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Crime Alert 10.09.24 | Mom Pushes for Answers in Daughter's Death, Husband Admits to Her Murder · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking Crimes Now. Donovan Holt
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  Speaker 1: finds his wife April almost lifeless in their Antiox, Tennessee apartment,
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  Speaker 1: a plastic bag taped around her neck. She's pronounced brain
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  Speaker 1: dead at the hospital and taken off life support. Nashville
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  Speaker 1: PD ruled April's death a suicide, but her mom, Jamie Dickerson,
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  Speaker 1: refuses to accept that theory. Mom discovers a report that
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  Speaker 1: says Donovan Holt's fingerprints found on the bag and tape,
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  Speaker 1: not april Mom. Jamie confronts at Donovan, who admits he
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  Speaker 1: murdered his wife Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: Donovan Holt did not even tell Jamie Dickerson that April
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  Speaker 2: had a bag over her head while April fought for
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  Speaker 2: her life in the hospital. On finding that out, Jamie
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  Speaker 2: did not believe April would take her own life just
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  Speaker 2: a few hours after making plans with her for the
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  Speaker 2: next day over text. After Jamie secured the confession, Nashville
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  Speaker 2: PD reopened the investigation and arrested Holt in San Antonio, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Holt has now been extradited back to now Bashville.
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  Speaker 1: Donovan Holt, thirty three, charged with reckless homicide, false report
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  Speaker 1: and tampering with evidence. A woman trying to enter Prusidio,
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  Speaker 1: Texas from Mexico is stopped for extra inspection when her
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  Speaker 1: luggage weighs more than expected. Border patrol finds nearly eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred pounds of Mexican blogoney in the suitcases. It's prohibited
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  Speaker 1: here due to the risk of foreign animal diseases. The
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  Speaker 1: woman forty three also carrying three hundred boxes of medication
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  Speaker 1: such as schedule for controlled substances like xanax in valium.
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  Speaker 1: The smuggler now facing only a one thousand dollars five Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's baloney. More crime and justice news after this Now
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  Speaker 1: with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime on Lines.
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  Speaker 3: John Lenley, the weapons supervisor involved in the fatal shooting
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  Speaker 3: on the set of the film Rust, has now pleaded
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  Speaker 3: guilty to a separate charge. Hannah Gutierra's re the armorer
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  Speaker 3: for the production, admitted to carrying a gun into a
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  Speaker 3: licensed liquor establishment and offence unrelated to the deadly shooting.
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  Speaker 3: In exchange for her guilty plea. Gutiera's reed will serve
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  Speaker 3: eighteen months of supervised probation. The plea agreement was approved
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  Speaker 3: by Judge T. Glenn Ellington allowing Gutiera's Read to begin
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  Speaker 3: probation while she serves an eighteen month prison sentence for
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  Speaker 3: her conviction on involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with the
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  Speaker 3: death of cinematographer Helena Hutchins. Gutierra's Reed was present in
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  Speaker 3: a Santa Fe courtroom to officially change her plea and
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  Speaker 3: waive her right to a trial. The gun charge stems
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  Speaker 3: from an incident in twenty twenty one, just weeks before
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  Speaker 3: filming for Russ began, when Gutier's Reed brought a handgun
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  Speaker 3: into a Santa Fe bar where firearms are prohibited. A
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  Speaker 3: video of her explaining how she smuggled the weapon into
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  Speaker 3: the bar was discovered by authorities during their investigation into
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  Speaker 3: the Rush shooting. Prosecutors have blamed Gutierra's Read for bringing
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  Speaker 3: live ammunition onto the set of Rust and for failing
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  Speaker 3: to adhere to standard safety protocols. In March, she was
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  Speaker 3: convicted of involuntary manslaughter for her role in the accidental
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  Speaker 3: shooting of Hutchins, though she is currently appealing that conviction.
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  Speaker 3: The incident occurred in October twenty twenty one when actor
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  Speaker 3: Alec Baldwin, who was also a co producer of Rust,
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  Speaker 3: was rehearsing with a revolver that discharged, killing Hutchins and
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  Speaker 3: injuring director Joel Souza. Charges against Baldwin were dismissed in
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  Speaker 3: July after it was revealed that evidence had been withheld
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  Speaker 3: by police and prosecutors. However, the special prosecutor in the
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  Speaker 3: case has asked the judge to reconsider that decision. Cleveland
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  Speaker 3: Brown's quarterback DeShawn Watson has quietly resolved the latest civil
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  Speaker 3: lawsuit brought against him, a case involving allegations of sexual
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  Speaker 3: assault and battery. For the latest returned to Sydney Sumner
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  Speaker 3: of Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: The plaintiff's attorney, Tony Busby, confirmed to her friends with
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  Speaker 2: the Associated Press that the case had been settled confidentially,
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  Speaker 2: though no further details were disclosed. The lawsuit, filed in
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  Speaker 2: September in Harris County, Texas, stemmed from an incident in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty. The unnamed woman claimed that Watson assaulted her
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  Speaker 2: during a dinner date at her apartment, seeking more than
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  Speaker 2: one million dollars in damages. This latest development comes as
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  Speaker 2: Watson continues to deny the allegations. Watson's legal troubles are
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  Speaker 2: not new. In twenty twenty two, the NFL suspended the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback for eleven games after more than two dozen women
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  Speaker 2: accused him of sexual misconduct during massages.
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  Speaker 3: That suspension, part of the violation of the league's personal
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  Speaker 3: conduct policy, was accompanied by a five million dollar fine
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  Speaker 3: and a requirement for Watson to undergo a mandatory evaluation
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  Speaker 3: before returning to play.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Brookly lapsed just nineteen, finds her dad's Greenwood,
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  Speaker 1: Indiana hull burglarized. She fils a police report and decides
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  Speaker 1: to say it her boyfriends for safety. To shaken up
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  Speaker 1: to drag she gets a family friend, Joe Nowiki, to
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  Speaker 1: drive her in Brooklyn's Chevy Corsica. She never makes it
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  Speaker 1: to the boyfriend's house. Cops learned the night she disappeared,
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  Speaker 1: Nowiki asked someone for a ride from Waverley back to
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  Speaker 1: his home. Brookley's abandoned car found a mile from where
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  Speaker 1: Newiki's picked up. Neighbors also report seeing Brookly's car parked
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  Speaker 1: at Newiki's home earlier that evening. Cops find drops of
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn's blood in Nowiki's home, but not enough to determine
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  Speaker 1: if she was seriously injured. Or killed Nowiki, then dies
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  Speaker 1: before investigators can press him for answers. Brooklyn Loux five
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  Speaker 1: to two, one hundred and twenty pounds, brown hair, blue eyes,
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  Speaker 1: last seen wearing pastel blouse, dark capris, pink sandals, and
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  Speaker 1: a gold ring. If you have info on brooklyly us
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  Speaker 1: called Greenwood, Indiana, PD three one seven eight eight seven
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