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Speaker 1: You're listing tea Amma Meir podcast. Hey I'm Taylor Strano

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Speaker 1: from Mamma MIA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with

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Speaker 1: Your Headlines for Friday, October twenty four. Three men accused

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Speaker 1: of being part of a kill crew have been charged

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Speaker 1: after a woman was brutally kidnapped and murdered the body

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Speaker 1: of Taikim Tran was found in a burnt out car

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Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills in Sydney, Southwest on April seventeen. Investigators

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Speaker 1: alleged her husband was involved with an organized crime gang

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Speaker 1: in Melbourne. When the three men couldn't find him, they

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Speaker 1: instead killed Miss Tran. An injured an eight year old

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Speaker 1: boy who was at home at the time of the

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Speaker 1: alleged attack. Police were told a group of people armed

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Speaker 1: with a firearm had pushed their way into her home

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Speaker 1: and assaulted the boy before forcing the woman into the car.

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Speaker 1: About an hour later, the car was found of lakes

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Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills with Miss Tran's body inside. A statement

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Speaker 1: from New South Wales Place confirms they will allege the

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Speaker 1: men were part of a kill crew assigned to take

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Speaker 1: out Mistran's husband when they couldn't locate him. A murdered

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Speaker 1: Mistrand Instead. The men aged twenty twenty one and thirty

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Speaker 1: two have been charged with murder and other offenses. A

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Speaker 1: twenty nine year old man was charged in August with

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Speaker 1: murder and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm

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Speaker 1: over the attack and remains before the court. A new

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Speaker 1: task couse has been assembled to lead the search for

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Speaker 1: fugitive accused police killer Desi Freeman as authorities consolidate resources. Freeman,

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Speaker 1: who also goes by Desmond Philby, has been on the

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Speaker 1: run after allegedly shooting dead police officers Neil Thompson and

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Speaker 1: Vadam de Ward Hotheart while they served a warrant at

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Speaker 1: his Poor Punker home, about three hundred kilometers northeast of Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: For more than two months, hundreds of police have been

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Speaker 1: involved in the man hunt, with over four hundred officers

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Speaker 1: deployed in the hours and days after the killings. In August,

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Speaker 1: the search was scaled back to more than two hundred police.

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Speaker 1: In September, Detectives from Crime Command, Fugitive Squad, Armed Crime Squad,

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Speaker 1: Viper Task Force, Special Operations Group, Search and Rescue and

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Speaker 1: local Air Wing members will officially take over the ongoing

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Speaker 1: search on Friday. Victoria Police say the task Force summit

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Speaker 1: will be led by a detective from the Crime Command

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Speaker 1: State Anti Gang's Division based in the Great Alpine area.

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Speaker 1: Since August twenty six, hundreds of officers and specialist resources,

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Speaker 1: including interstate and international crews, have scoured Dance Bushland, including

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Speaker 1: large parts of the Mount Buffalo National Park, in search

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Speaker 1: efforts to locate freemen. The park will fully reopen to

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Speaker 1: the public on Friday, with staff patrols continuing. Detectives have

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Speaker 1: investigated more than seventeen hundred tip offs, but none have

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Speaker 1: led investigators to Freemen. People in the area have been

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Speaker 1: advised to remain vigilant and not approach the fugitive, who's

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Speaker 1: considered armed and dangerous. Victoria Police have offered a one

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Speaker 1: million dollar reward and the possibility of indemnity for information

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Speaker 1: leading to Freeman's capture, the largest reward in the state's

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Speaker 1: history for facilitating an arrest. Thousands of Samsung mobile phone

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Speaker 1: users risk being out of pocket to replace devices that

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Speaker 1: can't connect to Triple zero after the federal government decided

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Speaker 1: not to help. Testing by Telstra found that more than

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Speaker 1: seventy older model Samsung handsets weren't connecting correctly to the

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Speaker 1: emergency number. The telco giant says eleven of those models

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Speaker 1: will need to be completely replaced, while the rest need

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Speaker 1: immediate software updates to fix the problem. Affected customers will

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Speaker 1: be notified by email or text message about what to

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Speaker 1: do next. They've also been warned of their legal obligations,

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Speaker 1: including that certain models must be replaced within twenty eight

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Speaker 1: days or they'll be blocked from the Telstra network. Federal

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Speaker 1: Emergency Management Minister Christy McBain told ABC radio it's an

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Speaker 1: issued heelco company will need to address themselves, not the

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Speaker 1: duty of the government. She also says the government was

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Speaker 1: made aware of up to ten thousand devices that may

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Speaker 1: be affected. Samsung is yet to confirm if it will

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Speaker 1: help affected customers or what kind of support may be available.

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Speaker 1: Telstra is reportedly offering customers' low cost handsets, but not

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Speaker 1: trade ins or discounts for new devices. Meanwhile, OPTS has

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Speaker 1: confirmed two senior executives will step down following last month's

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Speaker 1: triple zero outage, which has been linked to three deaths,

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Speaker 1: and just weeks after fears of losing Dolly Parton, another

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Speaker 1: famous star has had to publicly confirm she's not dead.

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Speaker 1: Bridget Bardo has rubbished a fake news report claiming that

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Speaker 1: she did in fact die. The French actress posted on

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Speaker 1: X two dismiss claims made by an influencer in a

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Speaker 1: now deleted social media post suggesting she'd passed away. The

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Speaker 1: ninety one year old let her fans know she is

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Speaker 1: doing well and has no plans of taking her back

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Speaker 1: well via a post online. The denial comes after it

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Speaker 1: was reported last week that Badeau had been hospitalized. That's

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Speaker 1: your evening news headlines on Monday's episode of The Quiki.

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Speaker 1: The social season is ramping up, But how long are

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Speaker 1: we actually obligated to stay at a party for good

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Speaker 1: social interactions? Plus, the social media ban for teens is

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Speaker 1: fast approaching, So how our Internet famous families preparing? Listen

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