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Recent Alabama High School Grads Bludgeons Grandmother to Death | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 08.08.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jackie Howard,
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  Speaker 1: an eighteen year old Alabama woman arrested for allegedly killing
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  Speaker 1: her grandmother. Police first arrive at seventy year old Dian
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  Speaker 1: Trieste mobile home for a medical emergency. She was found
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  Speaker 1: unresponsive in her front yard with head trauma. A mallet
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  Speaker 1: lies near the victim, who is pronounced dead. As detectives
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  Speaker 1: interview witnesses, two people report being flagged down by a
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  Speaker 1: woman who says Jalen Lupin beat her grandmother to death.
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  Speaker 1: Police locate a neighbor who beat off the teen herself
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  Speaker 1: with a mop after a frantic home invasion attempt. As
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  Speaker 1: the eighteen year old tries to push her way into
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl Edward's home, she admits the unthinkable she had just
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  Speaker 1: killed her grandmother. Police say the teen tried to swipe
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  Speaker 1: the neighbor's car keys for a quick getaway. The terrifying
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  Speaker 1: moments caught on home surveillance video. Cheryl Edwards says she's
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  Speaker 1: been friends with Dian Trieste and store neighbor for almost
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  Speaker 1: ten years. Edward says she often saw Treest with cuts
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  Speaker 1: and bruises, for which she blamed her dogs. Jayleen Lupin,
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  Speaker 1: now charged with murder and second degree burglary.
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  Speaker 2: She had just.
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  Speaker 1: Graduated high school a few months ago. War Crime and
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  Speaker 1: Justice News after.
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  Speaker 3: This, I'm Jennifer Gould. A high speed horror on Malibu's
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  Speaker 3: Pacific Coast Highway in southern California left four Pepperdine University
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  Speaker 3: sorority sisters dead and now Fraser Michael Bohm, the twenty
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  Speaker 3: three year old scion of a wealthy family, is fighting
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  Speaker 3: for his freedom with a top tier defense attorney, Alan
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  Speaker 3: Jackson by his side. Bohm, who allegedly plowed his BMW
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  Speaker 3: into the co eds at a staggering one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: four miles per hour, has hired the same high profile
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  Speaker 3: lawyer who just defended Karen Reid and her blocks murder case.
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  Speaker 3: Charged with four counts of murder and vehicular manslaughter, Bohm
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  Speaker 3: appeared in a Vani's courtroom pleading not guilty to the
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  Speaker 3: October seventeenth, twenty twenty three tragedy that shocked the coastal enclave.
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  Speaker 3: J're before the entry of a not guilty plea, which
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  Speaker 3: is what we expect, obviously, I would ask the court
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  Speaker 3: for one continuance of the arrangement we had just been
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  Speaker 3: brought off the case. The victims, Niam Ralston twenty, Peyton
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  Speaker 3: Stewart twenty one, Ashoweir twenty one, and Deslin Williams twenty one,
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  Speaker 3: were Alpha Fi sorority sisters and seniors at Pepperdine's sever
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  Speaker 3: College of Liberal Arts. They were standing near park cars
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  Speaker 3: on the notorious dead Man's Curve stretch of PCH when
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  Speaker 3: Boehm's car smashed into three vehicles, killing the women instantly
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  Speaker 3: from blunt force trauma. Witness to say Bohm, who was uninjured,
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  Speaker 3: tried to flee the wreckage, but was stopped by Pepperdine
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  Speaker 3: fraternity members who tackled him. Boom, former high school baseball star,
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  Speaker 3: lives in an eight point seven million dollar Malibu mansion
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  Speaker 3: and was driving a BMW gifted to him for his
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  Speaker 3: eighteenth birthday as part of his parents' divorce settlement. Baum
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  Speaker 3: was released on a four million dollar bond. His new lawyer,
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  Speaker 3: Alan Jackson, who previously defended high profile figures like Harvey
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  Speaker 3: Weinstein and Phil Spector, said he plans to file a
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  Speaker 3: motion to reduce the bail package. Here's more from court.
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  Speaker 3: Between two and a half to four and a half
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  Speaker 3: seconds prior to the collision, the dependency vehicle was at
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  Speaker 3: a sheet of one hundred and.
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  Speaker 1: Four miles an hour.
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  Speaker 3: Prosecutors alleged that Baum was speeding in excess of one
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  Speaker 3: hundred miles per hour in a forty five mile per
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  Speaker 3: hour zone, with his BMW's black box showing acceleration from
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  Speaker 3: ninety three miles per hour just seconds before the crash.
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  Speaker 3: Baum's previous attorney, Michael Kroud, had claimed Bam was fleeing
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  Speaker 3: a road rage incident, a claim that a Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: County Sheriff's sergeant said had no evidence to support. Crowd
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  Speaker 3: also disputed the black box data, arguing bom speed was
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  Speaker 3: closer to seventy miles per hour based on witness accounts.
