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Gruesome New Details Man Accused of Beheading His Best Friend | Crime Alert 6AM 09.01.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, Imancy Grace Breaking Crime Needs now straight out
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  Speaker 1: to Nicole Parton for the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy's shocking New revelations have emerged in a gruesome murder
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  Speaker 2: case from Arizona, where a man is accused of killing
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  Speaker 2: his best friend and subsequently dismembering the body before abandoning
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  Speaker 2: the remains near a desert town.
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  Speaker 3: Samuel Stevens Bush, twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Four, faces charges of first degree murder, abandonment or concealment
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  Speaker 2: of a dead body, and tampering with physical evidence as
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  Speaker 2: outlined by prosecutors. The tragic events unfoldeding Gilbert, a sizeable
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  Speaker 2: suburb situated about twenty two miles southwest of Phoenix in
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  Speaker 2: Maricopa County. On August twelve, twenty twenty four, Elijah Bradley,
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  Speaker 2: just twenty four, was reported missing a day after celebrating
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  Speaker 2: his birthday, having recently graduated from Northern Arizona University. He
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  Speaker 2: was last heard from when he failed to call his
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  Speaker 2: mother with his usual mourning hello. Concerned family members filed
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  Speaker 2: a missing person report three days later. Investigators suspect that
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  Speaker 2: Bush shot Bradley on the day he missed that habitual call,
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  Speaker 2: with grand jury documents indicating that the fatal shot was
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  Speaker 2: fired in the back. Following the shooting, Bush allegedly purchased
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  Speaker 2: a reciprocating saw from a home improvement store, which he
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  Speaker 2: used to dismember his friend's body. The remains were ultimately
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  Speaker 2: discarded east in a remote town located roughly ninety miles
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  Speaker 2: southwest of Gilbert. Bradley's family quickly turned their suspicions towards Bush.
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  Speaker 2: A relative revealed that Bradley's mother utilized the Life three
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  Speaker 2: sixty app to trace his phone, which was found to
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  Speaker 2: be powered off but had its last known location at
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  Speaker 2: Bush's apartment. Initially, Bradley's family reached out to Bush, who
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  Speaker 2: claimed he had no knowledge of the situation. They later
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  Speaker 2: contacted Toyota for GPS data related to Bradley's vehicle, which
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  Speaker 2: the company provided to law enforcement. The relative area where
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  Speaker 2: the body was found as quote the middle of nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: During an interview with a local news station, Bradley's headless
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  Speaker 2: remains were discovered on August nineteen, twenty twenty four. I
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  Speaker 2: learned that he was shot in the back and found
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  Speaker 2: without his head. A family member said, it's incredibly cruel
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  Speaker 2: and graphic. It's hard for us to fathom that his
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  Speaker 2: very best friend committed such an act. The motive behind
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  Speaker 2: the murder remains a mystery to the family. He was
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  Speaker 2: Sam's best friend, his only friends. She shared with NBC twelve.
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  Speaker 2: A now disabled go fundme campaign for funeral and related
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  Speaker 2: expenses portrayed Bradley as a bright and beloved soul. The
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  Speaker 2: fundraiser described him as someone with a free spirit and
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  Speaker 2: a wild soul, emphasizing the deep loss felt by everyone
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  Speaker 2: who knew him. As his family navigates this unthinkable grief,
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  Speaker 2: they are also confronted with the financial challenges that accompany
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  Speaker 2: such a tragedy. Bush was initially arrested on drug related
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  Speaker 2: charges on August twenty, twenty twenty four, or before facing
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  Speaker 2: second degree murder charges. The updated allegation suggests a premeditated
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  Speaker 2: act of violence.
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  Speaker 3: It's devastating.
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  Speaker 2: He was just starting his adult life, Bradley's aunt and
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  Speaker 2: cousin remarked to a local ABC affiliate.
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  Speaker 4: It's devastating. He was just beginning his adulthood. You graduating
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  Speaker 4: from NAU, his future ahead of him. Why would anyone
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  Speaker 4: do this. I don't feel a relief for anything because
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't bring him back. It doesn't fix anything.
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  Speaker 1: No, I just love him.
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  Speaker 4: No, we miss him and life will never be the
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  Speaker 4: same again.
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  Speaker 3: Bush is currently being held without bond.
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  Speaker 1: Nicole, thank you more Primate Justice News.
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  Speaker 2: After this, authorities have taken into custody the grandmother of
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  Speaker 2: an eleven year old girl from Oklahoma who recently gave
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  Speaker 2: birth to a child fathered by her stepfather. According to
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  Speaker 2: kJ RhI Shell Justice fifty three has become the third
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  Speaker 2: person charged with six counts of child neglect. As previously reported,
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  Speaker 2: the young victim delivered her baby at home on August
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  Speaker 2: sixteenth without any medical assistance. Her parents, Dustin Walker thirty
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  Speaker 2: four and Sherry Walker thirty three, claimed they were unaware
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  Speaker 2: of her pregnancy. Justice had stated that her daughter insisted
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  Speaker 2: the father was a twelve year old boy, suggesting that
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  Speaker 2: the children had simply become curious. Initially, the Walkers face
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  Speaker 2: charges of child neglect after their arrest last week, but
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  Speaker 2: those charges were modified on Monday. DNA testing revealed that
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  Speaker 2: Dustin Walker, the stepfather, had a ninety nine point nine
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  Speaker 2: percent probability of being the child's biological father, as indicated
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  Speaker 2: by Assistant District Attorney Janet Hudson in an interview as
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  Speaker 2: a result, Dustin Walker has been charged with child sexual abuse,
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  Speaker 2: while his wife faces charges for enabling the abuse. The
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  Speaker 2: couple is also confronting six counts of child neglect concerning
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  Speaker 2: the eleven year old girl and her five siblings, who
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  Speaker 2: range in age from two, for six, seven, and nine.
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  Speaker 2: Reports indicate that the children were discovered living in deplorable
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  Speaker 2: conditions and have since been removed from the home. This
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  Speaker 2: child has endured significant trauma, Hudson remark to KOTV. Not
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  Speaker 2: only has she been victimized, but she also gave birth
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  Speaker 2: at home without medical care, and this experience will impact
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  Speaker 2: her for the rest of her life. Her parents are
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  Speaker 2: currently being held without bond. The grandmother has a bell
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  Speaker 2: set at nearly two hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Kristin Motorrefie moves to San Francisco for a summer semester
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  Speaker 1: and UC Berkeley. The eighteen year old takes a job
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  Speaker 1: at a coffee shop, regularly hits the beach and the
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  Speaker 1: nearby Modern Art museum. Crystallinie has worked with plans to
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  Speaker 1: go to the beach, but she never comes home. Her
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  Speaker 1: dad calls the lambline. At home, she shares with roommates,
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  Speaker 1: but they say they haven't seen her in three days.
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  Speaker 1: Kristen's reported missing coworker's report they saw her with a
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  Speaker 1: blonde woman in the mall after she clocked out. Please
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  Speaker 1: find a newspaper in Kristen's room with a personal ad
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  Speaker 1: from a woman seeking new friends circled. The newspaper was
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  Speaker 1: unable to confirm who placed the ad, and the woman
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  Speaker 1: Kristen met at the mall has not been identified. Kristin
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  Speaker 1: motor Fery now missing over twenty six years. If you
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  Speaker 1: have info, call San Francisco FBI four one five five
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  Speaker 1: five three seven four hundred. For the latest crime injustice news,
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  Speaker 1: best to find missing people, especially children, and help solve
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  Speaker 1: unsolved homicides. With this crime a Art, I'm Nancy Grace.