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Crime Alert 03.29.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: Anderson stabs Andrea Blankenship dead in her home, then cuts
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  Speaker 1: out her heart. Anderson cooks the heart with potatoes and
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  Speaker 1: tries to serve it to his aunt and uncle for dinner.
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  Speaker 1: When they refused to eat it, he kills his uncle,
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  Speaker 1: Leon Pye and his four year old granddaughter, Chaos Yates
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  Speaker 1: Crime Alines John Lemley. Nancy Anderson was released from prison
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  Speaker 1: just three weeks prior to the attack as part of
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  Speaker 1: a mass commutation effort in Oklahoma. District Attorney Jason Hicks
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  Speaker 1: commented that the OSBI has a masked evidence in the
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  Speaker 1: case that kept him up at night for weeks. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: did not pursue the death penalty for Anderson as they
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  Speaker 1: felt a trial would continue to harm the family. Lawrence Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: forty four, pleads guilty three counts of murder, one count
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  Speaker 1: assault and battery, one count maiming. He will spend the
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  Speaker 1: rest of his life serving five consecutive life sentences. Jennifer
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  Speaker 1: Long's father says good morning, and which is our happy
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  Speaker 1: forty first, and in response, Long stabs him with a
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  Speaker 1: kitchen knife. Dad calls nime on one to report the
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  Speaker 1: attack and is concerned for Long's eight year old son.
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  Speaker 1: When cops arrive, they find the little boy stabbed dead upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: As she was cuffed, Long told police officers that she
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  Speaker 1: had taken meth days prior and had not slept. Long
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  Speaker 1: advised them that her son was dead and when police
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  Speaker 1: found him, the child still had the knife in his chest.
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  Speaker 1: Neighbors and teachers remember the third grader as a sweet
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  Speaker 1: boy who will be greatly missed. Long now charged with
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  Speaker 1: capital murder and attempted murder. More Crime and Justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this. Now with the latest crime and Justice breaking
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  Speaker 1: Knees Crime Onlines. John Lemley, a former's student, shot through
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  Speaker 1: the doors of a Christian elementary school Monday, killing three
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  Speaker 1: children and three adults after elaborately planning the massacre by
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  Speaker 1: drawing out a detailed map and conducting surveillance of the building.
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  Speaker 1: For more, now, we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 1: The massacre at the Covenant School in Nashville was the
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  Speaker 1: latest in a series of mass shootings in a country
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  Speaker 1: that has grown increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools. The
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  Speaker 1: victims included three nine year old children, The school's top administrator,
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  Speaker 1: a substitute teacher, and a custodian. Police say the shooter's
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  Speaker 1: name is Audrey Elizabeth Hale and his transgender The suspect
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  Speaker 1: gained entry by firing into glass doors on the building,
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  Speaker 1: shattering them. The shooter was armed with two assault style
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  Speaker 1: weapons as well as a handgun. At least two of
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  Speaker 1: them were believed to have been obtained legally in the
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  Speaker 1: Nashville area. This according to investigators. Police say a search
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  Speaker 1: of the shooters home turned up a sawed off shotgun,
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  Speaker 1: a second shotgun, and other unspecified evidence. Prosecutors say they
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  Speaker 1: will pursue the death penalty if a Tennessee man is
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  Speaker 1: convicted of first degree murder in a day long shooting
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  Speaker 1: rampage that paralyzed Memphis and left three people dead and
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  Speaker 1: three others wounded. The announcement by Shelby County District Attorney
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  Speaker 1: Steve Mulroy came during a press conference in the case
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  Speaker 1: of Ezekiel Kelly, who has been charged in a series
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  Speaker 1: of shootings in September twenty twenty two that led to
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  Speaker 1: a citywide shelter in place order and a frantic manhunt.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty year old Kelly was charged with murder in the
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  Speaker 1: deaths of Duane Tunstall, Richard Clark, and Alison Parker. He
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  Speaker 1: has pleaded not guilty. Mulroy listed factors for his decision
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  Speaker 1: to file a notice to seek the death penalty, including
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  Speaker 1: that it was a random mass shooting and that Kelly
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  Speaker 1: had a prior conviction for aggravated assault. A Wisconsin man
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  Speaker 1: has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six killing of a young woman whose body
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  Speaker 1: was found in a swamp at a Green Bay nature
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  Speaker 1: area crime on lines Sidney Sumner. Sixty seven year old
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  Speaker 1: lou A. Griffin pleaded no contest January twenty seventh in
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  Speaker 1: Brown County Circuit Court to a charge of homicide by
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  Speaker 1: reckless conduct, and a judge found him guilty. Griffin originally
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  Speaker 1: was charged in October twenty twenty with first degree intentional
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  Speaker 1: homicide and Lisa Holstead's killing. Her body was found in
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  Speaker 1: August nineteen eighty six. Holsteads slaying had been Brown County's
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  Speaker 1: oldest unsolved murder case. Investigators said that at the time
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  Speaker 1: of her killing, Griffin lived within a few miles of
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  Speaker 1: where her body was found. Griffin was identified as a
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  Speaker 1: suspect in holsteads slang after Green Bay police sent DNA
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  Speaker 1: evidence found on her body to a company that performs
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  Speaker 1: forensic genetic genealogy testing. That testing provided information on the
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  Speaker 1: suspect's heritage and possible relatives. Griffin was eventually placed under
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  Speaker 1: police surveillance in DNA that was collected from cigarettes and
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  Speaker 1: beer cans that he had discarded matched the DNA collected
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  Speaker 1: in the murder case. Griffin told investigators he might have
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  Speaker 1: had sex with Holstead, but denied killing her. People who
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  Speaker 1: were sexually abused as children in Washington State may soon
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  Speaker 1: be able to bring lawsuits against the state schools or
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  Speaker 1: other institutions for failing to stop the abuse, no matter
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  Speaker 1: when it happened. House Bill sixteen eighteen would remove time
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  Speaker 1: limits that have stymied lawsuits by some people who frequently
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  Speaker 1: do not fully confront childhood trauma until years later. The
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  Speaker 1: bill has passed the House on an eighty two to
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  Speaker 1: fourteen vote and cleared a Senate committee last week. Washington's
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  Speaker 1: current statute of limitations requires victims of child's sexual abuse
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  Speaker 1: to file lawsuits within three years of when the abuse
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  Speaker 1: occurred or three years from when they discovered harms it caused.
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  Speaker 1: Such as depression, addiction, or suicidality. Two men still a
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  Speaker 1: three foot long foam carrot from an easer display at
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  Speaker 1: a Pennsylvania mall. Security guards try to stop them, but
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  Speaker 1: when one officer tries to open the door of their truck,
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  Speaker 1: the officers dragged nearly a quarter mile at thirty five mph.
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  Speaker 1: Cops track the thieves the license plight to their home,
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  Speaker 1: where they turn over the stolen carrot and are charged
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  Speaker 1: with theft, criminal mischief. I mean, who are they going
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  Speaker 1: to blame it on the Easter Bunny for the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime and desice go to crime online dot com with
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  Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.