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Authorities in Utah plan to exhume remains as investigators reopen a cold case dating back to 1970 | Crime Alert 6AM 02.24.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm John Lemley. We begin this hour with
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  Speaker 1: a compelling development out of Hurricane Idaho, where authorities have
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  Speaker 1: taken the rare step of reopening a cold case that
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  Speaker 1: has puzzled investigators for more than half a century. Police
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  Speaker 1: with the Washington County Sheriff's Office say they are preparing
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  Speaker 1: to exhume human remains buried in a local cemetery, remains
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  Speaker 1: belonging to an unidentified woman discovered in nineteen seventy and
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  Speaker 1: long known only as Jane Doe. At the time of
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  Speaker 1: her discovery, the woman's cause of death was ruled undetermined,
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  Speaker 1: and she was laid to rest with a simple marker
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  Speaker 1: identifying her as an unknown. The case was investigated sporadically
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  Speaker 1: over the years, including a twenty fourteen attempt to recover
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  Speaker 1: her DNA, but that effort ultimately failed when no remains
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  Speaker 1: were found during excavation. Now, detectives have petitioned a judge
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  Speaker 1: for a new you warrant and are moving forward with
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  Speaker 1: plans to exhume the burial side again, this time with
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  Speaker 1: modern forensic science on their side. Advances in DNA technology
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  Speaker 1: and access to national missing person databases give investigators renewed
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  Speaker 1: hope that Jane Doe can finally be identified. Records indicate
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  Speaker 1: that prior excavation efforts may not have gone deep enough
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  Speaker 1: to reach the actual burial site, leading authorities to believe
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  Speaker 1: the remains may still be intact beneath the surface. With
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  Speaker 1: assistance from the National Cold Case Coalition, law enforcement hopes
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  Speaker 1: to collect viable DNA samples that could provide closure for
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  Speaker 1: surviving relatives whose loved ones disappeared decades ago. The Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: office says the exhumation will take place in the coming weeks,
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  Speaker 1: marking a significant moment in one of the longest running
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  Speaker 1: cold cases in Utah's history.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice needs. Go
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  Speaker 2: daily podcast Crime Stories, more crime and justice news after
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  Speaker 2: 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: In Rhode Island, officials released new video and audio recordings
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  Speaker 1: from the day of the Brown University campus shooting that
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  Speaker 1: left two students dead and nine others wounded in December.
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  Speaker 1: The footage, heavily redacted to shield victims and their families
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  Speaker 1: from further trauma, includes about twenty minutes a body worn
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  Speaker 1: camera video from responding officers and radio traffic between campus
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  Speaker 1: police and municipal authorities. The suspect and that attack, identified
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  Speaker 1: previously as Claudio Nevis Vilenti, a former graduate student at
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  Speaker 1: the university, is also believed to have fatally shot an
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  Speaker 1: MIT professor Nuno Lereo days after the campus attack. Vilenti
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  Speaker 1: was later found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire.
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  Speaker 1: Providence City officials say portions of the recordings were withheld
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  Speaker 1: to avoid showing more graphic content, but the material release
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  Speaker 1: sheds light on the chaotic police response, including moments when
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  Speaker 1: officers mistook a maintenance worker for a potential suspect. Providence
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Brett Smiley noted the difficult balance between transparency and
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  Speaker 1: protecting those affected by the tragedy, which occurred during a
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  Speaker 1: final exam period on campus. Authorities continue to urge anyone
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  Speaker 1: with additional video or information from the day of the
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  Speaker 1: incident to come forward. In one of New Jersey's most
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  Speaker 1: harrowing cases in years, a Monmouth County jury has convicted
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  Speaker 1: a man of killing his brother and four members of
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  Speaker 1: his brother's family, then setting fire to their homes in
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  Speaker 1: what prosecutors described as an effort to cover up the crime.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty nine year old Paul Canero was found guilty this
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  Speaker 1: week on multiple counts, including four counts of murder, aggravated arson,
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  Speaker 1: and weapons charges, for the deaths of his brother, Keith Canaro,
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  Speaker 1: Keith's wife, Jennifer, and the couple's two children, ages eight
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  Speaker 1: and eleven. Prosecutors told jurors that the killings took place
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  Speaker 1: November twentieth, twenty eighteen, and were driven by a dispute
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  Speaker 1: over business finances. After killing his relatives inside their Coltsneck,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey mansion, Canero ignited fires at both the family's
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  Speaker 1: estate and his own home in Ocean Township, seemingly to
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  Speaker 1: mislead investigators into thinking the deaths were victims of an
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  Speaker 1: arson related tragedy. His defense appealed to jurors to consider
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  Speaker 1: alternate suspects, including a third brother they said may have
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  Speaker 1: had a motive, but after roughly five hours of deliberation,
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  Speaker 1: the jury returned a guilty verdict on all counts. Canero
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  Speaker 1: faces a potenti life sentence when he is formally sentenced
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  Speaker 1: in May. Finally, in Washington, d C, newly released federal
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  Speaker 1: records are clarifying the government's investigation into the late financier
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. According to Internal Justice Department documents, the FBI
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  Speaker 1: found no credible evidence that Epstein maintained a quote client
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  Speaker 1: list or operated a sex trafficking ring involving powerful or
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  Speaker 1: prominent men. Investigators say reviews of financial records, seize materials,
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  Speaker 1: and witness interviews did not support claims of an organized
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  Speaker 1: trafficking operation. The files reaffirmed that Epstein committed serious federal
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  Speaker 1: sex crimes, but prosecutors concluded there was insufficient admissible evidence
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  Speaker 1: to charge other individuals. Allegations of third party involvement could
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  Speaker 1: not be independently cooperated. The documents also state investigators never
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  Speaker 1: recovered a secret client list during searches conducted before or
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  Speaker 1: after Epstein's twenty nineteen death in federal custody.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime insice news. Go to
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  Speaker 2: crime online dot com and please join us for our
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  Speaker 2: daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our best to
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  Speaker 2: find missing people, especially children, and solve unsoltomicides. With this
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  Speaker 2: crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.