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Crime Alert 04.19.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Miss Grays breaking crime news now. Jade Benning,
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  Speaker 1: five months pregnant, is rushed to a Nashville hospital when
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  Speaker 1: her boyfriend, Blaze Taylor, calls nine one one to say
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  Speaker 1: she's having an allergic reaction. Two days later, her unborn
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  Speaker 1: baby dies. Benning's condition turns critical, and she dies nine
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  Speaker 1: days after arriving at the hospital on her twenty fifth birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Cops investigate, as Benning had no known allergies. Taylor now
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  Speaker 1: accused of poisoning the mom to be Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: Police have not revealed what Taylor used to poison Benning,
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  Speaker 2: but opioids can cause allergic reaction type symptoms. Benning worked
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  Speaker 2: as a pastry chef and ran her own catering business.
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  Speaker 2: Benning was extremely excited about becoming a mother, posting several
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  Speaker 2: photos holding sonogram pictures and a pint of ben and
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  Speaker 2: Jerry's half baked to mark the milestone in her pregnancy.
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  Speaker 1: Blaze Taylor, believed to be the baby's father, charged with
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  Speaker 1: two charges first degree murder. The dac K Life without Parole,
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  Speaker 1: Customs and Border Patrol agents in Texas reporting creative tactics
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  Speaker 1: by drug smugglers. A drug sniffing dog alerts to an
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  Speaker 1: item in a woman's car. Cops retrieve a torta, a
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  Speaker 1: sandwich made with steak, ham and avocados. The woman nervously
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  Speaker 1: jokes that dog must be hungry, but tucked inside that
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  Speaker 1: sandwich is a baggy full of fentanyl. The sandwich discovery
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  Speaker 1: adds to the nearly two hundred and fifty pounds of
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  Speaker 1: drugs seized by customs in just two weeks. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice breaking news. Crime on Lunes.
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley, in the case of a fatal shooting of
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  Speaker 3: a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the
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  Speaker 3: Western film Rust, a movie weapons supervisor, has now been
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  Speaker 3: sentenced to eighteen months in prison. We turned to Sydney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner with Crime Online for more.
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  Speaker 2: During the hearing, emotional relatives and friends testified, demanding justice
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  Speaker 2: in a punishment that would increase accountability for safety on
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  Speaker 2: film sets. It was back in March that a jury
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  Speaker 2: found a movie armorer, Hannah Gutiera's read guilty of involuntary
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  Speaker 2: manslaughter in the murder of cinematographer Helena Hutchins. She's been
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  Speaker 2: behind bars at a county jail outside of Santa Fe
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  Speaker 2: for more than a month. Gutiera's Reid was accused by
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  Speaker 2: the prosecution of disobeying fundamental gun safety procedures and inadvertently
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  Speaker 2: carrying live ammunition onto the Rust set where it was
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  Speaker 2: specifically forbidden. Gutiera's read was unsuccessful in her request for
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  Speaker 2: a reduced sentence, telling the judge that she was not
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  Speaker 2: the monster that people had painted her to be and
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  Speaker 2: that she had tried her hardest on the set despite
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  Speaker 2: not having quote proper time, resources, and staffing. According to
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  Speaker 2: an email from defense attorney Jason Bowles, Gutierra's Reid intends
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  Speaker 2: to appeal the verdict and punishment. In October twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: at a movie rehearsal on a set outside of Santa Fe,
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  Speaker 2: Alec Baldwin, the principal actor and co producer of Rust,
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  Speaker 2: was pointing a gun at Hutchins when the revolver went off,
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  Speaker 2: killing Hutchins and injuring director Jules Susa. Regarding the charge
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  Speaker 2: of involuntari manslaughter against him, Baldwin has entered a not
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  Speaker 2: guilty plea. His trial is set to take place in
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  Speaker 2: July at a Santa Fe courthouse. The judge in charge
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  Speaker 2: of the proceedings against Baldwin, Mary Marlow Summer of New Mexico,
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  Speaker 2: also handed down the sentence against gutier As Reid. The
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  Speaker 2: judge declared that considering the significant violent act that gutiers
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  Speaker 2: Read's recklessness amounted to, anything less than the maximum punishment
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  Speaker 2: would not be appropriate.
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  Speaker 3: Gutiera's Read's defense attorneys set in court that their client
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  Speaker 3: is remorseful and had breakdowns after Hutchins died. They also
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  Speaker 3: pointed out systemic issues that contributed to the incident. Now
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  Speaker 3: to the Midwest, where a court ordered psychiatric evaluation has
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  Speaker 3: been imposed on a Northern Illinois man charged with killing
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  Speaker 3: four people and injuring seven others by stabbing, beating, and
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  Speaker 3: driving over them once again crime online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Deborah Schaeffer of Winnebago County ordered Christian Soto's evaluation
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  Speaker 2: after the twenty two year old appeared in court by
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  Speaker 2: way of video link for a first degree murder PLEA
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  Speaker 2: May seventeenth had now been scheduled for Sodo's current arraignment.
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  Speaker 2: Although a motive has not been determined, authorities have stated
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  Speaker 2: that Sodo was responsible for a string of frenzied attacks
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  Speaker 2: on March twenty seventh, which occurred at multiple homes in
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  Speaker 2: a neighborhood of Rockford, Illinois. The dead have been identified
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  Speaker 2: by the Winnebago County Coroner as fifteen year old Jenna Newcomb,
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  Speaker 2: forty nine year old Jay Larson, twenty three year old
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Schuteboch, and sixty three year old Ramona Shutboch. According
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  Speaker 2: to Jay Hanley, the state's attorney for Winnebago County, Soto
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  Speaker 2: told police that he had used marijuana with Jacob Shutboch
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  Speaker 2: and it had made him paranoid because he thought the
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  Speaker 2: drugs quote were laced with an unknown narcotic. Authorities alleged
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  Speaker 2: that after Sodo fatally stabbed Shuteboch and his mother, he beat, stabbed,
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  Speaker 2: and ran over Larsen, a mail carrier, with a truck.
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  Speaker 2: Officials say he then beat Newcomb, her sister, and a
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  Speaker 2: friend with a baseball bat inside one house, injuring three
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  Speaker 2: more people inside another. The attacks all took place within
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  Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. Investigators have stated that Sodo was
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  Speaker 2: apprehended by Winnebago County sheriff officers while he was running
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  Speaker 2: from another residence where Mary had also stabbed a woman.
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  Speaker 3: Rockford, Illinois, is located approximately ninety miles northwest of Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, Goldie Morse joins a friend to hunt blackberries
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  Speaker 1: near Cobb, California's Black Rock golf Course. The friend heads
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  Speaker 1: down the hill to the berries. When he comes back,
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  Speaker 1: Goldie's gone, only her shoes left behind. Later that night,
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  Speaker 1: people report seeing Goldie in a grocery store parking lot
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  Speaker 1: about a mile away from the golf course in their
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  Speaker 1: early morning hours. Next day, construction workers say Goldie as
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  Speaker 1: to sit in their truck after crossing the Kelsea Creek bridge.
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  Speaker 1: They offered her food and she walked away. Five hours later,
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  Speaker 1: she knocks on a stranger's door and as to use
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  Speaker 1: a phone. The homeowner offers to get her a pair
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  Speaker 1: of shoes. When they return with the shoes, she's gone.
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  Speaker 1: No one knows where Goldie may have gone or why.
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  Speaker 1: Goldie Morse now missing two years. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on Goldie Morse, call Lake County, California's Share ups seven
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  Speaker 1: zero seven two six three two six nine zero. 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. I'm Nancy Grace