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Speeding Suspect Mows Down Sorority Sisters, Pleads Not Guilty | Crime Alert 6AM 08.13.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I mean see grace breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 1: A twenty two year old man facing a jury on
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  Speaker 1: murder and vehicular manslaughter charges after hide speed crash killing
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  Speaker 1: four university students driving at over one hundred and four
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  Speaker 1: miles an hour and a forty five mile zone, plows
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  Speaker 1: into three parked cars. The Alpha Phi Swartis sisters were
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  Speaker 1: walking along the shoulder straight out to Drew Nelson for
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  Speaker 1: more Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: Their names are Naive Rolston, Peyton Stewart, Osha Weir, and
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  Speaker 2: Deslon Williams. The man accused of killing them has hired
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  Speaker 2: the lawyer who helped to quit Karen Reed in her
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  Speaker 2: widely publicized murder trial. Fraser Michael Boehm pleaded not guilty
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  Speaker 2: in a Los Angeles County courtroom to four counts of
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  Speaker 2: murder and four counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors say he was driving his BMW at more than
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  Speaker 2: one hundred miles per hour in a forty five zone
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  Speaker 2: on October seven, teenteenth of twenty twenty three. The car
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  Speaker 2: struck the parked vehicles on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
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  Speaker 2: Those vehicles then hit the four Pepperdine University seniors, killing
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  Speaker 2: the four of them there. The crash happened near dead
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  Speaker 2: Man's Curve, which is a stretch known for fatal wrecks
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  Speaker 2: in the area. Boom was uninjured, two others were hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Data from the BMW's black box allegedly shows the car
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  Speaker 2: accelerated from ninety three to one hundred four miles per
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  Speaker 2: hour just before the impact. Deputy District Attorney Nathan Bartos
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  Speaker 2: told the court quote, they were killed because of the
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  Speaker 2: driving of the defendant. He consciously decided to get that
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  Speaker 2: vehicle up to the speed of one hundred four miles
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  Speaker 2: an hour. This was not an accident. Boehm's defense says
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  Speaker 2: he was fleeing a road rage incident that began in
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  Speaker 2: a restaurant in Malibu. Investigators say there's no evidence of that.
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  Speaker 2: He was first arrested for a gross vehicular manslaughter, released,
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  Speaker 2: then re arrested when the charges were upgraded to murder.
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  Speaker 2: His bail was cut from eight million to four million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Alan Jackson, Karen Read's lawyer, who has also represented Kevin
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  Speaker 2: Spacey and prosecuted Phil Spector, set outside court he will
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  Speaker 2: challenge the state's case and seek another bail reduction. Boom
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  Speaker 2: also faces possible civil suits from the victims' families. The
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  Speaker 2: four women were the best of friends members of the
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  Speaker 2: Alpha Pi sorority, preparing for a party at their place
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  Speaker 2: that day. They were set to graduate in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Pepperdine awarded their degrees posthumously. Boom is due back in
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  Speaker 2: court September fifth.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Drew more crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: New details and a missing Oklahoma toddler allegedly sold to
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  Speaker 2: a meth dealer by her mother, and these details are
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  Speaker 2: rather disturbing. Ashley Roland, aged thirty nine, and her boyfriend
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  Speaker 2: Joshua Denton, forty, are in jail on child abuse charges
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  Speaker 2: while police search for Roland's daughter, London Kerr. London was
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  Speaker 2: two when she vanished in April of twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Roland first told police she gave London to a man
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  Speaker 2: named Carlos in a parking lot, claiming he might be
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  Speaker 2: the child's She later admitted Carlos was a meth dealer
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  Speaker 2: and that her story about him taking London to Mexico
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  Speaker 2: was false. Oklahoma City police say interviews with the couple's
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  Speaker 2: other children uncovered graphic abuse claims. Rowland's teenage son told
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  Speaker 2: detectives that Denton hit London with a wooden paddle engraved
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  Speaker 2: with the words the last Resort, and also shot her
