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Crime Alert 11.11.24 | Man Hides Father's Body For Years · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking grimes now temp Arizona
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  Speaker 1: cops get a tip Joseph Hill Junior could be hiding
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  Speaker 1: a body in the backyard of his home. Cops find
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  Speaker 1: a chest freezer in his backyard, he refuses to let
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  Speaker 1: them open it. When asked about recent deaths in the family,
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  Speaker 1: he admits his father died four years ago. Police can't
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  Speaker 1: find a death certificate. When police return with an upgraded
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  Speaker 1: search warrant, they find skeletal remains in the freezer. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: Hill admits he hid his father's death because he was
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  Speaker 1: afraid of losing the house Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: The home Hill shared with his father was in his
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  Speaker 2: father's name, and Hill Junior was afraid he would not
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  Speaker 2: be able to afford the capital gaines taxes necessary to
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  Speaker 2: retain the property when his father passed, So when Hill
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  Speaker 2: Senior takes his last breath, Hill Junior wraps the body
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  Speaker 2: in bedding and stores it in the chest freezer, never
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  Speaker 2: reporting the death. Hill Junior confessed that he tried to
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  Speaker 2: bury the body in the desert several times, but could
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  Speaker 2: not bring himself to go through with it.
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  Speaker 1: He'll Q one now charged with concealing a body and
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  Speaker 1: failure to report a death. Scott Schwarian is pulled over
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  Speaker 1: for expired registration tags. Through the window, cops can see
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  Speaker 1: baggies of pot and a pill box labeled as xanax.
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  Speaker 1: They ask him to get out of the car. He
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  Speaker 1: steps out and takes off running. Cobs don't have to
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  Speaker 1: chase him. He looks back over his shoulder and smacks
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  Speaker 1: straight into a telephone pole. While disoriented, He's handcuffed as
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  Speaker 1: cops continue to start the car. They find fentanyl and
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  Speaker 1: myth in addition to the marijuana and xanax. Scott Sharian,
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine, now facing possession with intent to distribute charges
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  Speaker 1: and resisting officers. More crime and justice news after this
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  Speaker 1: now with the latest crime and justice breaking news.
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  Speaker 3: Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 4: John Lemley, a former Georgia district attorney, will stand trial
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  Speaker 4: in early twenty twenty five on charges she interfered with
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  Speaker 4: the investigation into Ahmad Arbury's killing.
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  Speaker 3: Judge John R. Turner scheduled jury selection for Jackie Johnson's
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  Speaker 3: trial to begin January twenty first in Glen County, with
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  Speaker 3: a hearing set for decembery eleventh to address final pre
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  Speaker 3: trial motions. Johnson was the district attorney when Arbury, a
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  Speaker 3: twenty five year old black man, was shot while fleeing
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  Speaker 3: three white men who pursued him in February of twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: The men, including former investigator Greg McMichael and his son,
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  Speaker 3: were later convicted of murder and federal hate crimes. Johnson
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  Speaker 3: recused her office from the case due to her prior
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  Speaker 3: working relationship with Greg McMichael. In September twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 3: a grand jury indicted Johnson on charges of violating her
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  Speaker 3: oath and hindering law enforcement. The case has seen delays,
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  Speaker 3: partly due to one of Johnson's attorneys defending rapper Young
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  Speaker 3: Thug in a separate, high profile trial. Georgia Attorney General
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  Speaker 3: Chris car that his office is ready to proceed, while
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  Speaker 3: Arbury's family has said they won't consider justice fully served
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  Speaker 3: until Johnson faces trial. In North Carolina, prosecutors have announced
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  Speaker 3: they won't pursue involuntary manslaughter charges. And the death of
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  Speaker 3: twelve year old Clark Harmon, who died in February at
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  Speaker 3: a wilderness therapy camp, we turned to Sydney Sumneurope Crime
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  Speaker 3: Online for more.
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  Speaker 2: District Attorney Andrew Murray said the boy's death, while tragic,
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  Speaker 2: did not show sufficient criminal intent or recklessness. Harmon, who
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  Speaker 2: had anxiety in ADHD, died less than a day after
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  Speaker 2: arriving at Trails Carolina, a nature therapy camp. An autopsy
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  Speaker 2: revealed he suffocated in a small tent like enclosure known
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  Speaker 2: as a bivvy. The medical examiner found that the biby's
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  Speaker 2: waterproof material may have restricted his breathing during the night,
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  Speaker 2: leading to asphyxia. According to investigators, camp counselors checked on
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  Speaker 2: Harmon throughout the night but didn't notice signs of distress
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  Speaker 2: until the morning. Reportedly agitated earlier in the night, but
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  Speaker 2: Leader calmed down, according to affidevits from the investigation. In
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  Speaker 2: the weeks following Harmon's death, the North Carolina Department of
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  Speaker 2: Health and Human Services remove children from the program, and
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  Speaker 2: Leader revoked its license citing safety concerns.
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  Speaker 3: The property where the camp operated is now listed for sale.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Norma Yates neighbor calls for a welfare check
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  Speaker 1: when she spots Norma in the front yard disoriented. Police
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  Speaker 1: find Norma sixty two, charging her phone outside of Winslow Township,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey home. She appears okay. She asks for a
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  Speaker 1: bottle of water and heads inside. Next morning, she plans
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  Speaker 1: to meet a friend for coffee, but Norma never shows up.
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  Speaker 1: When she doesn't answer, her daughter Nicole's phone calls, Nicole
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  Speaker 1: goes to her mother's home. The door is locked. All
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  Speaker 1: Norma's belongings are left behind, but the home is uncharacteristically messy.
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  Speaker 1: Neighbour's cameras don't catch Norma leaving, but she doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: a car. Can nines cannot pick up a cent. Norma
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  Speaker 1: Yates five one, one hundred and thirty pounds long, silver hair,
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  Speaker 1: hazel eyes. Last scene wearing layered gray and purple tank
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  Speaker 1: tops and denim shorts. If you have info on Norma Yates,
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  Speaker 1: please call Winslow Township, New Jersey PD six zero nine
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  Speaker 1: five six seven zero six hundred. For the latest crime
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