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Trump Preemptively Questions Election Results, Florida Mother Charged for Child Neglect, and DNA Breakthrough Solves A Cold Case Murder · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: President Trump is raising questions about accepting the midterm election
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  Speaker 1: results just days before Americans head to the polls.
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  Speaker 2: You'll respect the results, whatever happens?
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  Speaker 1: I will if they're honest elections. And a Florida mother
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  Speaker 1: takes a five-day trip to Vegas, leaving her four children
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  Speaker 1: at home alone.
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  Speaker 3: But a 911 call changes everything.
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  Speaker 2: To leave your children without any full-time supervision, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a recipe for disaster.
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  Speaker 1: And a murder mystery more than 50 years old is
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  Speaker 1: finally solved with DNA evidence pointing to one of America's
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  Speaker 1: most notorious serial killers. It's Thursday, October 29th. From the
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  Speaker 1: Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Mimi Brown. This is Front Page,
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  Speaker 1: and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 3: Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: The midterm elections are now just five days away, and
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  Speaker 1: President Trump is raising questions about whether he'll accept the results.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking to reporters earlier this week before leaving for Texas,
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  Speaker 1: Trump was asked whether he would respect the outcome regardless
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  Speaker 1: of which party wins.
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  Speaker 3: If you do not.
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  Speaker 2: Prevail in this election, despite having worked as hard as
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  Speaker 2: you have, how do you intend to work with Democrats
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  Speaker 2: if they have control of the House?
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  Speaker 1: We'll figure a way.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I have... Strong veto.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that that won't be the case.
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  Speaker 2: But if it is, that's happened before with many presidents.
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  Speaker 2: You have strong veto and you end up working out deals.
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  Speaker 2: And you'll respect the results, whatever happens?
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  Speaker 1: I will if they're honest election deals. Trump's response comes
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  Speaker 1: as his administration continues taking legal action over how elections
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  Speaker 1: are being run in several states. The Justice Department has
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  Speaker 1: pursued cases involving Alaska, California and Washington, including challenges related
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  Speaker 1: to voter eligibility and election procedures. Trump and his allies
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  Speaker 1: say the federal government needs to do more to stop
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  Speaker 1: people who aren't legally allowed to vote in casting ballots.
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  Speaker 1: But study and election reviews have consistently found that non-citizens
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  Speaker 1: voting in federal elections is extremely rare. And there's another
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  Speaker 1: concern heading into Election Day, misinformation. The Washington Post analysis
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  Speaker 1: found allegations of election fraud spreading across thousands of social
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  Speaker 1: media accounts, including claims that have not been backed up
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  Speaker 1: by evidence. Remember, Election Day is Tuesday, November 3rd. And
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  Speaker 1: now to Florida, where a mother of four is facing
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  Speaker 1: child neglect charges after police say she left her kids
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  Speaker 1: home alone for five days while she went to Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Police arrested 50-year-old Irene Miller as soon as she got
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  Speaker 1: off her plane, but here's how they found out the
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  Speaker 1: children were alone. Two nights before Miller returned, her daughter
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  Speaker 1: called 911 because a dumbbell had fallen on her brother's
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  Speaker 1: little head.
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  Speaker 2: We get a 911 call from an 11-year-old girl saying
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  Speaker 2: her 9-year-old brother had been injured. To leave your children
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  Speaker 2: without any full-time supervision for that length of time, for days,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a.
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  Speaker 3: Recipe for disaster.
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  Speaker 1: When deputies arrived at the family's home in Kissimmee, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: that's near Orlando, they discovered the children were there without
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  Speaker 1: an adult.
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  Speaker 3: And these kids are 9, 11, 12, and 14 years old.
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  Speaker 1: The nine-year-old was taken to the hospital, treated, and later
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  Speaker 1: released to his father, who agreed to care for all
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  Speaker 1: four children. Miller is now facing four counts of child neglect.
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  Speaker 1: And if this story sounds familiar, there's a reason. We
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  Speaker 1: recently told you about another mother in Florida accused of
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  Speaker 1: leaving her four children, including a two-month-old baby, home alone
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  Speaker 1: while she went on a three-day cruise to the Bahamas.
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  Speaker 3: And there's an update in that case.
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  Speaker 1: 29-year-old Natalie Bellazari is now out of jail on $ 10, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 3: She's facing four felony.
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  Speaker 1: Counts on child neglect and has been ordered to stay
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  Speaker 1: away from her children who were placed in foster care.
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  Speaker 1: Bellazari denies the allegation and is due back in court
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  Speaker 1: November 24th. And finally, imagine waiting more than 50 years
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  Speaker 1: to find out who murdered someone in your family. That's
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  Speaker 1: what happened in Utah, where investigators say they finally solved
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  Speaker 1: the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith. And the
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  Speaker 1: man they say killed her is notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Bundy has been dead since 1989, so how did investigators
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  Speaker 1: find this out?
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  Speaker 3: DNA evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Smith disappeared in October of 1974. Her body was later
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  Speaker 1: discovered by deer hunters, but her murder remained unsolved for decades. Recently,
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  Speaker 1: investigators solved another Bundy murder involving a woman named Laura Ame.
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  Speaker 1: They went back and compared DNA evidence from that investigation
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  Speaker 1: with evidence collected during Smith's autopsy more than 50 years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and they found a DNA profile that closely matched Bundy's.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities say that evidence, along with similarities to his other crimes,
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  Speaker 1: is enough to close Smith's case. Bundy was responsible for
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  Speaker 1: killing at least 30 women and girls across several states
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  Speaker 1: in the 1970s. He was executed in Florida in 1989,
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  Speaker 1: but investigators have continued working to identify additional victims. And
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  Speaker 1: this case is a reminder of why police preserve evidence
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  Speaker 1: even when a murder goes unsolved for decades. Because technology
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  Speaker 1: that didn't exist back then can now help families finally
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  Speaker 1: get answers. Authorities say they've contacted Smith's surviving family members.
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