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Crime Alert 01.23.25| Tennessee Homeowner Shoots at Family Sledding "On His Property" · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. A
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee family of six grabs sledding gear to enjoy the snow.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly they hear gunshots and see a man seemingly shooting
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  Speaker 1: directly at them from his backyard. The parents scream for
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  Speaker 1: him to stop, as bullets caused snow to fly up
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  Speaker 1: just fate away from their one year old boy. Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: Cook insists the families on his property and fire several
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  Speaker 1: more shots as the family runs for it.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. The family immediately calls police when they make it
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  Speaker 2: to safety. Neighbors show officers photos of Cook carrying a
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  Speaker 2: black rifle in the same snow gear he inswers his
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  Speaker 2: front door in. Cook confirms he did fire shots of
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  Speaker 2: the family, reiterating that they were on his property, though
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  Speaker 2: the property line is not the legal issue here. Investigation
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  Speaker 2: reveals the family was not on Cook's property before Cook
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  Speaker 2: is carted off to jail.
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Cook, fifty six, now charged with six counts ag assault.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Schuer furious when Disney removes his job due the
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  Speaker 1: task of creating menus for park restaurants, Sheer discovers his
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  Speaker 1: passwords still work, so he makes several edits to every menu,
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  Speaker 1: changing the font to windings, made up symbols, ad profanity,
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  Speaker 1: and Mark's dishes containing peanuts as being allerge and safe.
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  Speaker 1: She also accesses employees' personal info and eggs one of
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  Speaker 1: the employees' homes. She were pleads guilty to multiple charges
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  Speaker 1: in hopes of a more favorable sentence than the maximum
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  Speaker 1: ten years and thousands in fines. More crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this Now with the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: breaking Knees Crime on Lines.
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley in Tennessee, sentencing for five former Memphis police
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  Speaker 3: officers convicted in federal court for their role and the
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  Speaker 3: beating death of Tyree Nichols, has been delayed until after
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  Speaker 3: their state trial in April.
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  Speaker 4: US District Judge Mark Norris has scheduled sentencing to begin
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  Speaker 4: the week of June sixteen. The officers t Darius Bean,
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  Speaker 4: Demetrius Hailey, Emmett Martin, Desmond Mills Junior, and Justin Smith
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  Speaker 4: are also facing state charges, including second degree murder for
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  Speaker 4: the January twenty twenty three traffic stop that ended in
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  Speaker 4: Nichols's fatal beating. Nichols, a twenty nine year old black man,
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  Speaker 4: died three days after being repeatedly punched, kicked, and hit
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  Speaker 4: with a baton near his home. Police video showed him
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  Speaker 4: calling out for his mother as the officers ignored his injuries.
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  Speaker 4: Two of the officers, Martin and Mills, have already pleaded
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  Speaker 4: guilty to federal charges. The other three were convicted of
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  Speaker 4: tampering with evidence related to covering up the incident. All
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  Speaker 4: five officers were members of the now disbanded Scorpion Unit,
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  Speaker 4: a controversial crime suppression team disbanded after Nicholls's death. The
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  Speaker 4: killing sparked nationwide protest and renewed demands for police reform.
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  Speaker 4: A federal investigation into the Memphis Police Department found a
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  Speaker 4: pattern of excessive force and discrimination against black residents. In
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  Speaker 4: a case that has lingered for nearly five decades, a
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  Speaker 4: retired minister from Georgia has been acquitted of charges in
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  Speaker 4: connection with the nineteen seventy five death of eight year
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  Speaker 4: old Gretchen Herrington. As Crime Online Sidney Sumner tells us,
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  Speaker 4: the jury deliberated for just one hour following a four
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  Speaker 4: day trial.
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  Speaker 2: Eighty four year old David Zanstra, a retired minister from Marietta, Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: was found not guilty of the kidnapping and murder of
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  Speaker 2: Gretchen Herrington. The girl disappeared in August nineteen seventy five
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  Speaker 2: while walking alone to Bible camp Out, a chapel where
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  Speaker 2: Zanstra served as pastor. Her body was discovered two months
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  Speaker 2: later in Ridley Creek State Park in Pennsylvania. Zanstra had
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  Speaker 2: been accused of offering Harrington a ride before she vanished. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: claimed Zanstra confessed to the crime following new investigative leeds. However,
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  Speaker 2: Zanstra's defense team argued that the confession was coerced, with
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  Speaker 2: no physical evidence linking him to the crime. After a
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  Speaker 2: brief deliberation, the jury sided with the defense. Zanstra, who
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  Speaker 2: had spent eighteen months in custody, was acquitted and returned
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  Speaker 2: to his family. In the week of Harrington's disappearance, authorities
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  Speaker 2: launched a massive search effort, including distributing thousands of flyers
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  Speaker 2: and setting up a hotline. When her remains were found,
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  Speaker 2: the unsettling details included clothing found in a neat pile
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  Speaker 2: near her body, with her underwear hanging from a tree branch.
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  Speaker 4: David Sanstra's acquittal brings it in to a long chapter
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  Speaker 4: in a case that has remained in the public consciousness
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  Speaker 4: for decades.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, James Solight makes his dream of traveling across
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  Speaker 1: the country on bicycle a reality. His latest cross country
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  Speaker 1: ride from Saginaw, Michigan, to Reading, Pennsylvania. He spends the
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  Speaker 1: winter exploring Pennsylvania and sets out for Surf City, North.
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  Speaker 4: Carolina April one.
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  Speaker 1: April eight, he sends a text to family saying he
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  Speaker 1: accidentally left his backpack on the side of the road
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  Speaker 1: while changing a tire. When he went back for it,
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  Speaker 1: it was gone. His money, ID and maps were inside.
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  Speaker 1: He never met sit to Serve City. His phone stops
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  Speaker 1: pinging after the last text from Clarksville, Maryland. James Solac
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine five eleven, one hundred and sixty five pounds,
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  Speaker 1: gray hair, blue eyes, usually with mustache and goateee. He
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  Speaker 1: has the name Helen tattooed on his upper left arm.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info on James Solac, please call Central Burkes,
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania PD six' one zero seven seventy nine eleven hundred.
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