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Crime Alert Recap Saturday 08.16.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: On Jackie Howard. Hairstylist Ashley Elkins thirty disappears from her
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  Speaker 1: Michigan home just after New Year's The mom of two
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  Speaker 1: goes out to run errands but never comes home. Ashley's
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  Speaker 1: family pushes hard for police to investigate her disappearance, and
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  Speaker 1: as they do, video evidence indicates a terrible outcome. Authorities
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  Speaker 1: begin investigating Ashley's ex, DeAndre Booker thirty three, after her
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  Speaker 1: phone is tracked to Booker's home family member Sae. Days
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  Speaker 1: before Elkin's disappearance, Booker allegedly showed up to Ashley's home
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  Speaker 1: salon under a fake name. The hairdresser hid until he left.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators then searched Booker's home, where Roseville police claim to
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  Speaker 1: have recovered items which indicate Ashley is a violent crime victim.
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  Speaker 1: Video evidence has also surfaced showing a man believed to
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  Speaker 1: be Booker, pushing a cart toward a dumpster. According to
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  Speaker 1: court testimony, the cart contained something covered in a white sheet.
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  Speaker 1: The man struggles to lift the contents into the dumpster.
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  Speaker 1: An officer testified that he saw what seemed to be
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  Speaker 1: an arm hanging off from the cart. The man is
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  Speaker 1: not clearly identifiable, but the detective says he appears to
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  Speaker 1: have similarities with Booker's clothing from earlier that day. A
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  Speaker 1: dark coat with a fur hood, black pants with holes
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  Speaker 1: in them, a black hat, black shoes with white bottoms.
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  Speaker 1: Similar clothing was found in Booker's home. Booker has been
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  Speaker 1: charged with first degree murder, tampering with evidence, disinterment, mutilation,
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  Speaker 1: and concealing a death. He has pleaded not guilty. Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Elkins's body has not been found. War Crime and Justice
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  Speaker 1: News After this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nicole pardon, new details emerged concerning convicted killer Brian Kolberger.
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  Speaker 2: On Christmas in twenty twenty two, Coburger celebrated the holiday
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  Speaker 2: with his family, unaware it would be the last taste
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  Speaker 2: of freedom he would experience. As many settled in for
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  Speaker 2: the night with festivities and food, family and gifts, Coburger
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  Speaker 2: engaged in a chilling pursuit. He began downloading extensive information
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  Speaker 2: about serial killers. This wasn't just a casual search. He
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  Speaker 2: focused on over twenty specific individuals notorious for their crimes,
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  Speaker 2: a task that kept him busy well into the early
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  Speaker 2: hours of the next day. According to digital forensics expert
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  Speaker 2: Heather Barnhardt, Barnhardt, a Sans Institute fellow and senior director
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  Speaker 2: of forensic Research, was enlisted by the Leyta County Prosecutor's
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  Speaker 2: office to investigate Coburger's cell phone and hard drive in
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  Speaker 2: search of evidence. By the time her team received the devices,
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  Speaker 2: much had been deleted. However, they uncovered a significant amount
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  Speaker 2: of downloads from the faithful. Due to one critical air
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  Speaker 2: Coburger made, many believed that downloads made incognito mode remain private,
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  Speaker 2: but that's a misconception, Barnhart clarifies. Although Colberger attempted to
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  Speaker 2: erase his desktop and hard drive of incriminating files, he
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  Speaker 2: overlooked clearing his Android device. This oversight led Barnhart to
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  Speaker 2: discover his downloads on notorious serial killers, including Betty Lou Beets,
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  Speaker 2: Randy Kraft, William Lee, Cody Neil, Danny Rowling, Joyle Rifkin,
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  Speaker 2: Ted Bundy, Glenn Rodgers, Carrie Stainer, John Wayne Gacy, Robert Hanson,
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  Speaker 2: Gary Ridgeway, David Parker, ray Ed Kemper, Dennis Rader, and others. Interestingly,
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  Speaker 2: Barnhart noted that Coberger had previously researched Danny Rowling the
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  Speaker 2: Gainesville Ripper. On November nineteen, just a week after the
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  Speaker 2: murders took place. The Idaho murders bore a striking resemblance
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  Speaker 2: to Rollings Heines acts of nineteen ninety, where he killed
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  Speaker 2: five college students, four women, and one man by breaking
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  Speaker 2: into their homes through the sliding glass door and fatally
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  Speaker 2: stabbing them with a k bar knife. Similarly, Coburger also
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  Speaker 2: murdered four college students, three women, one man, using the
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  Speaker 2: same method of entry and the same weapon. The primary
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  Speaker 2: distinction lies in the fact that Rolling sexually assaulted his victims,
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  Speaker 2: while prosecutors have found no evidence suggesting Coburger did the same.
