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Crime Alert 08.27.24 | Teen Attacked During Apology for Unruly Behavior · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crime News. Now. A
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  Speaker 1: group of Colorado teams playing around while they wait for
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  Speaker 1: their food at an in and out. One of the
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  Speaker 1: teams is splashing his friends with water. He accidentally gets
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  Speaker 1: a few drops on a woman eating with her husband.
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  Speaker 1: The boy starts to apologize when husband, Lucas Callisher, grabs
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  Speaker 1: the team by the neck, slams his head on the table,
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  Speaker 1: and throws the team backwards onto the floor.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy If the teen victim initially did not want to
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  Speaker 2: involve law enforcement, but his friends convinced him to call police.
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  Speaker 2: After listening to witness statements. In reviewing video, cops decided
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  Speaker 2: to charge Callisher, and Callisher turns himself in just before
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  Speaker 2: ten thirty pm. Callisher has now been arranged on his
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  Speaker 2: charges and reportedly posted a bond.
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  Speaker 1: Lucas Kllisher, fifty five, now charged with strangulation and child abuse.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Suggs thirty four, on the way to a Florida
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  Speaker 1: public Defender's office to talk about us fell on the
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  Speaker 1: animal cruelty charge, but he doesn't get past security. As
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  Speaker 1: his backpack goes through the X ray, security guards notice
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  Speaker 1: a gun the Pistols reported stolen and fully loaded. Sugg
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  Speaker 1: claims the backpack belongs to a friend and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: know there was a gun inside. Okay. During a pat down,
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  Speaker 1: cops also discover a meth pipe in his pocket. Suggs
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  Speaker 1: didn't know he had a meth pipe either. Robert Suggs
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  Speaker 1: now charged with possession of, theft of, and concealing a
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  Speaker 1: gun and drugs. Wow, you think the public defender is
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  Speaker 1: going to take that case? Wore Crime and Justice News
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  Speaker 1: after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news,
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  Speaker 1: crime allnes to John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: In Lacrosse County, Wisconsin, a man has been convicted for
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  Speaker 3: the brutal twenty twenty one shootings that left three men
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  Speaker 3: dead near a local quarry. We turned to Sydney Sumner
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  Speaker 3: of Crime Online for more.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty seven year old Nia Tao of Analasco, Wisconsin, was
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  Speaker 2: found guilty of three counts of first degree intentional homicide
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  Speaker 2: in one count of being a felon in possession of
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  Speaker 2: a firearm. The verdict, delivered by a Lacrosse County jury
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  Speaker 2: follows Tao's second trial. The first ended in a hung
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  Speaker 2: jury last year. Tao, along with co defendant, com to
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  Speaker 2: methra Tanasak was charged in connection with the deaths of
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  Speaker 2: Ping Lore and Nemo Yang, both twenty four and twenty
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  Speaker 2: three year old Trevor Maloney. The three men were found
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  Speaker 2: shot to death outside the entrance of a quarry approximately
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  Speaker 2: fourteen miles northwest of Lacrosse, near the Minnesota border. According
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  Speaker 2: to prosecutors, the violence was sparked by Ratannasac's belief that
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  Speaker 2: one of the victims had stolen six hundred dollars from him.
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  Speaker 2: A witness who was with the victims recounted to police
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  Speaker 2: that Ratannasac ordered the men to their knees and handed
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  Speaker 2: the gun to Tao, who then shot them multiple times.
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  Speaker 2: Ratannasac pleaded guilty last October to one count of first
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  Speaker 2: degree intentional homicide as a party to a crime, and
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  Speaker 2: was sentenced to life in prison. In January, the Cross
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  Speaker 2: County Sheriff John Siegel responded to the verdict, saying Tuesday's
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  Speaker 2: decision brings closure to a horrific crime that impacted not
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  Speaker 2: just the victims and their families, but our entire community.
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  Speaker 3: Sentencing for Tao is set for October fourteenth. A federal
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  Speaker 3: judge has ordered Louisiana State Penitentiary to take immediate action
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  Speaker 3: to protect inmates working in the prison's agricultural fields from
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  Speaker 3: extreme heat once again crime Online. Sydney Sumner, US District.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Brian Jackson's ruling builds on a previous order issued
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  Speaker 2: in July mandating enhanced measures to shield prisoners from the
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  Speaker 2: dangerous conditions they face while labouring in the intense sun.
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  Speaker 2: The order comes after alarming evidence was presented in court,
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  Speaker 2: including photographs depicting inmates in the fields of Angola Prison Wants,
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  Speaker 2: a notorious slave plantation, where they had minimal protection from
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  Speaker 2: the sun. The images, provided by the advocacy group Voice
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  Speaker 2: of the Experience show approximately twenty men huddled under a
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  Speaker 2: single pop up tent with no seating available in limited shade.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Jackson's latest directive highlights the dire situation, citing fifty
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  Speaker 2: reported instances of heat related illnesses among inmates between July
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  Speaker 2: second and August fifth, with seven cases severe enough to
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  Speaker 2: require emergency medical attention. In response, Jackson ordered the installation
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  Speaker 2: of additional tents near work areas, the provision of seating,
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  Speaker 2: and mandated fifteen minute breaks every forty five minutes during
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  Speaker 2: heat alerts. State Corrections officials have already appealed Jackson's initial
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  Speaker 2: July ruling. The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals has
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  Speaker 2: since modified parts of the original decision, but upheld key provisions.
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  Speaker 2: This legal battle over the conditions on Angola's farm line
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  Speaker 2: underscores a broader national conversation about the ethics of prison labor.
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  Speaker 2: The practice, with its deep roots in America's history of slavery,
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  Speaker 2: has drawn increasing scrutiny. A two year investigation by our
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  Speaker 2: friends with the Associated Press revealed that the supply chains
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  Speaker 2: of major corporations, including Walmart and Burger King, have been
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  Speaker 2: linked to prison farms like Angola, where incarcerated workers are
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  Speaker 2: paid little to nothing for their life. In response to
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  Speaker 2: the growing outcry, several companies, including Cargill, have severed or
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  Speaker 2: are in the process of cutting ties with these controversial
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  Speaker 2: labor practices.
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  Speaker 3: A spokesperson for the Louisiana State Corrections Department stated that
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  Speaker 3: officials will withhold comment until they have thoroughly reviewed Judge
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  Speaker 3: Jackson's order.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, Maria and Nina Miller, thirty four, working at
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  Speaker 1: the Dandy Mini Mart, where she plans to take two
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  Speaker 1: days off to visit husband Kenneth's ill mother in Charleston,
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia. Maria and Kenneth drive to the hospital, but
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  Speaker 1: they have an argument in the parking lot. Kenneth claims
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  Speaker 1: Maria insists on going to Virginia Beach, so he drops
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  Speaker 1: her off at an unknown apartment complex there. Four months
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  Speaker 1: pass and she's finally reported missing by the US Army
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  Speaker 1: in June twenty eleven. Fast forward February twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office, Pennsylvania State Police, and West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia State Police collaborate, offering a seven thousand dollars reward
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  Speaker 1: for information to resolve the case. Maria five point one,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five pounds, black hair, brown eyes.
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  Speaker 1: She would now be forty six. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on the whereabouts of Maria Nina Miller, now missing thirteen years,
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  Speaker 1: contact Pennsylvania Police five seven zero two six five two
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  Speaker 1: I'm Missy Grace