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Diddy Closing Arguments are Next | Crime Alert 6AM 06.25.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news. Now, I'm Drew Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: That was quick. The prosecution rests, then the defense rests.
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  Speaker 1: In the trial of Sean Diddy Comb's on Tuesday in
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  Speaker 1: New York, the government ended its case, the defense then
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  Speaker 1: resting after just twenty three minutes. No witnesses, only text
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  Speaker 1: messages and written evidence were submitted. Combs told the judge
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  Speaker 1: he would not testify, quote, that is my decision, your honor.
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  Speaker 1: It is solely my decision. It's my decision with my lawyers.
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  Speaker 1: When asked how he was feeling, Combs replied, quote, I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing great, your honor. I wanted to tell you you're doing
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  Speaker 1: an excellent job. After the defense rested, prosecutors said they
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  Speaker 1: would not present a rebuttal. The jury was dismissed until
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  Speaker 1: the return Thursday for closing arguments. Both sides agreed to
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  Speaker 1: hold court all day Thursday and Friday. Prosecutors said they
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  Speaker 1: do not expect deliberations to begin until Monday. Defense attorney
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  Speaker 1: Alexandra Shapiro argues there was no proof of conspiracy in
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  Speaker 1: the racketeering charge. She said Combe's employees were not part
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  Speaker 1: of a criminal enterprise, only helping with travel or errands
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  Speaker 1: end quote didn't know much, if anything, about what went
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  Speaker 1: on between mister Combs and his girlfriends in the hotel rooms.
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  Speaker 1: She said the sex trafficking charges related to Cassie, Ventura
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  Speaker 1: and Jane should be dismissed. Quote, there's no evidence he
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  Speaker 1: used coercion. Domestic violence is not sex trafficking. Shapiro said
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  Speaker 1: Ventura left when Combs became violent, and that there were
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  Speaker 1: no texts showing she objected to free coughs. The defense
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  Speaker 1: focused on showing that Comb's girlfriends were willing in court.
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  Speaker 1: They read texts from Cassie to Comb's In one exchange,
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  Speaker 1: Combs asked, quote, you think you can fo without getting high? Lol,
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  Speaker 1: and she replied quote yeah, I'll just have to be
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  Speaker 1: at my level and what's good for me. Other messages
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  Speaker 1: showed Combs and ex girlfriend Jane setting up hotel meetings
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  Speaker 1: with escorts. In one text, Jane said quote, baby is
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  Speaker 1: all set. In a stipulation read into the record, The
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  Speaker 1: defense highlighted that several key witnesses did not initially report
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  Speaker 1: threats or sexual contact by Shawn Combs during early interviews
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  Speaker 1: with law enforcement. For example, Mia did not say in
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  Speaker 1: her first three meetings that Combs initiated sexual contact. Don Richard,
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  Speaker 1: the Dannity Kine singer, did not tell investigators in four
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  Speaker 1: of her seven meetings that Combs had threatened her by saying,
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  Speaker 1: quote where he comes from, people go missing if they
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  Speaker 1: say things venture as friend Breonna Bongolin did not report
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  Speaker 1: before trial that Combs said he could kill her at
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  Speaker 1: a photoshoot. Comb's fate could be decided as early as
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  Speaker 1: next week in the racketeering and sex trafficking trial. He
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  Speaker 1: faces life in prison. For more on the trial of
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  Speaker 1: Sean Diddy Combs. Join Nancy tonight at her new time
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  Speaker 1: seven pm and twelve midnight Eastern on Merritt Street Media.
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  Speaker 1: Check your local listings four Channel Assignment, or follow crime
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. A man convicted of
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  Speaker 1: a brutal rape and murder in Florida has been executed,
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  Speaker 1: ending a case that haunted or Land for over thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Lee Goadinas, age fifty one, was put to death
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  Speaker 1: by lethal injection on Tuesday at Florida State Prison in Stark.
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  Speaker 1: He had been on death row since nineteen ninety five
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  Speaker 1: for the killing of Michelle McGrath, a twenty seven year
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  Speaker 1: old former homecoming queen. McGrath was attacked in the early
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  Speaker 1: morning hours of May twenty fourth, nineteen ninety four, after
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  Speaker 1: leaving a downtown Orlando nightclub called Barbarella. She had spent
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  Speaker 1: the evening out with a friend. Around two forty five am,
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  Speaker 1: she walked alone to her car. Goodeenas, who had also
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  Speaker 1: been in the club that night, followed her into the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot. He dragged her into an alley, raped her,
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  Speaker 1: and beat her to death. Her nude body was found
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  Speaker 1: hours later by a school employee at a private girls' school.
