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Remains found in a wooded area confirmed as Elijah Vue.|Crime Alert Recap Saturday 09.14.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, Breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: hunter and recovered by law enforcement. I take in Wisconsin
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  Speaker 2: crying to union testing, but that furs.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that any.
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  Speaker 2: Art that I announced you today? Overmans were identified as
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  Speaker 1: I'm Drew Nelson. It's something no child would ever forget.
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  Speaker 1: Two children covered in their mother's blood crawled through their
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  Speaker 1: house to seek help for mom. But it's too late.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty seven year old Laquana Lang was shot and killed
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  Speaker 1: in her Augusta, Georgia home. Her boyfriend, Devonte Parks, has
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  Speaker 1: been arrested. Parks, aged twenty six, turned himself in after
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  Speaker 1: authority's issue to notice that he was wanted for Lang's murder.
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  Speaker 1: The rest record show he had just been parole for
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen shooting. He allegedly shot Lang in the upper torso,
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  Speaker 1: leaving her two young daughters aged two to five, alone
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  Speaker 1: with their mother's body for over four hours. Regarding Park's
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  Speaker 1: history of violence, he was only paroled in July, two
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  Speaker 1: months ago, after serving time for shooting Brittany McKee in
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. She survived being shot six times by Parks.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking to WJBF, she expresses her renewed fears.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't been asleep since he was out in Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I had to find out from a Facebook post that
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  Speaker 1: it was him. The details of the case are especially harrowing.
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  Speaker 1: Lang was shot around four am, but her body wasn't
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  Speaker 1: discovered until after ten am. The children's little footprints left
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  Speaker 1: in their mother's blood or what led to the heartbreaking discovery.
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  Speaker 1: Parks now faces charges of murder, two counts of child cruelty,
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  Speaker 1: and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime,
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  Speaker 1: as well as possession of a firearm. Very convicted felon.
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  Speaker 1: Lang's little girls, who witnessed their mother's violent death, are
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  Speaker 1: left to cope with the trauma. Lang is being remembered
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  Speaker 1: as a loving mother. She had only just started her
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  Speaker 1: relationship with Parks a few months prior. The Richmond County
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  Speaker 1: Coroner's Office has scheduled an autopsy and authorities continue to
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  Speaker 1: search for the murder weapon.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Nicole Partner in Florida, a Coral Springs woman has
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  Speaker 4: been arrested after her child called nine to one one
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  Speaker 4: to report that a man had been shot inside their home.
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  Speaker 4: Police now say Denise Malcolm is facing first degree murder charges.
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  Speaker 4: According to local ten news, the police responded to the
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  Speaker 4: ten thousand block of Northwest forty third Street after a
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  Speaker 4: boy called nine one one around six thirty pm to
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  Speaker 4: report that someone had been shot inside their home. Once
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  Speaker 4: local law enforcement arrived on the scene, twins exited from
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  Speaker 4: the house saying they heard gunshots. Coral Springs PD announced
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  Speaker 4: that a victim had been found.
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  Speaker 1: The officers made entry into the residents to check on
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  Speaker 1: the well being of anybody who may be inside.
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  Speaker 3: They did come across and encounter one male individual who
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  Speaker 3: had suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
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  Speaker 4: According to the police report, Denise Malcolm shot her husband
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  Speaker 4: after she said she had reached quote her wits end.
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  Speaker 4: The woman told police she had lived in years of
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  Speaker 4: infidelity and lies and decided to take matters into her
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  Speaker 4: own hands by killing her husband in their home. Denise
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  Speaker 4: told police her husband had been unfaithful for two years,
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  Speaker 4: leading to a breakdown in their marriage and a heated altercation.
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  Speaker 4: She said quote she did not trust him and was
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  Speaker 4: at her wits end and was tired of the lies
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  Speaker 4: and deceit. After her husband told her he was leaving
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  Speaker 4: to go on vacation with friends, the woman said she
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  Speaker 4: believed that was a lie and that he was leaving
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  Speaker 4: with another woman. That resulted in an hour long argument.
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  Speaker 4: She told police. In her rage, she grabbed a gun
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  Speaker 4: and shot her husband. She could not remember how many
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  Speaker 4: times she pulled the trigger. Her two young boys were home.
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  Speaker 4: One was he Chinese food in his room across the hall,
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  Speaker 4: while the other watched television in the living room. They
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  Speaker 4: heard gunshots and the boys called nine to one one.
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  Speaker 4: Malcolm has been charged with first degree premeditated murder and
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  Speaker 4: remains in the Broward County Jail.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Gould.
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  Speaker 3: The verdict is in for the suspect who stabbed a
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  Speaker 3: woman forty six times at a store in Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: and recorded her final pleas for her life. Sean Laval
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  Speaker 3: Smith has been found guilty in the brutal murder of
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  Speaker 3: twenty four year old Brionna Coopfer, a UCLA grad student.
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  Speaker 3: The thirty four year old was convicted of first degree
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  Speaker 3: murder with a special circumstance of lying in wait. He
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  Speaker 3: was also found guilty of using a deadly weapon a knife,
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  Speaker 3: in the attack, which was reportedly bent due to the
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  Speaker 3: amount of force used. Brionna's father, Todd Cooper, spoke to
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  Speaker 3: the media after the verdict came down.
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  Speaker 1: We loved affiliation and some kind of happiness. I can't
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  Speaker 1: say that that's really.
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  Speaker 2: The motion I feel, but I do feel very relieved
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  Speaker 2: the justice system delivered.
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  Speaker 3: Prosecutors painted a picture of Smith as a predator who
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  Speaker 3: preyed on Cooper's vulnerability. The attack unfolded on January thirteenth,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, at the Croft House Furniture store, where
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  Speaker 3: she was working. Smith, feigning interest in furniture, gained her
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  Speaker 3: trust before attacking her. The violence was so horrific that
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  Speaker 3: Cooper's final moments were captured on a digital audio recorder
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  Speaker 3: that Smith left behind at the crime scene. Here's Habbi Balion,
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  Speaker 3: the Los Angeles County District Attorney, in court, detailing what
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  Speaker 3: that recording was.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling him I can help you, I can
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  Speaker 1: help you, I can help you, and he's telling her
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  Speaker 1: hit it over.
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  Speaker 3: The discovery of that recorder, along with a blood stained
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  Speaker 3: knife with Smiths DNA, proved crucial evidence for the prosecution.
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  Speaker 3: During the trial, Deputy da Baljon presented a compelling case.
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  Speaker 3: He argued that Smith's actions were premeditated and fueled by
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  Speaker 3: a hatred for women. Baalion described Smith as being quote
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  Speaker 3: on a crusade to hunt, to destroy, and to kill
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  Speaker 3: for the mere fact that she was female and alone
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  Speaker 3: end quote. Smith's defense attorney, Robert Haberer, attempted to portray
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  Speaker 3: the crime though as a spontaneous act, but the jury
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  Speaker 3: did not find his argument convincing, reaching a guilty verdict
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  Speaker 3: in less than an hour. With the verdict in place,
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  Speaker 3: Smith faces a sentencing hearing in October. He is expected
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  Speaker 3: to receive life in prison without the possibility of parole. However,
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  Speaker 3: a separate hearing will be held to determine his mental
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  Speaker 3: state at the time of the crime. For the latest
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  Speaker 3: crime and justice news, follow the Crime Alert hourly update
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  Speaker 3: on your favorite podcast app With this crime Alert. I'm
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  Speaker 3: Jennifer Gould.