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Wife's friends smelled a rat in Colorado killer dad Chris Watts · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. But first this crime online
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  Speaker 1: dot Com news update. I'm Alan Duke. A teenager who
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  Speaker 1: allegedly exchanged gunfire with police outside of a Richmond, Indiana
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  Speaker 1: middle school Thursday morning, is dead, apparently of a self
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  Speaker 1: inflicted gunshot wound. The team reportedly ran into the Dentists
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  Speaker 1: Intermediate School, but no students were injured. Our TV six
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  Speaker 1: News in Indianapolis spoke a short time ago with Peggy Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: who lives across the street from the school and saw
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  Speaker 1: what happened. Well, I take my sister to school to
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  Speaker 1: the high school every morning, and we had just gotten
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  Speaker 1: back and we let the dogs out and I heard,
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, like three gunshots, and I look
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  Speaker 1: out my door and the police were shooting up at
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  Speaker 1: the door and they shot the window out. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see any guns. I just saw the kid dressed in
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  Speaker 1: all black and he had a big goal looked like
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  Speaker 1: gun case, and um he climbed in the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the door when they shot the glass out, and then
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  Speaker 1: I heard they all hid behind the pine tree, and
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  Speaker 1: about five minutes later they all started bum rushing inside.
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  Speaker 1: What was going through your thought or through your mind
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  Speaker 1: at that moment. It was pretty shocking because you don't
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  Speaker 1: you just don't hear about, you know, things like that.
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  Speaker 1: And then I started speaking with the dad and he
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  Speaker 1: was telling me how his son has been bullied for
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  Speaker 1: a while, so they took him out of school for
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  Speaker 1: two years, and that he thought he was getting better,
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  Speaker 1: but this morning he told him that he took it.
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  Speaker 1: Either took him to school or he was gonna kill him,
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  Speaker 1: and he told him he was going to kill himself,
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  Speaker 1: and um, yeah, then I just saw him climbing in
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  Speaker 1: the school. For you believe you've been talking to the
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  Speaker 1: dad of the suspect. That's that's who he said he was,
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  Speaker 1: So I boot, I like, I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 1: a fact, but yeah, he said, their car right there,
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  Speaker 1: that's where he dropped him off out was right here.
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  Speaker 1: Check Nancy's crime and justice website crime online dot com
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  Speaker 1: for updates. A New Jersey mother and five other adults
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  Speaker 1: were arrested for allegedly beating a three year old boy
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  Speaker 1: in their Newerk home. All six charged now with aggravated
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  Speaker 1: assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Picks eleven
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  Speaker 1: TV news reporter Henry Rossoff reports the adults allegedly conducted
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  Speaker 1: systematic and coordinated beatings of the child with a belt
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  Speaker 1: and fist, and poured scalding water on him as a
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  Speaker 1: form of punishment. Police say the three year old was
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  Speaker 1: systematically beaten with a belt and fists and scolded with
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  Speaker 1: hot water as a form of corporal punishment. Neighbors clueless
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  Speaker 1: to the abuses inside the home on Clinton Place were
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  Speaker 1: sick to their stomachs upon hearing the details. Why would
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  Speaker 1: someone with such a cold heart, you know, don't have
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  Speaker 1: any feelings like that. We beat on a child and
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  Speaker 1: scoly child is horrible. At one point, we spotted someone
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  Speaker 1: entering the lower unit of the house belower the abuse
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  Speaker 1: allegedly took place, but got no answers to our questions.
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  Speaker 1: Seuse me, guys, do you know anything about what happened here?
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  Speaker 1: Or any of the people that were arrested for child abuse?
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  Speaker 1: A California lawmaker arrested Monday on a child cruelty charge
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  Speaker 1: admits he spanked his seven year old daughter Sunday night
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  Speaker 1: for acting out. The second grader told her teacher about
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  Speaker 1: it the next morning, prompting an investigation by Child Protective Services.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation for her father Democratic Assemblyman Walking Arambula. Rambula
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  Speaker 1: tells ABC thirty Action News that he and his wife
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  Speaker 1: will learn from this, and he thanked the school, child
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  Speaker 1: Protective Services and police for doing their jobs. There's something
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  Speaker 1: to be learned in all of this. Yeah. I always
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  Speaker 1: think there's a silver lining or some opportunity to grow
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  Speaker 1: from things that happen in our lives. I'm hopeful that
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  Speaker 1: this moment will allow us to reconnect and really bond
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  Speaker 1: with our daughter and figure out how to talk with
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  Speaker 1: her and connect with her and let her know that
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  Speaker 1: she's both loved and heard and respected, and that we
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  Speaker 1: are parents and have a responsibility to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: she's raised in an appropriate way, and we're just trying
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  Speaker 1: the best we can, like every parent tries the best
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  Speaker 1: that we can. There is not an instruction manual. And
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  Speaker 1: yet my kids are amazing, and I'm so proud of
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  Speaker 1: the work that we've done together to help to raise
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  Speaker 1: them that I can't wait to see who they grow
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  Speaker 1: up to be. Along with the arrest and charges, three daughters,
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  Speaker 1: ages three, six, and seven were taken away for two
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  Speaker 1: days to stay with other relatives. They are now back home.
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  Speaker 1: A Canadian woman missing for a week has been found
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  Speaker 1: dead in Mexico. Forty one year old Christine saint Anja
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  Speaker 1: was found in Los Cabos, Mexico, where she had been
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  Speaker 1: staying at a hotel with her partner. Investigators say she
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  Speaker 1: apparently suffered a head injury inside the hotel. Her body
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  Speaker 1: was found outside her travel companion reach. He turned to
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  Speaker 1: Canada without his luggage a day after she was last seen.
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  Speaker 1: He was found dead from apparent suicide the next day.
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  Speaker 1: A diner at a Johnson City, Tennessee, steakhouse was so
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  Speaker 1: upset about how his meal was cooked Wednesday night that
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  Speaker 1: he allegedly grabbed a steak knife held it to his
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  Speaker 1: wife's throat when she tried to calm him down. Fifty
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  Speaker 1: eight year old John Hattinga then jumped into his car
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  Speaker 1: drove to a hotel where they were staying. Please found
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  Speaker 1: him there now. He's eating jail food. Hatinga appears in
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  Speaker 1: court today on an aggravated domestic assault charge. Keep up
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