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Crime Alert 02.19.25 | DUI Driver Kills Two Amish Children In Buggy Crash · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, imancy grace breaking crime is now. A silver
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  Speaker 1: SUV slams into an amish buggy on a quiet road
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  Speaker 1: Fillmore County, Minnesota. Four children are inside. The crash is
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  Speaker 1: brutal when the smell of burning rubber subsides. Two of
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  Speaker 1: the children, seven year old Wilma Miller eleven year old
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  Speaker 1: Irma Miller, are dead. The other two nine to thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: barely hanging on. Rushed to Saint Mary's Hospital with serious injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Not long after, a.
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  Speaker 1: Text from the alleged DUI driver goes out to her boss, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I fed up. I just killed two homish people. There
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  Speaker 1: were kids. The sender, Samantha Joe Peterson Nancy.
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  Speaker 3: Samantha Joe texted her boss looking for fellow employee and
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  Speaker 3: her twin sister, Sarah Beth. Samantha hysterically tells Sarah she's
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  Speaker 3: going to jail. She isn't sober. Sarah Beth immediately rushes
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  Speaker 3: to the scene and brings her sister a similar change
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  Speaker 3: of clothes, so by the time cops arrive, the two
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  Speaker 3: women are nearly indistinguishable. Sarah Beth tells copp she was
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  Speaker 3: the driver, but cel phone datap proves Samantha was the
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  Speaker 3: only one in the area at the time of the crash.
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  Speaker 3: Sarah Beth Peterson pleads guilty to two charges of criminal
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  Speaker 3: vehicular operation for her part in the cover up.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow Sarah avoids jail, but Samantha Joe Peterson faces trial
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  Speaker 1: on seventeen counts, including vehicular homicide. Banks County, Georgia dui
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  Speaker 1: offenders now face an unusual penalty before their sentence is complete.
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  Speaker 1: They must buy a new car seat for a family
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  Speaker 1: in need. The new policy applies to anyone convicted of
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  Speaker 1: dui or reckless driving. Offenders must buy a brand new
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  Speaker 1: car seat, steal in the box, and deliver it in
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  Speaker 1: person to the Banks County Probate Court. The Sheriff's office
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  Speaker 1: will then distribute them to families who need them. Judge
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  Speaker 1: Cameron Boswell says we found a way to provide the
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  Speaker 1: need without burdening the taxpayers. Sheriff Carlton's Speed says it
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  Speaker 1: in sure's child's safety while enforced, saying personal responsibility. Officials
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  Speaker 1: believe the program will make a lasting impact, and I agree.
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  Speaker 1: More Crime and Justice news after this Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime on Lunch, John Limley.
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  Speaker 2: The Arizona Supreme Court has set a March nineteenth execution
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  Speaker 2: date for a man convicted of murder nearly two decades ago,
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  Speaker 2: marking the state's first use of capital punishment in over
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  Speaker 2: two years. Aaron Bryan Gunches, sentenced in two thousand and
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  Speaker 2: seven for the two thousand and two shooting of Ted
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  Speaker 2: Price near Mesa, had recently told the court his execution
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  Speaker 2: was quote long overdue. Authorities say Gunches was linked to
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  Speaker 2: the crime after shell casings found near Price's body matched
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  Speaker 2: those from a separate two thousand and three shooting in
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  Speaker 2: which Gunches opened fire on a state trooper near the
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  Speaker 2: California border. The troopers survived thanks to a bulletproof vest. Gunches,
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  Speaker 2: now fifty three and representing himself, had asked the court
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  Speaker 2: to speed up his execution, but justices denied that request.
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  Speaker 2: A former high ranking New York state official and her
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  Speaker 2: husband are now facing new charges related to allegations of
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  Speaker 2: acting as agents for the Chinese government. Our Sidney Sumner
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  Speaker 2: has details.
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  Speaker 3: Linda Son and her husband, Chris, who appeared in Brooklyn
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  Speaker 3: Federal Court pleading not guilty to additional charges in an
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  Speaker 3: ongoing case accusing them of operating as undisclosed agents for China. Sun,
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  Speaker 3: a naturalized US citizen born in China, held several prominent
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  Speaker 3: positions in New York State government over a fifteen year span,
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  Speaker 3: including serving as deputy chief of Staff under Governor Kathy
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  Speaker 3: Hokul and as Deputy Diversity Officer during former Governor Andrew
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  Speaker 3: Cuomo's administration. Prosecutors alleged that, under the direction of Chinese officials,
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  Speaker 3: Sun advanced Beijing's interests within the state government. In return,
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  Speaker 3: it's alleged that her husband, who received assistance for his
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  Speaker 3: business ventures in China. The couple now faces expanded money
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  Speaker 3: laundering charges, with who specifically indicted on three additional counts
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  Speaker 3: related to financial transactions totaling one and a half million
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  Speaker 3: dollars in twenty twenty. Both have pleaded not guilty and
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  Speaker 3: remain free on bond, with their next court appearance scheduled
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  Speaker 3: for April twenty third. Defense attorneys argue that Sun is
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  Speaker 3: being unfairly targeted due to her wealth and ethnicity, asserting
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  Speaker 3: that the government's case is based on unfounded assumptions about
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  Speaker 3: her background. Prosecutors counter that Sun failed to register as
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  Speaker 3: a foreign agent and actively concealed her actions on behalf
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  Speaker 3: of China, including misrepresenting the purpose of a trip to
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  Speaker 3: China during an FBI interview.
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  Speaker 2: This case is part of a broader initiative by the
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  Speaker 2: Justice Department to identify and prosecute individuals allegedly acting as
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  Speaker 2: covert agents for foreign governments within the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Shamika Cozy, sixteen, spends the night at her
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  Speaker 1: aunt's house in Berkley, Missouri, December twenty nine. By morning,
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  Speaker 1: she's gone. Her things are still there except coat and purse.
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  Speaker 1: Police think she left voluntarily. Her mom agrees. Mom says
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  Speaker 1: Micah was caught with the fake ID visiting nightclubs. She
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  Speaker 1: was also seen getting into a dark colored car with
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  Speaker 1: an older man. Years later, Mom finds a note Samika
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  Speaker 1: wrote to a friend months before she vanished, mentioning a
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend and possible pregnancy. Police don't know who the boyfriend
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  Speaker 1: is either. Smika's mother fears she's a victim of sex trafficking.
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  Speaker 1: Mika African American, brown hair, brown eyes, five five, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five pounds. Anyone with info please call Berkeley,
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