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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update Breaking crime Needs Now. I'm Drew Nelson.

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Speaker 1: A DNA test taken by a young woman in Michigan

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Speaker 1: cracks a twenty seven year old cold case, leading to

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Speaker 1: her grandmother's arrest. Jenna Rose Gerwotowski, aged twenty three, shared

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Speaker 1: on TikTok how a simple ancestry DNA kit turned into

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Speaker 1: a shocking revelation. In nineteen ninety seven, the body of

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Speaker 1: a newborn was found in an outhouse at Garnet Lake

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Speaker 1: Campground in knobin Way, Michigan. The case, known as the

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Speaker 1: Baby Garnet Case, has remained unsolved for decades. Jenna said

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Speaker 1: she took the DNA test just for fun a few

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Speaker 1: years ago. Your DNA is a direct match to the

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Speaker 1: victim of this case. And I was like, oh cool,

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Speaker 1: well what case? And he was like, you've heard of

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Speaker 1: the Baby Garnet case, right, And I was like hmm.

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Speaker 1: Further testing confirmed that Jenna's mother was directly related to

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Speaker 1: the baby, which could only mean one thing. It was

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Speaker 1: connected to her grandmother, Nancy Gerwitowski. Jenna said in her

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Speaker 1: viral video quote, I was mind blown. She's literally the

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Speaker 1: person they've been looking for all these years and it's

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Speaker 1: all because of an antistry DNA kid. Authorities arrested Nancy

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Speaker 1: Gerwatowski in charge her with murder, involuntary manslaughter, and concealing

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Speaker 1: a death. Prosecutors said Nancy gave birth the baby Garnet,

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Speaker 1: at home. The baby died of asphyxiation. Instead of seeking

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Speaker 1: medical help, Nancy left the baby in the outhouse, miles

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Speaker 1: away from her home. In October, Nancy was released on

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Speaker 1: a personal recognaissance bond. She wears a GPS monitor and

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Speaker 1: remains under home confinement. If convicted, she could face life

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Speaker 1: in prison. Nancy's hearing is set for December, and the

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Speaker 1: case has attracted widespread attention. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel

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Speaker 1: praised the role of DNA technology in the case. Quote,

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Speaker 1: thanks to the incredible efforts of investigators and advancements in genetics,

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Speaker 1: we are finally able to pursue justice for baby Garnet.

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Speaker 1: Investigators say a DNA link to a third cousin led

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Speaker 1: to a break in the case. Jenna expresses her shock quote,

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Speaker 1: I never met my grandmother, but I knew about the case.

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Speaker 1: It was a big deal in my town. More crime

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Speaker 1: and justice news after this porch pirates package theft is

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Speaker 1: on the rise in many US cities, with New York

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Speaker 1: topping the list for twenty twenty four. The Safewise Package

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Speaker 1: Theft reports shows New York City experienced about a billion

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Speaker 1: dollars in losses last year. Over half of its households

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Speaker 1: fell victim to porch pirates. Philadelphia and Chicago followed close behind,

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Speaker 1: with Chicago leading in per capita incidents seven hundred twenty

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Speaker 1: eight out of every one thousand households experience theft in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. The report's data came from thousands of Americans,

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Speaker 1: as well as crime records from major metro areas. Criminology

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Speaker 1: expert doctor Ben Sickle Tellsafewise porch piracy is what he

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Speaker 1: calls a crime of opportunity. Most thieves target packages left

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Speaker 1: unattended for long periods, He says, quote as the holiday

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Speaker 1: season nears, the number of packages on porches increases. People

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Speaker 1: are busier, leaving deliveries exposed for longer. It makes them

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Speaker 1: easy targets. Cleveland led the top ten in terms of

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Speaker 1: per capita incidents, with thieves hitting almost one thousand, four

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Speaker 1: hundred households per way one thousand people. This pattern shows

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Speaker 1: how often porch pirates returned to the same spots. Despite this,

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Speaker 1: the biggest financial losses weren't always linked to the highest

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Speaker 1: theft numbers. New York, for instance, ranked first overall, but

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Speaker 1: had fewer per capita incidents than Cleveland. Most stolen packages

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Speaker 1: were valued under one hundred dollars sixty seven percent. Amazon

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Speaker 1: deliveries were the most common target, accounting for a full

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Speaker 1: third of all thefts, following Amazon where USPS packages, FedEx packages,

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Speaker 1: and UPS packages. Safewise As data shows fifty two percent

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Speaker 1: of Americans worry about package theft, but a quarter of

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Speaker 1: them don't use any deterrence. Cameras and video doorbells were

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Speaker 1: the top tools used by those trying to prevent package theft,

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Speaker 1: followed by help from neighbors. More than eight out of

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Speaker 1: ten victims took preventative measures after getting hit by porch pirates.

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Speaker 1: Across the nation, one hundred twenty million packages were stolen

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, adding up to nearly sixteen billion

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Speaker 1: dollars in losses. The average day sees over two hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty thousand thefts, about twenty five percent involved in

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Speaker 1: stiple packages taken at once. Two young boys vanished from

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Speaker 1: a state school in New Jersey nearly fifty years ago,

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Speaker 1: and the mystery remains unsolved. David Edward Williams AH twelve

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Speaker 1: five from the New Lisbon State School in New Lisbon,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. The boys were last seen around four fifteen

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Speaker 1: PM walking back to their residence on campus after playing ball.

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Speaker 1: They never made it back. Both Stephen and David were

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Speaker 1: residents of the state school, which housed individuals with developmental disabilities. David,

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Speaker 1: who suffered from epilepsy and needed daily medication, had left

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Speaker 1: without his medicine. Stephen had trouble communicating and needed regular

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Speaker 1: supervision as well. David is black with black hair and

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Speaker 1: brown eyes, five feet one hundred and thirteen pounds at

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Speaker 1: and a protective seizure helmet. David had previously fractured his

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Speaker 1: left femur and was at risk of severe seizures without

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Speaker 1: his medication. Stephen is white hair, hazel blue eyes five

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Speaker 1: blue pants. The disappearance of David and Stephen is not

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Speaker 1: the only mystery at the New Lisbon State School. In

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, another resident, Kenneth Schweigert, also vanished without

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Speaker 1: a trace. Authorities have not confirmed that these cases are related.

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Speaker 1: The New Lisbon State School is now known as the

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Speaker 1: New Lisbon Developmental Center. Despite the investigations, all three cases

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Speaker 1: remain unsolved. For the latest Crime and Justice Newze follow

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Speaker 1: this crime alert, I'm Drew Nelson.