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Crime Alert 10.21.24 | Man Strangles 1yo Son Who "Won't Listen" · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, Imancy Grace Breaking Crime News Now. Nathaniel Edmund's
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  Speaker 1: wife calls out for her husband as she returns home
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  Speaker 1: and can't find him or their one year old baby boy.
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  Speaker 1: She walks upstairs to the nursery and finds the baby
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  Speaker 1: alone and unresponsive. He's rushed to the hospital but declared dead.
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  Speaker 1: Virginia police discover Edmunds walking down a street seven miles away.
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  Speaker 1: When told his son is dead, he admits he strangled
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  Speaker 1: the boy because the child quote wasn't listening and he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't take it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, the boy's mother, was working while his father was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be taking care of him. In a police interview,
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  Speaker 2: Edmunds admitted that he knew the child was dead and
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  Speaker 2: saw his son foaming at the mouth while he choked him.
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  Speaker 2: According to court records, Edmunds was previously charged with domestic
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  Speaker 2: assault and battery.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, Nathaniel Edmunds, twenty four, charged with murder. A
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  Speaker 1: Florida artist suing another artist for nothing literally. Italian artist
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  Speaker 1: Salvatory Giro sold an visit sculpture for over eighteen thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars this summer, but Tom Miller's claiming he came up
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  Speaker 1: with the idea first because he installed an imperceptible statue
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  Speaker 1: called nothing in Gainesville's bo Deadly Community Center plaza back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. Miller says Geru stole his idea and
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  Speaker 1: retained an Italian lawyer to file suit. If they can't
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  Speaker 1: reach an agreement outside of court, how about an invisible agreement.
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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. Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Limley, Alabama carried out the execution of a man
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  Speaker 3: convicted of a brutal twenty sixteen massacre that claimed the
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  Speaker 3: lives of five people. Thirty six year old Derek Deerman
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  Speaker 3: was pronounced dead at six fourteen pm Thursday at Holman
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  Speaker 3: Correctional Facility in Athmore. Deerman, who pleaded guilty to the killings,
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  Speaker 3: waived his appeals earlier this year and requested to be
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  Speaker 3: put to death. The violence free took place near Citronelle, Alabama,
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  Speaker 3: where Deerman, armed with an axe and a gun, broke
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  Speaker 3: into a home where his estranged girlfriend had sought refuge.
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  Speaker 3: The victims thirty five year old Shannon Melissa Randall, twenty
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  Speaker 3: six year old Joseph Adam Turner, twenty six year old
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  Speaker 3: Robert Lee Brown, twenty three year old Justin Caleb re Red,
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  Speaker 3: and twenty two year old Chelsea Randall Reed were all
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  Speaker 3: related by blood or marriage. Chelsea Reed was pregnant at
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  Speaker 3: the time of the attack. In his final moments, strapped
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  Speaker 3: to a gurney in the state's execution chamber, Deerman addressed
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  Speaker 3: the families of his victims, saying, quote.
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  Speaker 4: Forgive me. This is not for me, This is for you,
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  Speaker 4: he said, adding I've taken so much. Turning to his
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  Speaker 4: own family, Deerman said, y'all already know I love y'all,
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  Speaker 4: though some of his words were inaudible. Authorities said Deerman
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  Speaker 4: was under the influence of methanphetamine during the violent rampage,
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  Speaker 4: which prosecutors described as a targeted attack on the household.
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  Speaker 4: The execution followed Deerman's decision to forego any further legal
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  Speaker 4: challenges to his sentence. In a landmark ruling, a South
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  Speaker 4: Carolina man has been sentenced to life in federal prison
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  Speaker 4: for the murder of a black transgender woman, marking a
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  Speaker 4: historic conviction and a hate crime based on gender identity.
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  Speaker 4: Here's Crime Online Sidney Sumner with Moore.
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  Speaker 2: D Kuehla meek. Ritter received the life sentence from US
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  Speaker 2: District Judge Sherry Leyden in a Columbia, South Carolina courtroom.
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  Speaker 2: This ruling follows Ritter's February conviction for the twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 2: murder of Dime Doe, a transgender woman from the small
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  Speaker 2: town of Allendale. Prosecutors said Ridder killed Doe after their
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  Speaker 2: secret sexual relationship became known. According to court testimony, Ritter's
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  Speaker 2: shot Doe three times wi the twenty two caliber handgun
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  Speaker 2: as rumors of their relationship spread. Prosecutors argued that the
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  Speaker 2: killing was driven by Ritter's desire to keep their involvement hidden.
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  Speaker 2: Tax messages obtained by the FBI showed Ritter instructing Doe
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  Speaker 2: to delete their communications, with hundreds of messages erased in
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  Speaker 2: the month leading up to her death. Friends of Doe
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  Speaker 2: testified that she had openly embraced her gender identity, transitioning
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  Speaker 2: socially after high school. Despite this, defense attorneys argued that
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  Speaker 2: the murder was not premeditated, asking for leniency and presenting
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  Speaker 2: letters from Ridder's family pleading for mercy. His defense also
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  Speaker 2: highlighted the lack of physical evidence linking Ritterer to the crime,
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  Speaker 2: including an unprocessed gunshot residue test. However, a traffic stop
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  Speaker 2: video recorded on the day of Doe's death showed Ritterer
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  Speaker 2: in her car hours before police found her body. This
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  Speaker 2: case marks the first time someone has been convicted in
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  Speaker 2: a federal hate crime trial based on gender identity.
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  Speaker 4: Although similar cases have been prosecuted in the past, they
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  Speaker 4: had not gone to trial, and previous sentences were part
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  Speaker 4: of plea deals.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Martes Williams, twenty eight, has plans to meet
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  Speaker 1: a friend on the other side town, tells roommates he'll
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  Speaker 1: be back later. Martise leaves their Baltimore home in his buick.
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  Speaker 1: When he hasn't returned by midnight, a roommate calls Martes's
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  Speaker 1: parents concerned he's reported missing, and six days later police
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  Speaker 1: find his silver Buick Verano abandoned two miles from home.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities fear he must have met with foul play. Martise
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  Speaker 1: Williams African American, five eight, one hundred and ninety pounds, short,
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  Speaker 1: black hair, brown eyes, usually wears a go tea and
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  Speaker 1: has a sleeve of tattoos on his left arm. Last
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  Speaker 1: scene wearing a T shirt, shorts, a gold crossed necklace
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  Speaker 1: and a watch. If you have information on Martesse williams Now,
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  Speaker 1: missing nine years, called Baltimore County, Maryland PD four to
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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.