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Skeletal Remains Birmingham Man Missing Since 1988 | Crime Alert Hourly Update 02.17.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I'm John Lemley. Investigators in Birmingham, Alabama, have
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  Speaker 1: confirmed that skeletal remains discovered more than two decades ago
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  Speaker 1: belonged to a man who vanished nearly thirty eight years ago.
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  Speaker 1: The Jefferson County Coroner's Office as the bones unearthed in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand four have now been positively identified through advanced
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  Speaker 1: forensic genealogy as Brian Keith Bates, a twenty one year
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  Speaker 1: old who disappeared from his East Lake neighborhood on November fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight. Bates was reported missing after he failed
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  Speaker 1: to return home from a friend's funeral. His family had
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  Speaker 1: no further contact At the time, authorities believed foul play
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  Speaker 1: was involved. The unidentified remains, buried in a crawl space
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  Speaker 1: of a rental property, sat in evidence for years. New
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  Speaker 1: DNA techniques, including genetic genealogy analysis, applied last year, ultimately
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  Speaker 1: yielded a match that link the remains to Bates, and
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  Speaker 1: autopsy revealed Bates died of a gunshot wound to his head,
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  Speaker 1: and the coroner's office says his death is now being
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  Speaker 1: treated as a homicide. Law enforcement officials hope the breakthrough
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  Speaker 1: will revive leads in a case that has lingered unsolved
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  Speaker 1: for generations.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice news. Go
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  Speaker 2: our daily podcast crime stories, more crime and justice news
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  Speaker 2: after this now with the latest crime and justice breaking
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  Speaker 2: news Crime Online John Lemley.
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  Speaker 1: In Fairfax, Virginia, a dramatic sentencing in a chilling double
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  Speaker 1: murder case is capturing national attention. A Brazilian o pair,
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  Speaker 1: Juliana Perez Muggalaniez, was sentenced February thirteenth to ten years
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  Speaker 1: in prison for her role in the twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: killings of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan. Muggalaniez admitted she
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  Speaker 1: helped her then employer and lover, former IRS agent Brendan Banfield,
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  Speaker 1: orchestrate an elaborate plot that lured Ryan, a stranger, to
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  Speaker 1: the Banfield home under the guise of a sexual encounter.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say that once inside, Banfield stabbed his wife to
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  Speaker 1: death and Ryan was shot. Magalanes later confirmed she fired
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  Speaker 1: a fatal shot as well. She initially faced more serious charges,
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  Speaker 1: but pleaded guilty to manslaughter in exchange for testifying against
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  Speaker 1: Banfield at his trial. The judge rejected prosecutor's recommendation for
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  Speaker 1: a minimal sentence, instead imposing the maximum term, calling her
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  Speaker 1: actions deliberate and self serving. Banfield himself was convicted earlier
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  Speaker 1: this month of aggravated murder in the deaths of his
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  Speaker 1: wife and Ryan. He faces a mandatory life sentence without
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  Speaker 1: parole when he is formally sentenced in May. In one
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  Speaker 1: of New Jersey's most harrowing cases in years, a Monmouth
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  Speaker 1: County jury has convicted a man of killing his brother
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  Speaker 1: and four members of his brother's family, then setting fire
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  Speaker 1: to their homes in what prosecutors described as an effort
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  Speaker 1: to cover up the crime. Fifty nine year old Paul
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  Speaker 1: Canero was found guilty this week on multiple counts, including
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  Speaker 1: four counts of murder, aggravated arson, and weapons charges, for
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  Speaker 1: the deaths of his brother, Keith Canaro, Keith's wife, Jennifer,
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  Speaker 1: and the couple's two children, ages eight and eleven. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: told jurors that the killings took place November twentieth, twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: and were driven by a dispute over business finances. After
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  Speaker 1: killing his relatives inside their Coltsneck, New Jersey mansion, Canero
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  Speaker 1: ignited fires at both the family's estate and his own
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  Speaker 1: home in Ocean Township, seemingly to mislead investigators into thinking
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  Speaker 1: the deaths were victims of an arson related tragedy. His
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  Speaker 1: defense appealed to jurors to kick consider alternate suspects, including
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  Speaker 1: a third brother they said may have had a motive,
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  Speaker 1: but after roughly five hours of deliberation, the jury returned
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  Speaker 1: a guilty verdict on all counts. Canero faces a potential
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  Speaker 1: life sentence when he is formally sentenced in May. In
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  Speaker 1: federal law enforcement news, authorities are investigating allegations that immigration
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  Speaker 1: officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, may have provided false testimony in
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  Speaker 1: a shooting incident earlier this year. The Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 1: Securities Office of the Inspector General has launched a probe
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  Speaker 1: into statements made under oath by two officers involved in
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  Speaker 1: a January fourteenth shooting of a Venezuelan man, Julio Cesar
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  Speaker 1: Sosa Salise, after video evidence casts serious doubts on the
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  Speaker 1: agent's account of the encounter. The probe is part of
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  Speaker 1: a larger pattern of at least five cases nationwide where
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  Speaker 1: initial accounts by immigration and customer enforcement personnel were later
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  Speaker 1: contradicted by video recordings. In some instances, officers initially claim
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  Speaker 1: individuals acted violently toward agents. Later evidence showed the suspects
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  Speaker 1: posed little apparent threat. In the Minnesota case, felony assault
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  Speaker 1: charges against two Venezuelan nationals were dismissed when video did
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  Speaker 1: not support the assertion that the men attacked an officer.
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  Speaker 1: Similar video evidence has challenged official narratives in shootings in
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  Speaker 1: Chicago and other cities, raising questions about transparency, use of force,
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  Speaker 1: and accountability within federal immigration enforcement. Federal investigators say they
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  Speaker 1: will pursue any evidence of perjury or misconduct in connection
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  Speaker 1: with these incidents.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice needs. Go
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  Speaker 2: to crime online dot com and please join us for
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  Speaker 2: our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our best
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  Speaker 2: to find missing people, especially children, and solve on all
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  Speaker 2: Thomas sides. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace