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TEEN STOPS DAD'S ASSAULT WITH A SOLID PUNCH| Crime Alert Recap Saturday 03.14.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: I'm Jackie Howard, and Alabama teen steps up when his
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  Speaker 1: father allegedly tries to hurt a woman in their home.
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  Speaker 1: According to police reports, Daniel Hernandez Lopez, thirty two, and
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  Speaker 1: the victim had an argument. Hernandez Lopez then tries to
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  Speaker 1: strangle the woman, but then his thirteen year old son intervenes.
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  Speaker 1: The man heads outside, lunging at the boy swinging a bicycle,
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  Speaker 1: trying to hit him. The teen responds with several punches
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  Speaker 1: of his own, knocking Hernandez Lopez out cold. Police are
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  Speaker 1: called and they find the suspect unconscious in the front yard.
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  Speaker 1: Hernandez Lopez has arrested Charts with domestic violence strangulation, the
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  Speaker 1: mugshot showing his bloody and swollen eyes, lips, and face.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Sheriff's office, alcohol was involved. More Crime
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  Speaker 1: and Justice news After this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jennifer Gould. A twisted tale of extramarital lust and
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  Speaker 2: medical grade butchery has culminated in the arrest of a Hialia,
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  Speaker 2: Florida nurse accused of the savage October twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 2: slang of his secret lover inside her husband's suv Renee
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  Speaker 2: Perez thirty eight allegedly transformed a Chevrolet Tahoe into a
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  Speaker 2: makeshift love nest for a belated birthday rendezvous, before unleashing
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  Speaker 2: a frenzy of violence that left thirty five year old
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  Speaker 2: Linda Campitelli, a fellow nurse and mother of two, unrecognizable
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  Speaker 2: and pulverized. Campitelly's mom, Edna Russo, spoke to WPTV after
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  Speaker 2: the arrest.
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  Speaker 3: He rare, he belongs now, we let the judicial systems
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  Speaker 3: do its.
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  Speaker 2: The scene discovered on the dark shoulder of Lyons Road
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  Speaker 2: and Wellington was a vision of pure carnage. Campitelli's body
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  Speaker 2: was found lying in a massive pool of blood, her
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  Speaker 2: skull fractured and ribs shattered from what investigators describe as
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  Speaker 2: blunt forced trauma to her head and torso so severe
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  Speaker 2: that blood permeated the vehicle's rear speakers. Most hauntingly, the
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  Speaker 2: back portions of her black heels were quote completely worn down,
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  Speaker 2: disfigured and distorted end quote, the result of her lifeless
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  Speaker 2: body being forcibly dragged behind the tahoe until the pavement
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  Speaker 2: ground through her shoes and into her flesh. The setup
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  Speaker 2: for the slaughter was as calculated as it was grotesque.
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  Speaker 2: The day before the meeting, ah hesitant, Campitelli texted Perez, quote,
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  Speaker 2: I love you. I feel kind of I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what to expect tomorrow. You've never done anything like this
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  Speaker 2: for me before, and I feel a little nervous end quote.
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  Speaker 2: Perez's response was a masterclass in deception writing quote, Lol,
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  Speaker 2: it's no big deal, just trying to show you that
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  Speaker 2: I can be romantic. End quote. A photo recovered from
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  Speaker 2: the victim's phone, taken just minutes before the attack, showed
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  Speaker 2: the tahoes rear seats folded flat and covered in ultrasorb
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  Speaker 2: medical sheets stolen from Perez's workplace, A celebratory blanket taped
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  Speaker 2: to the ceiling red quote, Happy birthday. Hope your birthday
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  Speaker 2: is out of this world end quote, a sentiment that
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  Speaker 2: turned into a death sentence. Campitelli, who'd been married to
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  Speaker 2: her doctor husband John since twenty sixteen, had been leading
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  Speaker 2: a double life for two years, entangled in an affair
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  Speaker 2: that her husband was completely blind to. In fact, on
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  Speaker 2: the night she was slaughtered, she told him she was
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  Speaker 2: heading out for a girl's night a girl's dinner. Despite
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  Speaker 2: Perez's claims of a canceled meeting and a lost phone.
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  Speaker 2: A seventeen month investigation utilized DNA, cell phone data and
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  Speaker 2: surveillance footage to dismantle his alibi. Perez was hauled into
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  Speaker 2: the Palm Beach County Jail, where he is now held
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  Speaker 2: without bond. The disgraced nurse faces the ultimate prize for
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  Speaker 2: his depravity, as prosecutors pursue first degree murder charges that
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  Speaker 2: carry the death penalty. He's due back in court on
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  Speaker 2: April ninth. The motive for the slaughter is a mystery.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Drew Nelson, a nine year old Detroit student, says
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  Speaker 3: a substitute teacher hit him and ordered other students to
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  Speaker 3: attack him inside a classroom on the city's west side,
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  Speaker 3: leaving him injured and afraid to return to school. Cionte
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  Speaker 3: Fleming is a fourth grader at Robert Burn's Elementary Middle School.
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  Speaker 3: He says the incident happened Friday morning after the substitute
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  Speaker 3: teacher warned him to stay seated and off a computer.
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  Speaker 2: She said, if I get a war more time, she
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  Speaker 2: don't get the kids to jump.
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  Speaker 3: Tells the UXYZ. The situation quickly escalated, with the sub
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  Speaker 3: joining in.
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  Speaker 2: Her hits, just hurts and that that's what hurt it.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what made me sad. And then the kids
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  Speaker 2: was choking me into my face's red.
