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Crime Alert Recap Saturday 06.26.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime a lord hourly update, breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sidney Silvanni. We begin tonight in Arizona, where a
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  Speaker 1: baffling abduction case has taken a chilling and deeply tragic turn.
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  Speaker 1: It has now been twenty weeks since Nancy Guthrie was
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  Speaker 1: abducted from her home in the Catalina Foothills north of Tucson.
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  Speaker 1: For months, her family has held on to hope, but
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  Speaker 1: a horrifying new development has completely shattered that piece. A
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  Speaker 1: federal law enforcement source close to the case is saying
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  Speaker 1: that a second ransom note sent to the family indicates
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Guthrie has passed away, declaring she is buried with nature.
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  Speaker 1: This devastating news prompted an emotional public plea from her daughter,
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  Speaker 1: television anchor Savannah Guthrie, who spoke out on Tuesday to
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  Speaker 1: desperately beg the public for answers.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to just take the opportunity to ask people
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  Speaker 3: to really to beg people to come forward. Somebody knows something,
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  Speaker 3: and this is a news story today that is on
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  Speaker 3: your radar. But this is the life that my sister lives,
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  Speaker 3: that I live, that my brother lives, that our extended
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  Speaker 3: families live that our children live every day, and we
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  Speaker 3: are in agony.
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  Speaker 1: The agony in her voice is undeniable. As the family
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  Speaker 1: marks this grim twenty week milestone, Savannah continued her plea,
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  Speaker 1: promising that they will never stop searching for her mother.
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  Speaker 3: We cannot be at peace. So now how much I
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  Speaker 3: try to come out here every day and smile and
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  Speaker 3: find that joy? And I will, I promise I will.
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  Speaker 3: This is a moment to tell you that we need
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  Speaker 3: your help. We're begging for your help, and I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to miss that opportunity. And so please, if you're watching,
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  Speaker 3: no matter how small the reward is, there you can
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  Speaker 3: tell us. It can be anonymous. Please do the right
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  Speaker 3: thing for us, for our family, for our children, and
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  Speaker 3: we love our mom and we will never stop looking
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  Speaker 3: for her. Never.
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  Speaker 1: While the family begs for answers, investigators are pursing the
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  Speaker 1: strange details of these communications. Authorities haven't confirmed or denied
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  Speaker 1: the authenticity of the two original notes, nor have they
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  Speaker 1: identified who sent them. The source said that no money
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  Speaker 1: or bitcoin was sent to the individuals, making it difficult
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  Speaker 1: for investigators to track them down. NBC reported on Monday
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  Speaker 1: that the second note, sent to several media outlets claimed
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Guthrie had died, but didn't include a request for
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  Speaker 1: payment or an apology. However, Arizona's family reported that the
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  Speaker 1: second ransom note emailed to its sister Station Kold in Tucson,
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  Speaker 1: said she died and added her abductors never intended to
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  Speaker 1: hurt her. The note claim she perished shortly after she
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  Speaker 1: was taken, is buried in nature now and explicitly stated
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  Speaker 1: we are truly sorry. Pma County Sheriff Chris Nanos said
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  Speaker 1: that the FBI has looked into numerous ransom demands since
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the investigation, noting some are completely bogus
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  Speaker 1: while others have the potential to be. However, the presence
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  Speaker 1: of an apology inside a ransom communication is highly unusual.
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  Speaker 1: Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent and former hostage negotiator Jason
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  Speaker 1: Pack said that people who have leverage do not apologize,
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  Speaker 1: they demand. Pack noted that a rambling, labored apology for
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  Speaker 1: an inadvertent death strongly suggests something went wrong that was
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  Speaker 1: not part of the perpetrator's original plan. More Crime and
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  Speaker 1: Justice news. After this, we turned now to California, where
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  Speaker 1: an eighteen year old is jailed after allegedly plotting a
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  Speaker 1: massacre inspired by the Columbine High School shooting. Bradley Scott
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  Speaker 1: Sayer was booked into the Butte County Jail Tuesday, June
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  Speaker 1: twenty three on suspicion of two counts of murder. The
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  Speaker 1: Chico Police Department announced the arrest following a fatal shooting
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  Speaker 1: at the Chico branch of the Butte County Library, Partnering
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  Speaker 1: with the Butte County Sheriff's off and the FBI, police
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  Speaker 1: are actively reviewing facts. Investigators determined Sayer acted alone and
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  Speaker 1: had no prior connection to any victims. Police claimed his
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  Speaker 1: motivation was a desire to commit a Columbine type massacre.
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  Speaker 1: Officers responded Monday, June twenty second at five twelve pm
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  Speaker 1: after nine one one calls reported gunshots and screaming. Two
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  Speaker 1: adults were killed and a juvenile was hospitalized with non
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  Speaker 1: life threatening injuries. Chico Police Chief Billy Aldridge stated the
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  Speaker 1: suspect fled but was quickly captured, calling the incident deeply traumatic.
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  Speaker 1: A massive multi agency manhunt has ended in Independence, Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: where a body believed to be twenty two year old
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  Speaker 1: Oscar Sanchez Munos was found by his family. Sanchez Munos
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  Speaker 1: was the primary suspect in a deadly string of highway
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  Speaker 1: shootings near the Kansas City World Cup venues. The family
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  Speaker 1: found his remains in the basement of a burnt home
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  Speaker 1: that caught fire during an overnight police standoff last week.
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  Speaker 1: They contacted police around two pm after clearing debris and
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  Speaker 1: noticing a distinct odor. Investigators, federal partners, and canine units
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  Speaker 1: had repeatedly searched the property without success because the basement
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  Speaker 1: partially collapsed, flooded, and was packed with clutter. The discovery
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  Speaker 1: ends a hunt that began after Sanchez Muno's allegedly fired
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  Speaker 1: at vehicles along Interstate seventy near Arrowhead Stadium during FIFA
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  Speaker 1: World Cup matches. The half dozen shootings left one dead
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  Speaker 1: and several injured, including an uber driver transporting soccer fans.
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  Speaker 1: The FBI had offered a twenty five thousand dollars reward
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  Speaker 1: warning he was armed and dangerous. Acting US Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: Todd Blanche speculated the suspect was dead inside. Clothing on
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  Speaker 1: the body matches what the shooter wore, and a medical
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  Speaker 1: examiner will confirm the identity. Officials assure the public there
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  Speaker 1: is no further threat. In Pennsylvania, authorities released harrowing trial
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  Speaker 1: video of an armed man taking a two year old
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  Speaker 1: girl hostage. A jury convicted Antonio Hammond of kidnapping and
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  Speaker 1: firearm possession following an hour's long standoff inside a Harrisburg home,
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  Speaker 1: as announced by the Dauphine County District Attorney's Office. Footage
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  Speaker 1: from May thirtieth, twenty twenty three, shows the mother, Michelle Peters,
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  Speaker 1: recording Hammond as he held her crying autistic daughter outside
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  Speaker 1: police ordered him to surrender. Hammond told the frantic mother
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  Speaker 1: that police were trying to kill him and to trust
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  Speaker 1: in God.
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  Speaker 4: I mean to kill me.
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  Speaker 3: I got you.
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  Speaker 1: Just please give me my love.
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  Speaker 4: I love people. I love Okay, try.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know you.
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  Speaker 1: When Hammond ordered Peters to keep filming with her cell phone,
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  Speaker 1: she complied, baby, wait, I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't know that. They can't kime bite from no reason.
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  Speaker 1: Following that exchange, Hammond shouted to police outside that he
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  Speaker 1: did nothing, while Peters yelled back that he had walked
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  Speaker 1: into her apartment and taken her child hostage. The phone
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  Speaker 1: then dropped to the floor, leaving the audio muffled. After
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  Speaker 1: the recording cuts out, details of Hammond's past emerged. Hammond
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  Speaker 1: had absconded from parole months earlier. That day, two probation
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  Speaker 1: officers spotted him wearing a mask. Hammond fled, pointed a
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  Speaker 1: pistol at them from about six feet away, and pulled
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  Speaker 1: the trigger. It only clicked because there was no round
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  Speaker 1: in the chamber. Hammond then forced his way into Peter's apartment,
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  Speaker 1: demanding she record him so police wouldn't shoot. Peters eventually
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  Speaker 1: escaped with her infant, but Hammond held the toddler hostage
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  Speaker 1: for nearly six hours. A crisis response team breached the
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  Speaker 1: rear door, Hammond pointed his pistol at them and pressed
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  Speaker 1: the muzzle against the toddler's face. An officer forced the
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  Speaker 1: gun down and shot Hammond in the face, saving the child.
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  Speaker 1: Hammond survived to face trial where a woman with ties
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  Speaker 1: to an extremist Colt like group is charged with first
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  Speaker 1: degree murder and conspiracy in the killings of her parents.
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Zogko was a person of interest in the murders
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  Speaker 1: of Richard and Rita Zojko, who were killed in their
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  Speaker 1: Chester Heights home on New Year's Eve in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: That date was also Michelle's birthday. Earlier that day, Rita
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  Speaker 1: Zajko sent her a strange daughter, a text message saying
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  Speaker 1: she was sorry for the growing rift between them. The
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  Speaker 1: text went unanswered. Hours later, a carpproached the home and
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  Speaker 1: two people got out at the front door. One person
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  Speaker 1: yelled mom, Michelle was their only child. The lights went
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  Speaker 1: on and the couple was executed. Their bodies were found
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  Speaker 1: following a welfare check on January TEWOD twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators lack a smoking gun, but have multiple pieces of
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  Speaker 1: evidence showing Michelle's involvement. This includes two shell casings from
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  Speaker 1: the scene matching a gun used in Michelle's Vermont backyard.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators also recovered texts from Michelle, writing she wished she
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  Speaker 1: had done things differently surrounding the homicide. The district attorney
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  Speaker 1: alleges this show she was aligned with those who pulled
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  Speaker 1: the trigger. Officials say Michelle is tied to Zizians, an
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  Speaker 1: extremist group of young computer scientists with radical beliefs about
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  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence, veganism, and gender identity. The Zizians are linked
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  Speaker 1: to six killings nationwide since twenty twenty two, including a
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  Speaker 1: Vermont border patrol agent in twenty twenty five, where Michelle
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  Speaker 1: allegedly provided the gun. The leader was Jack Lysoda, known
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  Speaker 1: as Z's last year, Michelle, Lesoda and an associate were
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  Speaker 1: arrested in Maryland on weapons charges. Lysoda is also charged
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  Speaker 1: for refusing to cooperate regarding the double homicide. Michelle Zogko
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  Speaker 1: maintains her innocence and that of her group. In Utah,
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  Speaker 1: where a critical legal decision has shifted a high profile
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  Speaker 1: capital murder case, a Utah judge on Monday cleared the
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  Speaker 1: way for prosecutors to rely on hearsay evidence at next
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  Speaker 1: month's preliminary hearing for Tyler James Robinson. Robinson faces the
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  Speaker 1: death penalty for his alleged role in the fatal shooting
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  Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk on September tenth, twenty twenty five, outside
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  Speaker 1: Utah Valley University. Judge Graff's ruling rejected defense efforts to
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  Speaker 1: compel a key witness's testimony. This clarifies what evidence will
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  Speaker 1: be permitted at next x month's hearing to determine probable cause.
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  Speaker 1: Robinson faces severe charges including aggravated murder, felony, discharge of
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  Speaker 1: a firearm, obstruction of justice. Witness tampering and committing a
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  Speaker 1: violent offense in the presence of a child. Judge Graff
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  Speaker 1: denied defense challenges to Utah's hearsay rules. Graf emphasized that
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  Speaker 1: a preliminary hearing remains distinct from a trial because its
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  Speaker 1: primary mechanism is not to determine guilt or innocence. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: the hearing serves the limited purpose of assessing whether sufficient
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  Speaker 1: evidence exists to continue prosecution. Because of this restricted scope,
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  Speaker 1: the court concluded Utah law constitutionally allows prosecutors to establish
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  Speaker 1: probable cause through reliable hearsay accounts. Judge Graf also rejected
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  Speaker 1: the defense's motion to force Robinson's former roommate Lance Twigs
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  Speaker 1: to travel from Texas to testify in person. Court records
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  Speaker 1: reveal prosecutors intend to rely on twigs recorded inner with investigators.
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  Speaker 1: This recording will be presented alongside electronic messages a handwritten
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  Speaker 1: note in corroborating evidence. Rather than requiring Twigs to appear live,
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  Speaker 1: Robinson's defense attorneys argued they should be permitted to cross
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  Speaker 1: examine Twigs to challenge his credibility, expose alleged immunity agreements,
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  Speaker 1: dissect his state of mind, and attack statement reliability. However,
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  Speaker 1: Judge Graf concluded the defense failed to demonstrate that twigs
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  Speaker 1: live testimony would be likely to defeat probable cause. Graff
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  Speaker 1: observed that while evidence of bias, motive, immunity benefits, or
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  Speaker 1: inconsistent statements are highly relevant at trial, those issues do
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  Speaker 1: not automatically defeat probable cause. Now the defense must show
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  Speaker 1: the evidence is so unreliable that it fails to support
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  Speaker 1: moving the case forward. Graff left the denial without prejudice,
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  Speaker 1: permitting the defense to renew their request if evidence changes. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: Judge Graff scheduled a hearing for Friday at eight thirty
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  Speaker 1: am to address a defense request to remove the death
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  Speaker 1: penalty alleging prosecutors violated a court gag order. Graff will
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  Speaker 1: also hear arguments opposing electronic media coverage, an issue pending
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  Speaker 1: before the Utah Supreme Court. Authorities announced a major breakthrough
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  Speaker 1: in a mass shooting investigation. The Toledo Police Department confirmed
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  Speaker 1: a second suspect is in custody. Following a chaotic outbreak
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  Speaker 1: of gunfire at a crowded neighborhood street festival. Twenty year
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  Speaker 1: old Cogni Taylor was arrested. Wednesday in Columbus. The apprehension
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  Speaker 1: required a coordinated effort by the US Marshall Service, the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Highway Patrol, in the Franklin County Sheriff's office.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor faces transport to Toledo to face prosecution on eleven
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  Speaker 1: counts of felonious assault. Court records do not currently list
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  Speaker 1: an attorney for him. This follows the June eleventh arrest
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  Speaker 1: of twenty year old LJ. Crisp Carr, who also faces
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  Speaker 1: eleven counts of felonious assault. The incident unfolded June sixth
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  Speaker 1: during the annual Old west End Festival in Toledo. A
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  Speaker 1: park filled with tense music and food trucks turned into
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  Speaker 1: a war zone. Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joseph Heffernan described
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  Speaker 1: the initial response.
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  Speaker 2: At about five thirty seven pm. We got a report
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  Speaker 2: of some shots fired near our Old west End Festival,
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  Speaker 2: which is a festival we have every year. Officers were
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  Speaker 2: quick to respond right there when the shots were coming
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  Speaker 2: out pears as ow. There was at least two shooters.
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  Speaker 2: I think they were probably shooting at each other.
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  Speaker 1: According to investigators, a violent dispute between rival groups escalated
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  Speaker 1: two gunmen shot at each other, missing their targets, but
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  Speaker 1: wounding twelve bystanders ranging from teenagers to a person in
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  Speaker 1: their sixties. A court complaint states video captures Taylor firing
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  Speaker 1: a gun directly into the crowd during the altercation. Police
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  Speaker 1: used video in regional intelligence data to identify Taylor, who
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  Speaker 1: was interviewed at the scene. An eyewitness also identified him.
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  Speaker 1: Court document showed video also captured CRISP Carr firing indiscriminately
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  Speaker 1: into the crowd. The violence forced organizers to cancel the
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  Speaker 1: historic festival's second day, leaving local leadership reeling.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a shame, you know, with a few people,
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  Speaker 2: for whatever reasons going through their head, decided to disrupt
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  Speaker 2: something that has been a beloved community event for many,
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  Speaker 2: many many years.
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice breaking news, be sure
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  Speaker 1: to tune in tomorrow on your favorite podcast app with
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  Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Sidney Silvanni.