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Crime Alert 04.04.24 · 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: Joshua Herrera, a student's success advocate at Las Vegas Western
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  Speaker 1: High School, drives to a female student's home and asks
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  Speaker 1: her mom's permission to have a relationship with the daughter.
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  Speaker 1: The mom tells Herrera to never speak to her daughter again,
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  Speaker 1: but he buys the girl lunch, gifts, and lends her
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  Speaker 1: his debit card. He offers to drive the girl home
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  Speaker 1: after a school concert. During the ride, Herrera holds her
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  Speaker 1: hand and kisses her. Herrera twenty eight texts the girl
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  Speaker 1: over one thousand times Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: In addition to the incident where the pair kissed, Herrera
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  Speaker 2: removed his pants and a second encounter in his car
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  Speaker 2: and the student performed oral sex on Herrera. The student
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  Speaker 2: wanted to end the relationship, telling Herrera she had moved
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  Speaker 2: on with another student. Instead of backing off, Herrera confronted
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  Speaker 2: the girl's new boyfriend.
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Herrera now charged with two counts of engaging in
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  Speaker 1: sex conduct with a pupil and one count of contacting
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  Speaker 1: a minor. Tiger King has a ring to it, But
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  Speaker 1: what about sheep? Lord Arthur Schubart eighty busted for trafficking
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  Speaker 1: giant hybrid sheep to be used as trophy animals for
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  Speaker 1: hunters on private preserves in Texas. Sibert sold the hybrids
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  Speaker 1: and breeding rights to other ranches for over ten thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: These sheep can weigh more than three hundred pounds. They
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  Speaker 1: grow horns up to five feet long, but they are
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  Speaker 1: outlawed in the US to prevent disease. Arthur Schubert please
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  Speaker 1: guilty to wildlife trafficking charges, facing five years in prison
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  Speaker 1: and up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in fines.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime in justice, breaking news Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley authority You Say. A Utah grief writer accused
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  Speaker 3: of drugging her husband on Valentine's Day with a sandwich
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  Speaker 3: and an attempt to kill him, is now facing an
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  Speaker 3: extra charge of attempted murder. She was originally charged with
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  Speaker 3: spiking her husband's drink with lethal amount of fentanyel. For more,
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  Speaker 3: we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators say that on March fourth, twenty twenty two, Corey
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  Speaker 2: Richins killed her husband Eric Richins at their Commis Utah home.
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  Speaker 2: This led to Corey richins arrest last year on charges
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  Speaker 2: of aggravated murder. The thirty nine year old Eric Richins
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  Speaker 2: was discovered unconscious at his home following a drink to
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  Speaker 2: commemorate his wife's business transaction. He had five times the
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  Speaker 2: fatal amount of fentanyl in his system, according to a
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  Speaker 2: medical examiner, and the drug was illicit rather than medical grade.
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  Speaker 2: That was allegedly not the first time Corey Richins gave
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  Speaker 2: her husband narcotics. According to charging documents, authorities claim that
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  Speaker 2: after his wife served him a lunch on Valentine's Day
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, Eric Richins came dangerously close to death.
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  Speaker 2: Documents show that Eric Richards texted his wife complaining that
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  Speaker 2: he was not feeling well and that he would be
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  Speaker 2: heading to the hospital if he did not feel better soon.
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  Speaker 2: The records also revealed that his wife, who wasn't home
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  Speaker 2: at the time, advised him to take a nap. Also
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  Speaker 2: in the documents details that Eric Richins contacted two close
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  Speaker 2: for ms fends, telling them that his wife had left
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  Speaker 2: him his favorite meal from a nearby diner, along with
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  Speaker 2: the note you almost lost me, he said to a friend,
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  Speaker 2: and he talked about getting hives after biting into the sandwich.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors said in the filings that he had to take
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  Speaker 2: benadryl and use his son's epipenn The charging documents go
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  Speaker 2: on to say that quote Eric Richins told witness one
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  Speaker 2: that he had almost died. Witness one could hear the
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  Speaker 2: fear in Eric Richard's voice and tell that Eric Richins
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  Speaker 2: was scared. Prosecutors claimed that Eric Richins informed the other
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  Speaker 2: friend that he believed his wife had attempted to poison him.
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  Speaker 2: The records include information spelling out how hives and other
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  Speaker 2: allergic and pseudoallergic reactions can be brought on by opioids,
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  Speaker 2: including fentanyl. Additionally, it mentions that Eric Richins had no
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  Speaker 2: dietary sensitivities. In the criminal documents, prosecutors claimed that Cory
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  Speaker 2: Richins had bought illegal fentanyl twice before her husband's death
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, one of them before the Valentine's
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  Speaker 2: Day supper.
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  Speaker 3: Cory Richins is currently behind bars spending trial and has
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  Speaker 3: already denied the accusations made against her, despite having a
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  Speaker 3: finished draft in hand. The Iowa Attorney General's Office has
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  Speaker 3: stated that it is still working on an audit of
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  Speaker 3: its victim services, which has caused to delay in emergency
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  Speaker 3: funding for contraceptives for victims of sexual assault once again
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  Speaker 3: crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird put a stop to the
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  Speaker 2: funds as she awaited the audit's findings to determine whether
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  Speaker 2: to move forward with the payments. The AG's office says
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  Speaker 2: that the audit, which Bird launched when she entered office
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  Speaker 2: fourteen months ago, is reportedly in its quote final stages
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  Speaker 2: and a report will be out shortly. Under her predecessor,
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  Speaker 2: Tom Miller, the policy had been to reimburse victims of
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  Speaker 2: sexual assault for a portion of the cost of contraceptives.
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  Speaker 2: Our friends with the Des Moines Register were informed last
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  Speaker 2: year by Sandy Tibbets Murphy, the director of Miller's Victim
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  Speaker 2: Assistance division, that in certain instances, the expense of abortion
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  Speaker 2: for victims of sexual assault was also reimbursed.
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  Speaker 3: In a statement, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa said that
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  Speaker 3: the audit is being used as there's a justification for
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  Speaker 3: stopping funds.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John kaitln Aikins takes a flight from Arizona to
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  Speaker 1: visit family back in Springfield, Virginia. The day she's set
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  Speaker 1: to return home, she gets ride to the airport from
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  Speaker 1: a former stepfather. Instead of going directly to the airport,
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  Speaker 1: she has to be dropped off at the mall, saying
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  Speaker 1: she'll take public transit to the airport herself. Hours later,
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  Speaker 1: Kaitlyn's fiance gets a text from her saying I'm not
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  Speaker 1: coming back today. I'll let you know when I get
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  Speaker 1: a new flight. Then her phone shuts off. Two days later,
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  Speaker 1: a roadworker finds Caitlin's suitcase in a ditch an hour
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  Speaker 1: from the airport, scratched, missing a will inside her wallet.
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  Speaker 1: Caitlyn Aikins now missing over eight years. If you have
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  Speaker 1: info on Caitlin Aikins, calls Potsylvania County, Virginia Sheriffs five
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  Speaker 1: four zero five eight two seven one one five. For
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  Speaker 1: the latest crime in justice news, go to crime online
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  Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Missy Grace