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Crime Alert 06.12.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. An
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  Speaker 1: Austin woman waits for roadside assistance after she blows out
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  Speaker 1: a tire. Rinaldo to Pia our Sea Bar pulls behind
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  Speaker 1: her car in white suv, claiming he's there to help
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  Speaker 1: her get a replacement tire. When the woman gets into
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  Speaker 1: his suv, he locks the door, takes her to his
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  Speaker 1: apartment complex, and sex assaults her Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: The woman asks to get out of the car and
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  Speaker 2: tried to unlock the doors. When she couldn't. The woman
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  Speaker 2: shared her location with a friend, begging for help. When
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  Speaker 2: the woman is able to escape Tapia our Sebar's car,
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  Speaker 2: she immediately calls nine one one, and police arrived just
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  Speaker 2: ten minutes later. Officers surveiled the complex, finally spawning Tapia
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  Speaker 2: our Sea Bar leaving. Seven hours later. He's taken into
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  Speaker 2: custody without incident.
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  Speaker 1: Ronaldo to Pia our Sea Bar thirty one, now charged
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  Speaker 1: with kidnap and multiple sex abuse charges. Melina Logan test
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  Speaker 1: drives a Honda Civic at a Florida dealership. When the
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  Speaker 1: salesperson gets out of the car, Logan takes off. The
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  Speaker 1: highway patrol quickly catches up to Logan, but instead of
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  Speaker 1: pulling up, she makes aggressive lane changes and hits speeds
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  Speaker 1: over ninety m p eight. It looks like the chase
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  Speaker 1: is over when Logan crashes into a cement barrier, but
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  Speaker 1: she gets out of the car and hops over the
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  Speaker 1: barrier and into a canal below. Police eventually drag Logan
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  Speaker 1: out of the water themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Molina Logan twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Seven, now charged with grand theft, fleeing and resisting arrest.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and Justice news after this Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and Justice breaking news. Crime allized John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: Prosecutors have disclosed that Rex Huerman, the New York architect
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  Speaker 3: charged with killing three women and leaving their bodies along
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  Speaker 3: the Long Island coast, had a blueprint of his crime
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  Speaker 3: saved on his computer at Sydney Sumner with Crime Online
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  Speaker 3: tells us Huerman is also suspected of killing two additional women.
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  Speaker 2: The sixty year old Huerman went before a judge to
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  Speaker 2: be charged in connection with the murders of Jessica Taylor
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  Speaker 2: and Santra Caristilla, to young women who were long suspended
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  Speaker 2: of being killed by men who preyed on prostitutes in
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  Speaker 2: what has become known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings.
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  Speaker 2: Huerman had previously been accused of killing four other women.
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  Speaker 2: It was in two thousand and three that Taylor disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: Castilla was found dead thirty years ago in nineteen ninety three.
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  Speaker 2: Her being included in the case reflects investigator's belief that
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  Speaker 2: Huerman was killing women much sooner than originally thought. The
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  Speaker 2: latest accusations follow police searches of Huerman's Massapequa Park residents
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  Speaker 2: in a Long Island Woodland area connected to the investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors have revealed in court documents that they were able
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  Speaker 2: to match hares discovered on or close to the bodies
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  Speaker 2: of both victims to a DNA profile that is most
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  Speaker 2: likely Huerman's. This thanks to the application of advanced forensic
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  Speaker 2: testing techniques. Prosecutors also claim to have found a file
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  Speaker 2: on a hard drive in Huerman's basement that was used
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  Speaker 2: to quote methodically blueprint his murders. In addition to practical
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  Speaker 2: lessons for quote next time, the all Caps document includes
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  Speaker 2: a series of checklists with duties to complete before, during,
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  Speaker 2: and after the killings. Reminders to quote, get sleep before hunt,
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  Speaker 2: have story set and clean the bodies, and destroy evidence
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  Speaker 2: are among the dozens of entries scribbled. Prosecutors claim that
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  Speaker 2: a section marked things to remember seem to stress lessons
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  Speaker 2: learned from earlier deaths, such as the need to use
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  Speaker 2: a stronger rope and reduce noise to maximize quote playtime.
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  Speaker 2: One item on a body prep checklist is to remove
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  Speaker 2: head and hands, among other tasks. Huerman was ordered to
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  Speaker 2: be held without bail after entering a not guilty plead
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  Speaker 2: to the murders of both Taylor and Castilla.
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  Speaker 3: During the hearing outside of court, Heureman's attorney, Michael Brown
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  Speaker 3: stated that his client is quote obviously in a bad
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  Speaker 3: place in terms of the new charges amidst lockdown conditions
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  Speaker 3: and ongoing federal investigation and multiple inmate deaths. The warden
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  Speaker 3: of a problematic prison in Wisconsin is set to resign
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  Speaker 3: later this month once again Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: According to our friends with the Wisconsin State Journal, Randall Hepp,
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  Speaker 2: warden of wapon Correctional Institution, and submitted his resignation last week.
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  Speaker 2: The publication was able to obtain an email that Hepp
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  Speaker 2: wrote to the personnel of the prison, explaining that while
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  Speaker 2: his decision wasn't simple, he thought it would be beneficial
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  Speaker 2: for the facility. He continued by saying that the prison
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  Speaker 2: had made progress in enhancing security. Speaking with the Associated
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  Speaker 2: Press in recent days, Beth Hartke, a spokesperson for the
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  Speaker 2: state Department of Corrections, said that Hepp had actually announced
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  Speaker 2: his retirement rather than his resignation. When asked for a
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  Speaker 2: copy of the original internal email, she did not respond.
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  Speaker 2: Britt cut Back, as spokesman for the Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers,
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  Speaker 2: directed all further questions to doc leadership.
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  Speaker 3: The State Journal is reporting that on June thirtieth, Brad Malodzik,
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  Speaker 3: a former will Pond Deputy Warden, will assume the role
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  Speaker 3: of warden.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Tom. Melissa James says her sister Melanie walking down
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  Speaker 1: twentieth Straight with a male friend. Sister Melissa pulsiver to
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  Speaker 1: chat with Melanie twenty one for just a moment. Melanie
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  Speaker 1: says she's got plans to go to Albuquerque. Four days later,
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  Speaker 1: Melanie purse is found in an alley about a mile
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  Speaker 1: away from where she spoke to sister Melissa. The person
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  Speaker 1: with whom Melanie was last seen is an African American
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  Speaker 1: man six feet tall with curly hair and a thin beard.
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  Speaker 1: He says he last saw Melanie that evening. A year
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  Speaker 1: after Melanie's disappearance, a woman matching Melanie's description is spotted
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  Speaker 1: at Farmington Family Dollar. She behaves oddly, like someone may
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  Speaker 1: be watching her. Melanie is Native American, five feet tall,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. She's
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  Speaker 1: got a spade tattoo on her right index finger. Melanie
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  Speaker 1: last scene wearing a blue bandana, top, jeans, and Converse sneakers.
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  Speaker 1: Melanie James now missing ten years. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on Melanie James, please call Farmington, New Mexico PD five
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  Speaker 1: zero five five ninety nine one zero seven zero. For
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  Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice news, go to crime online
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  Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert. I Nancy Grace