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  Speaker 3: Mom Jayceelle Warfield says she did not learn about the
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  Speaker 3: incident until her son stepped off the school bus that afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Ciance go hit today, chatsake, I hit by a teacher,
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  Speaker 2: I say who?
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  Speaker 3: Warfield says. Another parent later confirmed what happened.
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  Speaker 1: My old neighbor call me and her children just started
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  Speaker 1: there two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: And she said her children came home and sold her mom.
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  Speaker 1: A little boy got punched by teacher today and three
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  Speaker 1: kids was holding on penning them down.
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  Speaker 3: Warfield says the alleged attack left her son with a
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  Speaker 3: black eye, cuts to his face, and a concussion. She
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  Speaker 3: says the injuries are especially alarmed because Siance has a
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  Speaker 3: history of seizures. Officials with Detroit Public Schools Community Districts
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  Speaker 3: say the substitute teacher has been placed on administrative leave
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  Speaker 3: while the case is investigated. The district says the teacher
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  Speaker 3: cannot accept substitute assignments at any school during the investigation,
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  Speaker 3: and that any findings will be referred to law enforcement.
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  Speaker 3: Cionte has not returned to school. Since the incident, his
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  Speaker 3: mother says she is working to enroll him somewhere else
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  Speaker 3: while the investigation continues.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Nicole Parton. A sixteen year old girl who had
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  Speaker 4: been reported missing in North Carolina was located during a
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  Speaker 4: traffic stop in Florida. This according to the Putnam County
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  Speaker 4: Sheriff's Office. According to a deputy, he observed a car
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  Speaker 4: speeding on South US seventeen. While the car slowed down,
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  Speaker 4: the deputy decided to pull it over after determining it
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  Speaker 4: was exceeding the speed limit. Upon approaching the car, the
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  Speaker 4: deputy interacted with both the driver and the passenger, who
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  Speaker 4: provided inconsistent information regarding her name date of birth, raising
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  Speaker 4: concerns for her safety. The driver, identified as thirty seven
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  Speaker 4: year old Joshua mcgraf, claimed the girl was his cousin. However,
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  Speaker 4: the passenger repeatedly gave different dates of birth and aliases,
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  Speaker 4: prompting the deputy to take precautionary measures. Once the girl
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  Speaker 4: was placed in the patrol car, the girl revealed her
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  Speaker 4: true identity, which led police to discover that she had
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  Speaker 4: been reported missing from North Carolina a month earlier. The
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  Speaker 4: authorities contacted the girl's mother, who confirmed that she had
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  Speaker 4: filed a missing person's report on February sixteen and was
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  Speaker 4: unfamiliar with McGrath. When questioned about his relationship with the teen,
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  Speaker 4: McGrath altered his initial statement, now referring to her as
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  Speaker 4: his sixteen year old friend. Take a listen, sir, that's
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  Speaker 4: mother as your cousin.
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  Speaker 5: Sir, what's sixteen? What's your name? You old lady? Your name?
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  Speaker 5: Your name? I don't expek Andy luis right? The name
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  Speaker 5: and the information she gave me.
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  Speaker 3: Then'll come back to Ada.
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  Speaker 5: Who's that young lady here?
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  Speaker 4: That's my friend.
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  Speaker 3: That's your friend I met.
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  Speaker 5: In Chara in Charlotte. However, you have thirty seven and
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  Speaker 5: your friends with a sixteen year old girl. Yeah, she
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  Speaker 5: gave me like three different names, three birthdays. So where
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  Speaker 5: were you guys headed to right now? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Bornando, Orlandolficer?
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  Speaker 5: What's in Orlando?
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  Speaker 2: How Lisa Mary?
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  Speaker 4: When asked why he was with a minor, McGrath claimed
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  Speaker 4: he believed the girl was nineteen. He further stated that
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  Speaker 4: he was in Florida to participate in some gambling games.
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  Speaker 4: During a search of the car, deputies discovered nineteen counterfeit
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  Speaker 4: one hundred dollars bills, synthetic marijuana, and drug paraphernalia. The
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  Speaker 4: Sheriff's office reported that they coordinated with the Department of
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  Speaker 4: Children and Family Services to ensure the girl's safe custody
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  Speaker 4: and return to her mother. A. Graff was arrested on
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  Speaker 4: several charges, including interference with child custody, possession of marijuana,
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  Speaker 4: possession of counterfeit currency contributing to the delinquency of a minor,
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  Speaker 4: and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was booked into the
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  Speaker 4: Putnam County Jail with a bond set at nine thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 4: The investigation remains ongoing, according to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office.
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  Speaker 4: In Kentucky, the state Police are searching for a missing
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  Speaker 4: woman who has been missing since February. Officials say troopers
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  Speaker 4: received a missing person report on February twenty three for
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  Speaker 4: a fifty year old woman, Teresa Reeves. According to investigators,
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  Speaker 4: Reeves was last seen on February fourteen at Bezo's Bar
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  Speaker 4: on South Horde Street in Grayson. Witnesses told authorities Reeves
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  Speaker 4: was wearing a pink shirt when she was last seen.
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  Speaker 4: Police say she does not have a cell phone or
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  Speaker 4: any personal belongings with her. Anyone with information about Reeves
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  Speaker 4: whereabouts is asked to contact the Kentucky State Lease or
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  Speaker 4: immediately dial nine one one and for the latest crime
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  Speaker 4: and justice news, follow Crime Alert hourly update on your
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  Speaker 4: favorite podcasting app with this crime Alert, I'm Nicole Carton.