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Crime Alert 12.13.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, imancy grace breaking, crime needs Now. Idaho cops
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  Speaker 1: called to a convenience store when Jeremy Best wanders inside
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  Speaker 1: but naked. Best taken to the hospital but released that afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: When his confusion subsides. The next day, his wife, Callie Randall,
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  Speaker 1: calls nine one one. By the time cops get there,
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  Speaker 1: Randall is dead. Best and their ten month old baby
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  Speaker 1: Zeke both missing. Two days later, hunters stumble upon Best
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  Speaker 1: naked in a sleeping bag on the side of the road.
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  Speaker 1: Little baby Zeke found yards away. Dad Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: We're learning that Best wife Callie Randall, was six months
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  Speaker 2: pregnant with their second child at the time of the murderer.
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  Speaker 2: A neighbor overheard the couple arguing and saw Best leave
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  Speaker 2: the home in his suv. The neighbor then discovered Randall
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  Speaker 2: shot to death in the driveway. Baby Zeke's cause of
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  Speaker 2: death has not yet been released. At his first court appearance,
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  Speaker 2: Judge Jason Walker ordered Best to undergo a mental evaluation.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Bess, forty eight, now charged with two counts of murder.
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Phillips, forty six, apprehended from missing a dui court
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  Speaker 1: date as he's processed at Indian River County Jail, a
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  Speaker 1: prison guard finds a pill bottle in his underwear. Phillips
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  Speaker 1: of course denies knowing how the bottle got where the
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  Speaker 1: sun don't shine, even telling cops someone must have planted
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  Speaker 1: it there while he quote was asleep. Phillips further claims
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  Speaker 1: he believes the bottle has advil in it. Well, guess
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  Speaker 1: what it's methamphetamines. Phillips now additionally charged with possession and
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  Speaker 1: smuggling contraband. There's definitely a lesson to be learned here
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  Speaker 1: more crime and justice news after this. Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime in justice breaking news, crime onlines John Limley and.
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  Speaker 3: Arrest has been made in connection to the stabbing death
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  Speaker 3: of a leader of the Detroit Synagogue, whose death following
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  Speaker 3: the outbreak of the Israel Hamas War sparked speculation that
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  Speaker 3: anti Semitism may have played a role in the killing.
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  Speaker 3: With more here Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Detroit Police Chief James White has now stated that anti
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  Speaker 2: Semitism does not seem to have been the cause of
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  Speaker 2: the attack that resulted in the killing of forty year
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  Speaker 2: old Samantha Wall outside her near downtown home on October
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  Speaker 2: twenty first, just hours after returning from a wedding. This
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  Speaker 2: is the second arrest that the city's police department has
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  Speaker 2: made public since the murder. According to investigators, Wall's house
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  Speaker 2: was a scene of the attack. Last month, a suspect
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  Speaker 2: who had been detained at first was freed without facing
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  Speaker 2: any charges. When asked if the suspecting custody as the
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  Speaker 2: same one that was initially detained in connection with the case,
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  Speaker 2: Detroit Police declined to comment. Walser does the Isaac Agri
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  Speaker 2: Downtown Senagogue's president. In addition to her work with the synagogue,
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  Speaker 2: Wall has previously worked for State Attorney General Dana Nissel's
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  Speaker 2: political campaign and for US Representative Alyssa Slotkin.
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  Speaker 3: We're now learning from our friends with the Associated Press
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  Speaker 3: that they have been informed by the lawyer of the
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  Speaker 3: individual detained in November that her client is not the
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  Speaker 3: person of interest that the police are presently hold. A
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  Speaker 3: man who spent almost twenty years behind bars for firing
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  Speaker 3: the rounds in Ray Caruth's planned killing of the then
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  Speaker 3: Carolina Panthers player's pregnant girlfriend has died, according to online
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  Speaker 3: prisoner records from the State Department of Adult Corrections. Van
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  Speaker 3: Brett Watkins died on December third, at the age of
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  Speaker 3: sixty three. Department spokesman Keith Accree says that Watkins, who
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  Speaker 3: had been incarcerated at Raleigh's Central Prison, died of natural
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  Speaker 3: causes in the hospital. Watkins, whose death was initially reported
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  Speaker 3: by Charlotte Television Stations, was sentenced more than fifty years
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  Speaker 3: in jail after pleading guilty to his role in Caruth's
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  Speaker 3: nineteen ninety nine attempt to murder Shirrika Adams. He was
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  Speaker 3: convicted of second degree murder, conspiracy, and other offenses. Corrections
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  Speaker 3: records revealed that his predicted prison release date was twenty
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  Speaker 3: forty five. Authorities in Georgia now claim one of the
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  Speaker 3: five co defendants on trial with Rapper Young Thug has
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  Speaker 3: been stabbed at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, delaying
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  Speaker 3: the proceedings by at least a day. Once again, Crime
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  Speaker 3: Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie Amens, a spokesperson for the Fulton County Sheriff's office,
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  Speaker 2: has now confirmed that Shannon Stillwell has been stabbed. Amens
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  Speaker 2: says that her office will release further details in the
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  Speaker 2: days to come. After roughly ten months of jury selection.
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  Speaker 2: The racketeering conspiracy trial for Stillwell Young Thug and four
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  Speaker 2: others began in November. Chief Judge Euryal Glanville of Fulton
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  Speaker 2: County Superior Court excused the jurors from duty on Monday morning,
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  Speaker 2: citing a medical issue involving one of the defendants. The
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  Speaker 2: jury will reconvene later this week, according to Glanville, who
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  Speaker 2: stated that they will quote see how things go at
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  Speaker 2: that point in time and will take the week as
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  Speaker 2: it comes. The prosecution contends that Young Thug, whose real
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  Speaker 2: name is Jeffrey Williams, was the leader of the deadly
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  Speaker 2: street gang known as Young Slime Life for YSL, which
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  Speaker 2: for around ten years committed murders, shootings, carjackings, and other offenses.
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  Speaker 2: They claim he promoted the group in a stabb published
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  Speaker 2: its domination on social media by using his lucrative music career.
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  Speaker 3: Defense lawyers meanwhile claim that jail house informants, who had
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  Speaker 3: every incentive to give the authorities what they wanted to hear,
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  Speaker 3: were a major source of information for both police and prosecutors.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Jamie mcturan finishes her after school shift at
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  Speaker 1: Tacy Freeze in Muscoge, Oklahoma. She takes a cab to
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  Speaker 1: a friend's house to wait for her to get home. Jamie,
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  Speaker 1: just sixteen, greets the friend's mom on the porch, telling
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  Speaker 1: her she's excited about getting her first paycheck, explaining she's
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  Speaker 1: saving up for a car. The friend's mom goes inside
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  Speaker 1: briefly to bring out some drinks. When she returns, Jamie's gone.
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  Speaker 1: The mother immediately reports Jamie missing, telling police she saw
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  Speaker 1: a dark colored sedan turning the corner off the street
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  Speaker 1: when she came back outside to the porch. It's unknown
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  Speaker 1: if the car has anything to do with Jamie's disappearance.
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  Speaker 1: The car and driver never located. Jamie mcturan now missing
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  Speaker 1: nearly third years, her baby daughter growing up without knowing
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  Speaker 1: what happened to mom. If you have info on Jamie mcturan,
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  Speaker 1: please call MUSKOGEPD nine one eight six eight three eight thousand.
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime instice news, go to crimeonline dot
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  Speaker 1: com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.