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Crime Alert 04.12.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Manuel
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  Speaker 1: Rivera and his wife getting an argument at their New
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  Speaker 1: Jersey home. He takes off with their son, Christian, driving
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  Speaker 1: the nine year old to a nearby school. He sends
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  Speaker 1: a video to his wife asking her to cremate him
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  Speaker 1: and their son. That sets the car on fire with
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  Speaker 1: little boy Christian inside. Cops find Rivera still alive near
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  Speaker 1: the car with severe burns. Little boy Christian Rivera found
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  Speaker 1: dead in the back seat.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Rivera left a suicide note with a similar message
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  Speaker 2: at home, reading today is the day that death does
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  Speaker 2: us part. Police believe Christian Rivera was dead before his
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  Speaker 2: father set the fire, but have not released how the
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  Speaker 2: child died. Surveillance video copp Manuel Rivera pouring gasoline over
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  Speaker 2: the car and setting it on fire. He remains in
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  Speaker 2: the hospital receiving treatment for his self inflicted injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Manuel Rivera, forty three, now charged with murder. A California
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  Speaker 1: Highway patrol officer tells a driver stopped in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of an intersection and to move forward and pull over,
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  Speaker 1: but instead the driver speeds off. After a short and
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  Speaker 1: erratic chase, the car finally pulls over on a dirt
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  Speaker 1: parking lot. The officer pulls in behind that the car reverses,
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  Speaker 1: ramming the patrol car. The cop pulls his weapon approaches
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  Speaker 1: the car to find a nine year old boy driving.
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  Speaker 1: The boy's attempting to drive himself to school. The officer
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  Speaker 1: kindly gives a student a ride and informs his parents
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  Speaker 1: to pick up the car and have a talk with
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  Speaker 1: their son about why driving at age nine is not
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  Speaker 1: a great idea. More crime and justice news after this
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  Speaker 1: Now at the latest crime in justice breaking news Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley, a prosecutor, has stated to jurors that an
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  Speaker 3: Idaho man accused of three murders in an unusual doomsday case,
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  Speaker 3: created an alternate reality in order to satisfy quote his
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  Speaker 3: desire for sex, money, and power. With more, here's Sidney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty five year old Chad day Bell is charged with
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  Speaker 2: first degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, insurance fraud, and
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  Speaker 2: grand theft in relation to the murders of sixteen year
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  Speaker 2: old Tyle Ryan, seven year old Joshua jj Vallo, and
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  Speaker 2: forty nine year old Tammy day Bell. Lourie Valo da Bell.
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  Speaker 2: The children's mother was given a life sentence without the
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  Speaker 2: possibility of parole last year for the killings. The prosecution
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  Speaker 2: claims that the couple developed a comprehensive and apocalyptic belief
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  Speaker 2: system to justify the three killings. This was all part
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  Speaker 2: of a complex plan to remove any barriers to their
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  Speaker 2: relationship and to collect money from life insurance and survivor benefits.
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  Speaker 2: During Valo Dabell's trial, a friend testified that the defendant
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  Speaker 2: called her two youngest children zombies. John Pryor, da Bell's
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  Speaker 2: defense lawyer, painted a contrasting picture for the jurors, pointing
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  Speaker 2: out that while da Bell was a devout Christian, his
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  Speaker 2: beliefs about things like premonitions were more commonplace. Additionally, Prior
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  Speaker 2: disclosed to the jury the violent past of Alex Cox,
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  Speaker 2: the brother of Lourie Valo Dabell. Cox was convicted of
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  Speaker 2: shooting and killing Valo day Bell's fourth husband, after he
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  Speaker 2: had also been found guilty of assaulting her third husband.
