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Crime Alert 07.12.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I may see grace breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 2: Just before ten.
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  Speaker 1: Pm, a Santa Rosa, California cop flips on the blue
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  Speaker 1: lights for a gold Toyota camer driving with no lights.
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  Speaker 1: When the driver rolls down the window, the cops caught
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  Speaker 1: off guard. Adene Ephram is wearing adjacent mask, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the scary hockey mask. Ephram acx nervous, He's sweating profusely.
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  Speaker 1: Cops searched the car and they find surprise, surprise, and
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  Speaker 1: unregistered AR fifteen hidden under a blanket.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. That firearm was unloaded, but there's no telling what
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  Speaker 2: Ephraim was planning in that infamous mask. The Santa Rosa
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  Speaker 2: Police Department has noticed a rise in illegal gun possession
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  Speaker 2: and has started a dedicated task force to address the
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  Speaker 2: resulting increase in gun violence. Ephraim is booked in the
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  Speaker 2: Sonoma County Detention Facility until bail is set.
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  Speaker 1: From twenty seven now charged with illegal possession of an
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  Speaker 1: assault rifle. A two man Walmart crew campaigns in a
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  Speaker 1: Florida neighborhood advertising new delivery drones. While the drone descends
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  Speaker 1: to complete its mock delivery to the Walmart crew, a
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  Speaker 1: gunshot rings out and the drone jerks. The crew notices
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  Speaker 1: Dennis win seventy two, standing outside his home pointing a
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  Speaker 1: rifle towards the sky. When the drone lands, the crew
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  Speaker 1: finds it's been shot and sustained significant damage to the
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  Speaker 1: payload system. Cops are called when admits to shooting the
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  Speaker 1: drone as it flew over his home because he was
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  Speaker 1: convinced someone was quote watching him, when now charged with
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  Speaker 1: shooting at an aircraft, criminal mischief, and discharging a firearm
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  Speaker 1: on residential property.
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  Speaker 3: But you gotta admit that's.
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  Speaker 1: A pretty good shot for a seventy two year old.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin in California, where a woman who admitted to
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  Speaker 3: killing entertainment consultant and social justice advocate Michael Latt has
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  Speaker 3: sentenced to thirty five years to life in prison. For details,
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  Speaker 3: we turned to Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Jamila Elena Michael pleaded guilty last month to first degree
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  Speaker 2: murder and first degree burglary in connection with the November attack.
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  Speaker 2: According to prosecutors and police, Michael had been stalking and
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  Speaker 2: threatening film director av Rockwell and targeted Lat because he
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  Speaker 2: was a friend of Rockwell. Prosecutors detail that on November
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  Speaker 2: twenty seventh, twenty twenty three, Michael knocked on the door
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  Speaker 2: of Latt's Los Angeles home, forced her way inside, and
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  Speaker 2: fatally shot him with a semi automatic handgun. Latt was
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  Speaker 2: declared dead at a hospital. Michael Latt was a respected
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  Speaker 2: consultant whose company focused on social impact in film and entertainment.
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  Speaker 3: Latt collaborated with prominent directors like Ava Duverney of Selma
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  Speaker 3: and Ryan Kugler. A Black Panther, a Missouri woman who
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  Speaker 3: has served forty three years in prison for murder she
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  Speaker 3: maintained she did not commit, has been ordered released by
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  Speaker 3: an appellate court, but, as Crime Online Sidney Sumner tells us,
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  Speaker 3: the state's attorney general is fighting to keep the woman
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  Speaker 3: behind bars.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Sixty four year old Sandra Hem was convicted twice for
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty murder of Patricia Jeski, a library employee
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  Speaker 2: from Saint Joseph. However, a judge recently ruled that Hem's
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  Speaker 2: attorneys provided clear and convincing evidence of her actual innocence.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Ryan Horseman ordered her release within thirty days unless
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors chose to retry her. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey
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  Speaker 2: subsequently requested the appellate Court review Horseman's decision. While the
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  Speaker 2: court agreed to the review, it also instructed Horseman to
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  Speaker 2: set bail terms and release Hem. Bailey's office then asked
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  Speaker 2: for reconsideration, citing insufficient time to argue against her release.
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  Speaker 2: They also pointed to a twelve year sentence Hem received
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  Speaker 2: decades ago for prison violence, arguing she should serve that
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  Speaker 2: sentence now. Hen's legal team, including the Innocence Project, argues
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  Speaker 2: that keeping her incarcerated would be a draconian outcome. They
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  Speaker 2: highlight that she is the longest held wrongly incarcerated woman
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  Speaker 2: known in the US. Judge Horseman's extensive review revealed numerous
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  Speaker 2: flaws in Hem's case. Hem was heavily sedated in an
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  Speaker 2: ameniable mental state when interrogated at a psychiatric hospital. Evidence
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  Speaker 2: pointing to another suspect, a discredited officer who died in
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, was ignored, and the prosecution was not informed
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  Speaker 2: of FBI test results that could have cleared her. Hem
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  Speaker 2: was arrested weeks after Jeske's body was discovered On November thirteenth,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty, Jeski was found by her mother, her hands
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  Speaker 2: tied and a telephone cord and panty hose around her throat.
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  Speaker 2: Hem had left town hours before Jeski was last seen alive,
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  Speaker 2: hitchhiking over one hundred miles to her parents' home. Hem
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  Speaker 2: initially confessed to the crime while under heavy sedation, leading
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  Speaker 2: to a guilty plea to avoid the death penalty. After
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  Speaker 2: her plea was overturned, she was convicted again in a
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  Speaker 2: one day trial in nineteen eighty five. The prosecutor later
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  Speaker 2: admitted that exculpatory evidence, including FBI tests, was never shared
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  Speaker 2: with the defense.
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  Speaker 3: This case remains under review as the state Attorney General
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  Speaker 3: continues efforts to keep him in prison despite the court's findings.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks job. Jason Hoys twenty seven calls mom Marilyn Stevenson,
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  Speaker 1: making plans to meet for lunch at as Salt Lake
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  Speaker 1: City Chipotle. Thirty minutes after the meeting time, Justin Steele
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  Speaker 1: hasn't showed up. Maryland drives to his construction site to
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  Speaker 1: find her son never showed up that morning, his phone
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  Speaker 1: shut off, no activity on his bank account or credit cards.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Heyman six to one, one hundred eighty pounds, brown
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  Speaker 1: shoulder linked there, brown eyes, tattoos on shoulders and right
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  Speaker 1: arm including the initials D Debbie H.
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  Speaker 2: Happy.
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  Speaker 1: Justin has a mustache and goatee. There's a five thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars reward for Justin Hoyman, now missing six years.
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  Speaker 3: If you have.
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  Speaker 1: Info, called Salt Lake City, Utah PD eight zero one
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  Speaker 1: seven nine to nine, three four five four for the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime in justice needs go to crime online dot
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  Speaker 1: com with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Nancy Grace