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Sentence Handed Down for Man Who Burned Pastor's Wife Alive | Crime Alert 04.24.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, I means he grace breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Ellington bleeds out in his driveway after being shot twice.
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  Speaker 1: From there, the shooter breaks into Nancy and Reverend John
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  Speaker 1: Alfred's home. The reverend beaten and tied to a bed.
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  Speaker 1: Nancy seventy six, kidnapped and forced to go to a
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  Speaker 1: bank to withdraw money. When she and her kidnapper return home,
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  Speaker 1: the kidnapper sets the home on fire. Nancy Alfred burned alive.
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  Speaker 1: The reverend manages to escape with severe burns Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: The attackers are identified as Kevin Munn and Lester Kearney
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  Speaker 2: after his arrest. Munn was also implicated in a shooting
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  Speaker 2: just months prior to the home invasion. Tommy Ellington was
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  Speaker 2: found shot to death in his driveway, about a month
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  Speaker 2: after his wife called nine to one one to report
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  Speaker 2: a man with a gun prowling inside their home. Ellington
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  Speaker 2: was the owner of a John Deere dealership, and investigators
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  Speaker 2: believe Munn intended to pull a robbery plot on the Ellingtons,
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  Speaker 2: similar to what befell the Alfords. Munn agrees to a
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  Speaker 2: plead just a few months after his arrest, exchanging testimony
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  Speaker 2: against his accomplice for the barring of the death penalty. However,
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  Speaker 2: Munn was hospitalized during Kearney's trial for an overdose behind
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  Speaker 2: bars and did not testify. Jurors could not reach a
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  Speaker 2: decision on Kearney's guilt, but before he could be retried,
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  Speaker 2: Kearney agreed to an Alfred plea and was sentenced to
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  Speaker 2: thirteen years behind bars. Munn was never sentenced, but last
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  Speaker 2: week attorneys formally entered his guilty please for both murders.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Munn guilty first degree murder in both cases, given
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  Speaker 1: two life sentences. Caroline Miller and her two children's shop
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  Speaker 1: in Georgia Walmart. She says a man approached her asking
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  Speaker 1: where to find tailanol, then tries to kidnap her two
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  Speaker 1: year old son, Mahintra Patel, fifty six, arrested on charges
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  Speaker 1: of attempted kidnapping, assault, battery. The glad mom's story convinces
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  Speaker 1: the grand jury to indict him, then shocking security footage
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  Speaker 1: reveals it's not as it seems. In the video, Patel's
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  Speaker 1: briefly seen with Miller and her children, who were riding
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  Speaker 1: in a motorized car, but moments later he's seen with
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  Speaker 1: an employee finding tail and all in a completely different
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  Speaker 1: part of the store. His lawyer says he thought the
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  Speaker 1: child was about to fall, so he reached over to
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  Speaker 1: help reposition the boy on Miller's lap. Prosecutors have been
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  Speaker 1: asked to drop the charges. More Criming Justice news after
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  Speaker 1: this Now with the latest Criming Justice breaking news Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Limley, a South Carolina man, has been sentenced to
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  Speaker 3: life in prison for killing a New Mexico state trooper
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  Speaker 3: who stopped to help him. Jeremy Smith pleaded guilty to
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  Speaker 3: federal charges after shooting Officer Justin Hare on March fifteenth,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, along I forty near tukham Cary. Harror
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  Speaker 3: had pulled over to assist Smith with a flat tire.
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  Speaker 3: Moments later, Smith opened fire, then stole the patrol car. Hair,
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  Speaker 3: a thirty five year old father, was found fatally wounded
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  Speaker 3: an hour later. The weapon was stolen from a South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina woman, Phoenicia Machado, four, whom Smith is also accused
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  Speaker 3: of murdering. He drove her car across the country before
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  Speaker 3: being caught in Albuquerque two days later. US attorney Ryan
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  Speaker 3: Ellison called Hair a hero and said Smith left quote
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  Speaker 3: a trail of destruction. Smith still faces murder charges in
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, where the death penalty is possible. In the
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  Speaker 3: wake of a tragic shooting at Florida State University, students
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  Speaker 3: who previously endured the Parkland massacre are voicing strong opposition
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  Speaker 3: to propose changes in Florida's gun laws. Crime Online Sidney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner has more.
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  Speaker 2: Just days after a deadly shooting at Florida State University,
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight students, many of whom also survived the twenty
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  Speaker 2: eighteen Parkland High School massacre, have penned a letter to
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  Speaker 2: Governor Ron DeSantis urging him to oppose legislation that would
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  Speaker 2: lower the firearm purchase age from twenty one to eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: The current age restriction was enacted following the Parkland tragedy,
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  Speaker 2: where seventeen lives were lost. Jacqueline corn, a co founder
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  Speaker 2: of March for Our Lives and one of the letter's authors,
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  Speaker 2: emphasized the danger of reversing this law, stating it would
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  Speaker 2: be unthinkable and dangerous. The recent FSU shooting involved twenty
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  Speaker 2: year old student Phoenix Ickner, who used his stepmother's former
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  Speaker 2: service weapon to kill two individuals and injure six others.
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  Speaker 2: Near the student union. The victims included campus dining director
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  Speaker 2: Robert Morales and Aramark executive tiru Chaba. Governor Desantist and
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  Speaker 2: some Republican lawmakers support the proposed age reduction, arguing that
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  Speaker 2: individuals eligible for military service should also be allowed to
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  Speaker 2: purchase firearms. However, Florida's Senate President Ben Alberton remains undecided,
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  Speaker 2: expressing the need for careful consideration in consultation with law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement before making a decision.
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  Speaker 3: The legislative session concludes this week, leading the fate of
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  Speaker 3: the proposed changes on s thanks.
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  Speaker 1: John Martha ann Overholtzer, sixty six, travels alone on a
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  Speaker 1: commercial tour of the Grand Canyon's south of Rim, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: reported missing when she fails to return to the bus
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  Speaker 1: after taking a walk near the Grand Canyon visitor Center.
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  Speaker 1: Last seen at the famous lookout Mather Point. Her cell
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  Speaker 1: phones found about three and a half miles away below
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  Speaker 1: the Canyon Rim along Hermit Road, near an area called
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  Speaker 1: the Abyss. The silver haired, blue eyed woman is five two,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten pounds, wearing a long off white coat,
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  Speaker 1: a gray hooded sweatshirt, and carrying a navy blue bag.
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  Speaker 1: If you have seen Martha ann Overholtzer. Please call toll
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