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Crime Alert 04.11.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Macy Grace breaking crime means now. Sidney
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  Speaker 1: Morris sits down for lunch at LA's Fix and Soul Kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: As he gets his food, Philip Clark walts into the
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  Speaker 1: restaurant and shoots Morris in the back of the head.
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  Speaker 1: During the panic, Clark hops in Santana Kelly's waiting car,
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  Speaker 1: and the twoe drive off. The next day, Santana Kelly
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  Speaker 1: sets the car on fire to cover their tracks. It
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  Speaker 1: all turns out that Clark and Kelly have reportedly been
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  Speaker 1: tracking Sidney Morris for a week.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Morris was the coordinator of Equity and Diversity at
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  Speaker 2: cal State Northridge and was studying to become a lawyer
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  Speaker 2: of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. There is no
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  Speaker 2: known motive behind the killing as of yet, but police
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  Speaker 2: have said Clark and Kelly are acquaintances and may be
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  Speaker 2: affiliated with a gang. Los Angeles County District Attorney George
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  Speaker 2: Gascone said in a press conference quote, the brazenness of
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  Speaker 2: the shooting is alarming, and my office is fully committed
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  Speaker 2: to bringing accountability to those responsible for this heinous crime.
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  Speaker 1: Philip Clark, thirty three, Antanna Kelly fifty charged with murder
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  Speaker 1: florid appearance called nine one one when they realized their
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  Speaker 1: three year old boys wandered out of the backyard. Cops
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  Speaker 1: focused their search on a wooded area behind the home.
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  Speaker 1: K nine Midnight is given the boy's blanket and gets
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  Speaker 1: to work. Midnight sniffs straight to the top and then
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  Speaker 1: comforts him on the walk back home. Midnight is rewarded
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  Speaker 1: with lots of pets for the boy's grateful mom and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully a treat for all his good work. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice breaking news, Crime Online is John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin in Oklahoma as a judge has now determined
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  Speaker 3: that a death row inmate is unfit to be executed
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  Speaker 3: for his role in the nineteen ninety nine murders of
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  Speaker 3: a woman and her adult son. Here's Sidney Sumner with
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  Speaker 3: Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Michael Hogan of Pittsburgh County delivered an order in
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  Speaker 2: the case of sixty one year old James Writer. Hogan
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  Speaker 2: made his decision in the wake of a competency hearing,
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  Speaker 2: during which two specialists testifying on behalf of Writer's defense
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  Speaker 2: said that the man has schizophrenia related psychotic disorder. According
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  Speaker 2: to Oklahoma law, if a prisoner is incapable of rationally
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  Speaker 2: comprehending why they are being executed or that their execution
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  Speaker 2: is about to take place, they are mentally incompetent to
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  Speaker 2: be executed. In testimony provided by a state expert, Writer
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  Speaker 2: is competent to comprehend the reason behind his impending execution
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  Speaker 2: and to make a reasonable and sufficient decision about it.
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  Speaker 2: Writer received a death sentence for the nineteen ninety nine
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  Speaker 2: beating death of seven year old Daily Hallam, and a
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  Speaker 2: life sentence without the possibility of parole for the shotgun
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  Speaker 2: murder of her thirty eight year old son, Sam Hallam.
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  Speaker 2: Court documents reveal that Writer spent several months in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety eight living on the Hallam's Pittsburgh County farm, watching
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  Speaker 2: over their house and horses while they were away. After
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  Speaker 2: he moved out, he began arguing with the family over
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  Speaker 2: some of his belongings.
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  Speaker 3: Writer's secure incarceration until his competency is restored is being
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  Speaker 3: handled by the Department of Corrections and the Department of
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  Speaker 3: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. This in accordance with
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  Speaker 3: state law. California Governor Gavin Newsom says that the city
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  Speaker 3: of Oakland and the surrounding freeways will be receiving hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of high tech surveillance cameras in an effort to combat
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  Speaker 3: crime once again crime online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The California Highway Patrol has hired Flock Safety to install
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  Speaker 2: four hundred and eighty cameras that can recognize and monitor
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  Speaker 2: vehicles by license plate type, color, and even decals and
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  Speaker 2: bumper stickers. According to a news release from Democratic Governor
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom, authorities will receive real time alerts about suspicious
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  Speaker 2: vehicles from the cameras. The technologies detractors claim it violates
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  Speaker 2: privacy and will increase police mistreatment of already disenfranchised areas,
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  Speaker 2: but Newsom claims that the surveillance network will provide law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement with the means quote to effectively combat criminal activity
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  Speaker 2: and hold perpetrators accountable, building safer, stronger communities for all Californians.
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  Speaker 2: He added that state attorneys and CHP officers have been
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  Speaker 2: dispatched to support Oakland in its anti crime campaign. Statewide,
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  Speaker 2: public safety issues, particularly retail theft, remain a concern, compelling
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  Speaker 2: even liberal city officials to support more policing Oakland, a
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  Speaker 2: city of about four hundred thousand people located across the
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  Speaker 2: Bay from San Francisco, has seen an increase in crime,
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  Speaker 2: while other large California towns have seen a decline. For
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  Speaker 2: the first time in its seventy five year history. In
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  Speaker 2: an Outburger closed its single restaurant location in Oakland as
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  Speaker 2: a result of auto break ins, property damage, theft, and
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  Speaker 2: robbery in recent days. The CEOs of Oakland's four largest employers, Kaiser, Permanente, Clorox,
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  Speaker 2: Blue Shield of California, and Pacific Gas and Electric have
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  Speaker 2: announced plans to collaborate on a ten million dollar security
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  Speaker 2: program aimed at enhancing public safety and safeguarding staff members.
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  Speaker 2: According to the governor's announcement, about three hundred of the
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  Speaker 2: cameras would be placed on municipal streets, with the remaining
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  Speaker 2: cameras being placed on adjacent state highways.
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  Speaker 3: Newsom's office added that video will be kept for twenty
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  Speaker 3: eight days and will not be shared with anyone outside
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  Speaker 3: of California law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Robert Connor's daughter swings by his twenty acre Claremont,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina property when she can't reach him. Nearly a week.
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  Speaker 1: She finds her dad's truck parked in an unusual spot,
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  Speaker 1: his docks and dog Rusty, frantic and hungry. Her dad's
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  Speaker 1: mailbox stuffed full, fourteen voicemails on his answer machine. Robert's
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  Speaker 1: revolver also missing. Robert Connor last seen by friend John
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  Speaker 1: Dixon at the box car Grill six days before. Dixon
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  Speaker 1: had no idea where Robert could have gone. Cops search
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  Speaker 1: Robert's property, an adjacent creek, and a nearby pond, finding nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Connor sixty two, now missing nearly twenty one years.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info on Robert Connor, called Katoba County,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina Sheriffs eight two eight four six five eight
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  Speaker 1: three zero one. For the latest crimeing justice news. Go
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  Speaker 1: to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert, I may
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  Speaker 1: see Grace