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Crime Alert 08.29.24 | Mom-of-3 Shot While Filming Tik-Tok · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Caitlin Lee, twenty
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  Speaker 2: five has a friend over at the apartment she shares
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  Speaker 2: with her three children. Caitlin and the girlfriend are filming
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  Speaker 2: a TikTok in the kitchen and they hear a banging
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  Speaker 2: on a window. While the friend is still filming, Caitlin
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  Speaker 2: walks to the window. She asks what are you doing here?
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  Speaker 2: Before three gunshots ring out, shattering the window. The video
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  Speaker 2: quickly cuts off as Caitlin falls to the ground. Caitlin's
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  Speaker 2: friend spots Caitlin's ex boyfriend, Joshua Thompson, running away Nancy.
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  Speaker 3: Caitlin had moved three times in four months because she
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  Speaker 3: was so afraid of Thompson. Thompson had previously been arrested
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  Speaker 3: for domestic battery against Caitlin, and she had been granted
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  Speaker 3: an emergency protection order against him. Thompson called his brother
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  Speaker 3: shortly after the shooting, confessing to killing Caitlin. Thompson's brother
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  Speaker 3: urged him to call nine one one, and Thompson turned
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  Speaker 3: himself in.
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  Speaker 2: Caitlin Lee, just twenty five, pronounced dead on the scene.
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  Speaker 2: X boyfriend Joshua Thompson twenty five, now charged with a murder.
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  Speaker 2: A Gulfport, Mississippi police officer gets a text from an
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  Speaker 2: unknown number stating YO. The officer responds, what's up. The
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  Speaker 2: texter asks, I want to smoke? I got some gas
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  Speaker 2: that slang for hi percent THC marijuana. The officer says
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't think he'll be able to. The text responds,
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  Speaker 2: stop capping, we smoke all the time. Finally, the officer
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  Speaker 2: sends a selfie holding up his badge, informing the texter
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  Speaker 2: they got the wrong number. The officer does not intend
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  Speaker 2: to file charges, but writes in a Facebook post, nothing
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  Speaker 2: like a wrong number text to really spice up someone's day.
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  Speaker 2: You mean, light up the day. More crime and justice
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  Speaker 2: news after this Now with the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 2: breaking news.
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  Speaker 1: Crime Onlines John limleyman accused of aiding a fugitive prisoner
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  Speaker 1: in North Carolina, has now made her first court appearance
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  Speaker 1: with details.
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  Speaker 4: Here's Sidney Sumner of Crime Online. Thirty two year old
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  Speaker 4: Jacobia Crisp faces serious charges, including aiding and a betting
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  Speaker 4: a fugitive and harboring an escapee. Authorities alleged that Crisp
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  Speaker 4: played a key role in helping Ramon Alston, a convicted
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  Speaker 4: murderer of ade capture after he escaped from a transport
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  Speaker 4: ban last week. According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, Alston,
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  Speaker 4: who was already serving a life sentence for the twenty
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  Speaker 4: fifteen killing of a one year old child, managed to
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  Speaker 4: break free from his leg restraints and flee during a
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  Speaker 4: medical appointment in Hillsborough. His escape sparked a widespread manhunt
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  Speaker 4: involving multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and US
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  Speaker 4: Marshall Service. The search ended three days later when Alston
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  Speaker 4: was apprehended at a hotel in Cannapolis. He has since
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  Speaker 4: been relocated to the state's maximum security facility in Granville County,
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  Speaker 4: where he may face additional charges related to his escape.
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  Speaker 4: Crisp was later arrested by same day in Alimans County.
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  Speaker 4: She posted a thirty thousand dollars bond and was released
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  Speaker 4: this according to court records. Sheriff Charles Blackwood revealed that
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  Speaker 4: Crisp and Alston had been in communication for several months,
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  Speaker 4: primarily over the phone, though the nature of their relationship
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  Speaker 4: remains under investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Crisp is due back in court on September thirteenth. She
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  Speaker 1: could face a prison sentence exceeding five years if convicted
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  Speaker 1: on both felony counts. Now to the sentencing of an
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  Speaker 1: inmate involved in the twenty eighteen killing of infamous Boston
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  Speaker 1: gangster James White Bulger at a federal prison in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Once again crime Online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 4: Paul J.
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  Speaker 3: Decola Jerro, a Massachusetts gangster, has been sentenced to over
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  Speaker 3: four years in federal court after pleading guilty to an
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  Speaker 3: assault charge connected to Bulger's death. Originally facing up to
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  Speaker 3: ten years, da Coola Jerro's sentence adds to the twenty
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  Speaker 3: five year term he's serving for a two thousand and
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  Speaker 3: six conviction related to a herroin purchase later used in
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  Speaker 3: the attempted murder of a teenage girl. Prosecutors had a
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  Speaker 3: led that Dacola Jerro and fellow inmate Freddie Gus used
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  Speaker 3: a locke attached to a belt to fatally bludgeon the
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  Speaker 3: eighty nine year old Bulger shortly after his transfer to
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  Speaker 3: USP Hazelton from Florida. However, during court proceedings, it was
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  Speaker 3: clarified that Deacola Jero acted as a lookout, not a
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  Speaker 3: direct assailant. Court records reveal inmates knew of Bulger's imminent
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  Speaker 3: arrival at Hazelton, with one inmate testifying that Dacola Jaro
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  Speaker 3: had labeled Bulger a snitch and planned to attack upon
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  Speaker 3: his entry into their unit. Prosecutors stated that Deacola Jero,
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  Speaker 3: while not delivering the fatal blows, assisted Gus in the
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  Speaker 3: aftermath with his DNA found no blankets used to cover
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  Speaker 3: Bulger's body. Gus, charged with murder and conspiracy to commit
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  Speaker 3: first degree murder, faces a hearing on September sixth. If convicted,
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  Speaker 3: he could receive a life sentence, though the Justice Department
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  Speaker 3: has opted not to pursue the death penalty. Another inmate,
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  Speaker 3: Sean McKinnon, pleaded guilty in June to line to FBI
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  Speaker 3: agents and receive credit for twenty two months served, returning
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  Speaker 3: to Florida to complete his supervised release. James Whitey Bulger,
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  Speaker 3: a NA notorious figure in Boston's criminal underworld during the
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  Speaker 3: nineteen seventies and eighties, was also an FBI informant, feeding
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  Speaker 3: the agency information on rival gangs. After fleeing Boston in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen ninety four. Tipped off by his FBI handler about
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  Speaker 3: an impending indictment, Bulger evaded capture for over sixteen years.
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  Speaker 1: Bulger's capture at age eighty one led to a twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirteen conviction for eleven murders and numerous other crimes committed
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  Speaker 1: while purportedly serving as an informant.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John, Stanley Katowski, sixty whisked away from Massachusetts to
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  Speaker 2: Hilton and Island, South Carolina, by wife Jackie and son Zach.
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  Speaker 2: For the last month, Stanley's been having intense anxiety attacks
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  Speaker 2: and insomnia. His family thought of vacation was very much needed.
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  Speaker 2: A few days into the trip, before anyone else is awake,
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  Speaker 2: he walks out of their rented beach house without a
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  Speaker 2: cell phone, wallet, or shoes. Searches with dog teams, helicopters, drones,
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  Speaker 2: and boats turn up nothing. Stanley six feet tall, two
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  Speaker 2: hundred pounds, short, brown hair, brown eyes, thick Boston accent.
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  Speaker 2: Last seen wearing a gray Coors light T shirt and
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  Speaker 2: dark colored shorts. Any One with information on Stanley Katowski,
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  Speaker 2: now missing two weeks, called Beaufort County, South Carolina Sheriffs
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