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Arson Arrest in California Fires?|Crime Alert Recap Saturday 01.11.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. A rapidly spreading wildfire, now referred to
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  Speaker 2: as the Kenneth Fire, has prompted large scale evacuations in California.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities are treating the blaze as a potential arson, and
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  Speaker 2: a suspect has been apprehended. The fiery's advancing quickly through
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  Speaker 2: the West Hills, necessitating the deployment of nine hundred weary
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  Speaker 2: firefighters who have been redirected from other critical fires across
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  Speaker 2: southern California to safeguard homes and control the inferno. LAPD
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  Speaker 2: Senior Lead Officer Charles Denzel informed News Nation that a
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  Speaker 2: suspect is in custody believed to have deliberately ignited the fire.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 1: What we know right now is that the incident occurred
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  Speaker 1: started here and about twenty minutes. Three minutes later, a
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  Speaker 1: suspect was detained over Woolen Hill's area by citizens.
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  Speaker 2: The officer confirmed that it was citizens who apprehended the
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  Speaker 2: suspect in the Woodland Hills area. It is currently being
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  Speaker 2: investigated as a crime. Denzil confirmed when asked about the
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  Speaker 2: intentional nature of the fire, He added that while there
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  Speaker 2: is no clear motive at this moment, the affected area
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  Speaker 2: has been roped off for further inquiry. According to sources
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  Speaker 2: from dailymail dot com, a local resident dialed nine one
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  Speaker 2: one around four thirty pm to report a man attempting
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  Speaker 2: to ignite a fire located in that area. The suspect
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  Speaker 2: has been taken into custody at Topanja Station. Officials issued
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  Speaker 2: a stark warning Thursday night, urging residents to heed evacuation orders.
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  Speaker 2: Senator Adam Schiff emphasize the seriousness of the situation, saying
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  Speaker 2: if you stay, You're going to die. He added, when
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  Speaker 2: you receive an evacuation order, evacuate immediately. You may think
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  Speaker 2: you can escape the fire, but you cannot outrun these flames.
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  Speaker 2: Staying put could be fatal. The Kenneth fire has already
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  Speaker 2: consumed nine hundred and sixty acres and poses a threat
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  Speaker 2: to the Malibu Canyon area that's north of the one
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  Speaker 2: oh one Freeway, which is home to many celebrities like
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  Speaker 2: Courtney Kardashian and Will Smith. Mandatory evacuation orders are now
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  Speaker 2: in effect as firefighters deploy aerial water drops in an
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  Speaker 2: attempt to control the rapidly spreading flames which are being
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  Speaker 2: fueled by those strong winds out of Santa Anna. Our
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  Speaker 2: prayers are with California.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Drew Nelson. A Wisconsin judge grants the release of
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  Speaker 3: a woman who, at age twelve stabbed her classmate in
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  Speaker 3: honor of the fictional character slender Man. Morgan Geyser, now
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  Speaker 3: twenty two, has spent nearly seven years at the Winnebago
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  Speaker 3: Mental Health Institute. Under the current set of circumstances, Misguyser
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  Speaker 3: poses a significant risk of bodily arm to herself or others,
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  Speaker 3: or of serious property damage. On Thursday, a judge approved
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  Speaker 3: her conditional release after a day long heit. This marks
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  Speaker 3: her fourth petition since twenty twenty two, with two previous
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  Speaker 3: requests withdrawn and one denied. The court cited her significant
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  Speaker 3: progress in treatment and lack of recent symptoms as reasons
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  Speaker 3: for her release. The stabbing happened in twenty fourteen when
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  Speaker 3: Geyser and a Nissa Wire, both twelve at the time,
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  Speaker 3: lured their friend Peyton Lightner, into a wooded area and
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  Speaker 3: walkshaw Wisconsin. Guyser stab Lightner nineteen times with a kitchen knife,
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  Speaker 3: while Wire urged her on the attack, left Lightner Critically injured,
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  Speaker 3: She crawled to a nearby home, where a cyclist found
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  Speaker 3: her and called for help. The girls later told investigators
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  Speaker 3: they committed the act to a peace slender Man, fearing
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  Speaker 3: harmed to their families if they failed. Slender Man is
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  Speaker 3: a fictional character who was created at an online contest
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  Speaker 3: that called for creepy paranormal images. The character quickly became
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  Speaker 3: an Internet phenomenon. Tall and thin, often unnaturally so, wearing
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  Speaker 3: a black suit with a white shirt and a black tie,
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  Speaker 3: having an expressionless, pale face, sometimes shown with tentacles, he
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  Speaker 3: is said to stalk and abduct children. He lurks in
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  Speaker 3: forests and dark, secluded areas. Slender Man is thought to
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  Speaker 3: control people's minds or compel them to act violently. Doctors
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  Speaker 3: testified at Thursday's hearing that guys are no longer displays
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  Speaker 3: symptoms of schizophrenia. Has been off antipsychotic medications for years.
