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Crime Alert 05.22.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crime news Now. Kaitlyn Hernandez, seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: takes a walk in the neighborhood with a younger male friend.
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  Speaker 1: When she doesn't come home in two hours, her parents
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  Speaker 1: call and texts her repeatedly. Eventually, a man answers her phone,
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  Speaker 1: telling the parents he saw the phone light up in
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  Speaker 1: a drainage ditch. Police immediately dispatched to where the phone
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  Speaker 1: was found. Caitlyn's body found in a ditch nearby, sex
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  Speaker 1: assaulted and strangled.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. Investigators determined Hernandez had been dragged to where her
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  Speaker 2: body was found. Police immediately suspected the male friend Hernandez
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  Speaker 2: was last seen with, but there was not enough evidence.
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  Speaker 2: After an interview to arrest him, DNA recovered from a
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  Speaker 2: rape kit performed on Hernandez pointed street to the boy,
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  Speaker 2: who was arrested without incident.
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  Speaker 1: The male friend with whom Caitlyn was last seen is
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  Speaker 1: just fifteen, his name being withheld, but he is now
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  Speaker 1: charged with capital murder. It would be burglar smashes a
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  Speaker 1: window at an omahon, a jewelry store, not expecting anyone
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  Speaker 1: to be inside. As the burglar looks through displays, owner
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  Speaker 1: and veteran Garrett Pettigord enters the main floor from a
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  Speaker 1: back room with a carefully aimed pistol. The thief scrambles,
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  Speaker 1: raising his hands and running out of the building, right
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  Speaker 1: back through the window he broke. Nebraska cop still searching
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  Speaker 1: for the suspect, but Peticord proud he defended his business.
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  Speaker 1: I can bey you that thief won't be back. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. Now we're the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines, John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: According to court documents released in recent days, three men
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  Speaker 3: charged in the twenty eighteen prison killing of infamous Boston
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  Speaker 3: gangster James Whitey Bulger have accepted plea agreements with prosecutors.
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  Speaker 3: For more, we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: The plea agreements for Sean McKinnon, Paul De Cola zero
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  Speaker 2: and Freddie Geis were made public almost six years after
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  Speaker 2: the eighty nine year old criminal was brutally murdered in
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  Speaker 2: his cell and a problematic prison in West Virginia. Former
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  Speaker 2: mafia hitman Gs in Massachusetts mobster to Cola Zio. Former
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  Speaker 2: mafia hitman Gs and Massachusetts mobster De Colazio were charged
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  Speaker 2: with repeatedly striking Bulger in the head while McKinnon acted
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  Speaker 2: as a lookout. Bulger was a snitch, according to dakola Zio,
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  Speaker 2: who also revealed to an inmate witness that they intended
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  Speaker 2: to murder him the moment he entered their unit. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: claimed that Decolazio also admitted to an inmate that he
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  Speaker 2: and Gs had killed Bulger by bludgeoning him with a
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  Speaker 2: belt that had a lock on it. Gs and Dcolazio
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  Speaker 2: were named as suspects soon after Bulger was killed, but
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  Speaker 2: the investigation was a lengthy one and they remained un
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  Speaker 2: charge for years, though they withheld additional information on the
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  Speaker 2: plea deals. Prosecutors have urged the judge to set hearing
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  Speaker 2: so that the men might modify their not guilty please
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  Speaker 2: and receive sentences. Last year, the Justice Department declared that
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  Speaker 2: it would not pursue the death penalty for Gs and
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  Speaker 2: Ducola Jieio, who were both charged with murderer. The charges
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  Speaker 2: against all three men included consps apiracy to commit first
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  Speaker 2: degree murder, a crime punishable by life in prison. Additionally,
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  Speaker 2: McKinnon was accused of lying to a federal agent in
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties. Bulger, the leader of
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  Speaker 2: the mostly Irish mob in Boston, was an FBI informant
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  Speaker 2: who turned on his gang's main rival after leaving Boston
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety four. He became one of the most
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  Speaker 2: wanted fugitives in the country after receiving a tip from
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  Speaker 2: his FBI handler that he was going to face charges.
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  Speaker 3: Bulger was finally apprehended in twenty eleven at the age
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  Speaker 3: of eighty one, after more than sixteen years on the run.
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  Speaker 3: The Supreme Court of Louisiana has decided to re examine
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  Speaker 3: its previous decision to invalidate a state statute that had
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  Speaker 3: given adult victims of childhood sexual abuse a new found
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  Speaker 3: chance to pursue damage claims once again. Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The Louisiana legislature passed the statute in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: and it was amended the following year. Often referred to
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  Speaker 2: as a look back provision, it allowed victims of prior
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  Speaker 2: abuse whose deadlines for bringing legal claims had passed until
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  Speaker 2: June fourteenth of this year. If legislation is approved, this
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  Speaker 2: period could be extended until June of twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Research at the time indicated that the average age at
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  Speaker 2: which victims of child sex abuse report the offenses is
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  Speaker 2: fifty two. Representative Jason Hughes, a lawmaker from New Orleans,
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  Speaker 2: was the chief sponsor of the bill. The state's highest
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  Speaker 2: court had set in a four to three decision back
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  Speaker 2: in March that the measure infringed upon the state Constitution's
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  Speaker 2: due process rights. However, Chief Justice John Weimer, along with
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  Speaker 2: two other justices, ordered a rehearing. Two additional justices concurred.
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  Speaker 2: This most recent decision comes as the Catholic Church is
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  Speaker 2: still coping with the fallout from a scandal that dates
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  Speaker 2: back several decades. The decision being re examined stems from
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  Speaker 2: a lawsuit brought against the Catholic Diocese of La Fayette
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  Speaker 2: by plaintiffs who claimed they were sexually assaulted by a
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  Speaker 2: priest in the nineteen seventies when they were between the
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  Speaker 2: ages of eight and fourteen. Rehearing was decided upon in
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  Speaker 2: response to a recent revelation that the Louisiana State Police
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  Speaker 2: executed a broad search warran at the Archdiocese of New
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  Speaker 2: Orleans and April, obtaining documents and correspondence between local church
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  Speaker 2: authorities and the Vatican on the church's handling of clerical
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  Speaker 2: sexual abuse.
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  Speaker 3: The court granted parties until May twentieth to submit their briefs,
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  Speaker 3: but it did not schedule a new date for arguments
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  Speaker 3: on the look back law. In their decision, Thanks John Charles.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Stewart adopted from an Arizona family, raised in Beverly,
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia with two older sisters. Eric, as they call him,
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  Speaker 1: born with fetal alcohol syndrome and is developmentally challenged, reading
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  Speaker 1: at a second grade level as an adult and never
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  Speaker 1: learning to drive. He lives with his mom, and after
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  Speaker 1: she passes away, his older sisters temporarily moved back to
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  Speaker 1: the childhood home with him. About a month after their
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  Speaker 1: mom passes away, his sister wakes up to an empty
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  Speaker 1: home and assumes the other sister took Eric with her
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  Speaker 1: to the farm, but that afternoon, the sister comes back
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  Speaker 1: with out Eric. Neighbors say they saw Eric walking on
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  Speaker 1: a main road about fifty yards from the family home
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  Speaker 1: that morning, his cell phone, walin and other belongings left behind.
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  Speaker 1: His sister's fear someone may have taken advantage of his
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  Speaker 1: trusting nature after he inherited a significant sum of money
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  Speaker 1: from their mom. Charles Eric Stewart five three, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five pounds. He wears glasses, his right eye
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  Speaker 1: crosses inward and he has a scar with screws visible
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  Speaker 1: on the right leg. If anyone has info on Eric
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  Speaker 1: Stuart's disappearance, please call Beverly Police three zero four six
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  Speaker 1: three seven three five six ' one. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with
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