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Crime Alert 03.27.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Macy Grace Breaking crime news Now. A
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  Speaker 1: sixteen year old calls Nebraska cops saying he ran away
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  Speaker 1: from his Texas home. When cops arrived, the boy shows
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  Speaker 1: them scars all across his body. He says his uncle
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  Speaker 1: David Calhoun, ties him up for days, has set him
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  Speaker 1: on fire with gasoline, beat him with a metal pipe,
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  Speaker 1: and uses a cattle prod to burn him. At uncle
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  Speaker 1: David's home, police find the boy's brother, fifteen, and two
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  Speaker 1: of Calhoun's stepchildren twelve and ten, also showing signs of
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  Speaker 1: extreme abuse.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Calhoun started caring for his nephews in twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: and the horrific abuse began right away. The boys reported
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  Speaker 2: that Calhoun used a channel lock to remove their finger
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  Speaker 2: and toenails, stab them with kitchen knives, knocked out teeth
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  Speaker 2: with brass knuckles, and tie their genitals with hair ties
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  Speaker 2: for days at a time. On the stand at trial,
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  Speaker 2: a child behavior expert called the abuse indistinguishable from pow
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  Speaker 2: torture in the Vietnam War. Calhoun's wife, in another female suspect,
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  Speaker 2: also participated in the abuse of the four children, and
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  Speaker 2: will feast.
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  Speaker 1: Charges David Calhoun thirty eight gets ten life sentences plus
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  Speaker 1: thirty on fourteen child abuse charges. A Florida woman opens
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  Speaker 1: her home to her friend Glenn White while he's in
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  Speaker 1: between places to live. She was not prepared to also
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  Speaker 1: house his six cats. The woman confronts White say she'd
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  Speaker 1: prefer the cats to live outside. As she opens the
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  Speaker 1: back door to let them outside onto a screen porch,
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  Speaker 1: White pulls a gun and opens fire. She's hit in
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  Speaker 1: the legs, feet, and hands ten times. She calls nine one.
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  Speaker 1: One is taken to the hospital, while Glenn White is
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  Speaker 1: taken to jail on aggravated battery charges. No word on
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  Speaker 1: where the kiddies are now. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking
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  Speaker 1: news Crime onlinees John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: We began in Missouri as juvenile officials say a sixteen
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  Speaker 3: year old boy is being charged with a new felony
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  Speaker 3: in connection with the mass shooting that left one person
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  Speaker 3: dead and nearly two dozen others injured at the Kansas
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  Speaker 3: City Chief Super Bowl celebration. We turned to Sydney Sumner
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  Speaker 3: with Crime Online for more.
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  Speaker 2: According to authorities, during the teenager's arraignment, he was charged
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  Speaker 2: with unlawful use of a weapon to shoot someone. Since
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  Speaker 2: the mass shooting on February fourteenth, he has been detained
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  Speaker 2: on a lesser felony charge of resisting arrest. The new
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  Speaker 2: accusation carries a five to fifteen year prison sentence for
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  Speaker 2: an adult offender. Authorities have announced that a Jackson County
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  Speaker 2: Family Court judge will convene a hearing to decide whether
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  Speaker 2: to try the miner as an adult. A second sixteen
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  Speaker 2: year old is still being detained on a lesser firearms
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  Speaker 2: charge second degree murder, and several firearms offenses have also
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  Speaker 2: been brought against two men by state authorities in relation
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  Speaker 2: to the shootings. Police have reported that the attack occurred
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  Speaker 2: after a group of people confronted another person looking at them.
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  Speaker 2: Following the shooting, three other men from Missouri were accused
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  Speaker 2: of federal offenses pertaining to the unlawful acquisition of firearms
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  Speaker 2: with extended magazines and high powered rifles. Where now learning
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  Speaker 2: from unsealed court documents that at least six in individuals
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  Speaker 2: shot weapons and twelve people displayed firearms during the rally.
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  Speaker 3: The February fourteenth celebration in downtown Kansas City attracted and
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  Speaker 3: estimated one million atten d's. A law that would mandate
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  Speaker 3: that all firearms be kept in a locked container or
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  Speaker 3: have a mechanical lock that is tamper resistant when not
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  Speaker 3: in use by the owner or another authorized user, has
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  Speaker 3: now been approved by the Rhode Island Senate. Once again
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  Speaker 3: Crime Online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The measure would classify the improper storage of a handgun
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  Speaker 2: as a civil offense, punishable by a fine of up
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  Speaker 2: to two hundred and fifty dollars for an initial offense
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  Speaker 2: and up to one thousand dollars for a subsequent violation.
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  Speaker 2: A five hundred dollars fine and up to six months
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  Speaker 2: in jail would be imposed for any further infractions. Lawmakers
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  Speaker 2: approved the bill twenty eight Dash seven. Rhode Island Senator
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  Speaker 2: Pamela Lauria, who sponsored the initiative, stated that while respectable
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  Speaker 2: gun owners already practice safety measures, those actions should be
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  Speaker 2: mandatory rather than optional. Drawing on mortality data from the
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  Speaker 2: Centers of Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a Pew
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  Speaker 2: Research Center analysis published last year indicated that in the
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  Speaker 2: United States, the number of children and teens killed by
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  Speaker 2: gunfire rose by fifty percent between twenty nineteen and twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty one. Currently, if a firearm is loaded and a
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  Speaker 2: minor uses it to injure someone, the state of Rhode
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  Speaker 2: Island has the authority to find the owner one thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: The plan would broaden the definition of who is covered
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  Speaker 2: by the law adults who are legally forbidden from carrying
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  Speaker 2: firearms as well as children, and make it applicable regardless
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  Speaker 2: of whether the gun is loaded. Advocates say that violators
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  Speaker 2: risk up to one thousand dollars in fines and a
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  Speaker 2: year in prison if found guilty of second degree criminal
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  Speaker 2: firearm storage. A charge of first degree criminal firearm storage
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  Speaker 2: results in a maximum sentence of five years in prison
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  Speaker 2: and a fine of five thousand dollars if a prohibited
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  Speaker 2: person or child uses the weapon to injure someone. According
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  Speaker 2: to Melissa Cardon of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence,
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  Speaker 2: safe storage rules can assist to lower suicide rates in
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  Speaker 2: addition to fewer mishaps involving children with access to firearms.
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  Speaker 2: Bill opponents contend that the legislation violates law, biting gun owners'
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  Speaker 2: rights to keep in bare arms in their homes for
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  Speaker 2: self defense. Critics say requiring guns to be kept in
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  Speaker 2: a secured container or with a trigger lock might make
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  Speaker 2: it more difficult for them to defend their families and themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Similar laws are already an effect in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Chase Hurdle, eighteen, a star student at Bismarck
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  Speaker 1: High North Dakota, dreams of becoming a professor. The summer
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  Speaker 1: before his senior year, he's diagnosed as clinically depressed and
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  Speaker 1: begins having issues with memory loss. In July, he briefly disappears.
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  Speaker 1: When he's found he can't remember anything about what happened.
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  Speaker 1: One morning, he arrives at school but leaves on foot.
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  Speaker 1: A few moments into class. Police dogs track him to
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  Speaker 1: Memorial Bridge downtown Bismarck. The trail goes cold. Chase Hurdle
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  Speaker 1: now missing over two years. If you know or think
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  Speaker 1: you know anything about Chase Hurdle's disappearance, called Bismarck, North
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  Speaker 1: Dakota PD. Seven oh one two two three one two
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  Speaker 1: one two. For the latest crime and justice news, go
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  Speaker 1: to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Nancy Grace