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KOURI RICHINS' CHILDREN ADDRESS MOM | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 05.16.26 · 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, I'm Sidney Silvanni. The search for justice in a
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  Speaker 2: case that captivated the nation has reached a definitive conclusion
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  Speaker 2: in a Utah court room. Corey Richins, the children's book
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  Speaker 2: author who rose to infamy for allegedly writing about grief
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  Speaker 2: while masking her own role in creating it, has been
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  Speaker 2: sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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  Speaker 2: The sentencing, handed down Wednesday by Judge Richard Morosick, marks
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  Speaker 2: the final chapter in a saga defined by what prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: called a lethal cocktail of greed and deception. Richards was
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  Speaker 2: convicted of murdering her husband, Eric Richins, by spiking his
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  Speaker 2: drink with a fatal dose of fitanol five times the
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  Speaker 2: lethal limit. In a courtroom thick with tension, Judge Morosick
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  Speaker 2: was blunt about the necessity of the sentence, stating that
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  Speaker 2: Richards is simply too dangerous to ever be free. He
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  Speaker 2: noted that even under a lesser sentence, she wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: seen a parole board until her mid sixties, but the
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  Speaker 2: severity of her actions and the terror she instilled in
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  Speaker 2: her own own children demanded the maximum penalty. The most
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  Speaker 2: heartbreaking testimony came not from investigators, but from the couple's
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  Speaker 2: three sons. In statements read to the court, her boys
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  Speaker 2: expressed a profound fear of their mother, even asking the
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  Speaker 2: judge to keep her behind bars for life.
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  Speaker 3: You took away my dad for no reason other than greed,
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  Speaker 3: and you only cared about yourself and your stupid boyfriends.
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  Speaker 3: Now my dad can't be my coach anymore, can't be
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  Speaker 3: at any of my games. He won't be at my birthdays,
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  Speaker 3: he can't teach me how to drive, he won't be
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  Speaker 3: at my graduation, and he can't take me camping or fishing.
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  Speaker 3: You made me paranoid about sleeping on my dad's side
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  Speaker 3: of the bed by saying I might die or get
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  Speaker 3: harmed when I was just trying to be close to
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  Speaker 3: my dad after you killed him. You took away everything
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  Speaker 3: from me and my brothers.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want you.
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  Speaker 3: Out of jail because I will not feel safe if
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  Speaker 3: you are out.
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  Speaker 2: The defense attempted to paint a different picture, presenting letters
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  Speaker 2: of leniency and highlighting Richan's participation in jail programs. When
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  Speaker 2: it was her turn to speak, Corey Richins turned her
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  Speaker 2: attention to her sons, maintaining her innocence in a statement
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  Speaker 2: that investigators might call one last manipulation.
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  Speaker 5: Nice sweet baby boys, And now that today you don't
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  Speaker 5: want to speak to me, have a relationship with me,
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  Speaker 5: or you may think you hate me, and that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: I will never be angry at you for your feelings.
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  Speaker 1: But I need you boys to.
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  Speaker 2: Know that I have been desperately trying to get in
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  Speaker 2: contact with you any way that I can for years.
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  Speaker 2: I did not abandon you. I did not just walk
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  Speaker 2: out of your lives one day to never return, to
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  Speaker 2: never call, to never show up. Regardless of what anyone
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  Speaker 2: tells you, I would never ever leave you boys. She
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  Speaker 2: went further, claiming the idea that she murdered their father
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  Speaker 2: was an absolute lie and absurd. However, the evidence presented
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  Speaker 2: at trial told a story of a woman drowning in
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  Speaker 2: seven and a half million dollars of debt, who closed
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  Speaker 2: on a two point nine million dollar mansion the day
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  Speaker 2: her husband died in immediately began spending insurance proceeds. Eric's sister,
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  Speaker 2: Katie Richins Benson, stood before the court on what would
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  Speaker 2: have been Eric's forty fourth birthday to remind everyone who
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  Speaker 2: the real victim was.
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  Speaker 5: Corey used the boys as bargaining chips with my dad.
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  Speaker 5: She repeatedly threatened not to let him see his grandson's
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  Speaker 5: unless he could convince me, as Eric's trustee, to capitulate
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  Speaker 5: to her legal demands and give her all the trust assets.
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  Speaker 2: Richins legal team has already signaled their intent to appeal,
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  Speaker 2: with her brother issuing a statement to Fox News claiming
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  Speaker 2: the system has lost its way. For now, Corey Richins
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  Speaker 2: remains behind bars, a mother whose story of grief has
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  Speaker 2: been permanently rewritten as a story of cold blooded murder.
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  Speaker 2: More Crime and Justice news after this. In a stunning
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  Speaker 2: unanimous ruling issued this Wednesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: has officially overturned the murder convictions and life sentence of
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  Speaker 2: Alex Murdach. The fifty seven year old former p sscion
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  Speaker 2: of a legal dynasty, was found guilty in early twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three for the brutal twenty twenty one shooting deaths
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  Speaker 2: of his wife Maggie and son Paul at their Mozelle estate. However,
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  Speaker 2: the state's highest court determined the integrity of that trial
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  Speaker 2: was compromised. The reversal doesn't stem from a lack of
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  Speaker 2: evidence or a procedural error, but from the conduct of
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  Speaker 2: the very person sworn to oversee the administration of the
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  Speaker 2: court room, Colleton County Clerk of Court, Becky Hill. According
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  Speaker 2: to the ruling, Hill improperly influenced the jury by suggesting
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  Speaker 2: Murdav was guilty and that his testimony could not be trusted.
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  Speaker 2: That Alex Murdach isn't going anywhere. Despite this legal victory,
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  Speaker 2: the reality for Murdov remains one of long term incarceration.
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  Speaker 2: He is a disgraced figure, a self admitted thief and
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  Speaker 2: liar who is currently serving substantial time for a staggering
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  Speaker 2: array of financial crimes. Murdach admitted to schemes in which
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  Speaker 2: he stole roughly twelve million dollars from his own law
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  Speaker 2: firm and clients, many of whom were in death spread
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  Speaker 2: vulnerable situations. He is currently serving both federal and state
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  Speaker 2: sentences for those admissions.
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  Speaker 6: Alec Murdaw is currently serving a twenty seven year sentence
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  Speaker 6: for the financial crimes that he has admitted to. He
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  Speaker 6: received a concurrent forty year sentence in addition to the
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  Speaker 6: state's charges. SALC. Murdall will not be getting out of
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  Speaker 6: prison for several decades.
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  Speaker 2: However, Murdall's now vacated murder charges remain the focal point
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  Speaker 2: of the nation's attention. Because the stakes are so high,
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  Speaker 2: the prosecution is not backing down. While the state has
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  Speaker 2: a brief window to appeal, the Attorney General's Office is
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  Speaker 2: already signaling its intent to move forward with a new trial.
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  Speaker 2: They are aiming for a speedy retrial, likely before the
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  Speaker 2: end of the year. Alan Wilson made it clear that
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  Speaker 2: while he respects the High Court's decision, he believes the
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  Speaker 2: pursuit of justice for Maggie and Paul Murda requires a
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  Speaker 2: return to the court room.
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  Speaker 6: The state has fifteen days to ask the State Supreme
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  Speaker 6: Court to reconsider its decision. We have ninety days to
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  Speaker 6: appeal to the U. S.
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  Speaker 4: Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 6: However, it is currently my intention to seek a speedy
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  Speaker 6: retrial in the case against Alec Murdall.
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  Speaker 2: Murdall's defense team, led by Dick Harputlian and Jim Griffin,
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  Speaker 2: is viewing this ruling as a massive validation. They have
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  Speaker 2: maintained from day one that while their client is a thief,
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  Speaker 2: liar and insurance cheat, he is not a murderer. They
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  Speaker 2: argue that he has been consistent in his denial of
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  Speaker 2: killing his family since the moment he called nine one
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  Speaker 2: one in twenty twenty one. In their joint statement, the
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  Speaker 2: defense team noted they look forward to a new trial.
