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Tyler Robinson Judge Unseals 'Inconclusive' ATF Report | Crime Alert 04.17.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'm Sidney Silvony. We begin in Utah, where a
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  Speaker 2: judge has unsealed a ballistics report in the high profile
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  Speaker 2: assassination case of Tyler Robinson. Robinson is accused of gunning
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  Speaker 2: down Charlie Kirk during a Turning Point USA event at
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  Speaker 2: Utah Valley University in September twenty twenty five, allegedly perched
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  Speaker 2: on a rooftop where he fired a single fatal shot
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  Speaker 2: from his grandfather's mouse or rifle into a crowd of
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  Speaker 2: three thousand people bouncing or not counting gang.
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  Speaker 3: Linus, Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: The unsealed ATF report clarifies that while physical damage to
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  Speaker 2: a recovered bullet fragment prevented a conclusive match to the
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  Speaker 2: rifle's barrel, a spent thirty oh six cartridge case found
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  Speaker 2: on that rooftop was positively identified as having been fired
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  Speaker 2: from Robinson's weapon. Investigators also noted prone position impressions in
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  Speaker 2: the gravel where the shooter allegedly laid in wait. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: separate testing reportedly found Robinson's DNA on the weapon, a towel,
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  Speaker 2: in several rounds of ammunition, perhaps most chilling are the
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  Speaker 2: inscriptions found on those rounds. During a press conference, Governor
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  Speaker 2: Spencer Cox read the messages that investigators say were engraved
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  Speaker 2: on the casings.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators noted inscriptions that had been engraved on casings found
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  Speaker 1: with the rifle. Inscriptions on a fired casing read notices
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  Speaker 1: bulge's capital wo, what's this question?
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  Speaker 3: Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Inscriptions on the three unfired casings read hey fascist, exclamation point,
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  Speaker 1: catch exclamation point, up arrow symbol, right arrow and symbol,
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  Speaker 1: and three down arrow symbols. A second unfired casing.
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  Speaker 4: Read oh belli chow belachow bellichow chow chow, and a
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  Speaker 4: third unfired casing read if you read this, you are
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  Speaker 4: gay LM.
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  Speaker 2: While the defense argues the inconclusive ballistics on the bullet
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  Speaker 2: fragment shows a weakness in the case, experts say it
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  Speaker 2: simply a result of the bullet hitting bone and breaking
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  Speaker 2: on impact. Robinson is due back in court today for
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  Speaker 2: a hearing on his motion to bar cameras from future proceedings.
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  Speaker 2: He faces the death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder.
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  Speaker 2: More crime and Justice news after this. In Texas, the
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  Speaker 2: sentencing phase for Tanner Horner has entered its second emotional week, Horner,
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  Speaker 2: a former FedEx driver, pleaded guilty to the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: two kidnapping in capital murder of seven year old Athena
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  Speaker 2: Strand just as the trial began, leaving the jury to
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  Speaker 2: decide his punishment. The details of the crime are haunting.
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  Speaker 2: Horner was delivering a barbie doll intended as a Christmas
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  Speaker 2: gift for Athena when he struck her with his van.
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  Speaker 2: He told investigators that although she wasn't seriously injured by
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  Speaker 2: the vehicle, he panicked and strangled her to death in
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  Speaker 2: his van to keep her from telling her father or stepmother.
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  Speaker 2: Following Athena's murder, Horner wrote a letter to Athena's family
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  Speaker 2: in which he claimed he could no longer stay silent.
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  Speaker 2: Despite his legal team's advice. Horner wrote, so many were
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  Speaker 2: affected by my breakdown, not just your family, but my
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  Speaker 2: own as well. He admitted to countless nights of being
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  Speaker 2: unable to sleep, writing that he prays for the family
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  Speaker 2: but acknowledges the permanent void he created. Quote, You'll never
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  Speaker 2: get to see your baby girl grow up. And I'm sorry, and.
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  Speaker 3: I will make sure that every person in this world
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  Speaker 3: knows that she was loved and that she wanted to
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  Speaker 3: live and we want her in our lives, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: very sorry.
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  Speaker 2: On Wednesday, Athena's mother, Maitland Gandy, took the stand. Gandy
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  Speaker 2: described the physical pain of the loss, stating it felt
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  Speaker 2: like she was having a heart attack when she first
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  Speaker 2: heard her daughter was missing. She revealed the heartbreaking toll
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  Speaker 2: on her family, admitting she lied to Athena's threat year
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  Speaker 2: old sister for over a year, telling her Athena was
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  Speaker 2: staying with her father and couldn't come to the phone
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  Speaker 2: because she was sleeping or at school, incapable of finding
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  Speaker 2: words to explain what happened. When asked if she had
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  Speaker 2: watched the video of Horner killing her daughter, Gandy said
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  Speaker 2: she could only stomach a few minutes, sharing her sympathy
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  Speaker 2: for the jury who had to watch it, telling them
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  Speaker 2: no one, especially Athena, asked for what happened in those
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  Speaker 2: final moments, But do you have to watch that?
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  Speaker 5: I'm so sorry. I'm sorry to you, and I'm sorry
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  Speaker 5: to y'all two because none of us, not Athena, not me,
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  Speaker 5: not anyone in this room besides Tanner. Horner asked for
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  Speaker 5: what's on that video? In Athena.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely didn't.
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  Speaker 2: In Ansonio, Ohio, a volunteer firefighter is behind bars on
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  Speaker 2: a five million dollar bond, accused of a betrayal that
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  Speaker 2: has done the community. Peyton Beam is charged with arson
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  Speaker 2: and the aggravated murder of fifty year old Erika Kramer,
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  Speaker 2: a varsity cheerleading coach whom Beam reportedly described as his
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  Speaker 2: second mother. Prosecutors alleged that on April tenth, Beam executed
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  Speaker 2: Kramer by shooting her twice in the back and twice
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  Speaker 2: in the head. He then allegedly drenched her body in
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  Speaker 2: gasoline and set her home on fire in a truly
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  Speaker 2: twisted turn. Beam then reportedly responded to the emergency call
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  Speaker 2: in his official capacity as a firefighter, arriving at the
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  Speaker 2: scene he is accused of creating while his defense team
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  Speaker 2: is asked for evidence beyond inference. The local school district
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  Speaker 2: is mourning the loss of a woman described in her
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  Speaker 2: obituary as the kind of person who would give the
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  Speaker 2: shirt off her back. For the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 2: favorite podcast app with this crime alert, I'm Sidney Silvani.