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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert, I mean see grace breaking crimes down. Orange County,
- 0:04Speaker 1: California cops commend a nine year old girls quick thanking
- 0:07Speaker 1: as it would be burg or tries to break into
- 0:10Speaker 1: the home. The girl upstairs calmly calls nine one one
- 0:13Speaker 1: listen nine.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Emergency police are paramedic. What address are you at? How
- 0:24Speaker 2: are they trying to get in? How old are you? Okay,
- 0:33Speaker 2: so your house is a two story, so your family
- 0:36Speaker 2: is downstairs and your upstairs. Oky, baby, I'm going to
- 0:41Speaker 2: hang up with you. Your sister is talking to my partner.
- 0:43Speaker 2: We have officers arriving on scene. Okay, okay, okay, Henny,
- 0:49Speaker 2: all right, good job.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Okay, police say. The girl see someone trying to get
- 0:56Speaker 1: in through a downstairs window, then gives the dispatch or
- 0:59Speaker 1: crucial information, including the suspects approximate age, and that other
- 1:03Speaker 1: family members are in the home. The girl's father in
- 1:06Speaker 1: the kitchen confronts Jorgeman Doza Diaz thirty four, who tries
- 1:10Speaker 1: to run jumping a fence in a neighboring yard. Three
- 1:14Speaker 1: minutes later, he's cuffed facing burglary and trespass. The disturbance
- 1:18Speaker 1: at of Clearwater, Florida, Applebee's must have been a sight
- 1:21Speaker 1: to see a drunk man wearing a pink wig and
- 1:24Speaker 1: pink thong stumbled around the parking lot trying to get
- 1:27Speaker 1: in a car, but not his own. When Daniel Ciriello,
- 1:31Speaker 1: forty nine, is questioned by cops, he can't even answer
- 1:35Speaker 1: basic questions like what state he's in or where he's from.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Ciriello soon changes pink thong for an orange jumpsuit. Booked
- 1:44Speaker 1: on disorderly intoxication. More crime and justice news after this
- 1:51Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime in justice, breaking news Crime onlines.
- 1:54Speaker 3: John Limley, a Connecticut man, has been convicted of murder
- 1:57Speaker 3: in the twenty nineteen killing of his friend, while the
- 2:01Speaker 3: search for their missing daughter continues. Forty eight year old
- 2:05Speaker 3: Jose Morales of New Haven was found guilty of murdering
- 2:08Speaker 3: Christine Holloway and tampering with evidence at her home in Ansonia,
- 2:13Speaker 3: roughly ten miles west of New Haven. He now feaces
- 2:16Speaker 3: twenty five to sixty five years in prison. When sentenced
- 2:20Speaker 3: on July eighth, prosecutors said Morales beat Holloway to death
- 2:24Speaker 3: and tried to clean up the scene. The jury deliberated
- 2:28Speaker 3: for just two hours before reaching a verdict. Morales had
- 2:32Speaker 3: testified he was under the influence of PCP and claimed
- 2:36Speaker 3: two intruders attack them and kidnapped fourteen month old Vanessa,
- 2:40Speaker 3: who hasn't been seen since. Despite being named a suspect
- 2:44Speaker 3: in the child's disappearance, Morales was never charged in that case.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Vanessa's name and photo remain on national Missing children databases,
- 2:53Speaker 3: and the FBI is still seeking information. In Pennsylvania, Governor
- 2:59Speaker 3: Josh Shapiro is reopening the official residence to the public
- 3:03Speaker 3: just days after an alleged arson attack targeted the historic home.
- 3:07Speaker 3: We turned now to Crime Online Sydney Sumner for more.
- 3:11Speaker 4: Just over a week after a fire damaged the Pennsylvania
- 3:15Speaker 4: Governor's residence, Governor Josh Shapiro welcomed families back to the
- 3:19Speaker 4: mansion's west lawn for an Easter egg hunt. The event
- 3:22Speaker 4: marked a return to normalcy following an alleged arson attack
- 3:26Speaker 4: that forced the evacuation of the governor and his family.
- 3:29Speaker 4: The fire, which broke out around two am on April thirteenth,
- 3:32Speaker 4: caused significant damage to parts of the residents, including the
- 3:36Speaker 4: state dining and piano rooms. Authorities say thirty eight year
- 3:40Speaker 4: old Cody Balmer scaled a nearly seven foot fence, broke
- 3:43Speaker 4: windows with a hammer, and threw gasoline filled bottles into
- 3:47Speaker 4: the building. Balmer later turned himself in and faces multiple charges,
- 3:51Speaker 4: including attempted homicide, arson, and terrorism. Investigators are examining potential
- 3:57Speaker 4: political and religious motivations for the attack, as the incident
- 4:00Speaker 4: occurred during the Passover holiday. In a nine to one
- 4:03Speaker 4: one call, Balmer allegedly expressed anger over Shapiro's support for Israel,
- 4:08Speaker 4: citing harm to Palestinians. Despite the damage, no injuries were
- 4:12Speaker 4: reported thanks to the swift actions of state troopers who
- 4:15Speaker 4: evacuated the governor's family. Restoration efforts are underway, with hopes
- 4:20Speaker 4: to complete repairs by midsummer. An independent security review led
- 4:24Speaker 4: by former State Police Commissioner Jeffrey Miller is also in progress.
- 4:29Speaker 3: The preliminary hearing for Cody Balmer is scheduled for May
- 4:32Speaker 3: twenty eighth.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Thanks John, search efforts spanned forty four square miles with
- 4:37Speaker 1: K nine units and drones for Cannon Sallenberger fifty one.
- 4:40Speaker 1: When he didn't show up for business meetings, family members
- 4:43Speaker 1: last saw the Washington personal trainer Fab sixteen near his
- 4:47Speaker 1: business Body design Fitness. Police did a welfare check at
- 4:51Speaker 1: the apartment, found his three dogs and personal items, but
- 4:55Speaker 1: no Canon Search dogs. Trace is sent through the parking
- 4:58Speaker 1: lot but stopped at the edge of the complex. Canon
- 5:02Speaker 1: Sullenberger five eight slim, short, brown hair, brown eyes. If
- 5:07Speaker 1: you have info on Callan Sullenberger, please call Vancouver PD
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- 5:23Speaker 1: Crime Stories, where we do our best to find missing people,
- 5:26Speaker 1: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime a Art,
- 5:31Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.