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  Speaker 2: Unlike Coburger, Rolling was executed for his crimes. In the
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  Speaker 2: aftermath of the murders. Coburger closely followed the developments of
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  Speaker 2: the case, downloading updates from the Moscow Police Department nine
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  Speaker 2: times between November twenty six and December twenty eight, including
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  Speaker 2: four different versions on December twenty eight alone. Just three
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  Speaker 2: days later, he was arrested by Pennsylvania State troopers, leading
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  Speaker 2: to Barnhardt's involvement in examining his digital evidence. Having lent
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  Speaker 2: her for forensic expertise to high profile cases, including Crystal Rogers'
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  Speaker 2: case and the Delphi murders. Barnhart led a team that
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  Speaker 2: included Jared Barnhart, Josh Hickman, In Whiffen, and others. They
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  Speaker 2: face the challenges of piecing together evidence left by Colberger,
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  Speaker 2: a former criminology student who had been meticulous in erasing
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  Speaker 2: his digital footprint. Fortunately, the extensive downloads on serial killers
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  Speaker 2: provided a crucial breakthrough. In the end, everyone makes mistakes,
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  Speaker 2: Barnhart concluded, Listen, this is a shooting that is so
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous in nature that you can't even explain it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Drew Nelson. Four senior citizens are recovering after a
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  Speaker 3: shooting at a Detroit senior living complex, and the police
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  Speaker 3: say began as a love triangle. The incident happened at
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  Speaker 3: Shared in Place apartments on East Jefferson Avenue. Prosecutors say
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  Speaker 3: seventy eight year old James Albert Britton argued with a
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  Speaker 3: sixty five year old man during a barbecue behind their building.
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  Speaker 3: Witnesses if Britain was angry over his former girlfriend, a
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  Speaker 3: sixty five year old woman dating the man, who is
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  Speaker 3: in a wheelchair. Some neighbors first thought the conflict was
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  Speaker 3: about loud music. Deputy Chief Arnold Williams said Britain told
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  Speaker 3: the group if they did not stop, he would quote
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  Speaker 3: come down and take care of them. He came down
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  Speaker 3: star firing shots.
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  Speaker 1: Three people were wounded from him firing no shots. One
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  Speaker 1: of the Eddivisions who was shot, tackled him.
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  Speaker 3: Took him to the ground.
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  Speaker 4: He dropped his weapon.
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  Speaker 5: Agus America picked a weapon up in a self defense,
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  Speaker 5: fired a weapon and wounded him.
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  Speaker 3: All three victims thankfully survived.
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  Speaker 1: When you're in your seventies, this should not be what's
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  Speaker 1: going on.
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  Speaker 3: All four people were taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital in
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  Speaker 3: stable condition. Britain was arraigned on Thursday on four counts
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  Speaker 3: of assault with intent to murder and multiple weapons charges.
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  Speaker 3: He's being held on a half million dollar cash or
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  Speaker 3: surety bond with conditions of GPS monitoring on house arrest.
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  Speaker 3: A bond hearing is set for Monday, with more court
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  Speaker 3: dates on August twenty seventh and September third. The shooting
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  Speaker 3: prompt Detroit Councilmember Mary Waters to call for the establishment
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  Speaker 3: of conflict resolution teams and what she called quote unquote
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  Speaker 3: high priority senior living facilities. She said her office will
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  Speaker 3: work with police and health officials to address gun violence
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  Speaker 3: and such trauma in those settings.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Jennifer Gould, a quadruple murder suspect accused of executing
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  Speaker 4: four family members in a West Tennessee Slaughter is about
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  Speaker 4: to become a father with a woman who is not
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  Speaker 4: only a former prison guard where he was incarcerated, but
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  Speaker 4: is also the relative of his victims. Austin Drummond, twenty eight,
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  Speaker 4: who is facing the death penalty for the brutal killings,
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  Speaker 4: appeared in court to face his charges, but the shocking
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  Speaker 4: twist came when his attorney requested a judge modify a
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  Speaker 4: no contact order so Drummond could communicate with his pregnant girlfriend,
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  Speaker 4: Caitlin Speed. Drummond's attorney spoke to the media, the.
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  Speaker 5: Family's indicate at least reached out to me that she
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  Speaker 5: would like to at least give him a message. We
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  Speaker 5: don't want to violate any of the no contact restraining orders,
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  Speaker 5: so I just wanted to clarify.
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  Speaker 4: The judge denied the request, but the public now knows
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  Speaker 4: the full disturbing truth of their relationship. Speed, a former
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  Speaker 4: corrections officer, is reportedly carrying Drummond's child, a boy due
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  Speaker 4: in October. The baby will be a first cousin to
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  Speaker 4: two of his alleged victims. The Heinus crime unfolded on
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  Speaker 4: July twenty ninth, when the bodies of James Matthew Wilson
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  Speaker 4: twenty one, Adriana Williams twenty, Courtney Rose thirty eight, and
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  Speaker 4: Brayden Williams fifteen were discovered in a wooded area in Tiptonville.
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  Speaker 4: Authorities later confirmed that all four victims had been shot
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  Speaker 4: to death. A seven month old infant, the daughter of
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  Speaker 4: Wilson and Adriana Williams, was found abandoned but safe in
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  Speaker 4: a front yard nearly forty miles away, was captured after
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  Speaker 4: a week long manhunt, hiding in a poolhouse. The relationship
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  Speaker 4: between Drummond and Caitlin Speed began while he was serving
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  Speaker 4: a thirteen year sentence for armed robbery at Northwest Correctional Complex.
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  Speaker 4: At that time, Speed was a corrections officer at the
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  Speaker 4: facility and is the sister of victim Courtney Rose. Photos
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  Speaker 4: and videos posted on a Facebook account believed to belong
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  Speaker 4: to Drummond show a disturbingly lavish prison life, with him
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  Speaker 4: posing with cell phones, a handheld video game system, and
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  Speaker 4: even a bottle of Chirock liquor. These privileges and contraband
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  Speaker 4: items strictly prohibited have fueled speculation that his romance with
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  Speaker 4: Speed enabled these actions. The Tennessee Department of Corrections fired
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  Speaker 4: Speed in October of twenty twenty four, citing her relationship
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  Speaker 4: with Drummond. Despite her termination, they continued their relationship. The
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  Speaker 4: motive for the killings remains under investigation. One of the
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  Speaker 4: victim's relatives wrote on social media that Drummond had been
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  Speaker 4: quote nothing short of amazing end quote to the family,
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  Speaker 4: making the alleged crimes an even more profound shock to all.
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  Speaker 4: Drummond's next court date is September fourth. For the latest
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  Speaker 4: crime and justice news, follow the Crime Alert hourly update
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  Speaker 4: on your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert. I'm
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  Speaker 4: Jennifer Gooler.