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Crime Alert 09.07.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Prime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crime news. Now. Amar
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  Speaker 1: and Semira Abdullah move into a new apartment just above
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  Speaker 1: a PhD chemistry student, zooming Lee, just before welcoming their
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  Speaker 1: first child. Lee frequently complains about the baby noise. The
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  Speaker 1: couple tries to keep the noise down, but tensions run high.
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  Speaker 1: The family begins noticing noxious odors in the apartment that
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  Speaker 1: make them feel sick. After having their appliances checked, the
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  Speaker 1: Abdullah set up a camera and they catch Lee using
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  Speaker 1: a syringe to inject chemicals into the apartment below the
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  Speaker 1: door frame.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Lee mixed hyder codone and methadone at the University
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  Speaker 2: of South Florida's chemistry lab. The mixture caused the Abdullah's
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  Speaker 2: newborn to scratch at her eyes, refuse to eat, and
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  Speaker 2: have episodes of vomiting. Umar Abdullah caught Lee on camera twice,
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  Speaker 2: having to adjust it in between incidents to get a
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  Speaker 2: clear image of what Lee did for police to review.
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  Speaker 1: Lee thirty six, now charged with burglary, battery and aggravated stalking.
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  Speaker 1: A Chicago news team heads out onto the streets to
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  Speaker 1: cover a string of armed robberies in Westtown. As the
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  Speaker 1: crew begins filming. A little after five, a m art
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  Speaker 1: imitates life. Two cars drive up. Three men wearing ski
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  Speaker 1: masks jump out, carrying guns. They demand the reporter's wallets
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  Speaker 1: and search the team's SUV for valuables. No one injured.
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  Speaker 1: The cops add the latest armed robbery to their investigation
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  Speaker 1: of armed robberies. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Prime
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  Speaker 1: Onlines John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin in Virginia as federal prosecutors have requested that
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  Speaker 3: the mother of a child who shot his teacher at
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  Speaker 3: a Newport News elementary school have her bond revoked. For more,
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  Speaker 3: we turn to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: The prosecution claims that Digel Taylor failed drug tests after
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  Speaker 2: entering a guilty plea in June. According to court documents,
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  Speaker 2: Taylor filled two drug tests, one on July nineteenth for
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  Speaker 2: marijuana and another on August twenty fifth for both marijuana
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  Speaker 2: and co. Additionally, she did not show up for private
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  Speaker 2: therapy sessions in August that were recommended for her Earlier
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  Speaker 2: this summer, Taylor entered a plea of guilty to two
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  Speaker 2: federal felonies linked to drug use and owning a gun.
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  Speaker 2: According to police, Abby's werner, the boy's teacher at Richnack Elementary,
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  Speaker 2: was shot in January by Taylor's then six year old
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  Speaker 2: son using her gun. Taylor was released on bond to
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  Speaker 2: await her sentencing. Her release, however, was subject to a
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  Speaker 2: number of requirements, such as abstaining from drugs and going
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  Speaker 2: through screenings.
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  Speaker 3: The judges being urged by the prosecution to schedule an
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  Speaker 3: early hearing on this request to revoke Taylor's bond. A
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  Speaker 3: federal judge in New York has determined that a business
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  Speaker 3: marketing triggers making semi automatic AR fifteen style rifles firelike
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  Speaker 3: automatic weapons most likely misled customers into believing the devices
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  Speaker 3: were lawful. Despite warnings from the US government, the company
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  Speaker 3: continued selling the device. The government's ongoing civil fraud prosecution
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  Speaker 3: against rare Breed Triggers to blow to the business's defense
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  Speaker 3: when the judge barred the company from selling any more
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  Speaker 3: of its forced reset triggers until further notice. According to
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  Speaker 3: David Warrington, an attorney for rare Breed Triggers, he and
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  Speaker 3: the company are dissatisfied by the decision and are mulling
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  Speaker 3: their response. Warrington added that the decision was not considered
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  Speaker 3: a verdict. The historic impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General
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  Speaker 3: Ken Paxton is now under way, with claims of corruption
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  Speaker 3: going unchecked for years and the lawmaker pleading not guilty
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  Speaker 3: once again. Crime online Sydney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The first day of the trial came to an end
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  Speaker 2: without Ken Paxton making an appearance in the courtroom. Paxton
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  Speaker 2: departed and did not come back after the State Senate
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  Speaker 2: soundly rejected all of his attempts to get the charges dismissed. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: his absence does not halt Texas's first impeachment trial in
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  Speaker 2: nearly fifty years, but it does highlight the possibility for
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  Speaker 2: unexpected developments in the coming weeks. Paxton wasn't the only
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  Speaker 2: one who departed early. By the time the show trial began,
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  Speaker 2: there were more empty seats in the Senate gallery than
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  Speaker 2: there were spectators. This despite the fact that some Texas
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  Speaker 2: TV stations broadcast the trial live while Paxton's supporters began
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  Speaker 2: gathering outside the capitol before dawn. Paxton's lawyer, Tony Buzby
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  Speaker 2: responded when the articles of impeachment were formally read out
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  Speaker 2: loud by claiming they were inaccurate or erroneous, and that
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  Speaker 2: his client had pleaded not guilty. The Texas House of Representatives,
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  Speaker 2: which impeached Paxton in May, and the special prosecutors who
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  Speaker 2: have been pursuing him for years on state accusations of
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  Speaker 2: securities fraud were among the targets of his subsequent complaints
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  Speaker 2: during his opening remarks, The case centers on allegations that
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  Speaker 2: the defendant used his position improperly to assist Nate Paul,
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  Speaker 2: an Austin real estate developer who was one of Paxton's
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  Speaker 2: donors and who was indicted this summer on suspicion of
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  Speaker 2: lying to a bank in order to obtain more than
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy million dollars in loans. Paul was
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  Speaker 2: indicted on these counts.
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  Speaker 3: Paxton's defense has described the proceedings as an effort to
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  Speaker 3: subvert the will of the electorate and claims Paxton quote
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  Speaker 3: gave nothing of significance to Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Two years after her wealthy husband's death, Lydia Abrams is
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  Speaker 1: engaged through her ranch hand Keith Harper, naming him beneficiary
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  Speaker 1: to her estate. June sixth, Lydia has lunch with Harper
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  Speaker 1: and tells him She intends to check on her horses
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  Speaker 1: at another California ranch, but we'ld be home for dinner.
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  Speaker 1: When Harper comes back, Lydia is nowhere to be found.
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  Speaker 1: Harper reports Lydia missing, then drives all the way to
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  Speaker 1: Colorado for business, returning a week later. Riverside cop search
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  Speaker 1: the ranch home and find bed sheets with bloodstains and
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  Speaker 1: two spent bullet casings. They also cut out a portion
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  Speaker 1: of Harper's driver's seat for testing. A year after Lydia's disappearance,
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  Speaker 1: Harper calls nine one one to report a female horse
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  Speaker 1: handler was in an ATV accident, but investigators determined the
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  Speaker 1: accident was staged and Jody Newkirk died of meth overdose.
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  Speaker 1: Newkirk's diary indicated she was in a real life relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Harper. Lydia Abrams now missing over three years. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info on Lydia abrams disappearance or anything about
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  Speaker 1: those bloody sheets, contact Riverside County Sheriffs nine five one
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  Speaker 1: nine five five two four five zero. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with
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  Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace