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Crime Alert 09.06.24 | Man Tells Father, 'I Shot My Wife, I'm on the Run · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert Imnancy Grace Breaking Crime News Now. Kenneth Harden
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  Speaker 1: Junior calls his dad and asks to meet him at
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  Speaker 1: a bank in Fatteville, Georgia. There, Harden transfers all of
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  Speaker 1: his bank accounts to his father. When Harden's senior asks why,
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  Speaker 1: his son says he shot his wife and he's going
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  Speaker 1: on the run. Harden sor immediately calls police, who find
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  Speaker 1: Carrie Harden's burned body buried in a shallow grave behind
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  Speaker 1: the home.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Harden Jr. Claims wife Carrie attacked him during an
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  Speaker 2: argument and he shot her in self defense. The couple
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  Speaker 2: did not have any previous encounters with law enforcement regarding
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  Speaker 2: domestic violence. Fayetteville Copps worked with Louisiana State Patrol and
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  Speaker 2: Saint Tammany Parish Sheriffs to lowkeat Harden's vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Harden Junior tracked down to a motel in Covington, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: where a swat team arrests him for murder. Drivers in
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  Speaker 1: Siouth Fall, South Dakota, call police to report and Ostrich
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  Speaker 1: wandering in the road. The roughly seven feet tall Burn
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  Speaker 1: managed to escape his owner's trailer as they were passing through,
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  Speaker 1: Several drivers hop out to help the owner corral the
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  Speaker 1: bird and coax it off the road with food. By
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  Speaker 1: the time animal control arrives, the ostrich is safely back
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  Speaker 1: inside the trailer and will not be facing any flight charges.
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  Speaker 3: More Crime in Justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime injustice breaking news crime Onlines
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  Speaker 1: John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin on the West Coast as a sixty two
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  Speaker 3: year old man has been formally charged in connection with
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  Speaker 3: the murders of two of his neighbors in a southern
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  Speaker 3: California nudist community. Here's Sidney Sumner of Crime Online with more.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Royce Sparks now faces two counts of murder with
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  Speaker 2: special circumstances stemming from the deaths of seventy three year
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  Speaker 2: old Stephanie Menark and her seventy nine year old husband,
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  Speaker 2: Daniel This according to court records. The couple, residents of
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  Speaker 2: the desert enclave of the Redlands, had been reported missing.
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  Speaker 2: In late August. Sparks was apprehended at Olive Bell Ranch,
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  Speaker 2: a residential RV park and nudist resort located approximately sixty
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  Speaker 2: miles east of Los Angeles. Authorities arrested him after he
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  Speaker 2: was found hiding beneath a home on the property. The
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  Speaker 2: following day, investigators discovered human remains inside bags concealed in
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  Speaker 2: a concrete bunker underneath the same residence. While the remains
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  Speaker 2: have not yet been positively identified, officials believe they are
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  Speaker 2: those of Stephanie and Daniel Monark. Jacqueline Rodriguez, a spokesperson
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  Speaker 2: for the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office, declined to
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  Speaker 2: comment on the cause of death or a potential motive,
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  Speaker 2: citing the ongoing investigation. However, she did state that authorities
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  Speaker 2: do not suspect any additional victims in this case. The
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  Speaker 2: couple was last seen on August twenty fourth, according to
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  Speaker 2: a concerned friend who reported them missing. Their dog, a
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  Speaker 2: Shitsu named Cuddles, was also unaccounted for at the time.
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  Speaker 3: Sparks is currently being held without bail and is scheduled
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  Speaker 3: to appear in court this week. The man accused of
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  Speaker 3: fatally shooting a Southwest Virginia sheriff's deputy and injuring another
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  Speaker 3: earlier this month has died once again. Crime Online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Smith County Commonwealth's Attorney Philip Levin says that sixty five
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  Speaker 2: year old Timothy Wayne Goodman from North Carolina has died
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  Speaker 2: at Johnson City Medical Center in Tennessee. Goodman faced charges
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  Speaker 2: including aggravated murder for the August ninth killing of Smith
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  Speaker 2: County Deputy Hunter Reedy. Additionally, he was charged with four
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  Speaker 2: counts of attempted murder and using a firearm in the
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  Speaker 2: commission of a felony. We're now learning from local news
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  Speaker 2: sources at the second deputy, who was also injured in
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  Speaker 2: the incident, was released from the hospital the following day
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  Speaker 2: and is recovering at home. The shooting occurred during a
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  Speaker 2: traffic stop in which Deputy Ready and officers from the
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  Speaker 2: Marion Police Department were involved. Virginia State Police reported that
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  Speaker 2: Goodman had engaged in a confrontation with the officers and
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  Speaker 2: deputies before the shooting took place.
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  Speaker 3: Goodman was also wounded during the exchange of gunfire and
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  Speaker 3: was subsequently hospitalized.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John prismaparal Toa Reyes, twenty six, meets up with
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  Speaker 1: an next boyfriend during a lots break. During their meal,
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  Speaker 1: Prisma argues with the ex and he leaves a restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: Three hours later, Prisma ask her to give up the
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  Speaker 1: table Prisma is seen next on surveillance at her ex's Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: Texas apartment complex. He wasn't home at the time. She
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  Speaker 1: makes nine calls while they are five of them to
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  Speaker 1: the ex. One of the calls is to a friend
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  Speaker 1: out of state on a business trip. Prisma in the
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  Speaker 1: elevator of the building, crying, saying she's confused and needed help.
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  Speaker 1: The helpless friend tries to have someone check on her,
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  Speaker 1: but she doesn't answer anyone's calls or text. Two hours
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  Speaker 1: after a Prisma was supposed to pick up her son, six,
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  Speaker 1: the babysitter reports her missing. Prisma is never seen leaving
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  Speaker 1: the exus apartment complex, even though all the exits have cameras.
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  Speaker 1: Prisma Hispanic five to two, one hundred and thirty pounds,
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  Speaker 1: brown hair, brown eyes, last scene wearing a red Polo capri,
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  Speaker 1: blue jeans, and black sneakers, carrying a large black purse.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info on Prisma Perolts now missing five years,
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  Speaker 1: please call Mesquite, Texas PD nine seven two two eight
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