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  Speaker 2: with a BB gun. He said Denton once duct taped
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  Speaker 2: him to a chair, beat him with a belt, and
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  Speaker 2: threatened to kill him if he spoke. Denton's two younger
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  Speaker 2: children told investigators they saw him poor hot sauce in
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  Speaker 2: London's eyes more than once, forced her to bite into
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  Speaker 2: a hot pepper and lock her in a closet. An
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  Speaker 2: eight year old girl accused Denton of raping her. Police
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  Speaker 2: searched a storage unit tied to the couple and found
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  Speaker 2: a BB gun, diapers, a pink baby blanket, a car seat,
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  Speaker 2: and the Last Resort. One child said the last time
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  Speaker 2: he saw London, Rowland told him to say goodbye before
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  Speaker 2: driving away with her. He never saw her again. Rowland
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  Speaker 2: discharged with enabling child abuse and engaging in a pattern
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  Speaker 2: of criminal offenses. Denton fail six counts of child abuse,
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  Speaker 2: forcible sodomy, lute acts with a child, and the same
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  Speaker 2: pattern of offenses charge. They remain in the Cleveland County
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  Speaker 2: Jail without bond. London would be turning six next month.
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  Speaker 2: She is white, blonde with blue eyes. Anyone with information
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  Speaker 2: should contact the Oklahoma City Police Department Homicide tip Line
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  Speaker 2: at four oh five two nine seven twelve hundred. The
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  Speaker 2: only man charged in Tupac Shakur's killing changes his legal
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  Speaker 2: team as the trial date nears. Dwayne Keefe d Davis
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  Speaker 2: has hired Robert Draskovich and Michael Pandulo to defend him
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  Speaker 2: in the nineteen ninety six murder case. They take over
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  Speaker 2: from Carl Arnold, who was let go last week. The
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  Speaker 2: new attorneys spoke to reporters in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: They said they are still reviewing the case but planned
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  Speaker 2: a file motions in the coming weeks. They expect to
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  Speaker 2: be ready for the trial set for February ninth of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Davis, age sixty two, was arrested in
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  Speaker 2: September of twenty twenty three and pleaded not guilty to
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  Speaker 2: first degree murder. Prosecutors accuse him of arranging the ambush
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  Speaker 2: that killed Tupac near the Loss Vegas Strip. He remains
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  Speaker 2: held without bail. In January, a judge rejected his claim
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  Speaker 2: that old immunity agreements should shield him from prosecution, saying
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  Speaker 2: there was no proof such deals ever existed. In March,
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  Speaker 2: Davis told ABC News quote, I'm innocent. I ain't killed nobody,
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  Speaker 2: never did ever kill nobody. He said he wanted to
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  Speaker 2: spend his later years watching his grandchildren grow up and
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  Speaker 2: enjoying life with his family. He also described himself as
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  Speaker 2: a good man who had left drug dealing behind long ago.
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  Speaker 2: A major part of the case comes from Davis's own
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  Speaker 2: words and interviews, and his twenty nineteen memoir Compton Street Legend.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors say he publicly confessed to the killing more than once.
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  Speaker 2: Davis claims a co author took liberties with the story
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  Speaker 2: and that he has never actually read the finished book.
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  Speaker 2: Tupac Shakur was twenty five when he was shot on
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  Speaker 2: September seventh, nineteen ninety six, while writing in a BMW
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  Speaker 2: driven by Death Row Records co founder sug Knight after
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  Speaker 2: Mike Tyson fight. Four bullets struck Shakur at an intersection
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  Speaker 2: known for gang tensions. He died six days later in
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  Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Hospital. For years, the case went unsolved,
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  Speaker 2: fueled by speculation, gang rivalries, and Shakur's fame as one
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  Speaker 2: of hip hop's most influential figures. Police say Davis's own
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  Speaker 2: public accounts help restart the investigation that led to his arrest.
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  Speaker 1: to find missing people, especially children, and help solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Eansie Grace.