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Crime Alert 09.26.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean it's hee grace breaking, crimemews. Now.
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  Speaker 1: As Ma Aperio walks out the door ahead for work, rhes,
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  Speaker 1: Miller attacks her, knocking a Perio to the ground and
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  Speaker 1: loops a zip tie around her neck, tightening it till
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  Speaker 1: she can't breathe. He drags her body to the side
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  Speaker 1: of her home, writes a note apologizing for hurting her,
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  Speaker 1: and takes off in her car.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, a neighbor, witnessed the attack and called nine one one.
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  Speaker 2: First responders were able to revive Aperio, but she was
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  Speaker 2: brain dead and on life support. Three days later, Operio's
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  Speaker 2: family made the decision to take her off. Miller's note
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  Speaker 2: read that he was quote deeply sorry for hurting anyone.
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  Speaker 2: In the moment, it seemed to be the only choice.
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  Speaker 2: While Miller's clothing matched ring doorbell footage of the attack,
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  Speaker 2: he also provided a confession.
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  Speaker 1: Illinois cops find Miller in a Perio's car three hours later.
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  Speaker 1: He's now charged with aggravated carjacking and murder. Dozens of
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  Speaker 1: New York police to send on a wedding after an
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  Speaker 1: uninvited guest starts to out huge fight. Over one hundred
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  Speaker 1: guests brawl nearly an hour as cops intervene. In the end,
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  Speaker 1: the bride's brother, Justice Murphy arrested for assault after he
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  Speaker 1: bit an officer then punched him in the face. Second
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  Speaker 1: guest k One Wilson also charted with harassment after shoving
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  Speaker 1: an officer to the ground. The wedding venue commented they
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  Speaker 1: had never seen a fiasco of this magnitude in thirty
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  Speaker 1: five years. Wow, think Murphy's mudshot will make it into
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  Speaker 1: the wedding scrapbook. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking in these
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  Speaker 1: Crime Online is John Lumley.
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  Speaker 3: We began in the US Heartland as an Iowa team
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  Speaker 3: has been found guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter
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  Speaker 3: in the shooting deaths of two students earlier this year
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  Speaker 3: at an alternative school in Des Moines. With details here
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  Speaker 3: is Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: A jury can vidicted nineteen year old Preston Walls of
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  Speaker 2: crimes other than the first degree murder charges he'd been facing.
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  Speaker 2: This appeared to show that the jury believed Walls when
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  Speaker 2: he said he shot the students out of fear for
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  Speaker 2: his life. Eighteen year old Johnny Dammern and sixteen year
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  Speaker 2: old Vershad Carr died of gunshot wounds on January twenty
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  Speaker 2: third at the Start's Right Here Education facility. Will Keeps,
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  Speaker 2: a rapper and former member of a Chicago gang who
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  Speaker 2: founded the Des Moines program for at risk teenagers, was
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  Speaker 2: shot by Walls for that crime. Walls was found guilty
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  Speaker 2: of willful injury inflicting serious injury, but cleared of attempted murder.
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  Speaker 2: Walls would have been required to serve a life term
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  Speaker 2: in prison if he had been found guilty of first
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  Speaker 2: degree murder. He will be qualified for paroles since he
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  Speaker 2: was found guilty of second degree murder in the death
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  Speaker 2: of Carr in voluntary manslaughter in the death of Damren.
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  Speaker 2: In spite of the fact that Walls shot Keeps and
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  Speaker 2: killed the two students, the defense lawyers said that he
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  Speaker 2: did so because he thought his own life was in danger. Walls,
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  Speaker 2: who was scheduled to graduate from the program two days
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  Speaker 2: after the shooting, claimed he believed am and Carr would
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  Speaker 2: attack him after he left school because they wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: the chance to do it later. According to the defense,
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  Speaker 2: throughout the trial, Damren was carrying a gun to school
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  Speaker 2: on the day of the incident.
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  Speaker 3: Walls will face sentencing in November. Following the discovery of
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  Speaker 3: a woman's body in the trunk of a car parked
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  Speaker 3: outside a well known spy in Metro Atlanta, five adults
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  Speaker 3: and a fifteen year old who identify as members of
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  Speaker 3: the Soldiers of Christ religious organization have been arrested on
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  Speaker 3: murder charges. The discovery, according to investigators, was made outside
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  Speaker 3: a Korean spa and sauna in Duluth, some twenty five
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  Speaker 3: miles northeast of Georgia's capital city. Authorities claim that the
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  Speaker 3: staff at the spa don't seem to be connected to
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  Speaker 3: the crime. According to arrest warrants, the woman had been
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  Speaker 3: starved and assaulted for weeks before her death. Her identity
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been made public. The fourth and last defendant in
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  Speaker 3: a plot to steal crude oil worth millions of dollars
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  Speaker 3: in western North Dakota has been sentenced once again. Crime
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  Speaker 3: Online Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: Sumner Watford City resident Darryl Woody Merrill, who was charged
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  Speaker 2: with conspiracy to commit theft and dealing in stolen items,
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  Speaker 2: entered a guilty plea. A state district court judge gave
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  Speaker 2: him a sentence of almost a year in prison, two
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  Speaker 2: years of closely monitored probation, and two hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: in reparations. Merrill's defense attorney says that the judge had
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  Speaker 2: already rejected an early plea bargain that included no time
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  Speaker 2: behind bars. According to prosecutor Tys Scartup, Merrill as the
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  Speaker 2: last defendant to receive a term in connection with the case.
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  Speaker 2: He told our friends with the Associated Press that he
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  Speaker 2: is glad the matter is finished after his team's successful
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  Speaker 2: prosecution of those found guilty in the case. After entering
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  Speaker 2: guilty please, defendants Michael Garcia, Mark McGregor, and Joseph Vanda
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  Speaker 2: Walker were recently given prison terms of varied lengths. Authorities
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  Speaker 2: reported the scheme in twenty twenty two, in which Trucker's
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  Speaker 2: Merrill and Vanda Walker skimmed crude oil by using equipment
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  Speaker 2: to their advantage during deliveries to a Crestwood midstream facility
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  Speaker 2: and then kept it in tanks out side site of
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  Speaker 2: Watford City for leader sale.
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  Speaker 3: A spokesperson for the North Dakota US Attorney's Office has
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  Speaker 3: confirmed that there is still an ongoing investigation, but he
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  Speaker 3: would not comment on its current status or potential future
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  Speaker 3: legal actions.
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  Speaker 1: David meckvil says goodbye to his wife, heads to work
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  Speaker 1: at Standard Insurance, Portland, Oregon. On lunch break, he calls
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  Speaker 1: home to make dinner plans with his wife. A coworker
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  Speaker 1: notices he threw away his food uneaten and left early.
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  Speaker 1: Mechvold never makes it home. Next day, his truck found
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  Speaker 1: abandoned on a secluded gravel road an hour east of Portland.
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  Speaker 1: Police search woods and the Columbia River several times, no
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  Speaker 1: trace of Mechvold. David Meckviold now missing thirteen years. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info on David Meckfold, contact Gresham PD five
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  Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice news, go to crime online
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  Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.