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Crime Alert 12.23.24 | Man 'Accidentally' Shoots Disabled Son, Cremates Body · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Gray's Breaking Crime News Now. Michael
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  Speaker 1: Howard leads police to a burn pile on his Hip Hill,
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  Speaker 1: Texas property, informing them he cremated his twenty year old
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  Speaker 1: son with Down syndrome after shooting him in a quote
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  Speaker 1: horrible accident. He claims he mistook his son, Mark Howard
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  Speaker 1: as a home intruder and shot him, then used a
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  Speaker 1: back hoe to move his body to the burn pile
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  Speaker 1: two miles away. Michael Howard also cleaned up the blood
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  Speaker 1: at the side of the shooting, then waited seventeen hours
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  Speaker 1: to report his son's death.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Sabine County Sheriff's deputy J. P. McDonald says investigators
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  Speaker 2: found charred body parts and bones in the burn pile,
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  Speaker 2: while Howard claims he cremated his son in accordance with
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  Speaker 2: what he felt Mark would have wanted. Investigators took Howard's
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  Speaker 2: extreme lengths to clean the crime scene and dispose of
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  Speaker 2: Mark's body, the indicative of nefarious intent. Mark Howard was
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  Speaker 2: described as high functioning and worked regularly.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Howard, sixty eight, charged with murder and tampering with evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Jared Ingall, the owner of a venice beach clothing store,
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  Speaker 1: Vardigan is disgusted when he reviews surveillance footage and realizes
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  Speaker 1: a new customer shotlifted. The suspect, a balding man with
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  Speaker 1: a mustache and a blue jacket, clearly snatches a sweatshirt
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  Speaker 1: and a second item when he exits the store. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of reporting the theft, Ingall decides to take it as
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  Speaker 1: inspiration and creates a new clothing line, Wanted, featuring a
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  Speaker 1: caricature of the thief. While the thief has not yet
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  Speaker 1: been identified, he's a suspect in several other venice beach robberies,
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  Speaker 1: and lapd is hunting him down. More crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this Now with the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: breaking news Crime on Lines.
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley, a Michigan judge, has denied a request from
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  Speaker 3: the Oxford High School shooter to withdraw his guilty plead
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  Speaker 3: to twenty four charges, including terrorism and first degree murder.
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  Speaker 3: Ethan Crowmembley, now eighteen, admitted to killing four students and
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  Speaker 3: wounding several others during the twenty twenty one shooting. His
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  Speaker 3: attorneys argued that his mental health and age at the
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  Speaker 3: time just sixteen affected his decision to waive a trial However,
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  Speaker 3: Oakland County Judge Kowami Rao ruled the plea was made
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  Speaker 3: voluntarily and upheld Crumbley's life sentence. The shooting unfolded just
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  Speaker 3: hours after school staff discovered violent drawings and alarming phrases
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  Speaker 3: on Crumbley's math assignment. His parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley,
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  Speaker 3: were summoned to the school, but declined to take him home,
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  Speaker 3: and no one checked his backpack, which contained the weapon
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  Speaker 3: used in the attack. The Crumbleys were later convicted of
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  Speaker 3: involuntary manslaughter for making the gun accessible and ignoring warning
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  Speaker 3: signs of their son's mental health struggles. They are serving
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  Speaker 3: ten year prison sentences, marking the first time US parents
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  Speaker 3: were held criminally responsible for a school shooting carried out
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  Speaker 3: by their child. At this hour, were learning new details
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  Speaker 3: about a violent incident at the Federal Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 3: involving a man with a troubling criminal history. We bring
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  Speaker 3: in Sidney Sumner of Crime Online for details.
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  Speaker 2: Authority say fifty six year old Joseph Camino, who was
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  Speaker 2: shot and wounded during an attempted attack on security guards
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  Speaker 2: on December sixteenth, had been released on parole just seven
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  Speaker 2: months ago. After serving more than three decades in prison
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  Speaker 2: for third degree murder, Camino now faces federal charges including
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  Speaker 2: assault of a federal officer and weapons offenses, which carry
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  Speaker 2: a combined maximum sentence of twenty seven years. The US
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  Speaker 2: Marshall Service reports that Camino is in stable condition at
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  Speaker 2: a local hospital. Fortunately, no security personnel were injured in
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  Speaker 2: the attack. During his thirty five years in state prison,
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  Speaker 2: Camino filed multiple federal civil rights complaints related to his incarceration.
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  Speaker 2: According to an FBI affidavit. After his parole, he had
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  Speaker 2: been living in a halfway house near Pittsburgh. Camino's criminal
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  Speaker 2: history includes a guilty plea in the nineteen eight eighty
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  Speaker 2: eight murder of ninety year old Anne Duncan, who was
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  Speaker 2: killed during a burglary at her home in Homer City.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutor said Comino testified against an accomplice in that case,
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  Speaker 2: leading to the other man's life sentence for Duncan's fatal beating.
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  Speaker 3: This case underscores ongoing concerns about re entry challenges for
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  Speaker 3: individuals with violent criminal histories and the potential risks they pose.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, when Mark Gasso doesn't show up for work,
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  Speaker 1: a close friend and coworker heads to his Southbury, Connecticut home.
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  Speaker 1: The friend finds the door unlocked, TV on, shower, running,
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  Speaker 1: cell phone, wallet inside, but no Mark. The friend spoke
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  Speaker 1: with Mark two days earlier. The same day, Mark called
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  Speaker 1: nine one one, claiming a woman was in his home.
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  Speaker 1: When police arrived, he was alone. He admitted he takes
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  Speaker 1: muscle relaxes for an old injury and could have been confused.
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  Speaker 1: Other than a small red stain on his mattress no leads.
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  Speaker 1: Southbury police called Mark's home a crime scene, but won't
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  Speaker 1: provide more details. Mark Gasso five eleven, one hundred eighty
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  Speaker 1: five pounds, bald, gray facial hair, hazel eyes, walks with
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  Speaker 1: a slight limp. If you have info on Mark Gasso,
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  Speaker 1: contacts Southbury, Connecticut PD. Two zero three two six four
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  Speaker 1: five nine one two. For the latest crime injustice needs,
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