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Minnesota Fisherman’s Discovery of Submerged Car Likely Cracks 1967 Cold Case | Crime Alert 09.02.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm John Lemley. Authorities in Sartel, Minnesota say
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  Speaker 1: a mystery that began more than half a century ago
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  Speaker 1: may finally be closer to a solution. Police now believe
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  Speaker 1: a car pulled last month from the Mississippi River, along
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  Speaker 1: with human remains found inside, are those of Roy Benn.
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  Speaker 1: Ben was last seen September twenty fifth, nineteen sixty seven.
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  Speaker 1: After breakfast at the kings Enn Supper Club, he entered
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  Speaker 1: his metallic blue nineteen sixty three Buick Electra and vanished.
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  Speaker 1: That mystery lingered for nearly fifty seven years until August tenth.
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  Speaker 1: That's when an angler on the Mississippi near County Road
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  Speaker 1: I spotted what looked like a vehicle under the water
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  Speaker 1: and called police. The Stearns Minton County sheriffs Office dive
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  Speaker 1: team went in, confirmed the find, and days later freed
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  Speaker 1: the intact car from decades of sediment. Collins Brother's towing
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  Speaker 1: brought it to the surface, where it was towed to
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  Speaker 1: the Sartel Police Department. Investigators from Sartel Police, the Benton
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  Speaker 1: and Stearns County Sheriff's Departments, and the Minnesota Bureau of
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  Speaker 1: Criminal Apprehension combed through the vehicle. Inside, they found remains
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  Speaker 1: and evidence linking the car and the body to Roy Benn.
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  Speaker 1: A press release says that connection came from the remains themselves,
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  Speaker 1: items inside the car, and the vehicle's VIN number. Officials
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  Speaker 1: also noted Ben was wearing a dark suit, a white
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  Speaker 1: French cuffed shirt, and gold and pearl cuff links. Back
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty seven, Ben was a widower, the owner
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  Speaker 1: of an apartment building and of Saint Cloud Gas and
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  Speaker 1: appliance service. His family described him as financially secure, with
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  Speaker 1: no debts and possibly carrying thousands of dollars the day
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  Speaker 1: he disappeared. Authorities say no one ever touched his bank accounts,
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  Speaker 1: credit cards, or the registration of his car in the decades.
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  Speaker 1: Sense loved one and said Ben was happy, with no
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  Speaker 1: reason to walk away from his life. The remains are
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  Speaker 1: now with the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office for further investigation
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  Speaker 1: and formal identification. We turned to a sweeping crackdown on
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  Speaker 1: organized retail theft in California. Authorities in Ventura County have
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  Speaker 1: dismantled what they called a major theft ring responsible for
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  Speaker 1: stealing ten million dollars worth of merchandise from Home Depot,
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  Speaker 1: marking the retailer's largest theft case to date. The ringleader,
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  Speaker 1: David All, who owns Arya Wholesale, reportedly orchestrated more than
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  Speaker 1: six hundred thefts across seventy one Home Depot stores last
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  Speaker 1: year alone. He allegedly paid thieves in cash for high
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  Speaker 1: end electrical items, which were then resold online, including through eBay.
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  Speaker 1: The forty count criminal complaint names All, his ex wife,
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  Speaker 1: and his brother in law, all facing prosecution. If convicted,
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  Speaker 1: all could face up to thirty two years in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities credited recent funding and new legislation allowing multi county
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  Speaker 1: prosecutions for enabling the bust. Turning now to Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: a joint operation between the LAPD and the Sheriff's Office
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  Speaker 1: has apprehended a burglary ring responsible for nearly one hundred
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  Speaker 1: break ins throughout the region in early morning raids. On
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  Speaker 1: August twentieth, seven men aged between twenty two and forty
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  Speaker 1: seven were arrested. Three more suspects have since been added,
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  Speaker 1: two men already facing attempted murder charges and another who surrendered.
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  Speaker 1: That brings the total number of arrests to ten. Authorities
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  Speaker 1: seized stolen luxury items, firearms, narcotics, burglary tools, and communication devices.
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  Speaker 1: In a raid earlier this year, investigators had also uncovered
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  Speaker 1: fake IDs, credit cards, its jewelry, and additional firearms. District
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  Speaker 1: Attorney Nathan Hockman vowed to pursue maximum penalties, emphasizing that
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  Speaker 1: close interagency cooperation and intelligence sharing proved pivotal in dismantling
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  Speaker 1: the network. And finally, tensions are escalating in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: Where schools are reopening under the watch of armed National
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  Speaker 1: Guard troops in the nation's capital. The federal deployment, ordered
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  Speaker 1: by the President and hailed by supporters as a crime
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  Speaker 1: fighting tactic, has provoked sharp backlash. Thousands of National Guard
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  Speaker 1: members some armed patrol neighborhoods, raising anxiety among parents and
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  Speaker 1: community leaders. Since August seventh, over one thousand arrests have
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  Speaker 1: been made, and the administration sites a drop in crime
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  Speaker 1: as proof of its hardline approach. Yet city officials, including
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Muriel Bowser, argue the move is heavy handed and
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  Speaker 1: risks turning schools into fortresses. Chicago, where violent crime has
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  Speaker 1: also declined, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Johnson have denounced proposals to send federal troops there,
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  Speaker 1: calling them unconstitutional and politically motivated. Thanks John for the
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  Speaker 1: where we do our best to find missing people, especially children,
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  Speaker 1: and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.