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Crime Alert 03.28.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking Crime Needs naw Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Cops responding to a home break in find Deborah Fraser
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  Speaker 1: suffering from a gunshot wound. Fraser says she walked in
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  Speaker 1: on two burglars in her boyfriend's apartment, who shot her
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  Speaker 1: and left. Cops find Fraser's boyfriend, Thomas Waddell, wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: a blanket and a garbage bag, shot dead. Autopsy reveals
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  Speaker 1: Waddell was dead nearly twelve hours before the girlfriend's nine
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  Speaker 1: on one call. Fraser's hair was found stuck to duct
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  Speaker 1: tape securing the blanket around his body.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy cop searched Fraser's phone and found Google searches such
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  Speaker 2: as how to load a Revolver pistol and worse place
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  Speaker 2: to get hit in the head. CSI's determined Fraser shot
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  Speaker 2: Waddell in the back of the head while he sat
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  Speaker 2: in a recliner in the living room. Fraser then wrapped
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  Speaker 2: the body in stage the burglary, actually shooting herself while
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  Speaker 2: on the line with nine one one.
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  Speaker 1: Deborah Fraser, thirty six, pleads guilty to murder, tampering with evidence,
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  Speaker 1: and abusive a corpse in the death of Thomas Waddell.
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  Speaker 1: Three Houston children, eleven, twelve, and sixteen make off with
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  Speaker 1: a bag of cash after passing a threatening note to
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  Speaker 1: a Wells Fargo teller. It's unclear whether the children were armed,
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  Speaker 1: but the teller thought they were. After the FBI released
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  Speaker 1: surveillance photos, the parents of two of the boys turn
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  Speaker 1: them in. Texas cops recognized a third child while breaking
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  Speaker 1: up another schoolyard fight. The three boys, dubbed the Little Rascals,
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  Speaker 1: all face a charge of robbery by threat in gvcourt.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't remember the Little Rascals actually robbing
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  Speaker 1: a bank. More crime and Justice news after this. Now
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  Speaker 1: with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime on Lunch,
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  Speaker 1: John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: We began in Mississippi as two former deputies weep openly
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  Speaker 3: in court as a federal judge sentences them to years
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  Speaker 3: in prison and denounces their cruelty and storming into a
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  Speaker 3: home with four other white officers and torturing two black men.
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  Speaker 3: For more, we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty nine year old Christian Deadman was sentenced to four
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  Speaker 2: years in prison by US District Judge Tom Lee, while
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight year old Daniel Opdyke received seventeen and a
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  Speaker 2: half years. Judge Lee stated that the two black men,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Tarrell Parker, as well as
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  Speaker 2: a white man at the traffic stop weeks earlier, were
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  Speaker 2: the targets of Deadman's most quote shocking, brutal and cruel
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  Speaker 2: attacks imaginable. As Deadman apologized in court, saying he would
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  Speaker 2: never forgive himself for the suffering he has caused, he
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  Speaker 2: did not look at Jenkins or Parker in a statement
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  Speaker 2: given by his attorney. Jenkins, who was shot in the
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  Speaker 2: mouth during the attack in January twenty twenty three and
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  Speaker 2: now has difficulties speaking, claimed that Deadman's actions were the
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  Speaker 2: most heinous of all those who attacked him. Earlier in
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  Speaker 2: the week, Lee sentenced forty six year old Jeffrey Middleton
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  Speaker 2: to seventeen and a half years behind bars and thirty
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  Speaker 2: one year old Hunter Elward to almost twenty years. Their
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  Speaker 2: behavior was deemed egregious and despicable by the judge. The
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  Speaker 2: two men were ranking county sheriff's officers during the attack,
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  Speaker 2: as were Opdyke and dead Men. Last August, the four men,
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  Speaker 2: along with two other law enforcement officers, entered a guilty plea,
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  Speaker 2: acknowledging that they had broken into Jenkins and Parker's house
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  Speaker 2: without a warrant and subjected them to torture after a
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood claimed that the men were staying there with a
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  Speaker 2: white woman. Opdyke sobbed uncontrollably just hours before Deadman's sentencing.
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  Speaker 2: Turning to face Jenkins and Parker, he said that his
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  Speaker 2: time in isolation while incarcerated had allowed him to consider
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  Speaker 2: quote how I transformed into the monster I became that night.
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  Speaker 2: Before Opdyke could finished speaking, Parker put his head in
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  Speaker 2: his hands, closed his eyes, got up and left the courtroom.
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  Speaker 2: Jenkins expressed his feelings of being broken and ashamed by
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  Speaker 2: the abuse he received. Some of the former cops who
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  Speaker 2: participated in the attack dubbed themselves the Goon Squad. The
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  Speaker 2: judge stated that while Opdyke may not have fully understood
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  Speaker 2: what it meant to be a member of the group
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  Speaker 2: when Middleton urged him to join, he was aware that
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  Speaker 2: it involved employing excessive force.
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  Speaker 3: Months before federal prosecutors brought charges in August, an investigation
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  Speaker 3: by our friends with the Associated Press in March of
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  Speaker 3: last year connected some of the deputies to at least
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  Speaker 3: four violent interactions with black men since twenty nineteen, incidents
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  Speaker 3: that resulted in two deaths and one lifelong injury. Following
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  Speaker 3: a shooting at a bus stop earlier this month that
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  Speaker 3: left eight high school students in Philadelphia injured, a fifth
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  Speaker 3: suspect has now been charged once again crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: According to an announcement from city police, fifteen year old
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Jefferson of Philadelphia is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, conspiracy,
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  Speaker 2: reckless endangerment, and weapons charges. Police say the teenager had
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  Speaker 2: spoken with the gunmen prior to the shooting, had recognized
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  Speaker 2: and supplied details on a few possible targets, and had
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  Speaker 2: even noted what he was wearing to avoid being a
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  Speaker 2: victim himself. Additionally, authority say Jefferson alerted the gunmen when
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  Speaker 2: the target victims were approaching the bus. The shooting occurred
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  Speaker 2: on March sixth, the students at Northeast High School were
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  Speaker 2: waiting to board the bus. Investigators say that three massed
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  Speaker 2: individuals began shooting, hitting eight teenagers. All were eventually classified
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  Speaker 2: in stable condition, including a sixteen year old who was
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  Speaker 2: initially thought to be gravely injured after being struck by
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  Speaker 2: gunfire nine times.
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  Speaker 3: With more than three thousand students, Northeast High School is
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  Speaker 3: the largest public high school in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Lacy Bunch, seventy two, lives with his sister
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  Speaker 1: in Infield, North Carolina. Early one morning, his sister hears
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  Speaker 1: the front door shut, and you can't find him. Lacey
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  Speaker 1: reportedly left without shoes or a coat in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of a sleet storm. He also left behind his glasses, wallet,
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  Speaker 1: and keys. Searches of the area turn up no clues.
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  Speaker 1: Lacy Bunch African American, five five, one hundred and thirty pounds,
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  Speaker 1: grayish red hair. If you have info on Lacey Bunch,
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  Speaker 1: now missing three years, call Halifax County, North Carolina Sheriffs
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime in justicees go to crime online
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  Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.