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MISSING 38 WEEK PREGNANT WOMAN FOUND DEAD | CRIME ALERT RECAP SATURDAY 11. 29.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime a Lord hourly update Breaking crime News Now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Dave Mack. A body matching the description of a Michigan
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  Speaker 1: pregnant missing woman, Rebecca K. Park was discovered Tuesday, November
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifth, and shortly after her fiance and younger sister
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  Speaker 1: are arrested. Rebecca twenty two, has not been seen since
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  Speaker 1: just before midnight November three, and a massive search effort
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  Speaker 1: has been underway to locate her, with family members appearing
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  Speaker 1: on local news programs to spread the word. There was
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  Speaker 1: an added sense of urgency to the search efforts because
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca was thirty eight weeks pregnant at the time she
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  Speaker 1: went missing. Rebecca's phone has been found near her mother's house.
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  Speaker 1: Her body is found in Manistee National Forest, Michigan State
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  Speaker 1: Police saying. Officials declined to say if the remains of
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  Speaker 1: a newborn are also discovered, or if the victim was
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  Speaker 1: or had been pregnant. Park was due to give birth
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  Speaker 1: November eighteen. Among the very vocal family members asking for
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  Speaker 1: help locating Rebecca have been her fiance, Richard Faller, and
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  Speaker 1: her younger sister, Kimberly Valor suggest in an interview with
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  Speaker 1: WWTV the day Rebecca vanishes. An unknown person picks her
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  Speaker 1: up from her mother's home and takes her away in
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  Speaker 1: a car. Shortly after the discovery of the body, Fowler,
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  Speaker 1: forty three, is booked into custody at the Wexford County
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  Speaker 1: Jail around seven thirty pm, according to custody records obtained
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  Speaker 1: by People. A few hours later, shortly after midnight on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: November twenty sixth, Kimberly Park, twenty one, is also booked
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  Speaker 1: into the same jail. The reasons for the arrest have
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  Speaker 1: not been disclosed, and it is not clear whether they
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  Speaker 1: relate to Rebecca Park's case. There are no charges listed
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  Speaker 1: for either Fowler or Kimberly at this time. Dwickford County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office declined to comment further offending an autopsy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm nicole Parton. Authorities alleged that a Virginia assistant principal
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  Speaker 2: and his brother were recently overheard discussing plans to harm
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  Speaker 2: immigration officers, though their legal representatives dispute the validity of
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  Speaker 2: these claims. Federal investigations into John Wilson Bennett and Mark
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  Speaker 2: Mark Booth Bennett began on November seventeen, following an off
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  Speaker 2: duty police officer in Norfolk, Virginia, who reportedly heard them
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  Speaker 2: planning to quote kill police officers and ICE agents, according
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  Speaker 2: to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. Allegedly,
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  Speaker 2: Mark Bennett also expressed intentions to meet with quote like
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  Speaker 2: minded people in Las Vegas to purchase firearms, including ammunition
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  Speaker 2: designed for explosive impact, to execute their plans. On November nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: Mark Bennett was arrested at Norfolk International Airport, where he
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  Speaker 2: was preparing to travel to Las Vegas, with a layover
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  Speaker 2: in Charlotte, North Carolina. His brother, John, who serves as
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  Speaker 2: the assistant principal at Kempsville High School, was arrested the
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  Speaker 2: same day in Virginia Beach. It is alarming that someone,
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  Speaker 2: especially an educator, would consider plotting to kill and attack
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement officers and ICE agents discussing how to acquire
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  Speaker 2: high caliber rifle capable of penetrating bullet proof vests, remarked
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  Speaker 2: Assistant Secretary Trisha mcglothin with DHS. Both brothers are facing
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  Speaker 2: charges of conspiracy to commit malicious wounding. It remains unclear
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  Speaker 2: whether they have entered a plea. Their defense team has
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  Speaker 2: contended that the conversations were hearsay and that both brothers
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  Speaker 2: do not pose a threat to the community, as reported
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  Speaker 2: by the Associated Press, Their attorneys also claim that Mark
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  Speaker 2: was traveling to Vegas to attend a Formula one race,
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  Speaker 2: not to acquire weapons. The brothers have been placed under
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  Speaker 2: house arrest until their pre trial.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Drew Nelson, a Utah father sits in jail without
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  Speaker 3: bail after prosecutors charge him with child torture and abuse
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  Speaker 3: tied to a dangerous mountain hike that nearly killed as
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  Speaker 3: three children. Micah Smith was charged in Salt Lake County
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  Speaker 3: with three counts of child torture and three counts of
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  Speaker 3: aggravated child abuse, all first degree felonies. He's being held
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  Speaker 3: without bail to rescue folks.
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  Speaker 4: For them, this hike was a hard hike. This is
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  Speaker 4: not an easy height. This is a one that even
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  Speaker 4: has strained and professional today suffered injury trying to respond
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  Speaker 4: to it.
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  Speaker 3: District Attorney sim Gill adds that as conditions worsened, the
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  Speaker 3: eight year old was taught CPR.
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  Speaker 4: Hard to say for her brother and also to continue
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  Speaker 4: to go through that experience where she communicated fear and
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  Speaker 4: concern and they were told to march.
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  Speaker 3: On The case began October eleventh, a hike in Big
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  Speaker 3: Cottonwood Canyon. Smith took his three children onto the Broad's
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  Speaker 3: Fork trail. The children ages two, four, and eight. Investigators
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  Speaker 3: said Smith did not check the weather. The indictment says
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  Speaker 3: the group climbed thousands of feet up the mountain a
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  Speaker 3: storm moved in snow, hail, and rain. Family members reported
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  Speaker 3: them missing when they did not return. Search and rescue
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  Speaker 3: teams were sent into the canyon on October twelfth. Cruise
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  Speaker 3: later found Smith on the trail. Rescuers said he was
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  Speaker 3: acting oddly. They said he told them one of his
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  Speaker 3: children had died. The two younger children had fallen and
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  Speaker 3: suffered head trauma. One had stopped breathing. When rescuers reached
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  Speaker 3: the children, they were beside a boulder with a few
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  Speaker 3: sticks stacked to block the wind. The children were not
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  Speaker 3: wearing much clothing. The two year old was under the
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  Speaker 3: four year old. The four year old was unconscious and
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  Speaker 3: appeared lifeless. First responders could not detect a pulse. Cruise
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  Speaker 3: performed about twenty minutes of CPR, rushing him to the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: Doctors recorded his body temperature at sixty two point six
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  Speaker 3: degrees He later suffered a stroke. Part of his skull
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  Speaker 3: had to be removed, and a drain was surgically inserted.
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  Speaker 3: The four year old remains hospitalized. The eight year old
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  Speaker 3: told investigators clouds moved in fast. She said the storm
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  Speaker 3: worsened throughout the night. Video from Smith's phone captured one
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  Speaker 3: child asking quote, are we going to freeze to death?
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  Speaker 3: Investigators also reviewed messages Smith exchanged with his wife. She
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  Speaker 3: urged him to get the children down before dark. At
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  Speaker 3: one point, she texted him the words child in danger.
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  Speaker 4: Men.
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  Speaker 3: Smith still continued upward, charging document state. Smith later admitted
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  Speaker 3: he did not check trail or weather reports. He said
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  Speaker 3: the family tried to hike down around six pm, but
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  Speaker 3: only made it about six hundred feet before stopping to
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  Speaker 3: shelter beneath the rock. Prosecutors also revealed prior police contact
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  Speaker 3: with him. About one month before the hike, Smith expressed
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  Speaker 3: suicidal thoughts to an officer and said he wanted to
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  Speaker 3: climb a mountain. Officers found two guns and an axe
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  Speaker 3: in his vehicle. Smith denied he planned to hurt himself.
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  Speaker 3: On November tenth, weeks after the rescue, Smith was thrown
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  Speaker 3: out of the hospital.
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  Speaker 4: The defendant was trespassed from Primary Children's Hospital for interfering
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  Speaker 4: with one of his child's care and tapering.
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  Speaker 3: Without equipment, referring to the four year old boy. After
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  Speaker 3: that incident, he was arrested for domestic violence. Details of
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  Speaker 3: that case have not been made public.
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  Speaker 1: D A.
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  Speaker 3: Gilsays the children are now receiving proper medical care. Child
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  Speaker 3: Protective Services is involved. The investigation remains active as Smith
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  Speaker 3: awaits further court proceedings.
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  Speaker 1: In Salt Lake County, the revs. Hernandez case has taken
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  Speaker 1: another turn, forcing police to finally provide some new information
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  Speaker 1: to a case that has been creating headlines for months,
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  Speaker 1: with LAPD remaining mostly silent. The story began when the
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  Speaker 1: body of missing teen Celesterevas Hernandez was found decomposing in
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  Speaker 1: the front of an abandoned Tesla registered to Singer D
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  Speaker 1: four VD David real name David Anthony Burke in September.
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  Speaker 1: Since the discovery of the body, the LAPD has remained
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  Speaker 1: relatively silent, while leagues from the investigation appear regularly on
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  Speaker 1: TMZ dot com and local news outlets. Recent reports from
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  Speaker 1: an anonymous source tied closely to the investigation claims the
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  Speaker 1: body was frozen and decapitate. Found That leaked information causes
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  Speaker 1: LAPD Captain and commanding Officer of Robbery Homicide Division, Scott
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  Speaker 1: Williams to provide an update, saying Celest's body was not
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  Speaker 1: frozen and she was not dec capitated, going so far
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  Speaker 1: as to say, quote, the whole frozen thing doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: Her body was in the car for weeks unquote. While
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  Speaker 1: the LAPD remains tight lived about the case, what is
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  Speaker 1: known is that the timeline regarding the Tesla containing the
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  Speaker 1: body of Celeste was last moved on July twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 1: The vehicle was tagged by police and later towed to
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  Speaker 1: impound on September fifth. On September eighth, police are called
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  Speaker 1: to the impound lot due to a horrible smell coming
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  Speaker 1: from the tesla, and the remains of Celest are found.
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  Speaker 1: Celeste remains are discovered one day after her fifteenth birthday,
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  Speaker 1: leading some news outlets to identify her as being fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years old. Captain Williams corrects this by saying she was
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  Speaker 1: only fourteen when she died. Celeste Revas Hernandez was reported
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  Speaker 1: missing by her parents and like elsono Or, California, on
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  Speaker 1: April five, twenty twenty four, when she was just thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: Even though there's clear video of it and showing Celeste
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  Speaker 1: at her parents' home in September of twenty two, twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: the status of her case was not changed and she
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  Speaker 1: was still considered a missing person when her remains were found.
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  Speaker 1: The autopsy report for Celeste was listed as deferred while
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  Speaker 1: awaiting toxicology and additional tests, but now LAPD Detective Joshua
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  Speaker 1: Buyers refers to the case as an ongoing investigation of
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  Speaker 1: murder and releasing the medical examiner's findings could endanger the
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  Speaker 1: lives of witnesses and or compromise the investigation. Buyer says
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  Speaker 1: making the document's public will reveal or tend to reveal
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  Speaker 1: the ongoing investigation and the integrity of the investigation, as
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  Speaker 1: well as the identity of witnesses and or informants who
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  Speaker 1: are cooperating with law enforcement and the content of the
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  Speaker 1: information they have provided, which could endanger the lives of
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  Speaker 1: witnesses and or compromise the investigation. Los Angeles Superior Court
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  Speaker 1: Judge Craig Richmond ordered that all documents related to the
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  Speaker 1: court order be sealed until further order of this Court
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  Speaker 1: or a competent court having jurisdiction over the matter. David
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Burke has been identified as a suspect and Celette's death.
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