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  Speaker 3: When doctor testified, quote, she experienced fantasy as related to
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  Speaker 3: these different fictional characters, her fantasy blurred with reality. Another
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  Speaker 3: doctor said, quote, she has continued to take treatment seriously
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  Speaker 3: and become consistently engaged and invested. Leitner's mother opposed Geyser's release.
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  Speaker 3: In letters to the court, she described lasting physical and
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  Speaker 3: emotional scars. Her daughter bears. Guys Are initially pleaded guilty
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  Speaker 3: to attempted first degree intentional homicide in twenty eighteen, and
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  Speaker 3: this a wire as her accomplice pleaded guilty to attempted
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  Speaker 3: second degree intentional homicide. She was released in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: one under GPS monitoring. The state has sixty days to
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  Speaker 3: draft a plan for Geyser's transition to a supervised group home.
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  Speaker 3: Subject to court approval, she will remain under close monitoring.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Jennifer Gould, a popular YouTube personality, is facing kidnapping
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  Speaker 4: charges after allegedly kidnapping two women in a violent high
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  Speaker 4: speed ordeal that ended with them abandoned on a desolate
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  Speaker 4: Texas highway. The two women met Corey Pritchett Junior, better
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  Speaker 4: known as Corey SSG, who has over fifteen million followers
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  Speaker 4: across multiple platforms. Here he is in one of his videos,
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  Speaker 4: ironically titled last to Get Arrested, Take a Listen. In
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  Speaker 4: what began as a casual day back in November turned
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  Speaker 4: into anything but that. The trio had gone to a
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  Speaker 4: local gym together, followed by a trip to a bowling
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  Speaker 4: alley and an ATV ride. However, tensions quickly escalated after
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  Speaker 4: a confrontation at the bowling alley with another group, The
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  Speaker 4: situation became uncomfortable and the women of portally left early.
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  Speaker 4: Realizing they had left their belongings in Pritchett Junior's car,
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  Speaker 4: the women contacted him to retrieve their items. Pritchett Junior
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  Speaker 4: suggested that they meet at a parking lot, but instead
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  Speaker 4: of returning their belongings, he allegedly drove them westbound on
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  Speaker 4: IT ten at speeds of over one hundred miles per hour.
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  Speaker 4: During this terrifying drive, Pritchett Junior made several phone calls
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  Speaker 4: claiming that someone was pursuing them. The situation escalated when
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  Speaker 4: Pritchett Junior reportedly pulled out a golden handgun, fired shots
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  Speaker 4: into the air, and then pointed the weapon at the women.
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  Speaker 4: He allegedly threatened them saying quote I'm going to f
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  Speaker 4: y'all and then kill y'all end quote, causing the women
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  Speaker 4: to fear for their lives. In an attempt to calm
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  Speaker 4: the situation, one of the victims suggested they pray together. Surprisingly,
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  Speaker 4: Pritchett Junior agreed and led the prayer, though the temporary
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  Speaker 4: peace quickly shattered as his violent behavior resumes boomed. After
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  Speaker 4: reaching a point on the highway, Pritchett Junior stopped the
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  Speaker 4: car and ordered the women out, leaving them stranded on
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  Speaker 4: the side of the road without their phones or any
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  Speaker 4: means of communication. The victims walked for over an hour
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  Speaker 4: along the highway until they were able to flag down
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  Speaker 4: a passerby, who contacted law enforcement. After abandoning the women,
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  Speaker 4: Pritchett Junior fled the country, but authorities were able to
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  Speaker 4: track his movements through GPS data from a Life three
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  Speaker 4: sixty app on one of the victim's phones. This information
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  Speaker 4: led investigators to trace the route Pritchett Junior took during
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  Speaker 4: the incident, helping to confirm the women's accounts. In a
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  Speaker 4: twist of fate, Pritchett Junior's own social media activity played
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  Speaker 4: a pivotal role in his eventual tracking. He posted about
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  Speaker 4: his plans to leave the United States. His mentions of
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  Speaker 4: moving to Dubai led the FBI to discover that he
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  Speaker 4: had taken a one way flight to Qatar on December ninth.
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  Speaker 4: Despite managing to escape to Katar. Pritchett Junior now faces
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  Speaker 4: aggravated kidnapping charges, and the FBI is working with international
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  Speaker 4: authorities to secure his extradition back to the United States
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  Speaker 4: to face the charges. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 4: app with this crime Alert. I'm Jennifer Gould.