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Crime Alert 09.09.24 | Machete Wielding Home Intruder Thwarted by Gun · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. The
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  Speaker 1: Stephens family enjoys a quiet morning at their Texas home
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  Speaker 1: when Daryl Stevens spots a man with a machete on
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  Speaker 1: their ring camera casing out the house. He has his wife,
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  Speaker 1: hi their two young children, calls nine one one while
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  Speaker 1: he runs around, locking doors and loading a handgun. Jesse
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  Speaker 1: Escimeda climbs onto the back porch with the machete in hand,
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  Speaker 1: but quickly retraces his steps when Stephen greets him with
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  Speaker 1: a gun Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: While Escamia retreats, cops are arriving, meeting him with handcuffs
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  Speaker 2: in the front yard. The Stevens moved out to Liberty Hill, Texas,
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  Speaker 2: a small world town, to feel safer than they did
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  Speaker 2: in their Austin home. Now that sense of security has
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  Speaker 2: been ripped away, Darryl Stephens saying they will be upping
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  Speaker 2: security to turn their home into Fort Knox.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Eskima, forty three, now charged with criminal trespass. A
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  Speaker 1: California Highway Patrol helicopter tries to break up a huge
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  Speaker 1: car side show when of the occupants of a Cadillac
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  Speaker 1: CT six starts shining lasers into the violet's eyes. Vallejo
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  Speaker 1: police on the ground try to stop the caddy, but
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  Speaker 1: the driver takes off, leading a chase for ten miles
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  Speaker 1: before four people bail out of the car. While police
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  Speaker 1: chase down the suspects, several others stay behind to search
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  Speaker 1: the car. They find a ten foot python inside. A
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  Speaker 1: very brave officer poses for photos with the snake, which
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  Speaker 1: is then returned to its owner after he's released on
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  Speaker 1: bail with a felony evading charge. I bet when they
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  Speaker 1: were reunited they had a nice long hug.
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  Speaker 3: 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 began in Las Vegas as four teenagers have pleaded
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  Speaker 3: guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the fatal beating of their
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  Speaker 3: high school classmate, Jonathan Lewis junior. For more, we turned
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  Speaker 3: to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: The plea is part of a negotiated deal with prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: that will prevent the teams from being tried bolts. The
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  Speaker 2: case originally saw the four charges as adults with second
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  Speaker 2: degree murder and conspiracy stemming from the violent incident in November.
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  Speaker 3: Of last year.
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  Speaker 2: The attack which was captured on cell phone video and
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  Speaker 2: widely circulated on social media, sparked outrage and calls for justice.
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  Speaker 2: Under the terms of the plea agreement, the teens will
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  Speaker 2: be sentenced to time in a juvenile detention center, though
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  Speaker 2: the exact duration of their incarceration remains undecided. According to
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  Speaker 2: our friends with the Las Vegas Review Journal, the juvenile
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  Speaker 2: justice system in Clark County, which encompasses Las Vegas, focuses
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  Speaker 2: on rehabilitation rather than traditional imprisonment. Miners prosecuted in this
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  Speaker 2: system are typically released after completing specific rehabilitation programs, as
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  Speaker 2: explained by Bridget Duffy, director of the Juvenile Division of
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  Speaker 2: the Clark County District Attorney's Office. The names of the
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  Speaker 2: defendants are not being released by Crime Online due to
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  Speaker 2: their ages at the time of the crime. Defense attorney
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  Speaker 2: Robert Droskovich, representing one of the teenagers, described the plea
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  Speaker 2: deal as a quote very fair resolution. However, not everyone
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  Speaker 2: agrees with the outcome. Lewis's mother, Melissa Ray, expressed her
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  Speaker 2: dissatisfaction with the plea agreement the District Attorney's office in
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  Speaker 2: a statement to the Associated Press last month. Defend of
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  Speaker 2: the decision, highlighting the complexities of the case and the
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  Speaker 2: potential legal challenges that could have arisen if it had
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  Speaker 2: gone to trial. The office also emphasized that the juvenile
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  Speaker 2: court system is better suited to provide the necessary resources
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  Speaker 2: for the defendant's rehabilitation.
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  Speaker 3: In Nevada, teenagers thirteen and older who are charged with
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  Speaker 3: murder can be prosecuted as adults. A significant breakthrough in
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  Speaker 3: a decade's old cold case has led to the arrest
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  Speaker 3: of a Missouri man in connection with the nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 3: three rape and murder of a young Indianapolis woman. Once
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  Speaker 3: again Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities of charge fifty two year old Dana Shepherd, a
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  Speaker 2: resident of Columbia, Missouri, with murder, felony murder, and rape
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  Speaker 2: after DNA evidence linked him to the brutal killing of
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  Speaker 2: nineteen year old Carman Van Huss. According to the Indianapolis
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  Speaker 2: Metropolitan Police Department, Sheppard was apprehended in Missouri and is
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  Speaker 2: currently being held without bond at the Boone County Jail.
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  Speaker 2: An extra day hearing is expected to take place in
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  Speaker 2: the coming days. The case dates back to March nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety three, when Van Huss was found dead in her
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  Speaker 2: Indianapolis apartment by her father after she failed to report
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  Speaker 2: to work. Court documents reveal the horrifying details of the crime.
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  Speaker 2: Van Huss had been raped and stabbed sixty one times.
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  Speaker 2: Despite the presence of DNA evidence on her body and
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  Speaker 2: bloodstains on a paper bag found in her apartment, the
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  Speaker 2: investigation eventually stalled, leaving the case unsolved for years. In
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  Speaker 2: a renewed effort to crack the case, the Indianapolis Police
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  Speaker 2: submitted the DNA sample to a specialized genetic analysis company
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen. Last year, advancement's in genetic genealogy allowed
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  Speaker 2: detectives to identify Shepherd as a potential suspect. Further investigation
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  Speaker 2: led to the collection of Shepherd's DNA in February, which
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  Speaker 2: matched the DNA found on Van HUSS's body and the
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  Speaker 2: paper bag.
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  Speaker 3: Investigators have determined that both Van Huss and Shepherd were
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  Speaker 3: residents of the same apartment complex at the time of
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  Speaker 3: the crime.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John Bethany Brown, thirty nine, goes home with her
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  Speaker 1: children boyfriend Tony Swainey after her daughter's sixth birthday party
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  Speaker 1: hosted at Grandma Brenda Barnes home. Taylorsville, North Carolina. Hours later,
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  Speaker 1: Bethany calls min Brenda, distraught over an argument with Swayney.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, Swainey finds Bethany gone. She doesn't answer
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  Speaker 1: calls from Swainey or Mom Brenda. Bethany's car and purse
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  Speaker 1: still at home, phone missing, attempts to ping it unsuccessful.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Swainey cooperates with the investigation and pastor Polly. Alexander
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff search multiple places suggested by family members. No
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  Speaker 1: sign of Bethany. Bethany Brown now missing two years. Bethany
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  Speaker 1: five five, one hundred and thirty pounds, brown hair, blue eyes.
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  Speaker 1: She's got a butterfly tattoo on her left hip. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info on Bethany Brown, called Alexander County, North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina Sheriff's eight two eight six ' three to two
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  Speaker 1: one one one. For the latest crime in justice news,
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  Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com and please join us
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  Speaker 1: for our daily podcast crime Stories with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.