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Crime Alert 04.18.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert Imancy Grays Breaking Crime News Now. Emmanuel Espinoza,
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  Speaker 1: a pre med student home from college for a weekend
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  Speaker 1: family get together, plans to stay with mom Elvia. Elvia
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  Speaker 1: opens the door on Saturday and her son attacks, stabbing
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  Speaker 1: her multiple times. She was on the phone with a
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  Speaker 1: family member and they hear the mom screaming and running
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  Speaker 1: from her son until she falls to the ground and dies.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. Immediately after the stabbing, Emmanuel Espinoza calls nine one
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  Speaker 2: one and confesses to the murderers. Espinosa says he really
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  Speaker 2: loves his mom, but she irritated him. Elvia Espinoza was
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  Speaker 2: a beloved elementary school teacher and described as always having
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  Speaker 2: a smile and everyone's biggest cheerleader.
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  Speaker 1: Emmanuel Espinoza tells Florida police he killed his mom because
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  Speaker 1: she quote got on his nerves. Espinoza twenty one, charged
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  Speaker 1: with murder. William Woods briefly works with Matthew Kieran's Aid
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  Speaker 1: a New Mexico hot dog stand in the late eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Forty years later, Woods notices several taken out in his name.
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  Speaker 1: When he speaks with the bank, he cannot answer the
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  Speaker 1: security questions set up and bank staff call police. Kieran's
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  Speaker 1: posing his Woods tells cops over the phone the man
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  Speaker 1: at the bank's trying to steal his identity and tells
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  Speaker 1: them the man's real name is Matthew Kieran's. The real
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  Speaker 1: Woods is taken to jail, where he insists he truly
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  Speaker 1: is William Woods. A judge sends him to a mental hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Once released, the true Woods seeks out a DNA test
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  Speaker 1: proving he's related to the father listed on William Woods's
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  Speaker 1: birth certificate. Kieran, still posing his Woods, is arrested in
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  Speaker 1: Iowa for aggravated identity theft. Now facing thirty two gears
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  Speaker 1: behind bars and it all started at a hot dog stand.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news, Play my lines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin in as the attacker who fatally shot himself
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  Speaker 3: after stabbing six people at a crowded Sydney retail mall
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  Speaker 3: has now been identified by authorities. With more. Here's Sidney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Three year old Joel Cauchi is suspected of carrying out
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  Speaker 2: the attack Saturday afternoon at the Westfield shopping Center in
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  Speaker 2: Bondi Junction, located near the well known Bondi Beach in
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  Speaker 2: the eastern suburbs of the city. This according to New
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  Speaker 2: South Wales Police. During a press conference, NSW Assistant Police
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner Anthony Cook informed reporters that Cauchy had unidentified mental
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  Speaker 2: health problems and that police detectives were not considering the
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  Speaker 2: attack to be related to terrorism. Police were summoned soon
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  Speaker 2: after the beginning of the attack at three ten pm
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  Speaker 2: on April thirteenth, at the busy retail mall, among the
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  Speaker 2: busiest in the country and the center of activity on
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  Speaker 2: a very warm autumn afternoon in Australia. Six people aged
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  Speaker 2: between twenty and fifty five were slain in the attack,
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  Speaker 2: five women and one man. Twelve additional people were hurt
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  Speaker 2: and are still being treated at a hospital, among them
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  Speaker 2: a nine month old infant whose mother was killed the incident.
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  Speaker 2: The male victim, a thirty year old from Pakistan named
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  Speaker 2: Farroz to Hear, was working as a security guard at
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  Speaker 2: the shopping mall. The day following the attack, the Amai
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  Speaker 2: Muslim Community of Australia said in a written statement that
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  Speaker 2: Faraz had been in the country for less than a
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  Speaker 2: year and was a quote cherished member of our community.
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  Speaker 2: A witness captured video of numerous individuals running away from
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  Speaker 2: the mall as Kouchi, brandishing a knife lunged at them.
