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Crime Alert 06.07.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking Crime News Now. Michael
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  Speaker 1: Mahn's wife calls nine on one when she comes home
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  Speaker 1: to their Pennsylvania home to find his beheaded body. She
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  Speaker 1: says when she left, Man was home with their adult son, Justin.
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  Speaker 1: In a YouTube video posted hours earlier, the son, Justin Mann,
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  Speaker 1: holds his father's decapitated head up to the camera and
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  Speaker 1: calls for violence against the government.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Michael Mann was a federal employee with the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 2: branch of the US Army Corps of Engineers. In his
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  Speaker 2: YouTube video, Justin Mahn described a large government conspiracy and
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  Speaker 2: called his father a treater to the country. The video
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  Speaker 2: was quickly removed for violating the platform's policies. At the scene,
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  Speaker 2: investigators found the victim's head wrapped in a plastic bag
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  Speaker 2: inside a cooking pot next to the body.
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  Speaker 1: Cops fine Justin Mann two hours from the crime scene,
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  Speaker 1: driving his own dad's car. Man thirty two, booked on
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  Speaker 1: murder and abuse of a corpse. A Vegas judge is
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  Speaker 1: in hot water after posting a picture off herself in
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  Speaker 1: a hot tub with two public defenders. Judge Erica Belu
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  Speaker 1: is pictured in a hot tub with a male and
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  Speaker 1: female public defender with a racie caption posted at the bottom.
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  Speaker 1: Belu has made questionable posts in the past. Her social
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  Speaker 1: media habit now threatens her position. The Nevada Commission on
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  Speaker 1: Judicial Discipline has filed two counts of violating the Code
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  Speaker 1: of Judicial Conduct against Belu for activities that undermine public confidence.
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  Speaker 1: You can say that again. Plus don't they know those
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  Speaker 1: hot tubs are full of joms? More crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this Now with the latest crime in justice,
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  Speaker 1: breaking news crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley, a former Ohio sheriff's deputy, is scheduled for
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  Speaker 3: a retrial in the death of a twenty three year
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  Speaker 3: old black man. The prosecution asking the judge to drop
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  Speaker 3: one of two murder counts against the defendant. We turned
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  Speaker 3: to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online for more.
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  Speaker 2: In addition to one murder count for purposefully killing Casey
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  Speaker 2: Goodson junior, Jason Mead also faces one count of causing
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  Speaker 2: the victim's death during a felonious assault. However, special prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: Ten Merkel and Gary Schryer requested that the judge dismiss
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  Speaker 2: the former of the two counts. Prosecutor's reasons for making
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  Speaker 2: the request were not explained in the motion, and Merkel
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  Speaker 2: announced that they would not be commenting further on the
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  Speaker 2: procedural move. It was as Goodson was attempting to enter
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  Speaker 2: his grandmother's Columbus, Ohio home in December of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: that he was shot multiple times and killed. His death,
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  Speaker 2: along with those of several other black people at the
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  Speaker 2: hands of white Ohio law enforcement officials in the past
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  Speaker 2: ten years, has provoked widespread outrage and calls for police reform.
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  Speaker 2: Meade says that he shot Goodson because the man was
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  Speaker 2: wielding a gun. After turbulent proceedings that resulted in the
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  Speaker 2: dismissal of four jurors, Mead's first trial in February ended
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  Speaker 2: in a mistrial due to the jury's inability to reach
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  Speaker 2: a unanimous decision. The date of his retrial is set
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  Speaker 2: for October thirty first. Mead faced charges of both murder
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  Speaker 2: and reckless homicide and the death of Goodson. Mead entered
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  Speaker 2: a not guilty plea, and his attorneys claimed that political
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  Speaker 2: pressure from local elected officials was the reason behind the
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  Speaker 2: prosecution's decision to request a second trial. Mead shot Goodson
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  Speaker 2: six times in the entryway of his grandmother's house, five
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  Speaker 2: of the shots hitting him in his back. Mead stated
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  Speaker 2: in his deposition that he was afraid for both his
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  Speaker 2: life and the lives of others when Goodson pointed a
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  Speaker 2: gun at him as the two drove past each other.
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  Speaker 2: Mead claimed he shot Goodson as the young man turned
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  Speaker 2: toward him with a gun in his hand. According to
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  Speaker 2: Goodson's family in the prosecution, he was shot and killed
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  Speaker 2: while clutching his keys in one hand in a sandwich
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  Speaker 2: bag in the other. They acknowledged that Goodson may have
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  Speaker 2: had a gun, but that he had a license to
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  Speaker 2: carry a firearm. The handgun that belonged to Goodson, a
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  Speaker 2: weapon with an extended magazine, was discovered with its safety
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  Speaker 2: mechanism activated on his grandmother's kitchen floor. Prosecutors maintained throughout
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  Speaker 2: the first trial that Mead was the only witness to
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  Speaker 2: Goodson's holding a gun. There is no video of the incident,
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  Speaker 2: as the officer was not wearing a body camera.
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  Speaker 3: It's unclear when a judgment will be made on the
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  Speaker 3: dismissal request. The trial date for a man accused of
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  Speaker 3: killing rapper Young Dolph in a daytime gun attack at
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  Speaker 3: a cookie store in Memphis, Tennessee has now been rescheduled
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  Speaker 3: by the court once again. Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Jennifer J. Mitchell of Shelby County, Tennessee, has now
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  Speaker 2: set a trial date of September twenty third for twenty
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  Speaker 2: six year old Justin Johnson. The defendant entered a not
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  Speaker 2: guilty plea to first degree murder in connection with the
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  Speaker 2: November twenty twenty one shooting death of young Dolph, who
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  Speaker 2: was buying cookies at a bakery close to his childhood home.
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  Speaker 2: Johnson's trial was scheduled to begin this week on May fourteenth. However,
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  Speaker 2: the prosecution in Johnson's attorney jointly filed a motion requesting
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  Speaker 2: that the trial be postponed so that they could call
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  Speaker 2: expert witnesses to testify about records pertaining to cell phone location.
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  Speaker 3: Due to extensive media coverage of the thirty six year
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  Speaker 3: old rapper's death, which stunned Memphis and the entertainment industry,
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  Speaker 3: Mitchell decided in February that the trial jury will be
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  Speaker 3: drawn from outside of Memphis.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Jean Rachel Cook, just nineteen, comes home to Georgetown,
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  Speaker 1: Texas after her first semester at San Diego Mason College.
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  Speaker 1: She's pursuing a fashion degree. She brings her boyfriend home
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  Speaker 1: for the holidays with her family, and he returns to
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  Speaker 1: San Diego after New Year's Rachel stays behind for a
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  Speaker 1: wedding across country runner. Rachel often takes a four mile
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  Speaker 1: run around her parents neighborhood. People see her on the
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  Speaker 1: run starting at nine thirty eight m January ten. A
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  Speaker 1: neighbor just a few doors down remember seeing her cooling
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  Speaker 1: down and walking back toward her home, but she never
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  Speaker 1: makes it. After hours pass and Rachel still has not returned,
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  Speaker 1: her family reports her missing. Extensive searches en sue no
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  Speaker 1: sign of Rachel. Rachel Cook will now be forty one.
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  Speaker 1: She's been missing twenty two years. If you have info
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  Speaker 1: on Rachel Cook, call Williamson County, Texas Sheriff's five one
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  Speaker 1: two nine four three five two zero four. For the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com
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  Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.