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  Speaker 3: With Jackson now at the HELM, the case has been postponed,
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  Speaker 3: with the attorney stating he does not expect the trial
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  Speaker 3: to begin before the end of twenty twenty five. If convicted,
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  Speaker 3: Baem faces the possibility of multiple life sentences.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton, the family of a ten year old
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  Speaker 2: girl believed by authorities to have been tortured before being
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  Speaker 2: discovered unresponsive along a highway, is now seeking accountability from
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  Speaker 2: child welfare officials, claiming they overlooked critical details that could
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  Speaker 2: have potentially saved the little girl's life. Rebecca Baptiste passed
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  Speaker 2: away on July thirty, just three days after being found
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  Speaker 2: unresponsive at the junction of two highways. As reported by
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  Speaker 2: the police in Holbrook, Arizona, her father, Richard Baptiz thirty two,
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  Speaker 2: and his girlfriend, Anisia Woods, twenty nine, have been arrested
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  Speaker 2: in connection with the girl's death. According to the Apache
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  Speaker 2: County Sheriff's Office, When officers arrived, they found Rebecca severely
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  Speaker 2: dehydrated and malnourished. Prosecutors revealed in court on August four
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  Speaker 2: that she was missing her toenails. The state of her
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  Speaker 2: health led medical professionals to conclude the little girl had
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  Speaker 2: been tortured, with indications of potential physical and sexual abuse.
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  Speaker 2: Rebecca's uncle, Damon Hawkins, described her condition. The little girl
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  Speaker 2: was black and blue from head to toe. She had
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  Speaker 2: two black eyes at the time she was found in
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  Speaker 2: Power College Prep, the school Rebecca attended with her siblings,
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  Speaker 2: reported that staff members reached out to the Department of
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  Speaker 2: Child Safety on Rebecca's behalf more than twelve times between
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  Speaker 2: November twenty twenty three and January twenty five, including three
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  Speaker 2: calls in a single week in January, as reported by
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  Speaker 2: ABC fifteen. However, a DCF official contested this figure, saying
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  Speaker 2: that they only received five calls concerning the girl's well being.
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  Speaker 2: In a statement, DCF officials clarified that only one of
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  Speaker 2: the five reports met criteria for a statutory investigation. They
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  Speaker 2: added the other four calls did not align with a
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  Speaker 2: statutory definition of abuse or neglect. The department also claimed
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  Speaker 2: they had no records of any relatives reporting suspicions of
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  Speaker 2: abuse or neglect regarding Rebecca or her siblings. DCS did
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  Speaker 2: not provide any further answers regarding why the school's report
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  Speaker 2: did not meet their criteria. The agency announced that its
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  Speaker 2: Safety Analysis Review Team would conduct a comprehensive examination of
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  Speaker 2: the case to identify and address any systematic issues that
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  Speaker 2: may have impacted the situation, and to implement data driven
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  Speaker 2: changes aimed at preventing similar trees in the future. Both
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  Speaker 2: Baptiste and Woods faced charges of first degree murder and
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  Speaker 2: child abuse, according to court documents, although the records did
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  Speaker 2: not specify their please or if they have legal representation
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  Speaker 2: at this time. The school maintains that they did make
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  Speaker 2: those reports to the Department of Children's Services more than
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  Speaker 2: a dozen times. On Rebecca's behalf.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Drew Nelson. New information in the Fort Stewart shooting
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  Speaker 4: reveals that an unarmed soldier tackled the gunman moments after
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  Speaker 4: he opened fire, wounding five of his fellow troops. The
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  Speaker 4: suspect has been identified as twenty eight year old Sergeant
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  Speaker 4: Cornelius Radford. He was an automated logistics sergeant assigned to
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  Speaker 4: the second Brigade Combat Team. The attack took place inside
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  Speaker 4: the brigades work area. Radford legedly used his personal nine millimeter.
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  Speaker 4: Officials say Radford followed one of his co workers into
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  Speaker 4: a maintenance area and shot him in the chest. He
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  Speaker 4: then shot four others. Thankfully, all are unstable condition and
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  Speaker 4: all are expected to recover. Brigadier General John Lewis says
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  Speaker 4: three needed surgery. One remains hospitalized in Savannah, with a
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  Speaker 4: long road ahead to recovery. Soldiers nearby acted fast. One
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  Speaker 4: ran at Radford and tackled him. Another jumped on top
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  Speaker 4: to hold him down until law enforcement arrived. Army Secretary
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  Speaker 4: Daniel Driscoll said those actions quote absolutely Saved Lives Medals
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  Speaker 4: were awarded to six soldiers for their roles in stopping
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  Speaker 4: the shooting and helping the wounded. Radford is not a
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  Speaker 4: veteran of deployment. He joined the Army in twenty eighteen
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  Speaker 4: and had worked at Fort Stewart since twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 4: Officials confirmed he was out on bond from a May
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  Speaker 4: DUI arrest in Liberty County. His chain of command did
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  Speaker 4: not know about that arrest until after the shooting. His father,
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  Speaker 4: Eddie Radford, told The New York Times that his son
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  Speaker 4: had been trying to transfer from Fort Stewart and had
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  Speaker 4: complained about racism on the base. Radford sent a message
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  Speaker 4: to his aunt saying he loved everyone and would be
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  Speaker 4: quote in a better place because he was about to
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  Speaker 4: quote go and do something. Investigation are still trying to
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  Speaker 4: determine how Radford brought his personal weapon onto the secure base.
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  Speaker 4: He is now in pre trial confinement while the Army's
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  Speaker 4: Office of Special Trial Council considers charges. A motive has
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  Speaker 4: not been released with this Crimeler Tim Drew Nelson