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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I mean's grace breaking crime news Now. Oregon
- 0:03Speaker 1: cops called to the banks of the Willamette River when
- 0:06Speaker 1: a suitcase washes up with an elderly woman's remains inside.
- 0:10Speaker 1: The woman I did is Judy Hurley eighty. Cops discover
- 0:14Speaker 1: several people living in her home. It's clear from medical
- 0:17Speaker 1: equipment Judy was bedridden. Police believe squatters took over the home,
- 0:22Speaker 1: with Judy powerless to stop them.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Nancy. Friends of Hurley lost contact with her after Hurley
- 0:27Speaker 2: returned to the home from a nursing home due to
- 0:30Speaker 2: her declining health. They say Hurley's home had become a
- 0:33Speaker 2: beast for crime as squatters learned Hurley was bedridden and
- 0:36Speaker 2: could not access the second floor at all. The suitcase
- 0:39Speaker 2: containing Hurley's remains was spotted by a contractor working on
- 0:42Speaker 2: a home overlooking the river, who called nine one one.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Police believe one of the squatters in Hurley's home is
- 0:48Speaker 2: responsible for her murder.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Michael Moody, fifty four, now charged with murder. An employee
- 0:53Speaker 1: at Rush of Fun Plaques, a Utah children's entertainment venue,
- 0:56Speaker 1: with laser tag rock climbing a foam pit, calls cops
- 1:00Speaker 1: after watching a man who appears to be alone picking
- 1:04Speaker 1: up several pair of children's socks and sniffing them ew
- 1:10Speaker 1: The employee also witnesses the man taking photos of children playing.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Cops find the socks in Roland Brown's pockets. In addition
- 1:18Speaker 1: to photos taken at the funplex, they also find child's
- 1:23Speaker 1: sex abuse material. Brown sixty three, now charged with ten
- 1:28Speaker 1: count sex exploitation of a minor. More crime and Justice
- 1:32Speaker 1: news after this Now with the latest crime and justice
- 1:39Speaker 1: breaking news Crime Onlines John Linley.
- 1:41Speaker 3: Another inmate has died at Wisconsin's troubled Wipon Correctional Institution,
- 1:46Speaker 3: the seventh since last year. The state confirms twenty three
- 1:49Speaker 3: year old Damian Evans died earlier this month. Details are scarce,
- 1:54Speaker 3: and the Dodge County Sheriff's Office is investigating. Evans was
- 1:58Speaker 3: serving time for armed robber and bail jumping. WAPAN has
- 2:02Speaker 3: been under scrutiny since former warden Randall Hepp and eight
- 2:05Speaker 3: staff members were charged with misconduct and inmate abuse following
- 2:09Speaker 3: two deaths. Federal authorities are also investigating a prison smuggling ring,
- 2:14Speaker 3: leading to staff suspensions and at least one guilty PLEA
- 2:18Speaker 3: built in the eighteen fifties. WAPAN has faced bipartisan calls
- 2:23Speaker 3: for closure. Governor Tony Evers has proposed a five hundred
- 2:26Speaker 3: million dollar overhaul, including converting it to a job training facility.
- 2:31Speaker 3: For now, the prison remains under investigation, as does yet
- 2:35Speaker 3: another inmate death, now to Georgia as a missing child
- 2:39Speaker 3: case that spans seven years and multiple states has finally
- 2:43Speaker 3: come to a close. A teenager who vanished from Atlanta
- 2:46Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen has been found safe in Colorado after
- 2:50Speaker 3: his mother's arrest in an unrelated incident. Our Sydney Sumner
- 2:55Speaker 3: has the full story.
- 2:56Speaker 2: A routine burglary investigation in suburban Denver has led to
- 3:00Speaker 2: the discovery of a boy missing for seven years. Authority
- 3:03Speaker 2: say fourteen year old Abdullah Aziz Khan was taken from
- 3:07Speaker 2: Atlanta in twenty seventeen by his mother, Robbia Khalid, who
- 3:10Speaker 2: did not have legal custody. On February twenty third, deputies
- 3:14Speaker 2: with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office responded to reports of
- 3:17Speaker 2: a suspected break in at a vacant home that was
- 3:19Speaker 2: for sale. They found Khalid and a man leaving the property,
- 3:22Speaker 2: claiming they worked for a realtor while two children waited
- 3:25Speaker 2: in a vehicle outside. After running their identities, officers discovered
- 3:29Speaker 2: Khalid had an active warrant related to her son's disappearance.
- 3:32Speaker 2: One of the children in the car was Con. Khalid
- 3:35Speaker 2: and the man were taken into custody on multiple charges,
- 3:38Speaker 2: including second degree kidnapping, forgery, and identity theft. The two children,
- 3:42Speaker 2: including Khn, were placed in protective custody while the courts
- 3:45Speaker 2: determined their next steps. Authorities say CON's case has been
- 3:48Speaker 2: featured on Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries and the US Marshall Service
- 3:52Speaker 2: had been assisting in the search. His family, while requesting privacy,
- 3:56Speaker 2: issued a statement expressing their relief, saying, quote, wherever whelmed
- 4:00Speaker 2: with joy that disease has finally been found. We want
- 4:03Speaker 2: to thank everyone for their support over the last seven years.
- 4:06Speaker 3: For now the focus shifts to insuring Cohn's well being
- 4:09Speaker 3: and future placement.
- 4:11Speaker 1: Thanks John. Veronica Rayes Diaz, twenty three, has a much
- 4:16Speaker 1: needing girl's night out in Dover, Florida. A friend drops
- 4:20Speaker 1: her off at home, where the husband and youngest child asleep.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Then she gets into her car to pick up her
- 4:26Speaker 1: two older children from her sister's home. She makes it
- 4:29Speaker 1: back and gets the older children to bed. When she
- 4:32Speaker 1: doesn't come to bed, her husband assumes she's sleeping with
- 4:35Speaker 1: one of the children. Next morning, he finds she's gone,
- 4:40Speaker 1: but her Chevy Yukon still parked outside, keys and wallet
- 4:43Speaker 1: in the car, cell phone shut off or dies before
- 4:47Speaker 1: it can be located. Veronica res dis twenty three four
- 4:52Speaker 1: to ten, one hundred, twenty pounds, brown hair, brown eyes,
- 4:58Speaker 1: mole beneath left. I now missing four years. If you
- 5:04Speaker 1: have info on Veronica Rayes Diaz, call Hillsborough County, Florida
- 5:08Speaker 1: Sheriffs eight one three two four seven eighty two hundred.
- 5:13Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice news, go to crime
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- 5:19Speaker 1: Crime Stories, where we do our best to find missing people,
- 5:22Speaker 1: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,
- 5:27Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.