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Crime Alert 01.01.25 | Teen Kills Parents, Siblings in Drunken Attack · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crimes. Now three thirty am.
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  Speaker 1: Diego Leva, sixteen, calls nine one one from his New
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  Speaker 1: Mexico home. Slurring words, Lava tells the operator he killed
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  Speaker 1: his parents and siblings. When cops arrive, Leva stumbles out,
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  Speaker 1: hands in the air, clearly drunk inside His parents dad
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  Speaker 1: forty two, mom thirty five found dead from gunshot wounds.
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  Speaker 1: His twin Adrian, and fourteen year old brother Alexander also dead.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Leva told both the nine one one operator and
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  Speaker 2: responding officers that he was quote possessed when he killed
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  Speaker 2: his family and never had thoughts of harming them before
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  Speaker 2: police found Leva covered in blood and blood in the
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  Speaker 2: home led them to the bodies of his parents and brothers.
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  Speaker 2: One victim was found in a bathroom. There were meaning
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  Speaker 2: three together in a hallway. A pistol found on the
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  Speaker 2: kitchen table inside the home is believed to be the
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  Speaker 2: murder weapon.
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  Speaker 1: Diego Leva, just sixteen, now charged with four counts of murder.
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  Speaker 1: A Florida woman and her eleven year old daughter enjoying
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  Speaker 1: local Christmas decorations when Abraham Castro approaches, asking the woman
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  Speaker 1: to take a photo of him in front of the decorations.
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  Speaker 1: The woman counts to three and Castro drops his pants.
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  Speaker 1: The woman drops his phone, pulls her daughter away and
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  Speaker 1: calls cops. Officer spot Castro riding a bike near the scene.
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  Speaker 1: He admits to flashing the mom and daughter, and he's
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  Speaker 1: booked on lude and Lasseba's behavior on a child in
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  Speaker 1: public in decency. More crime and justice news after this
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime
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  Speaker 1: Onlines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin in Texas and a Harris County courtroom where
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  Speaker 3: a judge has now sentenced Gloria Williams to fifty years
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  Speaker 3: in prison for the severe abuse and neglect of her children,
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  Speaker 3: forcing three of them to live for over a year
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  Speaker 3: with the decomposing remains of their eight year old brother,
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  Speaker 3: Kendrick Leearies discovered the grim scene in October twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 3: where the children, alone and malnourished, were surviving in an
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  Speaker 3: infested and squalid apartment. Investigators say Kendrick was beaten to
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  Speaker 3: death by William's boyfriend, Brian Colter, who was sentenced to
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  Speaker 3: life without parole in April, Yet Williams never reported her
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  Speaker 3: son's death. Instead, the eldest sibling had just fifteen found
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  Speaker 3: the courage to seek help. During sentencing, Williams expressed regret,
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  Speaker 3: but prosecutors highlighted her role in the trauma suffered by
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  Speaker 3: her children. She had moved to another apartment with colter,
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  Speaker 3: abandoning her surviving children in appalling conditions. Since her arrest,
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  Speaker 3: Williams has relinquished her parental rights. The two younger siblings
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  Speaker 3: have been adopted, while the eldest is now with a
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  Speaker 3: foster family. A forty one year old injustice has been
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  Speaker 3: overturned in New York, clearing the name of a man
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  Speaker 3: who spent nearly eight years in prison for a crime heath.
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  Speaker 3: He says he didn't commit crime. Online Sydney Sumner has
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  Speaker 3: the details.
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  Speaker 2: In a dramatic turn of events, a Westchester County, New
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  Speaker 2: York judge has vacated the decades old conviction of sixty
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  Speaker 2: seven year old Jeffrey Koons Coontz was found guilty of
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  Speaker 2: armed robbery in nineteen eighty three, but prosecutors now say
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  Speaker 2: his conviction was marred by flawed police tactics and unreliable
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  Speaker 2: witness testimony. The case stems from a nineteen eighty one
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  Speaker 2: robbery at the Vernon Star's rowd and Gun club in
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  Speaker 2: Mount Vernon, where patrons were forced to the ground, robbed
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  Speaker 2: and three were injured by shotgun fire. Coons always maintained
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  Speaker 2: his innocence, in new evidence suggests he wasn't even there
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  Speaker 2: that night. An investigation by the District Attorney's Conviction Review
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  Speaker 2: Unit uncovered that police pressured the sole eye witness to
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  Speaker 2: identify Coons and use manipulated photo lineups. Alibi witnesses who
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  Speaker 2: could have exonerated him, including a retired NYPD detective, were
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  Speaker 2: never interviewed. In court, DA Mimi Rocca said the conviction
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  Speaker 2: was quote tainted by questionable investigatory practices, and Judge James
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  Speaker 2: McCurdy agreed, citing the weak evidence and improper procedures. However,
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  Speaker 2: the judge declined to make findings of police misconduct, calling
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  Speaker 2: them speculative. Jeffrey Coons thanked the court for what he
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  Speaker 2: called vindication for himself and his family.
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  Speaker 3: Among Jeffrey Konz's children is NFL player Malcolm Coons, who
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  Speaker 3: was drafted by the Raiders in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, Tiffany went in twenty six shops with their
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend at Marietta, Georgia Walmart in the early morning hours.
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  Speaker 1: After checking out, employees stopped the couple to check their
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  Speaker 1: receipts and Quitten runs out, leaving the cart behind. The
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend finds her shoes and purse in the parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: She used to work at an ihop across the street,
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  Speaker 1: so he stops in. No trace of Tiffany. She usually
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  Speaker 1: is active on social but no posts after running away,
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  Speaker 1: leaving behind a six year old daughter. Tiffany Witten five three,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred five pounds, blonde hair, green eyes, several small
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  Speaker 1: including Chinese symbols on the left wrist and a butterfly
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  Speaker 1: on our hip. Last scene wearing a cream V neck
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  Speaker 1: T shirt, dark blue jeans, a dark colored headband. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info on Tiffany Witten, call Marietta, Georgia PD
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  Speaker 1: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,
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