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Crime Alert 05.20.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, I mean cy Grace breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix firefighters respond to a call about a fire at
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  Speaker 1: a furniture store. Once the blaze is out, a neighboring
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  Speaker 1: business owner gives police surveillance footage of how the fire started.
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  Speaker 1: It shows Katitia Smith handing something to a man who
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  Speaker 1: sets it on fire and throws it through the store's window.
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  Speaker 1: Cops later discovered two bodies in the building. A medical
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  Speaker 1: examiner has not been able to identify them, but determines
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  Speaker 1: they were alive when the fire started.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Smith claims she was forced to participate in the
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  Speaker 2: arsen by the man accompanying her on the surveillance video.
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  Speaker 2: Maricopa County Sheriffs are still searching for that suspect. The
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  Speaker 2: building was completely destroyed by the fire. One victim was
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  Speaker 2: recovered the night of the arson, and the second found
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  Speaker 2: the next day. The victims have yet to be publicly identified.
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  Speaker 1: Cops still on the hunt for Smith's accomplice, but for now,
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  Speaker 1: Katitia Smith charged with arson and two counts of murder.
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  Speaker 1: Three teens break into a California maid Service Pink Sponge
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  Speaker 1: home cleaning and riaque havoc. The teens kick out the
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  Speaker 1: headlights on eighteen of twenty five Star Service cars, carve
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  Speaker 1: into the paint and force the windows down to get
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  Speaker 1: inside the cars. They break open a door to the business,
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  Speaker 1: then spray and dump cleaning supplies everywhere. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: chaos caught on surveillance video. While one of the teams
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  Speaker 1: sprays a fire extinguisher everywhere, two others stand on the
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  Speaker 1: hood of a car tworking. The trio's ring leader, a
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  Speaker 1: fifteen year old from Laverne, has been caught a charge
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  Speaker 1: with criminal mischief. California cops hope her cell phone will
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  Speaker 1: lead to the other two vandals. Hope they get everything
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  Speaker 1: cleaned up. More crime and justice news after this Now
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  Speaker 1: with the latest crime and justice breaking news crime Online.
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley, a minimum of fifty six years in prison
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  Speaker 3: has been handed down for murder and other counts. This
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  Speaker 3: against a father from New Hampshire found guilty of killing
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  Speaker 3: his five year old daughter and moving her body from
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  Speaker 3: place to place for months in an effort to dispose
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  Speaker 3: of it. In court, the child's relatives referring to the
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  Speaker 3: man as a monster. For more, we turned to Sydney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: The minimum thirty two and a half year sentence that
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  Speaker 2: thirty four year old Adam Montgomery began serving last year
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  Speaker 2: on unrelated firearms crimes will be combined with the new sentence,
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  Speaker 2: making his actions and harmony. Montgomery's killing practically a life sentence.
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  Speaker 2: Nearly two years before she was even reported missing. In
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, police suspected she had been killed. Her
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  Speaker 2: remains have never been located. In exchange for Montgomery providing
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  Speaker 2: the location of his daughter's remains, the prosecutor had promised
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  Speaker 2: to reduce montgomery sentence for the second degree murder conviction
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  Speaker 2: and additional crimes. In the Manchester court room, Montgomery remained silent,
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  Speaker 2: continuing to maintain his innocence as it relates to his
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  Speaker 2: daughter's death. Later, his lawyer referred to the offer as
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  Speaker 2: a stunt and claimed that Montgomery's silence should not be
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  Speaker 2: taken to mean that he doesn't feel regret. Montgomery did
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  Speaker 2: not appear for his February trial. His attorney had requested
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  Speaker 2: that Montgomery be excused from attending his sentencing, but the
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  Speaker 2: judge ordered him to appear in court. Montgomery had also
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  Speaker 2: entered a not guilty plead to counts of witness tampering
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  Speaker 2: and second degree assault. He did plead guilty to abuse
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  Speaker 2: of a court ups and fabricating evidence. Judge Amy Messer
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  Speaker 2: stated that Montgomery had a lengthy criminal record dating back
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  Speaker 2: to two thousand and eight, and then he had a
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  Speaker 2: number of chances to turn his life around. The case
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  Speaker 2: of Harmony, Montgomery has uncovered numerous weaknesses and child protection systems,
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  Speaker 2: and as spark demands that parents should relinquish custody of
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  Speaker 2: their children in favor of the children's welfare. Harmony was
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  Speaker 2: moved several times between her foster parents and her mother's
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  Speaker 2: home before Adam Montgomery was granted custody in twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 2: and relocated to New Hampshire. Authorities intend to continue looking
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  Speaker 2: for the girls remains, which are thought to be located
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  Speaker 2: along the route that Adda Montgomery took into Massachusetts in
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  Speaker 2: March twenty twenty eight while driving a rental truck.
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  Speaker 3: Investigators recently conducted a search a few weeks ago, but
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  Speaker 3: prosecutor Benjamin Agatti stated that they were unsuccessful. Now to
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  Speaker 3: Wisconsin as a Milwaukee woman who claimed she was legally
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  Speaker 3: permitted to kill a man because he was sexually trafficking
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  Speaker 3: her has now pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of
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  Speaker 3: reckless homicide once again crime Online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Crystal Kaiser's always spares her from a trial and potential
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  Speaker 2: life sentence. It also raises questions about whether a state
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  Speaker 2: provision protecting victims of sex trafficking from prosecution for crimes
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  Speaker 2: committed during their trafficking encompasses homicide as well. The prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: in her case claim that in twenty eighteen, at the
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  Speaker 2: age of seventeen, Kaiser shot thirty four year old Randall
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  Speaker 2: Volar at his Kenosha, Wisconsin residence. After that, they claimed
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  Speaker 2: she stole the man's BMW and set fire to his residence.
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  Speaker 2: A number of charges were brought against her, including auto theft, arson,
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  Speaker 2: first degree intentional homicide, and possessing a firearm by a felon.
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  Speaker 2: The now twenty three year old Kaiser claimed to have
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  Speaker 2: met Vular through a website that deals in sex trafficking.
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  Speaker 2: She contended that during the year preceding his death, he
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  Speaker 2: had been abusing her and selling her as a prostitute.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives were told by Kaiser that she shot Fullar as
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  Speaker 2: he attempted to touch her. Kaiser entered a guilty plea
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  Speaker 2: to a charge of second degree reckless homicide during her
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  Speaker 2: most recent hearing. This according to online court records, the
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  Speaker 2: other charges were dropped by the prosecution.
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  Speaker 3: Kaiser is said to be sentenced August nineteenth by Circuit
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  Speaker 3: Judge Michael Wilke in Kenosha County.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John one Correo, a veterans suffering from Alzheimer's, frequently
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  Speaker 1: takes his purple bike to run errands around San Benito, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: When he doesn't come home after a few hours, his
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  Speaker 1: wife worries. She searches his usual spots, including McDonald's and Walmart.
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  Speaker 1: Can't find him. Police canvas a small city, checking his
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  Speaker 1: childhood home, old schools, wooded areas near his home. No sign.
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  Speaker 1: One left his meds and cell phone he shares with
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  Speaker 1: his wife, but did have his wallet and about two
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars cash. One last scene wearing a black veterans hat,
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  Speaker 1: a longsleeved shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes. If you have
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  Speaker 1: info on one Coreo, now missing almost a year, please
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  Speaker 1: call San Benito, Texas PD nine five six three six
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  Speaker 1: one three eight eight zero. For the latest crime in
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  Speaker 1: justice news, go to crime online dot com with this
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  Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Missy race