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Missing Choc Family Found Buried in Woods Weeks After Suspicious Disappearance | Crime Alert 03.13.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. Alabama authority said on Thursday that three
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  Speaker 2: buried bodies are likely those of a woman and her
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  Speaker 2: two children who vanished in January. Aurelia Chalk, forty, and
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  Speaker 2: her children, Nierka Chalk, seventeen and Anthony Garcia, two, were
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  Speaker 2: last seen on January thirtieth at their home in Theodore.
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  Speaker 2: Mobile County Sheriff Paul Birch said evidence found at the
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  Speaker 2: home led them to believe foul play was involved in
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  Speaker 2: their disappearances. Birch revealed last month that blood was discovered
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  Speaker 2: in the home, in addition to cash and cell phones
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  Speaker 2: that were left behind. He also said a mattress was missing,
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  Speaker 2: which drew suspicion. Hector gamaliel Urgeta Guerrera, thirty one, was
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  Speaker 2: arrested for kidnapping in early February. Mobile County District Attorney
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  Speaker 2: Keith Blackwood said the charges will be upgraded to capital
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  Speaker 2: murder following the discovery of the three bodies. Quote, this
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  Speaker 2: is a horrific and gruesome murder. The state will seek
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  Speaker 2: the death penalty in this case. The charges will be
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  Speaker 2: signed today and we will move through the Alabama justice system.
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  Speaker 2: The three bodies, which were buried in a wooded area
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  Speaker 2: east of Summerdale, have not been positively identified as the
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  Speaker 2: Chalk Family, authority, saying autopsy results will take.
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  Speaker 1: Time, forensic identity will take some time. There is enough
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  Speaker 1: evidence in this case for us to determine that this
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  Speaker 1: is the Chalk Family that we've been searching.
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  Speaker 2: For, Birch said. Guerra, who is from El Salvador, faced
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  Speaker 2: aggravated attempted homicide charges in twenty fifteen. Since then, he
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  Speaker 2: has been detained on charges related to terrorism and organized crime.
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  Speaker 2: Guerrera is reportedly a certified member of the Serenials transnational gang.
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  Speaker 2: A motive in the triple homicide also remains undisclosed, Burch
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  Speaker 2: asking what motive would there be for killing a two
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  Speaker 2: year old. A teenager who disappeared after leaving his prestigious
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  Speaker 2: Long Island school in January to travel into New York
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  Speaker 2: City has been found dead in the waters of the
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  Speaker 2: Upper New York Bay off Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood. The
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  Speaker 2: Suffolk County Police Department said the body of Thomas Medlin
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  Speaker 2: was recovered on Saturday and positively identified on Thursday. Medland fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: was last seen on video footage walking across a Manhattan
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  Speaker 2: Bridge walkway at about seven o six pm on January ninth.
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  Speaker 2: The last activity on his cell phone came three minutes later,
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  Speaker 2: and a minute after that, a nearby surveillance camera captured
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  Speaker 2: the sound of a splash in the water. The boy
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  Speaker 2: was not seen leaving the bridge. Medland left school earlier
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  Speaker 2: that day and took a train into the city. He
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  Speaker 2: was seen at Grand Central station at about five thirty
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  Speaker 2: pm before the trip across the East River via the
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  Speaker 2: Manhattan Bridge, about a three mile walk from Grand Central.
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  Speaker 2: Before the discovery of his body, his parents made heartbreaking
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  Speaker 2: pleas for Thomas to come home. Nobody's mad at him. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: we want him, come home. Mom loves him. Wasn't my
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  Speaker 2: life a what? In co God?
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  Speaker 1: Exchange my life for my boys' safety winter.
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  Speaker 2: His parents said that he may have gone to meet
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  Speaker 2: someone he met on the gaming platform Roadblocks, but investigators
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  Speaker 2: later said the platform was not connected with his disappearance.
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  Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this, A Florida man
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  Speaker 2: was charged this week with aggravated manslaughter more than a
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  Speaker 2: year after his five week old baby died from extensive injuries.
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  Speaker 2: De Juan Patrick, twenty seven, was arrested by the Jacksonville
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff's office on a warrant from Volusia County. His daughter,
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  Speaker 2: Dollia Sebenhart, was admitted to a hospital on December second,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, with severe injuries. She was unresponsive and
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  Speaker 2: never regained consciousness before she was taken off life support
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  Speaker 2: on December twelfth. An autopsy found extensive head trauma, broken ribs,
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  Speaker 2: bruising across her body, and retinal hemorrhages the doctors say
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  Speaker 2: were caused by being shaken and held with extreme force.
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  Speaker 2: Felusha County Chief Medical Examiner James Fulcher later ruled her
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  Speaker 2: death a homicide. Investigators spent fifteen months studying medical records
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  Speaker 2: and other evidence in conducting interviews before determining that Patrick
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  Speaker 2: shook the newborn. In Spain, Sheriff Mike Shitwood commented, the
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  Speaker 2: arrest in this case won't bring Dollia back or give
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  Speaker 2: her the childhood she deserved, but today we're speaking up
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  Speaker 2: for her because her life mattered. Patrick is being held
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  Speaker 2: without bond in Jacksonville, awaiting transport to Valusha County. A
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  Speaker 2: main man has been charged with murder after shooting his
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  Speaker 2: girlfriend multiple times at their home in Farmington, and then
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  Speaker 2: claiming it was an accident. Maine State Police say a
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  Speaker 2: nine one one call came in on Sunday at about
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  Speaker 2: seven thirty pm after the shooting. First responders took the
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  Speaker 2: badly wounded woman, twenty three year old Mikaela Rose DeSantis,
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  Speaker 2: to main Health Franklin Hospital. From there, she was life
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  Speaker 2: lighted to Maine Medical Center in Portland, where she died.
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  Speaker 2: Her boyfriend, twenty four year old Austin Duquette, was arrested
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  Speaker 2: Monday evening, and affidavit filed in the case says that
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  Speaker 2: Dasantis was shot twice in the chest and that investigators
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  Speaker 2: found three spent shell casings on the floor of their condo.
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  Speaker 2: Duquet meanwhile told a paramedic that his gun just went
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  Speaker 2: off and that Dusantis was shot once. In the course
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  Speaker 2: of two nine one calls he made, he told dispatch,
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  Speaker 2: I had a gunshot go off and I can't believe
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  Speaker 2: I did this, while apologizing to Dysantis. In the second call,
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  Speaker 2: he told the dispatcher, my girlfriend has a gunshot wound
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  Speaker 2: and it accidentally went off. He further said I would
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  Speaker 2: never do this and I don't want to go to jail.
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  Speaker 2: Duquett put Dysantis into a car and attempted to drive
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  Speaker 2: to a hospital, calling his father and saying he was
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  Speaker 2: being chased by police. The father's girlfriend placed a nine
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  Speaker 2: to one one call, telling the dispatcher that Duquet said
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  Speaker 2: something had happened to Dusantis and he was going to
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  Speaker 2: kill himself. The father told him not to do that,
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  Speaker 2: and the girlfriend hung off her nine one one call
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  Speaker 2: when she was told police had stopped him. An ambulance
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  Speaker 2: took Dasantis to the hospital. From there. Meanwhile, officers went
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  Speaker 2: back to the condo where they found the spent shell
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  Speaker 2: casings from a forty five caliber handgun, which they found
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  Speaker 2: on the couch. The affidavit said that one round went
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  Speaker 2: through the coffee table and the floor. Investigators were unable
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  Speaker 2: to find that bullet. Another bullet went through a pillow
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  Speaker 2: on the couch and into the back of the so
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  Speaker 2: that bullet was found in the couch stuffing. A third
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  Speaker 2: bullet was recovered from the floor behind the couch after
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  Speaker 2: it went through another pillow. The Office of the Chief
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  Speaker 2: Medical Examiner ruled DeSantis' death a homicide by multiple gunshot wounds.
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  Speaker 2: Duquet's attorney, Verni Parratti, repeated his client's claims that he
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  Speaker 2: shot his girlfriend multiple times by accident. Quote. This appears
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  Speaker 2: to be a terrible accident, and we hope to get
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  Speaker 2: more information in the near future regarding the circumstances of
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  Speaker 2: the situation with this crime alert. I'm Sidney Sumner.