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Chicago Family ID's Deceased Loved One From Viral Video of Police Pulling Body from Trashcan | Crime Alert 07.15.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now, I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: A horrific discovery in a Chicago alleyway leaves a family
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  Speaker 1: completely shattered in local community organizers demanding immediate answers. Zenobia
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  Speaker 1: Ze Weatherspoon, a thirty eight year old aspiring nurse, is dead.
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  Speaker 1: Her heartbroken mother shared beautiful memories with reporters, describing a
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  Speaker 1: young woman who found pure joy and drawing, reading literature,
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  Speaker 1: and braiding hair. Her mother officially reported her missing on
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  Speaker 1: July tenth, days after she was last seen. On Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: July eleventh, police responded to an alley in the back
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  Speaker 1: of the yard's neighborhood. Officers discovered her body inside a
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  Speaker 1: trash can just blocks from her home near fifty fourth
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  Speaker 1: in Union State. Senator Lakeisha Collins, whose children Weatherspoon wants babysat,
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  Speaker 1: publicly identified the woman alongside her devastated family, urging people
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  Speaker 1: online to remember Zee for who she was and treat
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  Speaker 1: her story with proper dignity. The family learned of Z's
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  Speaker 1: passing from social media videos of police removing her body
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  Speaker 1: from the dumpster, showing her clothing. Speaking to WGN nine,
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  Speaker 1: her cousin Fatima McKay described the shocking ordeal.
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  Speaker 2: It's very devastating. It was very gruesome, and to see
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  Speaker 2: how Facebook pushed it in your face even more and
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  Speaker 2: it was nothing you can do about it. You couldn't
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  Speaker 2: force anybody to take it down, and you got to
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  Speaker 2: see her in that state. It's like shocking.
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  Speaker 1: The family is pleading with chicagoans to show compassion and
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  Speaker 1: help remove the video from social media. Family members gathered
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  Speaker 1: near the discovery site for a balloon release, expressing intense anguish.
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  Speaker 1: Because no suspects have been identified, as reported by the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Tribune, authorities have not announced the cause or manner
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  Speaker 1: of death. At the gathering, Weatherspoon's brother Javon spoke with
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  Speaker 1: WGN nine about his pain.
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  Speaker 3: A personal who you see every day and the next
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  Speaker 3: day you don't see them, but you feel something is
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  Speaker 3: not right in the atmosphere. My sisters probably calling though
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  Speaker 3: for help and I couldn't answer.
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  Speaker 1: Local organizers call for justice and vow to fight for
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  Speaker 1: a thorough investigation. Troy Gaston, an organizer with Black Lives
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  Speaker 1: Matter Chicago, stated that too often when black women are harmed,
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  Speaker 1: the world remembers the violence before the woman. Gaston shared
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  Speaker 1: these words with WGN nine.
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  Speaker 4: We would not speculate, we were not assigned blame without evidence.
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  Speaker 4: We would I speak over the family, but we do
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  Speaker 4: call for what justice require, a full, serious, transparent investigation.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. In the Florida Panhandle,
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  Speaker 1: a massive manhunt is underway for a woman facing a
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  Speaker 1: murder charge who is actively evading law enforcement. The Walton
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office announced that thirty eight year old Isabel
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  Speaker 1: Johnson is charged in the slaying a forty three year
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  Speaker 1: old Jason Christopher Coldheart. Tart was last seen on May
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourth, leaving the College condominiums. Investigators developed information leading
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  Speaker 1: them to a property in Freeport, where his remains were
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  Speaker 1: recovered from a shallow grave on June twenty fifth. Niceville
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  Speaker 1: Chief of Police Mark Hazy stated they will continue working
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  Speaker 1: closely with partners to see this case through authority. Say
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  Speaker 1: Johnson is using multiple aliases, including Harley, Jessica Elaine Bowman,
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Elaine Thrush, and Jessica Dowdy. She was captured on
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  Speaker 1: surveillance video days after the discovery and may have changed
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  Speaker 1: her appearance. Three other individuals have already been apprehended by
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  Speaker 1: authorities for accessory to a capital felony after the fact
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  Speaker 1: and obstruction. Seventy four year old Michael Ray White knowingly
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  Speaker 1: helped Johnson evade law enforcement for five days in late June,
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  Speaker 1: while fifty nine year old Kathleen Morris admitted providing transportation
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  Speaker 1: and supplies while actively misleading deputies about Johnson's presence in
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  Speaker 1: her home. Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson explicitly warned that
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  Speaker 1: anyone found assisting Isabel Johnson will face severe legal consequences
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  Speaker 1: under the law. Turning now to Texas, where two teenagers
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  Speaker 1: face charges for concealing evidence linked to an eighteen year
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  Speaker 1: old man suspected drowning. Daniel Irving was last seen at
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  Speaker 1: his Dallas residence on Woodlands Trail on April thirteenth. His
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  Speaker 1: body was found three days later near the paddle Point
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  Speaker 1: area of Lake ray Hubbard, as reported by the Roulette
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  Speaker 1: Police Department on Facebook. Following an investigation by the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Police Department, nineteen year old Lucas Roper and a seventeen
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  Speaker 1: year old suspect were arrested on July ninth for tampering
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  Speaker 1: with physical evidence. The affidavit States, Irving visited the lake
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  Speaker 1: with the suspects jumping into the water from a railroad
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  Speaker 1: bridge near Miller Road, where he drowned. According to the
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  Speaker 1: official arrest affidavit, investigators allege the two suspects callously dumped
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  Speaker 1: Irving's clothes and cell phone before fleeing the immediate scene
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  Speaker 1: in the victim's own vehicle. Roper also explicitly admitted to
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  Speaker 1: deleting text messages exchange between himself and Irving. Department spokesperson
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  Speaker 1: Erica Brown confirmed the individual's failed to report the incident.
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  Speaker 1: Irving's family spoke out at a press conference seeking transparency
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  Speaker 1: and calling for murder charges, where his mother, Tamika Irving,
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  Speaker 1: shared her grief.
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  Speaker 5: A reasonable minded person wouldn't know if you are not
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  Speaker 5: guilty of a crime, why would you throw away his
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  Speaker 5: clothes and delete messages and not even cow his mother.
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  Speaker 1: Irving was an honor roll student, a swim team member,
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  Speaker 1: and a talented athlete. Family attorney Sean Dartia stated the
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  Speaker 1: drowning claim simply does not add up.
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  Speaker 4: He was a strong, healthy, young athlete.
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  Speaker 1: For these two suspects to say he drowned and they left,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't add up.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't add up, something smells off to.
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  Speaker 1: Us or the latest crime and justice breaking news. Be
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  Speaker 1: sure to tune in tomorrow on her favorite podcast app
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  Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Sidney Silvanni