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Montana Manhunt Ongoing for Ex-Soldier Accused in Quadruple Homicide | Crime Alert 6AM 08.05.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I'm John Lemley. Authorities in western Montana are
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  Speaker 1: continuing their manhunt for a former US Army soldiers suspected
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  Speaker 1: in a deadly massed shooting at a small town bar.
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  Speaker 1: Forty five year old Michael Paul Brown, who served in
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  Speaker 1: a rock and later with the Montana National Guard, remains
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  Speaker 1: at large following Friday shooting at the Owl Bar in Anaconda,
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  Speaker 1: a town of just nine thousand residents nestled in the
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  Speaker 1: Deer Lodge Valley about seventy five miles southeast of Missoula.
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  Speaker 1: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen says Brown is believed to
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  Speaker 1: have used a personal rifle in the attack that left
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  Speaker 1: four people dead. All were local residents. The victims include
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  Speaker 1: sixty four year old bartender Nancy Loretta Kelly and Patron's,
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine year old Daniel Edwin Bailey, seventy year old
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  Speaker 1: David Allen Leech, and seventy four year old Tony Wayne Palm.
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  Speaker 1: Brown reportedly lived next door to the bar and was
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  Speaker 1: considered a regular there. Officials say he fled the scene barefoot,
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  Speaker 1: then may have stolen a second vehicle stocked with clothing
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  Speaker 1: and camping gear. He has not been seen since Friday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Residents remain on edge. The state has closed off nearby
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  Speaker 1: forest lands while the search continues, and weekend events in
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  Speaker 1: town were canceled. Neighbor Robert Wyatt, who lived in the
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  Speaker 1: same public housing complex as victim David Leech, called the
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  Speaker 1: tragedy unnerving, describing Leech as a quiet but helpful neighbor
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  Speaker 1: who was deaf and mostly kept to himself. Another longtime resident,
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  Speaker 1: David Jabbarik, narrowly missed being inside the bar at the
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  Speaker 1: time of the shooting. He says he changed plans at
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  Speaker 1: the last minute, and when he returned, police were already
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  Speaker 1: surrounding the building. Attorney General Knudson urged vigilance, warning Brown
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  Speaker 1: may be unstable and potentially armed. A reward of seventy
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  Speaker 1: five hundred dollars is being offered for information leading to
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  Speaker 1: his capture. Brown's niece told our friends with the Associated
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  Speaker 1: Press that her uncle had long struggled with mental illness.
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  Speaker 1: Law enforcement says he was known to them before the
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  Speaker 1: shooting and likely knew at least some of the victims personally.
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  Speaker 1: Residents are urged to remain cautious and call nine one
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  Speaker 1: one with any Sidings.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice news. Go
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  Speaker 2: after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news,
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  Speaker 2: Crime Online John Lemley.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities in Tennessee are intensifying the search for twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: year old Austin Robert Drummond, the man accused of killing
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  Speaker 1: four members of the same family before abandoning an infant
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  Speaker 1: in a remote area. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation or TBI,
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  Speaker 1: has now charged two additional men in connection with the case.
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  Speaker 1: Tanaka Brown and Giovante Thomas, both twenty nine, are accused
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  Speaker 1: of helping Drummond after the killings and face charges of
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  Speaker 1: accessory after the fact to first degree murder. Brown also
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  Speaker 1: faces account of tampering with evidence. The victims, identified as
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  Speaker 1: twenty one year old James M. Wilson, twenty year old
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  Speaker 1: Adriana Williams, thirty eight year old Courtney Rose, and fifteen
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  Speaker 1: year old Braden Williams, were all related. Wilson and Adriana
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  Speaker 1: Williams were the parents of the infant, who was found
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  Speaker 1: unharmed in a car seat in rural Tigrid about forty
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  Speaker 1: miles from where the bodies were discovered in Tiptonville. Authorities
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  Speaker 1: say the killings were targeted. Drummond, who has a criminal
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  Speaker 1: history that includes robbery and attempted murder, faces four counts
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  Speaker 1: of first degree murder and related charges. He remains at
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  Speaker 1: large and is considered armed and dangerous. Officials say the
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  Speaker 1: child is safe and in detective care. A Marilyn mother,
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  Speaker 1: once declared mentally unfit to stand trial, is now facing
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  Speaker 1: murder charges in the twenty fourteen disappearance of her two
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  Speaker 1: young children. Thirty eight year old Katherine Hoggle was arrested
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  Speaker 1: after a Montgomery grand jury indicted her on two counts
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  Speaker 1: of first degree murder. Hogel had been confined to a
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  Speaker 1: state psychiatric hospital for nearly a decade, repeatedly ruled incompetent
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  Speaker 1: to stand trial. Her children, three year old Sarah and
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  Speaker 1: two year old Jacob Hoggle, vanished in September twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Hoggle disappeared around the same time, but was found days
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  Speaker 1: later walking in a nearby town. Police says she refused
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  Speaker 1: to reveal the children's whereabouts. Their bodies have never been found.
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  Speaker 1: Hoggle was initially charged with misdemeanor neglect and abduction, but
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  Speaker 1: those charges were dropped in twenty twenty two after a
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  Speaker 1: court ordered treatment window expired. She remained hospitalized until her
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  Speaker 1: release last month. Prosecutors say she'll now face a bail
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  Speaker 1: review hearing in Montgomery County. Her attorney, David Felson, maintained
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  Speaker 1: she suffers from schizophrenia and has long required antipsychotic treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Troy Turner, the children's father, has accused Hoggle of faking incompetency.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine Hoggle remains in custody in Milwaukee. A man convicted
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  Speaker 1: of murdering and dismembering a college student he met on
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  Speaker 1: a first date has been sentenced to life in prison
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  Speaker 1: without parole. Thirty three year old Maxwell Anderson was found
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  Speaker 1: guilty in June of killing nineteen year old Shawde Robinson,
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  Speaker 1: a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College. Prosecutor said Anderson
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  Speaker 1: murdered her after a night out in April twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: then mutilated her body and scattered her remains across several locations.
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  Speaker 1: Her head has never been found. At sentencing, Milwaukee County
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  Speaker 1: Circuit Judge Laura Cravello called the crime unconscionable, comparing it
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  Speaker 1: to a horror novel. She rejected Anderson's claims of innocence
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  Speaker 1: and denied a request from his attorney, Tony Cotton for
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  Speaker 1: parole eligibility after twenty five years. Robinson's parents, Sheina Scarborough
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  Speaker 1: and Carlos Robinson, delivered emotional statements calling the crime unforgivable
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  Speaker 1: and demanding full justice. Anderson, a Navy veteran, maintains his
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  Speaker 1: innocence and plans to appeal.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime in justice news. Go
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  Speaker 2: our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our best
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  Speaker 2: to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsought thomisides
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  Speaker 2: with this crime a arth. I'm Nancy Grace.