thousand bucks in merchandise, most of the
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  Speaker 1: stolen items were left shoes left shoes only. The matches
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  Speaker 1: were all kept in the back room. The thieves couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get into good luck selling those. More crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this Now with the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: breaking news, Prime my Lines to John Lemlay.
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  Speaker 3: A trial date has been set for a man accused
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  Speaker 3: of raping a woman a year before he was charged
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  Speaker 3: with killing a school teacher. Out for an early run
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  Speaker 3: with details Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee authorities say that because the sexual assault kit took
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  Speaker 2: a long time to analyze, Cleota Apstin was not detained
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  Speaker 2: on rape charges prior to Eliza Fletcher's death thirty nine world.
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  Speaker 2: Abstin entered a not guilty plea in each of the cases.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Lee Coffee of Shelby County set Abstin's trial for
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  Speaker 2: April eighth on the allegations of raping and kidnapping a
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  Speaker 2: woman in September of twenty twenty one. Abstin is accused
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  Speaker 2: of robbing Fletcher on a street close to the University
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  Speaker 2: of Memphis and forcing her inside an suv. A year later,
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  Speaker 2: her body was discovered next to an empty duplex. After
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  Speaker 2: being accused of Fletcher's murder, Absen, who was also gone
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  Speaker 2: by the name Cliotha Henderson, was charged with the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty one rape. The rape trial in April will take
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  Speaker 2: place before the Fletcher case. Prosecutors have stated that if
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  Speaker 2: Abstin is found guilty of first degree murder, he will
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  Speaker 2: face the death penalty. No trial date for that case
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  Speaker 2: has yet been scheduled.
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  Speaker 3: The Memphis community was horrified by the death of Fletcher,
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  Speaker 3: a thirty four year old mother of two and a
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  Speaker 3: kindergarten teacher, with her family receiving an outpouring of support
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  Speaker 3: by agreeing to enter a guilty plea. A seventy nine
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  Speaker 3: year old South Carolina man has escaped the possibility of
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  Speaker 3: being executed for ambushing police officers approaching his residence, murdering
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  Speaker 3: two of them and injuring five more. The court appearance
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  Speaker 3: for Frederick Hopkins and Aiken County was not announced, and
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  Speaker 3: the court room was absent of reporters normally covering the
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  Speaker 3: highly publicized case. Aiken County is located approximately one hundred
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  Speaker 3: twenty miles from the site of the October twenty eighteen attack.
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  Speaker 3: Two counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder
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  Speaker 3: were brought against Hopkins. Now to South Florida, where a
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  Speaker 3: judge has dismissed the lead prosecutor from the rapper YNW.
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  Speaker 3: Mellie's double murder retrial once again crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Melley's defense team has argued that the prosecution had concealed
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  Speaker 2: the fact that the primary detective gathering evidence in the
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  Speaker 2: case had earlier been charged with lying exerting extreme caution.
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  Speaker 2: Judge John Murphy of the Broward Circuit Court granted the
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  Speaker 2: defense's move to remove prosecutor Christine Bradley from the case.
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  Speaker 2: Bradley's integrity was not compromised, the judge said, but she
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  Speaker 2: could not prosecute the case that the defense intended to
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  Speaker 2: call her as a witness over the reliability of one
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  Speaker 2: of the investigators. Attorneys representing Mellie, whose real name is
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  Speaker 2: Jamel Demmons, requested last week that Murphy exclude the Broward
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  Speaker 2: State Attorney's Office from the case and perhaps dismiss it completely.
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  Speaker 2: The request was made in response to testimony given by
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  Speaker 2: Assistant State Attorney Michelle Boutrose of the Broward office, who
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  Speaker 2: claims to have heard the lead investigator in the Demon's case,
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  Speaker 2: Mark Muretti, ask a Broward County deputy to fabricate an
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  Speaker 2: account of his presence when last October, Moretti used an
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  Speaker 2: unlawful search warrant to forcibly seize a phone from Demon's
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  Speaker 2: mother as part of an investigation into witness tampering.
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  Speaker 3: The process of choosing the jury is set to commence
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  Speaker 3: this week, and Bradley's replacement has not yet been announced.
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  Speaker 3: Wendy to Hay.
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  Speaker 1: Drops her husband off at work before starting hercuy met
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  Speaker 1: thirty miles north to the Georgia Pacific Mill facility, halts
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  Speaker 1: the Oregon She never makes it. Wendy's boss calls her husband,
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  Speaker 1: which he doesn't show up. He's concerned, reporting her missing.
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  Speaker 1: Six days later, a man walking his dog finds Wendy's
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  Speaker 1: per and turns it into a Buymart store in South Eugene,
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  Speaker 1: the opposite direction of Wendy's commute. Four days later, investigators
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  Speaker 1: speak with the dog walker. He leads them to an
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  Speaker 1: abandoned car near the store. It's Wendy's. Wendy to Hoop
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  Speaker 1: one of three women who go missing in the area
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  Speaker 1: within a month. Now eighteen years ago. The two other
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  Speaker 1: women found murdered no leaves in their cases. If you
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  Speaker 1: have info on Wendy to Hoop, call Lane County Sheriffs
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  Speaker 1: five four one, six eighty two forty three eleven. For
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  Speaker 1: the latest crime in justice news, go to crime online
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  Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.