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Crime Alert 02.05.25 | 12YO Shot for Throwing Snowballs at Cars · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, I means he grays breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's a typical winter evening. A twelve year old boy
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  Speaker 1: and eleven year old little friend playing in the snow
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  Speaker 1: near Capitol Avan Park Terrace in Hartford, Connecticut. They throw
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  Speaker 1: snowballs at passing cars, laughing and what they think is
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  Speaker 1: harmless play until one snowball hits the wrong vehicle. Heart
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  Speaker 1: for police say the driver of the car circles back,
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  Speaker 1: then shots ring out, hitting the twelve year old boy.
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  Speaker 1: His friend watches in shock. EMT's rushed to the scene, Nancy.
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  Speaker 3: It was about seven fifteen pm when bystanders called nine
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  Speaker 3: one one. The boy was shot multiple times, but doctors
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  Speaker 3: at Connecticut Children's Hospital say he did not sustain life
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  Speaker 3: threatening injuries. A nearby restaurant owner, who heard the gunshots
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  Speaker 3: from a block away, commented that putting bullets in the
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  Speaker 3: child is sickening. Police are now reviewing video and chasing
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  Speaker 3: other leads to identify the vehicle and its occupants.
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  Speaker 1: As of now, the driver's id steal a mystery. A
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  Speaker 1: customer pulls up to a Starbucks drive through mobile Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: places an order and waits. The barista opens the drive
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  Speaker 1: through window only to be greeted by a woman and
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  Speaker 1: her two monkeys. That's when one of the monkeys leaps
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  Speaker 1: through the window and bites the employees hand and ear.
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  Speaker 1: A coworker snatches the monkey and tosses it back in
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  Speaker 1: the car. Police take a report. Then later the woman
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  Speaker 1: returns to check on the monkey's victim. She doesn't leave
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  Speaker 1: her name, but authorities id Tammy Elaine Gardner and find
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  Speaker 1: her twenty five dollars for failing to restrain a dangerous animal.
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  Speaker 1: The Starbucks employee gets stitches, shots and a call from
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  Speaker 1: Starbucks corporate reporting they are officially banning monkeys from their cafes. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, I didn't know monkeys were allowed in Starbucks.
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  Speaker 1: To start with more crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking these Clime Online,
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  Speaker 1: John Lemley.
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  Speaker 2: We begin with the stunning legal reversal in a high
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  Speaker 2: profile poisoning case. At this hour, a New York woman
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  Speaker 2: convicted of killing her boss is no longer guilty in
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  Speaker 2: the eyes of the law. Caitlin Conley, serving twenty three
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  Speaker 2: years for the twenty fifteen poisoning death of chiropractor doctor
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  Speaker 2: Mary Yoder, had her manslaughter conviction overturned a New York
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  Speaker 2: appeals court ruled investigators exceeded their warrant when searching her
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  Speaker 2: cell phone, making key evidence inadmissible. Prosecutors say Conley, a
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  Speaker 2: receptionist in Yoder's Whitesboro clinic, fatally poisoned her with the
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  Speaker 2: anti inflammatory drug colchiscene. Conley, who once dated Yoder's son,
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  Speaker 2: has always maintained her innocence. Her first trial ended in
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  Speaker 2: a hung jury. In twenty seventeen, she was acquitted of
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  Speaker 2: murder but convicted of manslaughter. Now thirty one, Conley will
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  Speaker 2: return to Oneida County, where prosecutors must decide whether to
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  Speaker 2: retry the case. Her attorneys call this a step to
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  Speaker 2: ward Lord clearing her name. Now to Hawaii, where authority
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  Speaker 2: say a sixty six year old man has been taken
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  Speaker 2: into custody accused of murdering a teenage girl nearly forty
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  Speaker 2: eight years ago. Crime Online Sidney Sumner has the details.
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  Speaker 3: Advancements in DNA technology have led to the arrest of
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  Speaker 3: sixty six year old Gideon Castro in Utah, charging him
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  Speaker 3: with the nineteen seventy seven murder of sixteen year old
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  Speaker 3: Don Momahara. Momahara a sophomore at President William McKinley High
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  Speaker 3: School in Honolulu, was found dead on campus on March
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  Speaker 3: twenty first, nineteen seventy seven. An autopsy concluded she died
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  Speaker 3: from asphyxia due to strangulation and had injuries consistent with
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  Speaker 3: sexual assault at the time. Castro, who graduated from McKinley
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  Speaker 3: High in nineteen seventy six, was among those interviewed by police,
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  Speaker 3: but was not considered a suspect. The case remained unsolved
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  Speaker 3: for decades. In twenty nineteen, Honolulu detectives revisited the case
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  Speaker 3: utilizing modern DNA testing methods. By twenty twenty, they had
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  Speaker 3: obtained a part marcial genetic profile from evidence collected at
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  Speaker 3: the scene. Further investigation in twenty twenty three, with assistance
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  Speaker 3: from federal agencies, led them to Castro. DNA samples from
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  Speaker 3: Castro's son indicated a match to the crime scene evidence.
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  Speaker 3: In subsequent testing directly linked Castro himself. He was arrested
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  Speaker 3: at a nursing home in Mill Creek, Utah, and is
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  Speaker 3: a waiting extradition to Honolulu on a second degree murder.
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  Speaker 4: Church Lieutenant Dina Tamis of the Honolulu Police Department expressed
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  Speaker 4: gratitude to all involved agencies for their dedication to achieving
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  Speaker 4: justice for Dawn and her family.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Tammy Mahoney, just nineteen, moves to Central New
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  Speaker 1: York from Long Island to attend State University of New
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  Speaker 1: York in Morrisville. She studies animal husbandry while working as
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  Speaker 1: a horse groomer at Vernon Down's. Tammy's reported missing by
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  Speaker 1: her living boyfriend, who says it's been three days since
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  Speaker 1: Tammy left their home. She didn't have a car and
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  Speaker 1: hitchhiked or got a ride from friends. Police believe she
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  Speaker 1: was picked up hitchhiking to her friend's house and take
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  Speaker 1: into a party at the thirty two acre Oneida, Indian
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  Speaker 1: Nation Territory. Tammy reportedly left the party on foot. Last
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  Speaker 1: scene walking south of Oneida. Tammy Mahoney five, three, brown hair,
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  Speaker 1: green eyes. Last scene wearing a dark colored V neck
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  Speaker 1: sweater with white embroidery at the neck and wrists, denim
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  Speaker 1: bib overalls, and a dark colored jacket. She wears a
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  Speaker 1: cross necklace with turquoise stones and a dime sized medallion
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  Speaker 1: depicting a guardian angel and a bridge with two children
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  Speaker 1: crossing over. If you have information in the case of
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  Speaker 1: missing Tammy Mahoney. The FBI is offering a forty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollar reward called three one five seven three one one
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  Speaker 1: seven eight one. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com and please join us
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  Speaker 1: for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our
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  Speaker 1: best to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm easy, Grace,