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Crime Alert 01.19.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nancy, Grace breaking crime needs now. A group of
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  Speaker 2: high school and college friends have a backyard party, complete
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  Speaker 2: with the bonfire in the metal barrel. Sebastian Lindsay decides
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  Speaker 2: the fires too small and starts pouring gas over the barrel.
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  Speaker 2: Friends scream for him to stop. Then Madison Lewis's hair
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  Speaker 2: and clothes catch on fire. The teen's rusher to the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: She's treated for burns covering ninety percent of her body.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy. Because there was alcohol at the party, underage attendees
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  Speaker 3: were scared to call nine one one and transported Lewis
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  Speaker 3: to the hospital themselves. She was then airlifted to Parkland Hospital,
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  Speaker 3: just outside of Dallas, where she was treated for severe burns.
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  Speaker 3: Texas law provides immunity for miners under the influence who
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  Speaker 3: call nine one one for help.
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  Speaker 2: Lewis, seventeen, dies of her injuries after three excruciating weeks
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  Speaker 2: in the hospital. Lindsay twenty three, now facing manslaughter charges.
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina police arrested thirty two year old woman for
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  Speaker 2: assault and load her into the cruiser, carefully avoiding her
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  Speaker 2: attempts to bite them. While the officers finished taking statements,
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  Speaker 2: The suspect digs into the seats with her teeth. The
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  Speaker 2: woman gnaws on the seats for the entire ride to
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  Speaker 2: the boompd, leaving a hole so large the entire back
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  Speaker 2: seat now has to be replaced. In addition to assault charges,
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  Speaker 2: she now faces property damaged charges. Next time, maybe cops
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  Speaker 2: can take a bite out of crime. More crime and
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  Speaker 2: justice news after this Now with the latest crime and
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  Speaker 2: justice breaking news, Crime on Lawns John Lemley.
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  Speaker 1: Law enforcement officials in Virginia have revealed that a part
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  Speaker 1: time fisherman who died in twenty seventeen is connected to
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  Speaker 1: three unsolved cold case homicides in the state during the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, two of which were part of a string
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  Speaker 1: of couple slayings known as the Colonial Parkway murders. For more,
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  Speaker 1: we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 3: Although Alan W. Wilmer was named as the suspect by
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  Speaker 3: Virginia State Police, they did not provide any information regarding
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  Speaker 3: his connection to the nineteen eighty seven and nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 3: nine homicides or the circumstances surrounding his arrest. If Wilmer
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  Speaker 3: were still alive, investigators say he would face charges following
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  Speaker 3: Wilmer's death, investigators say they lawfully acquired his DNA. Wilmer's
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  Speaker 3: DNA was not included in any law enforcement databases because
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  Speaker 3: he had never been convicted of a crime. Of the
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  Speaker 3: three victims who had experienced sexual assault, three couples were
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  Speaker 3: killed in the so called Colonial Parkway murders. The bodies
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  Speaker 3: of a fourth couple were never found, although they are
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  Speaker 3: presumed dead. The murders took place between nineteen eighty six
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  Speaker 3: and nineteen eighty nine in southeast Virginia on or along
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  Speaker 3: a picturesque roadway that links Yorktown, Williamsburg, and Jamestown. The
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  Speaker 3: bodies of twenty year old David Nobbling and fourteen year
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  Speaker 3: old Robin Edwards, who had been shot, were discovered in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen eighty seven in the vicinity of the James Rivers
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  Speaker 3: South Bank in Isle of Wight County. Wilmer was also
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  Speaker 3: named as a suspect in the Hampton, Virginia murder of
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  Speaker 3: twenty nine year old Teresa U se Lynn Spa Howell
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty nine. There is no connection between her
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  Speaker 3: death by strangulation in the Colonial Parkway murders. Howell's body
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  Speaker 3: was discovered at a building site approximately eleven miles from
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  Speaker 3: the locations of Nobbling In Edward's bodies almost two years prior.
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  Speaker 3: Howell was last seen in front of a well known
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  Speaker 3: night club. Wilmer died almost seven years ago at the
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  Speaker 3: age of sixty three. According to Geller, detectives are aggressively
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  Speaker 3: following leads regarding the other murders and haven't ruled anything out,
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  Speaker 3: including possible connections to Wilmer. Although the other cases are
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  Speaker 3: still ongoing. Geller stated there is currently no physical or
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  Speaker 3: forensic evidence connecting the double homicide to the others. After
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  Speaker 3: being extra douted from Scotland. Nicholas Rossi, a US fugitive
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  Speaker 3: suspected of staging his own death and leaving the country
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  Speaker 3: to evade rape allegations, is currently being held in a
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  Speaker 3: Utah jail. This according to jail documents once again Crime
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  Speaker 3: Online Sidney Sumner local prosecutors accused Rossi, whose legal name
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  Speaker 3: is Nicholas Alaverdian, of sexually assaulting a twenty one year
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  Speaker 3: old woman in Aorum, Utah in two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 3: Because of a backlog of DNA test kits at the
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  Speaker 3: Utah State Crime Lab, he was not identified as a
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  Speaker 3: suspect until about ten years later in Salt Lake County,
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  Speaker 3: where prosecutors claim Rossi raped a twenty six year old
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  Speaker 3: ex girlfriend in two thousand and eight following an altercation.
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  Speaker 3: Rossi is charged with the second felony of rape. He
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  Speaker 3: is the subject of numerous further complaints alleging fraud, domestic abuse,
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  Speaker 3: and sexual abuse in Rhode Island and Ohio. The thirty
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  Speaker 3: six year old, who has escaped arrest under at least
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  Speaker 3: ten identities, was booked into the Davis County Jail after
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  Speaker 3: arriving on US soil. The jail is located in northern
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  Speaker 3: Utah and is home to a large number of federal inmates.
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  Speaker 1: The Utah County Attorney's office states that Rossi will probably
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  Speaker 1: be moved to Utah County in the next few days,
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  Speaker 1: where he'll face felony rape charges in court.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John Brandy Brown is rush to Detroit Sinai Grice's
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  Speaker 2: Hospital after car crash. She gets treatment over several hours
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  Speaker 2: and is released August one. Waiting at home is Brown's
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  Speaker 2: mother and daughter, but twenty five year old Brandy doesn't
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  Speaker 2: come home. She's last seen near the seven Mile and
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  Speaker 2: Forest Street area on Detroit's West Side. Brown's family says
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  Speaker 2: it's totally unlike her to go any length of time
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  Speaker 2: without contacting them. Brown has now been missing over seven
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  Speaker 2: and a half years. If you know or think you
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  Speaker 2: know anything about Brandy Brown's disappearance, please please call Sergeant
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  Speaker 2: Shannon Jones, Detroit PD three one three five nine six
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  Speaker 2: two two six zero. For the latest crime in justice news,
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  Speaker 2: go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. Imancy
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  Speaker 2: Grace