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'Mystery Male' Ruled Out as Match to Anna Kepner Rape Kit | Crime Alert Weekend Recap 06.06.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni. We are looking at a massive development
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  Speaker 2: in a federal murder case. Newly unsealed court transcripts have
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  Speaker 2: revealed a potential twist in the trial of Timothy Hudson,
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  Speaker 2: the sixteen year old accused of assaulting and murdering his
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  Speaker 2: eighteen year old stepsister Anna Keepner. Aboard the Carnival Horizon
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  Speaker 2: back in November twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Five, Anna's father, stepmother, and other family members join her
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  Speaker 3: for a six day carnival cruise to the Western Caribbean.
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  Speaker 3: After their last day at Porting Cosmeo, Mexico, Anna heads
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  Speaker 3: back to her room early, telling family members she isn't
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  Speaker 3: feeling well during dinner. The next morning, Anna doesn't join
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  Speaker 3: her family for breakfast and isn't answering her door. Her
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  Speaker 3: family begins a frantic search for the teen On the
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  Speaker 3: fourteen deck four thousand passenger ship, the.
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  Speaker 4: Kept her family frantically searching for Anna when a housekeeper
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  Speaker 4: makes a horrifying discovery. The maid starts to gather linens
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  Speaker 4: for laundry, but notices the sheet missing off the bed.
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  Speaker 4: Making the bed, she notices a pile of life jackets
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  Speaker 4: stuffed underneath. Removing the life jackets, she discovers the missing
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  Speaker 4: sheet wrapped around Anna's body.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you thought this was just an open and
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  Speaker 2: shut tragedy, a one hundred and forty five page detention
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  Speaker 2: hearing transcript just through a wrench into the narrative. Investigators
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  Speaker 2: revealed they found DNA from a second mystery mail on
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  Speaker 2: the victim, an out of state juvenile traveler labeled minor
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  Speaker 2: Witness two, whom Kepner allegedly had consensual sex with earlier
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  Speaker 2: during the cruise. The defense is jumping all over this,
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  Speaker 2: arguing that prosecutors are just making assumptions about the timeline.
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  Speaker 2: But before you think this mystery mail is a viable suspect,
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  Speaker 2: the FBI already tracked him down and ran the tests.
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  Speaker 2: Here's how the evidence stacks up against step brother Timothy Hudson.
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  Speaker 2: Minor witness too was completely excluded from the specific DNA
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  Speaker 2: profile link to the assault. Prosecutor state one vaginal swab
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  Speaker 2: was one hundred and twenty sex tillion times more likely
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  Speaker 2: to match Hudson than a stranger. A second swab was
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  Speaker 2: one point two septilill times more likely to match him. Additionally,
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  Speaker 2: CCTV and phone data show Kepner entering their shared cabin
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  Speaker 2: in never leaving. Even worse, her phone's location data mirrored
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  Speaker 2: Hudson's movements right before it was found smashed in a
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  Speaker 2: trash bin. Despite the astronomical DNA numbers, the federal judge
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  Speaker 2: called the government's case a much closer call than it looks,
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  Speaker 2: noting the defense has room to argue. Hudson's trial is
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  Speaker 2: locked in for this September. We will see if the
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  Speaker 2: jury buys the defense's timeline defense or if those Septilian
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  Speaker 2: to one odds seal a s fate. More crime and
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  Speaker 2: Justice news after this, we have a chilling update out
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  Speaker 2: of the Caribbean, where federal investigators are drastically ramping up
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  Speaker 2: pressure on a case that has mystified missing persons advocates
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  Speaker 2: for weeks. The disappearance of fifty five year old Michigan mother,
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  Speaker 2: Lynette Hooker, who vanished last month on her way to
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  Speaker 2: a sailboat in the Bahamas, is now officially being treated
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  Speaker 2: as a murder investigation. A United States official confirmed a
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  Speaker 2: Fox News reporter microwe that federal authorities are preparing to
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  Speaker 2: meticulously comb through the couple's luxury sailboat aptly named the Soulmate.
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  Speaker 2: Searching for any forensic evidence pointing to foul play, Suspicion
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  Speaker 2: is centered heavily around her husband, fifty nine year old
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  Speaker 2: Brian Hooker. Brian originally told authorities that his wife accidentally
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  Speaker 2: fell overboard on the night of April fifth, during a
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  Speaker 2: volatile Caribbean storm that tossed their vessel. While Brian Hooker
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  Speaker 2: has not been charged with any crime, law enforcement officials
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  Speaker 2: are refusing to take his story at face value. Authorities
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  Speaker 2: are taking an exhaustive look at their floating home, where
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  Speaker 2: the Michigan pair lived while traveling the world. Their most
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  Speaker 2: recent vacation turned out to be a doomed trip to
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  Speaker 2: the Bahamas. Investigators recently uncovered a highly suspicious detail. The
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  Speaker 2: sailboat mysteriously stopped transmitting its GPS location data on the
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  Speaker 2: exact night Lynnette disappeared, only resuming transmissions the following morning. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: a friend of Brian's, Blaine Stevenson, previously said that Brian
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  Speaker 2: returned to the sailboat with Search and reads rescue officials
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  Speaker 2: on the morning of April fifth. Federal investigators officially reopened
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  Speaker 2: the search last month after newly obtained forensic data suggested
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  Speaker 2: glaring inconsistencies in Bryan's timeline of events. Law enforcement officials
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  Speaker 2: have since seized the Soulmate from the Bahamas, docking it
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  Speaker 2: first in Fort Pierce, Florida, before moving it down to
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  Speaker 2: Fort Lauderdale. A US official states that the next critical
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  Speaker 2: phase involves hauling the massive sailboat completely out of the
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  Speaker 2: water and transporting it into a secure warehouse for an
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  Speaker 2: elite forensic sweep. In southern California, a desperate international manhunt
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  Speaker 2: is actively under way. A Los Angeles man stands accused
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  Speaker 2: of a horrific double crime, allegedly murdering his partner and
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  Speaker 2: fleeing across the border with their five year old daughter,
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  Speaker 2: triggering an urgent multi agency Amber alert. The suspect, forty
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  Speaker 2: year old Reuben for Gooso Warez, who was previously named
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  Speaker 2: as Reuben for Gooso by the LAPD, has been officially
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  Speaker 2: charged with one count of murder and one misdemeanor count
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  Speaker 2: of child abuse under circumstances or can conditions other than
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  Speaker 2: great bodily injury or death. According to prosecutors, Forgoso allegedly
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  Speaker 2: murdered his thirty six year old girlfriend Honor about Monday,
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  Speaker 2: May twenty fifth, before immediately fleeing to Mexico with their child.
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  Speaker 2: If convicted as charged, he faces a maximum sentence of
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  Speaker 2: twenty five years to life in state prison. Tragically, caught
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  Speaker 2: in the center of this nightmare is their five year
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  Speaker 2: old daughter, de Leeza. The California Highway Patrol issued an
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  Speaker 2: amber alert for Delaza, who was last seen with her
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  Speaker 2: father at around four am local time on Sunday, May
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourth in the Los Angeles area. Investigators tracking their
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  Speaker 2: movements uncovered chilling surveillance footage from a parking garage in
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  Speaker 2: Sanya Sidro, located just near the United States and Mexico border.
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  Speaker 2: Captured on Sunday, the footage appears to show for Goso
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  Speaker 2: pulling a suitcase as the pair exited the garage. The
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  Speaker 2: footage shows the suspect wearing ripped jeans, a black vest,
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  Speaker 2: and a black hat, while Delaza was seen in a
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  Speaker 2: light blue shirt and sweatpants. The California Highway Patrol later
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  Speaker 2: confirmed them for Goso's vehicle, a white twenty nineteen land
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  Speaker 2: Rover Discovery with California license plate nine DAW seven one five,
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  Speaker 2: was located inside the parking lot of the Sanya Sidro
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  Speaker 2: point of entry. However, the father and daughter were nowhere
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  Speaker 2: to be found. In a release shared on Tuesday, May
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixth, the LAPD stated that investigators learned for Goso
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  Speaker 2: had made explicit statements indicating his intention to flee the country.
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  Speaker 2: This discovery followed a welfare check at a home at
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  Speaker 2: around twelve forty pm on Monday, May twenty fifth, where
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  Speaker 2: officers found Reuben's wife deceased. The LAPD noted that a
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  Speaker 2: preliminary investigation indicates the victim died as a result of violence,
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  Speaker 2: confirming that for Goso was the victim's husband. Los Angeles
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  Speaker 2: County District Attorney Nathan Honchman expressed the deep community trauma
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  Speaker 2: surrounding the case. Quote, the killing of a mother and
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  Speaker 2: the abduction of a young child is the kind of
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  Speaker 2: violence that shocks the entire community. I cannot imagine the
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  Speaker 2: grief and fear that the innocent child faced as she
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  Speaker 2: was allegedly snatched after her mother was killed. The defendant
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  Speaker 2: will face his day in court, and her Family Violence
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  Speaker 2: Division will pursue every available resource and work with federal
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  Speaker 2: and Mexican law enforcement authorities to seek Justice detectives are
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  Speaker 2: actively seeking any information regarding their whereabouts. De Liza is
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  Speaker 2: described as three feet tall, weighing forty five pounds, with
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  Speaker 2: black hair and brown eyes. Reuben Fergoso stands at five
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  Speaker 2: feet nine inches tall, weighs two hundred pounds, and has
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  Speaker 2: black hair and brown eyes. Anyone who sees them is
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  Speaker 2: urged to call nine one one immediately or contact the
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  Speaker 2: LAPD Robbery Homicide Division at three two three seven eight
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  Speaker 2: six fifty one hundred. We turn to Hawaii, where a
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  Speaker 2: terrifying multi day crime spree and a remote paradise has
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  Speaker 2: come to an end with the suspect behind bars. A
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  Speaker 2: thirty six year old man has been hit with a
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  Speaker 2: mountain of criminal charges following the brutal murders of three
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  Speaker 2: elderly men on the Big Island. The suspect, Jacob Baker,
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  Speaker 2: of Pahoa, Hawaii, was apprehended by law enforcement following an
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  Speaker 2: intensive manhunt involving both state and federal authorities, who had
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  Speaker 2: warned the public that Baker was armed and extremely dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: On Sunday, officials announced that Baker faces one count of
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  Speaker 2: first degree murder and three counts of second degree murder
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  Speaker 2: alongside a list of other offenses. He is currently being
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  Speaker 2: held without bond. During a news conference, Hawaii Police Chief
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  Speaker 2: Read Mahuna detailed the extensive charges leveled against the suspect.
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  Speaker 5: Hawaii Police Department officers received information that the possible suspect
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  Speaker 5: had been observed hiding within a grassy area in a field.
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  Speaker 5: Witnesses reported observing the mail party ducking down as passing
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  Speaker 5: traffic approached. Investigators subsequently obtained video surveillance footage that corroborated
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  Speaker 5: these observations. The surveillance footage also captured the suspect fleeing
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  Speaker 5: from the initial property onto an adjacent property.
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  Speaker 2: Those severe charges stem from a series of gruesome killings
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  Speaker 2: that occurred over a span of just two days in
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  Speaker 2: a remote real part of Pahoa. Police have identified the
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  Speaker 2: victim a sixty nine year old Robert Shine, sixty nine
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  Speaker 2: year old John carsh and a seventy nine year old
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  Speaker 2: man whose name has not yet been formally released. All
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  Speaker 2: three men were found dead at separate residences. Robert Shine's
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  Speaker 2: body was discovered by investigators partially submerged in a cement
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  Speaker 2: pond just a few hundred feet away from that location.
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  Speaker 2: Officers discovered the deceased seventy nine year old victim. The
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  Speaker 2: third victim, John Cars, was found dead at a property
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  Speaker 2: located roughly nineteen miles away. Baker's run from the law
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  Speaker 2: ended in Kalapana, approximately ten miles from Pahoa, after sharp
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  Speaker 2: eyed witnesses noticed suspicious activity in a vacant lot. Police
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  Speaker 2: Chief Read Mahuna explained how surveillance footage and citizen reports
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  Speaker 2: directly led to Baker's capture.
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  Speaker 5: The suspect, Jacob Baker, at this time, has been arrested
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  Speaker 5: for the following offenses murder in the second degree, burglary
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  Speaker 5: in the first degree, unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle
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  Speaker 5: in the first degree, theft in the first degree, criminal
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  Speaker 5: property damage in the fourth degree, theft in the fourth degree,
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  Speaker 5: and unauthorized entry into a mortar vehicle in the first degree.
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  Speaker 2: Chief Mahuna revealed that tactical teams ultimately discovered Baker hiding
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  Speaker 2: in a small cave located on a property adjacent to
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  Speaker 2: the vacant lot. While the arrest brought immediate relief to
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  Speaker 2: the local community, many questions remain unanswered. The police chief
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  Speaker 2: noted that investigators have not yet established a clear motive
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  Speaker 2: for the rampage, and so far no known connections have
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  Speaker 2: been found between the three elderly victims, other than the
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  Speaker 2: fact that two of them happened to live near one another.
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  Speaker 2: A Shelby County jury has officially decided the fate of
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  Speaker 2: Shannon Gilday, the man who violently invaded a Kentucky home
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two and murdered thirty two year old
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Morgan, in a decision that fell short of what
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors in the victim's family fought for. The twelve jurors
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  Speaker 2: rejected the death penalty. Instead, they sentenced Gilday to life
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  Speaker 2: in prison, with the possibility of parole after twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: It brings a dramatic close to a trial that laid
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  Speaker 2: bare the sheer terror of that early morning assault. Driven
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  Speaker 2: by a delusional obsession with nuclear war, Gilday broke into
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  Speaker 2: the home of former state Representative see Wesley Morgan to
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  Speaker 2: access a massive underground survival bunker. Armed with an AR fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: Gilda shot Jordan Morgan more than twenty times as she slept.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan's father, Wesley Morgan, recounted the frantic seconds he spent
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  Speaker 2: trying to protect his family to our friends at Fox
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  Speaker 2: fifty six.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a shot three times.
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  Speaker 2: I'm bleeding profusely.
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  Speaker 1: I know my daughter's been killed because there's no other
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  Speaker 1: explanation for the shots that I heard, and I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to interdict him before he kills us.
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  Speaker 2: All the defense in prosecution offered vastly different pictures to
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  Speaker 2: the jury before they deliberated. Special Prosecutor Todd Willard argued
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  Speaker 2: forcefully for the ultimate punishment, telling jurors there are certain
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  Speaker 2: crimes of aggravated murder that deserve the death penalty, and
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  Speaker 2: this is one of those. Meanwhile, defense attorney Tom Griffiths
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  Speaker 2: made an emotional plea for mercy, arguing that Gilday suffers
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  Speaker 2: from severe mental illness and genuinely believed the world was ending.
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  Speaker 2: Griffith noted that Gilday remains so delusional he still asks
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  Speaker 2: if the jail is strong enough to survive a nuclear attack.
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  Speaker 2: But for the Morgan family, the trauma has completely broken them.
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  Speaker 2: They spent years living out of a heavily armed RV,
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  Speaker 2: too terrified to return home.
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  Speaker 1: That's what a parent's supposed to do, is provide security,
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  Speaker 1: it's safety to their family and their home. I failed
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  Speaker 1: to do that. I failed her miserably and I can
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  Speaker 1: live over there for the rest of my life. I'll
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  Speaker 1: ever get over it, ever to God for nothing.
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  Speaker 2: As the Morgan family faces the reality that their daughter's
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  Speaker 2: killer could eventually taste freedom, they say they are now
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  Speaker 2: shifting their focus to fighting for stronger legal protections for
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  Speaker 2: victims of violent crime. For the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 2: breaking news, be sure to tune in tomorrow on your
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  Speaker 2: favorite podcast app with this crime alert. I'm Sidney Sulvanni.