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  Speaker 7: Crime Alart hourly update Breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvani. This morning marks exactly one hundred days
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  Speaker 2: since Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Catalina Foothills home. As
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  Speaker 2: the milestone passes without an arrest, the man commanding the investigation,
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff Chris Nanos, faces a Tuesday deadline to resign or
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  Speaker 2: face a forced removal from office. The push to oust
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  Speaker 2: the sheriff is not coming from the public, but from
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  Speaker 2: within the county government itself. At least two members of
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  Speaker 2: the Pima County Board of Supervisors are prepared to file
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  Speaker 2: a motion to vacate the sheriff's office if Nanos does
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  Speaker 2: not step down by tomorrow. The allegations against him are
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  Speaker 2: severe perjury. The supervisors alleged that Sheriff Nanos lied under
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  Speaker 2: oath during a deposition for a lawsuit unrelated to the
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  Speaker 2: Guthrie case. Specifically, they point to his denial of ever
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  Speaker 2: being suspended during his early career as a police officer
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  Speaker 2: in El Paso, Texas, prior to joining Pima County in
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen eighties. However, internal records from the El Paso
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  Speaker 2: Police Department tell a different story. Those documents detail multiple
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  Speaker 2: suspensions for infractions that include unnecessary violence and chronic tardiness.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Matt Hines, a member of the Board of Supervisors,
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  Speaker 2: says the disciplinary board at the time was clear about
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  Speaker 2: Nanos's performance. In a statement regarding those decades old records,
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  Speaker 2: Heinz noted that the board's decision was unanimous, stating simply
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  Speaker 2: that Nanos cannot be a cop anymore and is not
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  Speaker 2: upholding the necessary standards of the badge. Hines further argues
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  Speaker 2: that the sheriff has lost the confidence of the Pima
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  Speaker 2: Counting community and has become an embarrassment to the department.
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  Speaker 2: Attorneys for Sheriff Nanos have responded to the allegations in writing,
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  Speaker 2: they claim the sheriff did not intentionally mislead anyone, but
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  Speaker 2: rather misunderstood the line of questioning. They argue the questions
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  Speaker 2: pertained to discipline in an out of state agency not
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  Speaker 2: governed by the Arizona Peace Officer's Bill. Of rights. According
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  Speaker 2: to his legal team, Nanos identified the discrepancy in the
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  Speaker 2: transcript shortly after the deposition and notified his council immediately.
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  Speaker 2: While Supervisor Hines insists that the Guthrie investigation has not
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  Speaker 2: factored into the move to remove Nanos, the sheriff is
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  Speaker 2: simultaneously under fire for his handling of that very case.
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  Speaker 2: High level criticism arrived late last week from FBI Director
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  Speaker 2: Cash Ptel in a podcast interview with Shawn Hannity. Battel
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  Speaker 2: alleged that the Pima County Sheriff's department effectively blocked federal
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  Speaker 2: agents from the investigation during the most critical window of
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  Speaker 2: the abduction.
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  Speaker 1: What we the FBI do is say, hey, we're here
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  Speaker 1: to help, what do you need, what can we do?
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  Speaker 1: And for four days we were kept out of the investigation.
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  Speaker 2: The Sheriff's department has issued a formal rebuttal on social media,
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  Speaker 2: asserting that an FBI Task Force member was present on
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  Speaker 2: the scene the night Guthrie was reported missing. They also
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  Speaker 2: highlighted a joint press conference held just forty eight hours later.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators believe Guthrie was abducted from her residence at approximately
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  Speaker 2: two thirty am on February first. Deputies arrived nearly ten
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  Speaker 2: hours later after her daughter and son in law discovered
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  Speaker 2: her missing and called nine one one. Dispatchers immediately communicated
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  Speaker 2: the gravity of the situation.
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  Speaker 8: The summary buffler from highlining Campbell and Suton occurred yesterday's
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  Speaker 8: day around twelfice hours evers Nancy Gusfrie Data two eighty
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  Speaker 8: four years of age, white femail five four over one
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  Speaker 8: cout he've brown up a blacking wearing un clothing, being
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  Speaker 8: at church at home, also of longing, concluding the one
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  Speaker 8: wallet and hgle were still there and she was nowhere
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  Speaker 8: to be found. Susy coffers woman althoughby and have a
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  Speaker 8: medication schedule to follow it. She needs daily net brokagechechalfare
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  Speaker 8: in contact PCs.
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  Speaker 2: In the weeks following that call, federal investigators obtained nest
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  Speaker 2: doorbell footage via Google. That footage remains the most significant
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  Speaker 2: piece of visual evidence. It shows a masked man of
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  Speaker 2: average build armed with a holstered pistol standing on Guthrie's
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  Speaker 2: front steps during the timeframe of the abduction. Notably, a
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  Speaker 2: man in similar attire was observed approaching the same door
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  Speaker 2: three weeks prior. On Friday, Sheriff Nanos spoke briefly with
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  Speaker 2: Fox News Digital.
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  Speaker 4: It's one hundred days now, Ail Messa.
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  Speaker 6: Are you guys any clothes that's a solving. Good, that's
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  Speaker 6: good to hit. Thank you, so you have a great weeknd.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Nano's characterized the latest developments as really great before departing
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  Speaker 2: in his white Corvette. One of those developments involves a
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  Speaker 2: hair sample discovered at the scene. A private forensic lab
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  Speaker 2: in Florida has transferred the sample to the FBI for
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  Speaker 2: advanced analysis. Forensic experts suggest that this hair could be
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  Speaker 2: the key to utilizing forensic genetic genealogy, the same technology
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  Speaker 2: that broke the Idaho for murder case. Doctor David Mittlman,
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  Speaker 2: co founder of the forensics lab Authrum, explains that the
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  Speaker 2: speed of the DNA profile development depends entirely on the
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  Speaker 2: quality of the sample. If the profile is incomplete or degraded,
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  Speaker 2: identifying familial connections becomes exponentially more difficult, potentially leaving the
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  Speaker 2: suspect's identity hidden. To date, relatives and employees associated with
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  Speaker 2: the Guthrie home have provided voluntary DNA samples. A non
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  Speaker 2: match for the hair would almost certainly point to an
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  Speaker 2: outside suspect for Mother's Day. Today's show hosts Savannah Guthrie
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  Speaker 2: renewed her plea for help in the caption of an
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  Speaker 2: Instagram post mother daughter sister None. We miss you with
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  Speaker 2: every breath. We will never stop looking for you. We
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  Speaker 2: will never be at peace until we find you. We
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  Speaker 2: need help. Someone knows something that can make the difference.
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  Speaker 2: Please keep praying, Bring her home. The reward for information
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  Speaker 2: leading to the resolution of this case now stands at
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  Speaker 2: over one point two million. The Guthrie family and federal
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  Speaker 2: authorities are urging the public to review the footage of
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  Speaker 2: the massed individual and report any information to one eight
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  Speaker 2: hundred call FBI. On Friday, a Utah judge issued a
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  Speaker 2: pivotal ruling regarding the trial of Tyler Robinson, a man
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  Speaker 2: accused of assassinating conservative firebrand Charlie kirk back in September.
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  Speaker 2: Despite intense pushback from the defense, Judge Graf has ruled
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  Speaker 2: that news outlets will be permitted to film, photograph, and
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  Speaker 2: livestream the proceedings. This decision comes after weeks of legal
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  Speaker 2: sparring over where the line is drawn between the public's
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  Speaker 2: right to know and a defendant's right to a fair,
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  Speaker 2: unbiased trial. In his decision, Judge Graf acknowledged the defensive concerned,
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  Speaker 2: but ultimately found that the legal threshold for a total
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  Speaker 2: media blackout simply hadn't been met.
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  Speaker 1: Defendant seeks can order categorically prohibiting any electronic media coverage
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  Speaker 1: during the pendency of this case. Because defendant has not
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  Speaker 1: shown that a categorical ban on electronic media coverage for
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  Speaker 1: all proceedings in this case is allowed by Utah law,
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  Speaker 1: Defendant's motion is respectfully denied. Although electronic media coverage is
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  Speaker 1: not protected by the Constitution, neither does the Constitution ban
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  Speaker 1: electronic media simply because there is a danger that, in
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  Speaker 1: some cases, prejudicial broadcast accounts of pre trial and trial
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  Speaker 1: events may impair the ability of jurors to decide the
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  Speaker 1: issue of guilt or innocence uninfluenced by extraneous matter.
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  Speaker 2: Robinson's legal team had argued passionately for a closed door atmosphere,
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  Speaker 2: claiming that their client cannot receive a fair shake ifs
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  Speaker 2: are present. They pointed specifically to the online court of
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  Speaker 2: public opinion, where stories and comments often depict Robinson as
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  Speaker 2: evil or unremorseful, based on brief glimpses of his courtroom demeanor.
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  Speaker 2: In death penalty cases like this one, the stakes are
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  Speaker 2: uniquely high because a jury can eventually consider a defendant's
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  Speaker 2: character when deciding whether to impose the ultimate sanction. Defense
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  Speaker 2: attorneys are hyper vigilant about bad publicity. They cited a
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  Speaker 2: December hearing where footage of Robinson apparently smirking while speaking
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  Speaker 2: to his lawyers led to a firestorm on Fox News,
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  Speaker 2: with pundits claiming he treated the victim like a trophy. However,
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  Speaker 2: they aren't just fighting the media. Prosecutors and the victim's
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  Speaker 2: family are also pushing for maximum transparency. Charlie Kirk's widow,
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  Speaker 2: Erica Kirk, has been vocal about the need for the
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  Speaker 2: public to see the evidence for themselves, arguing that secrecy
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  Speaker 2: only fuels the conspiracy theories that have swirled since the
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  Speaker 2: September tenth assassination. Take a listen to Kirk on Jesse Waters.
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  Speaker 9: There were cameras all over my husband when he was murdered.
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  Speaker 9: There have been cameras all over my friends and family mourning.
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  Speaker 9: There have been cameras all over me, analyzing my every move,
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  Speaker 9: analyzing my every smile, my every tear. We deserve to
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  Speaker 9: have cameras in there. Why not be transparent. There's nothing
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  Speaker 9: to hide. I know there's not, because I've seen what
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  Speaker 9: the case is built.
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  Speaker 2: On accounting were not counting.
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  Speaker 9: Gang oh My.
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  Speaker 2: Robinson is accused of lying in wait on a rooftop
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  Speaker 2: about three hundred yards from Kirk's Prove Me Wrong booth
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  Speaker 2: at Utah Valley University campus and firing a single shot
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  Speaker 2: that struck Kirk in the neck on September tenth. Robinson
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  Speaker 2: allegedly admitted to what he had done in text to
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  Speaker 2: his partner in the minutes after the shooting, remaining in
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  Speaker 2: the air in hopes of retrieving his grandfather's Mouser ninety eight.
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  Speaker 2: With the release of more surveillance footage from campus, family
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  Speaker 2: members eventually recognized Robinson and convinced the twenty two year
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  Speaker 2: old to turn himself in.
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  Speaker 4: On the evening of September eleventh, a family member of
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  Speaker 4: Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted
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  Speaker 4: the Washington County Sheriff's Office with information that Robinson had
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  Speaker 4: confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident.
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  Speaker 2: While Judge Graff is allowing the cameras, it won't be
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  Speaker 2: a free for all. He has already tightened the leash
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  Speaker 2: on media pools following previous violations, where outlets broadcast images
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  Speaker 2: of Robinson's shackles and tight close ups of privileged conversations
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  Speaker 2: between the defendant and his council. To balance these interests,
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  Speaker 2: the judge has ordered cameras to remain at the rear
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  Speaker 2: of the courtroom behind the defendant, making it significantly harder
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  Speaker 2: for the public to scrutinize Robinson's facial expressions. Robinson's preliminary
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  Speaker 2: hearing has been moved back to July sixth through July tenth,
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  Speaker 2: and for now the world will be watching. A terrifying
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  Speaker 2: scene of random violence unfolded on the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 2: Monday afternoon, leaving two innocent bystanders fighting for their lives.
