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Crime Alert 05.10.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace of Breaking Crime News Now.
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  Speaker 1: John Towers and employee at a public park in Putnam County,
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  Speaker 1: New York carefully cleans the restrooms. In the women's restroom, However,
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  Speaker 1: he also plants ten spy cams. Some of the cameras
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  Speaker 1: appear to be ballpoint pins, battery packs, and buttons. Towers
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  Speaker 1: takes roughly eight hundred explicit photos of women and girls using.
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  Speaker 2: That restroom, Nancy. In addition to the eight hundred photos
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  Speaker 2: and videos recorded inside the restroom, police found Towers uploaded
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  Speaker 2: nearly six thousand similar files to the Internet. Many of
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  Speaker 2: the files were named with young Police believed the cameras
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  Speaker 2: were hidden in the bathroom for at least eighteen months.
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  Speaker 1: John Towers, fifty four, now charged with sex exploitation of
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  Speaker 1: a child and possession of child porn. Estralla Pereira and
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  Speaker 1: Miguel Ruis head to a Florida shopping center for bodybuilding
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  Speaker 1: photos and they take with them, of course, a loaded
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  Speaker 1: assault rifle. Pereira and Ruiz take turns posing with the rifle,
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  Speaker 1: taking aim and a building in the shopping center. A
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  Speaker 1: parent picking up their child from daycare there in the
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  Speaker 1: center sees them with the gun and calls nine to
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  Speaker 1: one one Pereira fifty and Ruis fifty seven and since
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  Speaker 1: they were just taking photos, but guess what, they're both
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  Speaker 1: charged with aggravated assault and carrying a gun on school property.
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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 1: Police in Illinois say that a twenty two year old
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  Speaker 1: male has been taken into custody in connection with the
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  Speaker 1: shooting death of a Chicago police officer who was killed
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  Speaker 1: while off duty and on his way home from work.
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  Speaker 1: We turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online for more.
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  Speaker 2: The Chicago Police Department in the US Marshall's Great Lakes
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  Speaker 2: Regional Fugitive Task Force have apprehended Xavier L. Tit Junior
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  Speaker 2: in connection with the murder of thirty year old officer
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  Speaker 2: Luis Wesca. This according to a post by Chicago Police
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  Speaker 2: on x formerly known as Twitter. In a statement released
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  Speaker 2: by the News Affairs Division of the Chicago Police Department,
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  Speaker 2: the investigation into Tate's case is still ongoing. On April
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixth, a Cook County judge issued an arrest warrant
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  Speaker 2: charging Tate with the murder of Wesca. The officer was
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  Speaker 2: shot numerous times just before three am on April twenty
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  Speaker 2: first on the city's southwest side. He was later pronounced
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  Speaker 2: dead at an area hospital. Superintendent Larry Snelling stated that
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  Speaker 2: although Wesca was wearing his uniform, he was wearing something
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  Speaker 2: over it, a normal practice for officers who were not
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  Speaker 2: on duty. Officials say that Wesca, a six year police
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  Speaker 2: department veteran, was discovered outdoors suffering from gunshot wounds. Although
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  Speaker 2: police have not established whether the shooting was part of
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  Speaker 2: a carjacking, the officer's vehicle was taken. A day after
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  Speaker 2: the murder, Chicago police released their first community alert, citing
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  Speaker 2: surveillance footage showing a man they believed to be Tate,
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  Speaker 2: shopping at two convenience stores and going into a shadowy alley.
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  Speaker 2: A source briefed on the investigation reported that an individual
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  Speaker 2: was in the vicinity at the time of the shooting
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  Speaker 2: and later changed clothing.
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  Speaker 3: On April twenty nine, hundreds of people gathered along Chicago
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  Speaker 3: streets for Wesca's funeral procession. Wesca was laid to rest
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  Speaker 3: in Chicago following a church service. A Pennsylvania nurse has
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  Speaker 3: received a life sentence after entering a guilty plead to
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  Speaker 3: three counts of murder and other offenses. This after giving
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  Speaker 3: multiple patients doses of insulin that were either fatal or
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  Speaker 3: potentially fatal. Once again Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: At a hearing in Butler, approximately thirty miles north of Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 2: forty one year old Heather Presty was sentenced to three
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  Speaker 2: consecutive life terms and an additional consecutive term of three
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty to seven hundred and sixty years in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors claimed that Presty was involved in the deaths of
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  Speaker 2: at least seventeen patients in five different healthcare facilities spread
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  Speaker 2: across four counties between twenty twenty and twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: The victims were said to range an age between forty
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  Speaker 2: three and one hundred and four years old. Authorities claimed
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  Speaker 2: that Presty's behavior was rooted keenly questioned by coworkers, who
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  Speaker 2: indicated that she frequently made disparaging remarks about her patients
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  Speaker 2: and displayed contempt for them. Presty entered a guilty plea
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  Speaker 2: to three charges of first degree murder in nineteen counts
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  Speaker 2: of attempted murder, sparing her the possibility of receiving a
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  Speaker 2: death sentence. She was first accused of killing two and
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  Speaker 2: injuring three residents at a nursing home in May twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three. Scores of additional charges against her were brought
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  Speaker 2: about after subsequent investigations. Back in February, Presty argued with
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  Speaker 2: her lawyers during a contentious hearing. While making it known
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  Speaker 2: that she wished to enter a guilty plea. Presty spoke
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  Speaker 2: very little as she entered her pleas, giving one word
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  Speaker 2: answers to the majority of the questions. When asked by
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  Speaker 2: one of her attorneys why she was entering a guilty plea,
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  Speaker 2: Presty responded by saying, quote, because I am guilty.
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  Speaker 3: Shortly after the first charges were brought against Presty in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, her nursing license was suspended.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Betty Alexander lives alone Sullivan, Missouri. After her
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  Speaker 1: husband passes away. Her adult children and grandchildren visit a lot.
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  Speaker 1: My son John says she's not picking up the phone.
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  Speaker 1: That's unusual. Her daughter Tanya can't get through to mom
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  Speaker 1: and heads to the apartment inside. A meal is on
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  Speaker 1: the table and it appears to have been there for
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  Speaker 1: some time. Tanya finds her mom's glasses on the arm
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  Speaker 1: of her recliner. That's odd as Betty only takes them
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  Speaker 1: off to go to sleep. Betty has gotten pharmacy deliveries,
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  Speaker 1: but daughter Tanya can only find one of the two
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  Speaker 1: boxes at the apartment. She talks to neighbors who say
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  Speaker 1: they last saw Betty three days ago. Betty Alexander does
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  Speaker 1: not drive, so she must have left on foot or
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  Speaker 1: been picked up. Her purse was also left behind. Sullivan
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  Speaker 1: PD searches the area and issues the Silver Alert, but
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  Speaker 1: no sign of Betty. Betty Alexander now missing five years.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info on Betty Alexander, called Sullivan, Missouri PD.
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  Speaker 1: the latest crime in justice news, go to crimeonline dot
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  Speaker 1: com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.