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  Speaker 1: Witnesses placed Goadinas at the scene. A school worker saw
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  Speaker 1: him fleeing the alley. A second woman testified that he
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  Speaker 1: had chased her to her car the same night and
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  Speaker 1: threatened to attack her for decades. Goodeenas argued that he
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  Speaker 1: suffered from mental illness and was not fit to be executed.
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  Speaker 1: He is the seventh person executed in Florida. In twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, A grieving mother's speaks for the first time
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  Speaker 1: after the loss of her three young daughters in Washington State,
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  Speaker 1: where the girl's father remains on the run, charge with
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  Speaker 1: their murders. In an unplanned moment before a crowd of
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  Speaker 1: thousands at a memorial at Rocky Reach Park, Whitney Decker
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  Speaker 1: stepped up to the mic, speaking of Peyton, Evelyn and
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  Speaker 1: Olivia weeks after their bodies were found.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you everyone for being here tonight in the outpring
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  Speaker 2: of love that you have shown me and my family
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  Speaker 2: over the past few weeks. I truly hope that the
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  Speaker 2: legacy of the girls lives lives in everyone's heart forever.
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  Speaker 2: They were incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the manhunt continues for their father, Travis Decker. He's
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  Speaker 1: now been charged with their murders, and this is the
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  Speaker 1: fourth week of the search for the outdoorsmen with Army
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  Speaker 1: Ranger training. Police have not confirmed any sighting since early
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  Speaker 1: this month. The girls were found with their hands bound
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  Speaker 1: and plastic bags over their heads. Laurie Page's dad dies
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  Speaker 1: in jail before facing trial for the rape and murder
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  Speaker 1: of his twelve year old daughter, whose body was found
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  Speaker 1: nearly two years after she went missing. Andrew Wiley, thirty six,
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  Speaker 1: suffered a medical emergency at the Leon County Jail. Preliminary
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  Speaker 1: autopsy found he died from a pulmonary embolism. He had
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  Speaker 1: been behind bars since April, charged with second degree murder
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  Speaker 1: in the death of his daughter. Prosecutors believe she may
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  Speaker 1: have been pregnant at the time of her disappearance and
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  Speaker 1: that Wiley was the father. They said Wiley had bought
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  Speaker 1: the emergency contraceptive Plan B and was being treated for
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  Speaker 1: STD around the same time Laurie vanished in June of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. In April, during a prescribed burn in
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  Speaker 1: the woods and Thomas County, Georgia, sirch cruise were led
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  Speaker 1: to Lourie's body. Because of the condition of the remains,
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  Speaker 1: the cause of death could not be determined. Wiley was
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  Speaker 1: arrested shortly after. At the time Wiley bought Plan B,
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  Speaker 1: his girlfriend was away for National Guard training. Investigators believed
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  Speaker 1: the pill and STD treatments he received from his own
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  Speaker 1: medical appointments were meant for Louri. An Irvine, California dog
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  Speaker 1: trainer is arrested after at least eleven dogs in his
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  Speaker 1: care die, many secretly cremated without their owner's consent. Police
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  Speaker 1: arrested fifty three year old Kwang Chun Sit, who went
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  Speaker 1: by Tony, and his twenty three year old girlfriend, King Fenglu.
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  Speaker 1: The case began when a pet owner questioned why their
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  Speaker 1: dog had been cremated without permission. Detectives soon linked Sit
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  Speaker 1: to eleven dead dogs. They believed nine of the deaths
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  Speaker 1: happened on the same day. Some remains were found at
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  Speaker 1: local crematoriums, others already reduced to ash. In several cases,
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  Speaker 1: Sit and Lou drop the bodies off while pretending to
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  Speaker 1: be the owners. Many families received only brief messages letting
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  Speaker 1: them know like quote, Luna passed away peacefully during the night.
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  Speaker 1: Luna has been lovingly cremated. Investigators believe cremation was used
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  Speaker 1: to cover up what really happened. Three netcropsies have been completed.
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  Speaker 1: Two died from heatstroke, one died from blunt force trauma.
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  Speaker 1: Sit Yes that's his real name. Sit. He owned a
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  Speaker 1: business called Happy Can nine Academy. He faces nearly fourteen years.
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  Speaker 1: His girlfriend is charged as an accessory and could face
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  Speaker 1: up to four years. For the latest crime and justice news.
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  Speaker 1: with this crime Alert. I'm Drew Nelson.