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Crime Alert 02.22.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs now Nearly
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  Speaker 1: two hundred bodies left to decompose and a maggot infested
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  Speaker 1: storage facility by funeral home owners in Penrose, Colorado, John
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  Speaker 1: and carry Halford take cremation in burial money from families
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  Speaker 1: of the deceased to use as their own personal.
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  Speaker 2: Piggy bank Nancy. The couple purchased two cars worth more
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  Speaker 2: than one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The money stolen
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  Speaker 2: from families of the deceased is reportedly at least twice
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  Speaker 2: the cremation costs for the bodies found. Prosecutors say text
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  Speaker 2: messages from John to Carrey indicate he was worried about
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  Speaker 2: consequences as early as four years ago. One reads, my
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  Speaker 2: only focus is keeping us out of jail. He leader
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  Speaker 2: suggests that they get rid of the bodies by treating
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  Speaker 2: them with fly and dumping them in a big hole
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  Speaker 2: or setting them on fire.
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  Speaker 1: John and Carey Hawford is charged with one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety counts of abuse of corpse, five counts theft, four
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  Speaker 1: counts of money laundering, and over fifty counts forgery. Win
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  Speaker 1: customer gets more than a burger and fries with the order.
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  Speaker 1: A drive through customer argues with the Wendy's employee, Leon Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson walks out of the store and starts punching the
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  Speaker 1: customer while he's in the car. The driver grabs a
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  Speaker 1: hammer and gets out to scare off the employee. Leon
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  Speaker 1: Johnson then jumps into the customer's car and drives away.
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  Speaker 1: Moments later, he returns and hits the customer with his
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  Speaker 1: own car, then grabs the hammer and beats the customer.
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  Speaker 1: Police arrive. Johnson bites two of them while he's being arrested.
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  Speaker 1: Leon Johnson, former Wendy's employee, now facing multiple charges, including
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  Speaker 1: first degree assault. More crime and Justice news after this
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley, according to a story published by Russia's official
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  Speaker 3: news agency Tasks, the mother of Russian opposition leader Alexi Navlny,
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  Speaker 3: has filed a lawsuit in the Arctic city of suckle
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  Speaker 3: Had challenging the authority's refusal to release her son's body.
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  Speaker 3: With the latest here Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: The Russian news story quotes court authorities as saying that
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  Speaker 2: a hearing behind closed doors has now been said for
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  Speaker 2: March fourth. Since her son's death on February sixteenth in
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  Speaker 2: a penal colony in the far north of Russia, Ludmila
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  Speaker 2: Novelnaya has been attempting to recover his remains. Navalney's team
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  Speaker 2: says that she has been unable to find the location
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  Speaker 2: where his body is being housed. This week, novel Naya
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  Speaker 2: made a request to Russian President Vladimir Putin to allow
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  Speaker 2: her to retrieve her son's body and bury him with dignity.
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  Speaker 2: Members of Navalney's team have indicated that Russian officials have
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  Speaker 2: stated that the cause of Navalney's death is still unknown
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  Speaker 2: and have refused to release his body for the next
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  Speaker 2: two weeks while the preliminary inquest is ongoing. They say
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  Speaker 2: that the Russian government is trying to conceal evidence by
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  Speaker 2: stalling Ulia Navalney, the widow of the opposition leader, published
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  Speaker 2: a video in which she accused Putin of killing her
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  Speaker 2: husband and asserting that the government's reluctance to reveal his
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  Speaker 2: body was part of a cover up. When spokesman Dmitri
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  Speaker 2: Peskov rejected the allegations of a cover up, telling reporters
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  Speaker 2: that quote, these are absolutely unfounded, insolent accusations about the
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  Speaker 2: head of the Russian state. Navalney's death has deprived the
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  Speaker 2: Russian opposition of its best known and inspiring politician less
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  Speaker 2: than a month before an election that is all but
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  Speaker 2: certain to give Putin another six years in power. Many
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  Speaker 2: Russians had seen Navalney as a rare hope for political
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  Speaker 2: change amid Putin's unrelenting crackdown on the opposition.
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  Speaker 3: Since Navalney's death, about four hundred people have been arrested
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  Speaker 3: across Russia as they tried to pay tribute to him
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  Speaker 3: with flowers and candles. This according to OVD Info, a
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  Speaker 3: group that monitors political arrests. President Joe Biden has established
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  Speaker 3: a federal rule and issued an executive order to strengthen
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  Speaker 3: the defense of US ports against potential cyber attacks once
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  Speaker 3: again crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The administration is laying out a set of national cybersecurity
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  Speaker 2: regulations that port operators in this country must abide by.
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  Speaker 2: These directives are similar to national safety regulations that aim
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  Speaker 2: to avoid harm to people in infrastructure. According to White
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  Speaker 2: House Deputy National Security Advisor and Newberger, ports across the
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  Speaker 2: country contribute five point four trillion dollars to the economy
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  Speaker 2: and employ almost thirty one million people. But they are
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  Speaker 2: also subseptive. But they are also susceptible to ransomware and
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  Speaker 2: other cyber attacks. The purpose of the uniform set of
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  Speaker 2: requirements is to aid in preventing that. The new regulations
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  Speaker 2: are a part of the federal government's effort to update
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  Speaker 2: the security measures for vital infrastructure such as ports, pipelines,
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  Speaker 2: and power grids, which are increasingly managed and controlled online,
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  Speaker 2: frequently from a distance.
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  Speaker 3: There currently is no national standard that specifies how operators
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  Speaker 3: must defend themselves against prospective cyber attacks.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, Joshua Ian Larkin, thirty eight, leaves his mom's
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  Speaker 1: home in Kirbyville, Texas to go hunting at a friend's
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  Speaker 1: private property in Call, Texas. The next day, that friend
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  Speaker 1: calls Larkin's mom to ask where is Joshua. He says
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  Speaker 1: cars parked outside, but Joshua's not there. Joshua Larkin not
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  Speaker 1: seen or heard from since November twenty twenty two. He's
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  Speaker 1: six feet tall, brown hair, green eyes. He's got a
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  Speaker 1: tattoo of his last name Larkin l A R K
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  Speaker 1: I N on his back. If you have info on
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Ian Larkin. Please contact Newton County, Texas Sheriffs four
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  Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.