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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
- 0:05Speaker 1: A minor highway scratch on Interstate eight oh five in
- 0:09Speaker 1: San Diego, California transformed into a fatal nightmare when a
- 0:14Speaker 1: cold blooded driver allegedly used his vehicle as a five
- 0:18Speaker 1: thousand pound weapon to murder a dedicated father of three
- 0:24Speaker 1: in front of his traumatized young daughters. Family friend Peggy
- 0:28Speaker 1: Mock spoke to ten News co blooded, disgusting evil.
- 0:33Speaker 2: He didn't run?
- 0:34Speaker 1: Is bat already?
- 0:35Speaker 2: Why do you have to kill him?
- 0:37Speaker 1: Berrick Lowe, a forty eight year old regulatory attorney for Alumina,
- 0:42Speaker 1: was killed after stopping to exchange insurance information near the
- 0:48Speaker 1: State Route fifty two interchange. Lowe had just picked up
- 0:52Speaker 1: his daughter's, ages seven and nine, from fencing class and
- 0:57Speaker 1: was traveling to meet his wife and five year old
- 1:00Speaker 1: son for dinner when a Nissan pathfinder clipped his car.
- 1:05Speaker 1: The routine roadside and counter turned into a gruesome execution
- 1:11Speaker 1: when the other driver refused to get out of his car.
- 1:15Speaker 1: According to officials, low approached the suspect's window to fulfill
- 1:20Speaker 1: his legal obligation not only as a citizen, but also
- 1:24Speaker 1: an officer of the court. When the driver tried to
- 1:27Speaker 1: flee the scene, Lo reportedly stood in front of the
- 1:31Speaker 1: suv with his hands on the hood to prevent a
- 1:34Speaker 1: hit and run. Instead of stopping, the assailant allegedly floored
- 1:40Speaker 1: the accelerator, striking Low with such bone crushing force that
- 1:45Speaker 1: his head hit the edge of the pavement, inflicting unsurvivable
- 1:50Speaker 1: injuries while his daughters watched through the windshield. Low was
- 1:56Speaker 1: taken to a local hospital and died two days later
- 1:59Speaker 1: due to the extens of trauma. The suspect, fifty seven
- 2:03Speaker 1: year old Lawrence Win, was apprehended days later after witnesses
- 2:08Speaker 1: provided crucial tips that led investigators to his damaged car.
- 2:14Speaker 1: When a previously convicted felon whose criminal history stretches back
- 2:19Speaker 1: over thirty years, was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to
- 2:23Speaker 1: charges including murder and hit and run resulting in death.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Prosecutors revealed that due to his prior serious felony conviction,
- 2:34Speaker 1: Win could face up to twenty five years to life
- 2:37Speaker 1: under California's free strikes law. He remains in custody without bond.
- 2:43Speaker 1: More Prime and Justice News after this, in a stunning
- 2:52Speaker 1: development that has reignited decades of trauma. A Bay Area
- 2:58Speaker 1: mother who methodically smothered her three young daughters to death
- 3:03Speaker 1: has been found suitable for parole. In Daily City, California,
- 3:09Speaker 1: Megan Hogg, now fifty three, was deemed eligible for release
- 3:14Speaker 1: by a California Board of Parole hearings panel during a
- 3:18Speaker 1: session at the Central California Women's Facility. Relative Carla Douglas
- 3:23Speaker 1: spoke to the media.
- 3:25Speaker 2: I'm fearful for her to come in and say if
- 3:32Speaker 2: she started another family, I don't think she learned from it.
- 3:36Speaker 1: This marks the second time she has received such approval,
- 3:39Speaker 1: sending the final decision to Governor Gavin Newsom for a
- 3:43Speaker 1: high stakes review. The nightmare unfolded on March twenty third,
- 3:47Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, when a twenty five year old Hog
- 3:51Speaker 1: bound the mouths and feet of her girls, Antoinette seven,
- 3:56Speaker 1: Angelique three, and Alexandra two with duct tape. In a
- 4:02Speaker 1: display of chilling depravity, she clutched each child to her
- 4:06Speaker 1: chest until they suffocated inside their modest home. Prosecutors revealed
- 4:11Speaker 1: the motive was as petty as it was lethal. Hog
- 4:15Speaker 1: allegedly believed the girls loved their grandmother more than her.
- 4:20Speaker 1: After the executions, Hog down a toxic cocktail of hot
- 4:25Speaker 1: chocolate and painkillers in a failed suicide attempt before their
- 4:30Speaker 1: grandmother discovered the bodies. Despite pleading no contest to three
- 4:35Speaker 1: counts a first degree murder in nineteen ninety nine, Hog
- 4:38Speaker 1: has spent years fighting for freedom. While seven family members
- 4:43Speaker 1: supported her release during the recent hearings, other relatives continue
- 4:48Speaker 1: to lead the charge against her, stating that the prospect
- 4:51Speaker 1: of Hog's freedom is quote like ripping the band aid
- 4:56Speaker 1: off a wound that never healed end quote. Although former
- 5:00Speaker 1: Governor Jerry Brown blocked to release in twenty eighteen, the
- 5:04Speaker 1: current board claims Hogg's therapy and self help participation warrant
- 5:10Speaker 1: her return to society. Hog's fate now sits on Governor
- 5:14Speaker 1: Newsom's desk, with a final decision expected by late July.
- 5:19Speaker 1: If he fails to block the board's ruling within this
- 5:23Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty day review window, this child killer
- 5:27Speaker 1: will walk out of prison, possibly by this fall. And
- 5:32Speaker 1: finally he is not choe average thief, a Florida man
- 5:37Speaker 1: is in a real pickle after his spicy plan to
- 5:41Speaker 1: crunch the numbers at Target Wentz sour Keith Wallace thirty
- 5:45Speaker 1: nine was arrested in Palm Beach for allegedly seasoning seventy
- 5:50Speaker 1: five separate thefts with ninety nine cent taco packets Taco
- 5:55Speaker 1: about a bad idea. Between July of twenty twenty five
- 5:59Speaker 1: and February twenty twenty six, Wallace allegedly swapped pricey trading
- 6:04Speaker 1: card bar codes for cheap spices, folding over forty thousand
- 6:10Speaker 1: bucks and eBay profits into his own pocket. He didn't
- 6:14Speaker 1: just want the whole enchilada, he wanted the cards too.
- 6:17Speaker 1: Now facing a supreme ninety years sentence for organized retail
- 6:22Speaker 1: theft and money laundering, Wallace's criminal career is officially chipped.
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