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  Speaker 2: Just after one pm, the chaos began with reports of
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  Speaker 2: a man acting erratically near Memorial Drive, armed with a
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  Speaker 2: rifle and firing shots. Middlesex District Attorney Mary and Ryan
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  Speaker 2: identified the suspect as forty six year old Tyler Brown
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  Speaker 2: of Boston. By the time Massachusetts State Police reached the scene,
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  Speaker 2: the situation had escalated into a full scale active shooter event.
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  Speaker 7: That individual was already traveling down the middle of Memorial Drive.
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  Speaker 7: Cars were stopped in traffic. He was in the possession
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  Speaker 7: of that assault style rifle that had been described, and
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  Speaker 7: he was actively firing in an erratic fashion at various
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  Speaker 7: vehicles along the road.
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  Speaker 2: As Brown unleashed a hail of gunfire, two men sitting
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  Speaker 2: in their vehicles were struck. Both victims were rushed to
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  Speaker 2: a Boston hospital with life threatening injuries. While the bullets flew,
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  Speaker 2: witnesses and arriving officers scrambled for cover.
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  Speaker 7: When troopers arrived, we discovered some individuals actually under their car,
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  Speaker 7: having tried to seek a safe place.
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  Speaker 2: The violence was finally brought to an end by the
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  Speaker 2: combined efforts of a civilian Marine veteran and a responding
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  Speaker 2: state trooper. They managed to subdue Brown, striking him multiple times.
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  Speaker 2: Brown is currently in police costody at a local hospital,
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  Speaker 2: and investigators later recovered the rifle on the grass near
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  Speaker 2: a bike path by the Charles River, a location that
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  Speaker 2: highlighted the potential for even more casualties.
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  Speaker 7: We know that that weapon had the capacity to have
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  Speaker 7: struck people on the other side of that river.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities estimate that fifty to sixty rounds were fired in
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  Speaker 2: a matter of minutes. Joseph Menino Rodriguez, who witnessed the
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  Speaker 2: shootout from his eighteenth floor apartment, captured terrifying audio of
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  Speaker 2: the engagement on his cell phone. Rodriguez described the moment
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  Speaker 2: Brown finally gave up after engaging in a direct gunfight
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  Speaker 2: with the police.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking they shot his leg, so he lays down,
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  Speaker 1: plait he throws the gun. So once he throws a gun,
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  Speaker 1: my boy is just out here, just laying down.
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  Speaker 6: And now he got hands on.
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  Speaker 4: Now he's done.
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  Speaker 2: As the investigation continues, a troubling picture of Tyler Brown's
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: past is emerging. Record show he pleaded guilty in twenty
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: twenty one after a previous exchange of gunfire with Boston police.
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  Speaker 2: At the time of Monday shooting, he was still on probation.
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  Speaker 2: District Attorney Ryan is using this tragedy to renew a
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: push for stricter legislation, citing a bill which would specifically
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  Speaker 2: punish shooters who act with total disregard for human life.
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  Speaker 7: And it is also important to recognize that this risk
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  Speaker 7: that's created by this firing of a gun where people
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  Speaker 7: are nearby. Is the subject of a bill that has
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  Speaker 7: been filed for the past four sessions to create an
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: offense to punish a shooter who acts as I would
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  Speaker 7: suggest to you was the case today, without regard for
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: the risk of seriously bodily injury to another. We will
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  Speaker 7: be refiling that bill again this session because that is
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  Speaker 7: the legislation that we need to address this kind of situation.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Brown now faces two counts of armed assault with intent
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: to murder, along with various weapons charges. For the latest
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: crime and justice breaking news, be sure to tune in
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: tomorrow on your favorite podcast app with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silbonnie