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  Speaker 2: In another video, a man was seen approaching the assailant
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  Speaker 2: on a mall escalator while brandishing what looked to be
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  Speaker 2: a metal pole. Kouchi was shot and killed by Inspector
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  Speaker 2: Amy Scott, the first emergency responder to arrive on the scene.
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister Anthony Albanis told reporters that the officer was
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  Speaker 2: certainly a hero and that many more lives had been
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  Speaker 2: spared by her decisive action. Kouchi's family released a written
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  Speaker 2: statement later expressing their shock at what happened on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: and that they have no issue with Scott shooting their
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  Speaker 2: son because the woman quote was only doing her job
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  Speaker 2: to protect others. Investigators say the mall will be a
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  Speaker 2: crime scene for days to come.
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  Speaker 3: Since the weekend attack, many flowers have been left out
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  Speaker 3: outside the now closed shopping center as a memorial to
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  Speaker 3: the victims. Back in this country now, as authorities have
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  Speaker 3: now announced that the two Kansas women who vanished while
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  Speaker 3: traveling to Oklahoma to pick up children for a birthday
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  Speaker 3: celebration are dead for more, we again turned to Sydney
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  Speaker 3: Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: In making their announcement. Detectives have detailed a two week
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  Speaker 2: long attempt to ensure the children's safety and prevent violence
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  Speaker 2: in the process of apprehending four people on suspicion of
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  Speaker 2: both kidnapping and murder. It was one day after the
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  Speaker 2: four suspects in the case were taken into custody that
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  Speaker 2: two bodies were found in a rural area of Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: According to officials, twenty seven year old Veronica Butler and
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  Speaker 2: thirty nine year old Jillian Kelly of Hugoton, Kansas, were
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  Speaker 2: traveling through the Oklahoma Panhandle to pick up Butler's kids
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  Speaker 2: for a birthday celebration in Kansas on March thirtieth. After
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  Speaker 2: failing to show up, their vehicle was discovered abandoned on
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  Speaker 2: a rural roadway close to the Oklahoma Kansas state boundary
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  Speaker 2: later that day with signs of foul play. The Oklahoma
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  Speaker 2: State Bureau of Investigation detailed an intense search for the
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  Speaker 2: two women, along with the detective's efforts to ensure the
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  Speaker 2: children's safety while arresting the suspects without violence. Hunter McKee
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  Speaker 2: and OSBI spokesman stated that Butler and Kelly had died
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  Speaker 2: and that the four defendants are accountable for the women's disappearance. However,
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  Speaker 2: McKee said his department will not confirm that the remains
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  Speaker 2: discovered belong to the missing Kansas women until the Medical
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  Speaker 2: Examiner's Office has completed its report. Authorities in Oklahoma report
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  Speaker 2: that they have taken into custody and charged four individuals
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  Speaker 2: each on two counts of first degree murder, two counts
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  Speaker 2: of kidnapping, and one count of conspiracy to conduct first
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  Speaker 2: degree murder forty four year old Cora Twombly, fifty year
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  Speaker 2: old Cole Earl Twombly, fifty four year old Tiffany Michelle Adams,
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  Speaker 2: and forty three year old Tadburt.
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  Speaker 3: Column Texas County Court Clerk Renee Ellis says that all
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  Speaker 3: four suspects are being held without bond at the Texas
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  Speaker 3: County jailed with a court appearance schedule to take place
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  Speaker 3: before the end of the week.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Gregory Peterson tells his family he's going out
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  Speaker 1: to help an acquaintance who's having car trouble and leaves
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  Speaker 1: their Cloverdale, California home when he's not home after several hours,
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  Speaker 1: family reports him missing. Next day, Gregory's car is found
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  Speaker 1: fifteen miles north of home on the side of the
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  Speaker 1: highway on fire. No trace of Gregory. Gregory Peterson sixty two,
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  Speaker 1: white bald, sixty three, two hundred pounds. If you have
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  Speaker 1: info on Gregory Peterson, please call Sanoma County, California Sheriffs
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime in justice news, go to crime
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  Speaker 1: online dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.