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  Speaker 2: Dave Bell's lawyer contended in the opening remarks that his
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  Speaker 2: client was a regular devout man before he met Lorie
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  Speaker 2: Valo Dabell, who, according to the attorney, showered day Bell
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  Speaker 2: with attention. She was a quote beautiful, vivacious person who
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  Speaker 2: enticed day Bell into an illicit relationship. This according to
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  Speaker 2: his defense team. Da Bell's lawyer said that he will
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  Speaker 2: call in multiple forensic, medical and genetic specialists to attest
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  Speaker 2: to the fact that no DNA from Chad day Bell
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  Speaker 2: was discovered with the children's remains and that it is
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  Speaker 2: hard to pinpoint the cause of Tammy day Bell's death.
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  Speaker 2: In his summary of the case against day Bell, the
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  Speaker 2: prosecutor Rob Wood organized his remarks for the jury like
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  Speaker 2: chapters in a book, seemingly alluding to the defendant's past
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  Speaker 2: writing endeavors.
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  Speaker 3: Chad day Bell wrote fiction that he self published and
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  Speaker 3: that was mostly based on his beliefs as a member
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  Speaker 3: of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.
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  Speaker 3: Now to Arizona as a man found guilty of the
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  Speaker 3: murder of a six year old Tucson girl whose body
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  Speaker 3: was discovered in a remote desert area a year's ag later,
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  Speaker 3: has now been sentenced to life in prison once again.
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  Speaker 3: Crime Online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Clemens gave a meandering statement in court prior to
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  Speaker 2: his sentencing, expressing his dissatisfaction with his trial process. The
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  Speaker 2: forty two year old was convicted two months ago a
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  Speaker 2: first degree murder, kidnapping, and burglary in connection with the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twelve disappearance of Isabelle Salise from her parents' house.
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  Speaker 2: According to Tucson Police, Clemens emerged as a suspect in
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  Speaker 2: the death of Isabelle Salse in twenty seventeen after he
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  Speaker 2: offered to guide FBI investigators to the girl's remains in
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  Speaker 2: exchange for having charges dropped in a separate burglary case.
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  Speaker 2: Clemens claimed he had no connection to the girl's death.
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  Speaker 2: After a separate Pima County Superior Court jury was unable
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  Speaker 2: to reach a judgment in twenty twenty three, Clemens was
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  Speaker 2: found guilty on February twenty ninth in a retrial of
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  Speaker 2: the Salise case. Clemens was also given a seventeen year
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  Speaker 2: prison sentence for kidnapping and a three and a half
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  Speaker 2: year sentence for burglary by Judge James Murner. These sentences
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  Speaker 2: are to be served consecutively to other convictions. Since twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: Clemens has been so serving a natural life sentence in
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  Speaker 2: prison for the murder of thirteen year old Marabel Gonzalez,
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  Speaker 2: who vanished while on her way to a friend's house.
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  Speaker 2: D's leader. Her body was discovered also in a desert location.
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  Speaker 2: It was in twenty eighteen that Clemens was taken into
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  Speaker 2: custody in relation to the two girls debts.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty two, Clements was sentenced for kidnapping and
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  Speaker 3: murdering Gonzales.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, Mark Gasso doesn't show up for work. A
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  Speaker 1: friend and coworker heads to mark Southbury, Connecticut home to
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  Speaker 1: check on him. The friend finds Mark's door, unlocked, TV on, shower, running,
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  Speaker 1: his cell phone and wallet in the home, but no Mark.
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  Speaker 1: The friend spoke with Mark just two days earlier. The
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  Speaker 1: same day, Mark called nine to one one claiming a
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  Speaker 1: woman was inside his home, but when police arrived, no
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  Speaker 1: one was there but Mark Gasso admits he takes muscle
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  Speaker 1: relaxes for an old injury and was drinking that night.
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  Speaker 1: Other than a small dried red stain on his mattress,
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  Speaker 1: there's no other leads on Mark Gasso. Ry police call
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  Speaker 1: his home a crime scene, but no more details. Mark
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  Speaker 1: Gasso now missing over three years. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on Mark Gasso, please contact Southbury, Connecticut PD. Two zero
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  Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace