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Crime Alert 03.26.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace Breaking Crime News Now Kenya.
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  Speaker 1: Butler and her two children had for supper at George's
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  Speaker 1: Juicy Crab restaurant. Noticing unattended belongings one booth over, Butler
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  Speaker 1: points out a purse and urges her seven year old
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  Speaker 1: daughter to steal it. The little girl grabs the purse,
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  Speaker 1: hands it to mommy, and the group quickly leaves. They
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  Speaker 1: also skip out on a five hundred dollar bill Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: The entire incident was caught on surveillance video, which helps
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  Speaker 2: lead authorities to their suspects. Butler is seen holding her
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  Speaker 2: toddler in her arms while pointing out the purse to
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  Speaker 2: her older daughter. The little girl questions her mother, but
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  Speaker 2: Butler insists, and the girl grabs the purse, hiding it
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  Speaker 2: under a jacket until they make it outside the restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: While the little daughter's not in trouble Kenya. Butler twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: now charged with theft and contributing to delinquency of a miner.
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  Speaker 1: A bakery owner reviews surveillance footage after noticing items missing
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  Speaker 1: from the shop. The video shows a blonde woman dressed
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  Speaker 1: in black outside the shop doing a series of stretches
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  Speaker 1: and yoga poses before breaking in. The owner reports a
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  Speaker 1: pair of shoes and iPad cleaning products and several croissants missing.
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  Speaker 1: Social media joke the woman one or two quote work
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  Speaker 1: off the calories she's about to steal. The so called
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  Speaker 1: bendable burglar now out on bail for theft and burglary.
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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 Onlines John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: A judge has dismissed a prosecutor's request to add abduction
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  Speaker 3: charges against an Indiana man accused of killing two teenage girls.
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  Speaker 3: This while the judge has now accepted two more murder
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  Speaker 3: counts against the defendant. With more here Sidney Sumner with
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  Speaker 3: Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Richard Allen of Delphi has now been charged with additional
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  Speaker 2: counts including murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping,
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  Speaker 2: after being taken into custody in our October of twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty two. Allen was accused of killing fourteen year old
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  Speaker 2: Liberty German and thirteen year old Abigail Williams in twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: In response to the initial murder allegations, he entered a
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  Speaker 2: not guilty plea. When he submitted the revised charges in January,
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  Speaker 2: Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas mclealand stated that they quote more
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  Speaker 2: accurately aligned the charging information with the causes discovery and
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  Speaker 2: probable cause affidavit. Apart from authorizing the fresh accusations, Special
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  Speaker 2: Judge fran Gul decided that all subsequent proceedings in the case,
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  Speaker 2: aside from the May thirteenth jury selection, will take place
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  Speaker 2: in Carroll County. Gol is an Allan Superior Court judge
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  Speaker 2: in Fort Wayne, where several hearings have taken place. It
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  Speaker 2: was on February thirteenth, twenty seventeen, that a relative of
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  Speaker 2: one of the teens left the two girls at a
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  Speaker 2: hiking trail near Delphi, which is roughly sixty miles northwest
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  Speaker 2: of Indianapolis. When they failed to appear at the meeting
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  Speaker 2: spot where they had made arrangements to be picked up
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  Speaker 2: that evening. They were reported missing the following day. Their
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  Speaker 2: bodies were discovered close to the path in a rough,
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  Speaker 2: densely forested location. Delphi, a town of approximately three thousand
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  Speaker 2: people where Allen worked in a pharmacy, has been traumatized
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  Speaker 2: by the killings and the case has drawn a lot
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  Speaker 2: of attention from both state and federal authorities. Gull issued
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  Speaker 2: a gag order in December twenty twenty two prohibiting lawyers,
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  Speaker 2: police officers, court employees, the coroner, and relatives of the
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  Speaker 2: girls from discussing the matter with the public or the
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  Speaker 2: media in any way. Citing increasing public scrutiny and media attention,
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors had requested the order.
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  Speaker 3: It was after a Carroll County judge resigned that Gall
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  Speaker 3: was appointed as a special judge to supervise the case.
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  Speaker 3: Now to Washington State as a man from Portland Suburbs
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  Speaker 3: has been convicted of the nineteen eighty cold case murder
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  Speaker 3: of a nineteen year old college student once again crime Online,
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  Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: According to a press release issued by the Moltnomah County
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  Speaker 2: District Attorney's office, sixty year old Robert Clinton was found
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  Speaker 2: guilty of first degree murder in the death of Barbara
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  Speaker 2: May Tucker by Moltnomah County Circuit Judge Amy Baggio. As
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  Speaker 2: to the judge's ruling, Plimpton was not found guilty of
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  Speaker 2: any crime related to rape or sexual abuse because the
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  Speaker 2: prosecution was unable to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that
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  Speaker 2: the incidents occurred while she was still alive. A medical
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  Speaker 2: examiner's finding revealed that Tucker had been beaten and sexually
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  Speaker 2: assaulted using DNA technology. A parabond Nana Labs genealogist determined
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one that Plimpton was most likely connected
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  Speaker 2: to DNA in the case. Prosecutors claimed that Gresham Police
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  Speaker 2: Department detectives discovered Plimpton residing in Troutdale. They began monitoring
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  Speaker 2: the suspect and gathered a chewing gum fragment he had
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  Speaker 2: spit onto the ground. Following the discovery by the Oregon
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  Speaker 2: State Police Crime Lab that the gum's DNA profile matched
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  Speaker 2: that of swabs collected from Tucker's remains, Clinton was taken
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  Speaker 2: into custody. On January fifteenth, nineteen eighty, Tucker was scheduled
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  Speaker 2: to attend a night class at mount Hood Community College
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  Speaker 2: in Gresham. Witnesses reported seeing her bolting from a wooded
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  Speaker 2: area on campus, followed by a man who escorted her
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  Speaker 2: back to the school. The following day, a student discovered
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  Speaker 2: Tucker's body next to a school parking lot. Climpton claimed
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  Speaker 2: to be innocent and to not fit the description of
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  Speaker 2: the man who was observed dragging the woman into the bushes.
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  Speaker 3: Sentencing is said to take place in June.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Caroline Meister visits the Tasajara Zen Mountain Center
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  Speaker 1: in rural Carmel Valley, California for meditation. At ten a m.
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  Speaker 1: She leaves the center to hike, heading up wind Cave
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  Speaker 1: Trail to loop back to the center. She leaves her
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  Speaker 1: belongings behind, only taking water and snacks. When she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: return by eleven thirty PM, Caroline's reported missing. After an
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  Speaker 1: extensive foot in helicopter search, Caroline has not been found.
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  Speaker 1: She was lasting one week ago, wearing teal boots and
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  Speaker 1: carrying a blue bag. Hikers are asked to keep an
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  Speaker 1: eye out for her. If you know or think you
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  Speaker 1: know anything about Caroline Meister's disappearance, contact Monterey County, California
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  Speaker 1: Sheriffs eight three one seven five five five to one
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  Speaker 1: one one. For the late this crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace