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Granny Arrested Running From A Crime Scene | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 05.03.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Art hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jackie Howard. An eighty eight year old woman arrested
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  Speaker 2: for leaving the scene of a crash. Carolyn Segrest is
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  Speaker 2: driving her Buick Vision in the parking lot of a
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  Speaker 2: Clearwater Sam's Club when she hits Laverne Hampton's mobility scooter.
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  Speaker 2: Hampton is hospitalized after being thrown from the scooter. Four
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  Speaker 2: hours later, the retired off to Janarian is booked for
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  Speaker 2: leaving the scene of a crash involving serious injury. That's
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  Speaker 2: a felony.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Nicole Parking. Disturbing news out of New Mexico. A
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  Speaker 3: mother faced arraignment this week on charges of child abuse
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  Speaker 3: and allegations that she and her husband sexually assaulted their
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  Speaker 3: sixteen year old daughter and her siblings while living in
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  Speaker 3: extreme conditions on a sprawling thirty five acre plot of land,
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  Speaker 3: which included living in underground tunnels. This according to prosecutors,
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  Speaker 3: Valerie Cordell, forty one, from Demming, pleaded not guilty during
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  Speaker 3: her arraignment in Luna County. As recorded in online court documents,
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  Speaker 3: She faces sixteen counts of child abuse, one count of
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  Speaker 3: criminal sexual penetration, and one count of conspiracy to commit
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  Speaker 3: child abuse this following her arrest. According to prosecutors, Valerie
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  Speaker 3: and her husband, Melvin Cordell, fifty, were involved in an
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  Speaker 3: abusive treatment of their daughter, cohersing her into sexual acts
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  Speaker 3: with her siblings in front of other adults. The six
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  Speaker 3: Judicial District Attorney's Office reported in a press release that
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  Speaker 3: during a four month investigation, authorities discovered that the family
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  Speaker 3: of nine was residing in a semi rural area of
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  Speaker 3: Luna County. Investigators described the living environment as inhumane like squalors,
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  Speaker 3: detailing a rundown trailer, several unusable camping trailers, abandoned cars,
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  Speaker 3: decaying food, heaps of trash buckets filled with human waste
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  Speaker 3: scattered throughout the properties, while the children were living in
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  Speaker 3: man made tunnels under Authorities became aware of the situation
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  Speaker 3: in October and began their investigation after receiving tips from
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  Speaker 3: New Mexico State police about the alleged sexual abuse occurring
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  Speaker 3: at their residence. The couple's seven children, ages between six
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  Speaker 3: months and sixteen years old, have been placed in protective
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  Speaker 3: custody by the state. The DA's office indicated that authorities
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  Speaker 3: were initially informed of a child who had been sexually
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  Speaker 3: assaulted by her father since she was thirteen years old,
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  Speaker 3: spanning four years. The children were reportedly found living in
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  Speaker 3: filthy conditions, spending their nights on a mattress in a
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  Speaker 3: semi underground cave tunnel, or trying to seek shelter in
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  Speaker 3: a dilapidated vehicle. The sixteen year old victim allegedly told
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  Speaker 3: authorities that she had been pregnant at least twice before,
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  Speaker 3: with one pregnancy occurring when she was just sixteen years
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  Speaker 3: old and another at fourteen. According to local news outlets
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  Speaker 3: k r KAS, prosecutors described the Cordell property as resembling
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  Speaker 3: a quote city trash landfill, with trash and spoiled food
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  Speaker 3: scattered everywhere. Alongside the underground tunnels, the surrounding desert landscape
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  Speaker 3: was said to be filled with rundown campers and cars.
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  Speaker 3: Melvin Cordell is set to be arraigned on May five.
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  Speaker 3: The couple is being held without bond.
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  Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed
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  Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that was a medical examiner's official ruling. After a closed
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  Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide? Why what
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  Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen Greenberg a huge American miscarriage of justice.
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  Speaker 1: For an in depth look at the facts, see What
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  Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National
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  Speaker 1: Set for Missing Unexploited Children.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Drew Nelson, A bodybuilder father in New Jersey is
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  Speaker 4: beaten to death in front of his teenage daughter after
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  Speaker 4: confronting her alleged attacker. On Easter Sunday, fifty four year
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  Speaker 4: old Lewis Gus Surbeck of Millville drove with his nineteen
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  Speaker 4: year old daughter Brooke to a home on Leeming's Mill
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  Speaker 4: Road and violin. Brooke had told him she was assaulted
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  Speaker 4: there the day before by a seventeen year old boy.
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  Speaker 4: Sirbek hoped to speak with the boy and his father,
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  Speaker 4: fifty five year old Eric Hannah, who had been a
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  Speaker 4: family friend for years. The meeting quickly turned violent. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 4: said the teen punched Serbek in the face, then smashed
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  Speaker 4: a window on his truck. When Sirbek tried to stop him,
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  Speaker 4: the boy beat him in the head with a metal
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  Speaker 4: baseball bat. Hannah then struck Sirbek in the skull with
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  Speaker 4: a metal flashlight. Brooke was also hit in the head
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  Speaker 4: during the fight. Police arrived to find Sirbek critically injured.
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  Speaker 4: He died on the way to the hospital. The teen
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  Speaker 4: and his father were arrested at the scene. Sirbek's brother
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  Speaker 4: Christopher told w PVII, quote, he literally laid down his
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  Speaker 4: life life for his daughter.
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  Speaker 5: He would do anything for anyone. He would take the
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  Speaker 5: shirt off his back and give it to you just
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  Speaker 5: because you needed it. You know, you call him, he'd
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  Speaker 5: be there.
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  Speaker 4: Christopher says the family had known each other for decades.
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  Speaker 5: Who was a friend, no expectations of something like this
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  Speaker 5: happening at all.
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  Speaker 4: Surbeck was a father of two daughters and a grandfather
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  Speaker 4: of two boys. He had grown especially close to Brook
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  Speaker 4: in recent years. They often spent time together shopping or
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  Speaker 4: working on projects. Family members say he once even called
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  Speaker 4: off work just to take her to get her nails done.
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  Speaker 4: His obituary described him as quote a fierce protector who
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  Speaker 4: laid down his life to do what he does best,
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  Speaker 4: to protect his family, to protect his baby girl. The
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  Speaker 4: oh Bit also says, quote he was never happier than
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  Speaker 4: when he had one of his daughters in his arms,
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  Speaker 4: sharing a big, smiling cheek to cheek hug defely will
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  Speaker 4: be missed. A fundraiser created by a friend of the
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  Speaker 4: family has raised over eleven thousand dollars. Both suspects were
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  Speaker 4: charged with homicide and weapons offenses. The teen also faces
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  Speaker 4: aggravated assault charges for allegedly hitting broke. He remains in
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  Speaker 4: a juvenile facility while prosecutor's way whether to charge him
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  Speaker 4: as an adult. Hannah is being held at Cumberland County Jail.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Jennifer Gould. A chilling declaration of misogyny permanently inked
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  Speaker 6: across his chest allegedly foreshadowed a horrific crime spree that
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  Speaker 6: has left a Florida community reeling. David Earl Gibson, forty,
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  Speaker 6: a man bearing the words trust No Bitch as a tattoo,
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  Speaker 6: is accused of a brutal rampage that ended the life
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  Speaker 6: of a seventy four year old woman and subjected another
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  Speaker 6: to a terrifying ordeal of savage beating, kidnapping, rape, and
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  Speaker 6: ultimate confinement in a stifling toolbox. Washington County Sheriff Kevin
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  Speaker 6: Cruz spoke to ABC thirteen News right after Gibson was
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  Speaker 6: taken into custody.
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  Speaker 3: This man needed taken off the street, and it didn't
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  Speaker 3: need to go another day.
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  Speaker 6: It needed to happen today. The nightmare erupted around ten
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  Speaker 6: pm when Gibson, fueled by a twisted delusion that the
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  Speaker 6: victim's relatives owed him money, allegedly stormed their home. Gibson
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  Speaker 6: allegedly began ransacking the residence, his rage quickly escalating into
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  Speaker 6: physical assault. He's accused of savagely beating the younger woman,
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  Speaker 6: repeatedly striking her head and face. He then allegedly handcuffed
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  Speaker 6: her and, in a further act of degradation, stripped her
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  Speaker 6: of her clothing. Gibson's alleged fury then turned towards the
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  Speaker 6: woman's elderly mother in law, seventy four year old Letty
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  Speaker 6: Cooper Collins, whom he allegedly beat mercilessly. The younger woman's
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  Speaker 6: last horrifying glimpse of Collins alive was of her face
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  Speaker 6: drenched in blood, her eyes swollen shut from the brutal assault.
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  Speaker 6: The terror escalated to unimaginable levels when Gibson allegedly kidnapped
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  Speaker 6: the battered and naked younger woman. After duct taping her
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  Speaker 6: mouth shut, he allegedly forced her into collins pt cruiser
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  Speaker 6: and drove her to his own own home. There, in
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  Speaker 6: the confines of his residence, he allegedly sexually assaulted her.
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  Speaker 6: The ordeal continued as Gibson then shoved her into a
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  Speaker 6: large toolbox into a shed on his property. Sheriff Cruz
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  Speaker 6: chillingly described the scene at the news conference.
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  Speaker 4: Sun around there and underneath if you could vision at
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  Speaker 4: all time.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he used.
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  Speaker 6: Gibson then allegedly secured the toolbox, effectively bearing her alive
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  Speaker 6: under plywood and other debris. But driven by an indomitable
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  Speaker 6: will to survive, she eventually found the strength to maneuver
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  Speaker 6: her bound arms, pushing the heavy lid up the toolbox open,
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  Speaker 6: and ran for her life towards a nearby road, where thankfully,
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  Speaker 6: a passing motorist found her and called for help. Deputies
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  Speaker 6: were then led back to the victim's home, where they
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  Speaker 6: found Letty Cooper Collins's lifeless body. Gibson was finally apprehended
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  Speaker 6: after an hour's long manhunt involving state, federal, and local authorities.
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  Speaker 6: He is currently held without bond facing charges of kidnapping,
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  Speaker 6: sexual assault, and aggravated battery. Charges related to the brutal
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  Speaker 6: death of Letty Cooper Collins are pending as the investigation continues.
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  Speaker 6: For the latest crime and justice news, follow the Crime
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  Speaker 6: crime Alert. I'm Jennifer Grud