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Crime Alert 09.23.24 | Man Shot, Beheaded by Best Friend · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Cornelert I, Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Elijah Bradley
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  Speaker 1: twenty four reported missing after failing to show up for work.
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  Speaker 1: Family can't reach him either. Elijah's mom tracks his phone
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  Speaker 1: last known location, best friend Samuel Bush's home, but Bush
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  Speaker 1: claims he doesn't know Elijah's whereabouts. The family then tracks
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  Speaker 1: the GPS location of Elijah's car, which leads them to
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  Speaker 1: the desert near Gila Bend, Arizona. Authorities find Elijah's headless,
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  Speaker 1: dismembered body. Cops arrests Bush, who they say shot Elijah
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  Speaker 1: in the back.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, Elijah had just marked his twenty fourth birthday celebrations
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  Speaker 2: that Samuel Bush attended. Elijah's family is heartbroken and confused,
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  Speaker 2: having no indication there was anything wrong between the childhood
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  Speaker 2: best friends. Bush has not confessed to the murder or
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  Speaker 2: provided any kind of motive. All of Elijah's remains have
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  Speaker 2: been recovered.
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  Speaker 1: So called best friend Samuel Bush twenty three charged with
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  Speaker 1: second degree in ten murder and concealing a body. The
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  Speaker 1: New York Department of Environmental Conservation gets a complaint about
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  Speaker 1: an illegally owned snake. The responding officer finds a yellow
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  Speaker 1: Burmese python in a four foot tank. The snake's eighty pounds,
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  Speaker 1: thirteen feet long and growing. The ounder claims to not
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  Speaker 1: have known how quickly the snake would grow. A ticket
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  Speaker 1: for possessing wildlife as a pet and possessing dangerous wildlife
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  Speaker 1: without a permit is handed out. The python, fortunately very
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  Speaker 1: healthy now and slithering around the Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo.
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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 on Lines John Lenley.
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  Speaker 3: Authorities in northeastern Wisconsin have confirmed that the skeleton remains
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  Speaker 3: of three year old Elijah Vou, who disappeared in February,
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  Speaker 3: have been discovered. The grim discovery was made by a
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  Speaker 3: hunter on September seventh in the rural town of Two Rivers,
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  Speaker 3: located approximately thirty miles southeast of Green Bay. Elijah Vou
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  Speaker 3: was last seen at the Two Rivers home of his
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  Speaker 3: mother's boyfriend February twelfth. His remains were located roughly three
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  Speaker 3: miles from that residence, according to Two Rivers Police Chief
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  Speaker 3: Benjamin Minert. A forensic anthropologist from the state Crime Lab
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  Speaker 3: later identified the remains as Elijah's Elijah's mother, thirty one
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  Speaker 3: year old Katrina Bauer and her boyfriend, thirty nine year
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  Speaker 3: old Jesse Vang, were both charged in February in connection
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  Speaker 3: with the case. Bauer faces a felony charge of being
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  Speaker 3: partied to child neglect, as well as two misdemeanor counts
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  Speaker 3: of resisting or obstructing an officer. Vang was similarly charged
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  Speaker 3: with being party to child neglect. Both have pleaded not guilty.
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  Speaker 3: Court documents detailed that Bauer had left her son in
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  Speaker 3: Vang's care February twelfth, hoping he would help quote teach
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  Speaker 3: him to be a man. Days later, February twentieth, Vang
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  Speaker 3: reported the che child missing, telling authorities that he had
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  Speaker 3: fallen asleep with the boy, and after waking up three
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  Speaker 3: hours later, discovered Elijah was gone. Chief Minard emphasized that
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  Speaker 3: the investigation into the circumstances surrounding Elijah's death remains ongoing.
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  Speaker 3: In Kansas, a cold case spanning more than four decades
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  Speaker 3: has finally seen justice. For more, we turned to Sidney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner of Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: A former neighbor of Mary Robin Walter, a twenty three
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  Speaker 2: year old nursing student who was killed in her trailer
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  Speaker 2: home in Great Bend, in January nineteen eighty has been
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  Speaker 2: sentenced for her murderer. Stephen L. Hanks, now seventy, received
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  Speaker 2: a prison sentence of ten to twenty five years after
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  Speaker 2: pleading guilty to second degree murder. The case had gone
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  Speaker 2: cold for years until a twenty twenty two decision by
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  Speaker 2: Barton County Sheriff Brian Belendeer to reopen the investigation using
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  Speaker 2: modern technology and forensic methods unavailable at the time. This
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  Speaker 2: renewed effort led investigators back to Hanks, who had been
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  Speaker 2: a suspect in the initial investigation. New interviews with Hanks
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  Speaker 2: yielded a confession, giving authorities the evidence needed to charge him.
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  Speaker 2: Hanks was arrested in twenty twenty two when he was
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  Speaker 2: living in Burton, Kansas. Initially, his plea agreement had called
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  Speaker 2: for a sentence of five to twenty five years. However,
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  Speaker 2: Burton County District Judge Stephen Johnson handed down a stiffer penalty,
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  Speaker 2: departing from the agreement to impose a minimum sentence of
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  Speaker 2: ten years.
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  Speaker 3: Local authorities believe this may be the oldest cold case
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  Speaker 3: in Kansas to be solved, ending a forty four year
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  Speaker 3: quest for finding answers. In Walter's death thanks John.
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  Speaker 1: Nine year old Alexis Patterson walks from her Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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  Speaker 1: home to school with her stepdad Lauren Bourgeois. Borgeois says
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  Speaker 1: he watched Alexis walk towards the playground before hitting home.
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  Speaker 1: After school, Bourgeois and Alexis's mother, Arianna learn Alexis is
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  Speaker 1: absent from school. Mom believes Alexis skip class because she
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  Speaker 1: got in trouble for not completing homework and could not
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  Speaker 1: bring cupcakes to school that day. Fellow classmates say they
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  Speaker 1: saw Alexis crying on the playground before and after school.
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  Speaker 1: Alexis reported missing. Police suspect foul play, as Alexis has
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  Speaker 1: no runaway history. Searches of the surrounding area turn up nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Alexis bio dad, Kenya Campbell cooperates with police, as does
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  Speaker 1: Ariana and Laurent Bourgeois, but police say Bourgeois fails a polygraph.
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  Speaker 1: Still no arrest. Alexis Patterson an African American female child,
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  Speaker 1: brown hair, brown eyes, three feet eight inches, forty two
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  Speaker 1: pounds At the time she disappeared, a scar below her
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  Speaker 1: right eye and a bump on her left pinky That
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  Speaker 1: was twenty two years ago. If you have info on
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  Speaker 1: what happened to little girl Alexis Patterson, please call Milwaukee
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