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Speaker 1: Crime alert. I'm John Lemley. Investigators in Birmingham, Alabama, have

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Speaker 1: confirmed that skeletal remains discovered more than two decades ago

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Speaker 1: belonged to a man who vanished nearly thirty eight years ago.

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Speaker 1: The Jefferson County Coroner's Office as the bones unearthed in

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Speaker 1: two thousand four have now been positively identified through advanced

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Speaker 1: forensic genealogy as Brian Keith Bates, a twenty one year

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Speaker 1: old who disappeared from his East Lake neighborhood on November fifteenth,

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight. Bates was reported missing after he failed

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Speaker 1: to return home from a friend's funeral. His family had

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Speaker 1: no further contact At the time, authorities believed foul play

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Speaker 1: was involved. The unidentified remains, buried in a crawl space

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Speaker 1: of a rental property, sat in evidence for years. New

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Speaker 1: DNA techniques, including genetic genealogy analysis, applied last year, ultimately

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Speaker 1: yielded a match that link the remains to Bates, and

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Speaker 1: autopsy revealed Bates died of a gunshot wound to his head,

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Speaker 1: and the coroner's office says his death is now being

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Speaker 1: treated as a homicide. Law enforcement officials hope the breakthrough

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Speaker 1: will revive leads in a case that has lingered unsolved

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Speaker 1: for generations.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice news. Go

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Speaker 2: our daily podcast crime stories, more crime and justice news

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Speaker 2: after this now with the latest crime and justice breaking

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Speaker 2: news Crime Online John Lemley.

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Speaker 1: In Fairfax, Virginia, a dramatic sentencing in a chilling double

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Speaker 1: murder case is capturing national attention. A Brazilian o pair,

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Speaker 1: Juliana Perez Muggalaniez, was sentenced February thirteenth to ten years

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Speaker 1: in prison for her role in the twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: killings of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan. Muggalaniez admitted she

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Speaker 1: helped her then employer and lover, former IRS agent Brendan Banfield,

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Speaker 1: orchestrate an elaborate plot that lured Ryan, a stranger, to

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Speaker 1: the Banfield home under the guise of a sexual encounter.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutors say that once inside, Banfield stabbed his wife to

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Speaker 1: death and Ryan was shot. Magalanes later confirmed she fired

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Speaker 1: a fatal shot as well. She initially faced more serious charges,

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Speaker 1: but pleaded guilty to manslaughter in exchange for testifying against

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Speaker 1: Banfield at his trial. The judge rejected prosecutor's recommendation for

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Speaker 1: a minimal sentence, instead imposing the maximum term, calling her

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Speaker 1: actions deliberate and self serving. Banfield himself was convicted earlier

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Speaker 1: this month of aggravated murder in the deaths of his

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Speaker 1: wife and Ryan. He faces a mandatory life sentence without

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Speaker 1: parole when he is formally sentenced in May. In one

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Speaker 1: of New Jersey's most harrowing cases in years, a Monmouth

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Speaker 1: County jury has convicted a man of killing his brother

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Speaker 1: and four members of his brother's family, then setting fire

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Speaker 1: to their homes in what prosecutors described as an effort

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Speaker 1: to cover up the crime. Fifty nine year old Paul

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Speaker 1: Canero was found guilty this week on multiple counts, including

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Speaker 1: four counts of murder, aggravated arson, and weapons charges, for

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Speaker 1: the deaths of his brother, Keith Canaro, Keith's wife, Jennifer,

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Speaker 1: and the couple's two children, ages eight and eleven. Prosecutors

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Speaker 1: told jurors that the killings took place November twentieth, twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: and were driven by a dispute over business finances. After

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Speaker 1: killing his relatives inside their Coltsneck, New Jersey mansion, Canero

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Speaker 1: ignited fires at both the family's estate and his own

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Speaker 1: home in Ocean Township, seemingly to mislead investigators into thinking

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Speaker 1: the deaths were victims of an arson related tragedy. His

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Speaker 1: defense appealed to jurors to kick consider alternate suspects, including

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Speaker 1: a third brother they said may have had a motive,

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Speaker 1: but after roughly five hours of deliberation, the jury returned

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Speaker 1: a guilty verdict on all counts. Canero faces a potential

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Speaker 1: life sentence when he is formally sentenced in May. In

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Speaker 1: federal law enforcement news, authorities are investigating allegations that immigration

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Speaker 1: officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, may have provided false testimony in

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Speaker 1: a shooting incident earlier this year. The Department of Homeland

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Speaker 1: Securities Office of the Inspector General has launched a probe

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Speaker 1: into statements made under oath by two officers involved in

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Speaker 1: a January fourteenth shooting of a Venezuelan man, Julio Cesar

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Speaker 1: Sosa Salise, after video evidence casts serious doubts on the

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Speaker 1: agent's account of the encounter. The probe is part of

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Speaker 1: a larger pattern of at least five cases nationwide where

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Speaker 1: initial accounts by immigration and customer enforcement personnel were later

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Speaker 1: contradicted by video recordings. In some instances, officers initially claim

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Speaker 1: individuals acted violently toward agents. Later evidence showed the suspects

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Speaker 1: posed little apparent threat. In the Minnesota case, felony assault

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Speaker 1: charges against two Venezuelan nationals were dismissed when video did

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Speaker 1: not support the assertion that the men attacked an officer.

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Speaker 1: Similar video evidence has challenged official narratives in shootings in

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Speaker 1: Chicago and other cities, raising questions about transparency, use of force,

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Speaker 1: and accountability within federal immigration enforcement. Federal investigators say they

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Speaker 1: will pursue any evidence of perjury or misconduct in connection

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Speaker 1: with these incidents.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice needs. Go

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Speaker 2: to find missing people, especially children, and solve on all

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Speaker 2: Thomas sides. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace