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Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sydney Sumner. Two Miami Beach parents have been arrested

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Speaker 2: for failing to feed their five children who live in Squalor.

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Speaker 2: The parents are accused of going out to eat for

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Speaker 2: dinner while leaving their children to starve. Our friends at

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Speaker 2: crime Online have more details on how the situation was uncovered.

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Speaker 3: On a Tuesday afternoon, a driver in the seven hundred

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Speaker 3: block of fifteenth Street in Miami Beach sees a six

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Speaker 3: year old boy running across fifteenth Street unsupervised and in

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Speaker 3: a high traffic area. Calling nine to one one, the

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Speaker 3: driver relates what he's seeing and officers arrive on the

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Speaker 3: scene in a matter of minutes. Police see the child

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Speaker 3: leaving an apartment complex by himself and asks the boy

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Speaker 3: where he lives. The child leads the officers to his

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Speaker 3: apartment to show them he isn't lost, and the apartment

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Speaker 3: door is answered by the oldest person in the apartment,

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Speaker 3: the boy's twelve year old sister.

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Speaker 4: Officers find there are a total of five children in

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Speaker 4: the apartment between the ages of six and twelve, with

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Speaker 4: no adults in the home. The officers report a strong

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Speaker 4: odor of urine. The children are not bathed, their clothes

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Speaker 4: are dirty, and there is no food in the house.

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Speaker 4: The apartment doesn't have a functioning stove, no electricity, and

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Speaker 4: no working toilet.

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Speaker 5: Looking around the apartment, officers discover the toilet contains stagnant

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Speaker 5: water and feces, and there is no toilet paper. The

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Speaker 5: children tell police they have been without electricity for around

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Speaker 5: two months. Trying to locate their parents, the children tell

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Speaker 5: police they have no way of contacting their mother, but

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Speaker 5: they know she works at a hotel in Miami. They

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Speaker 5: don't know where their father works. Police ask the children

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Speaker 5: if they were hungry and fed them. As police interviewed

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Speaker 5: the twelve year old, she utters some very telling information.

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Speaker 5: The parents would frequently share an evening meal without providing

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Speaker 5: food for the children, and they would often leave the

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Speaker 5: children at home while they went out to dinner. The

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Speaker 5: girl says the siblings often went to bed hungry.

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Speaker 2: Police officers finally contact the children's mother, Azra and Niko Savitch,

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Speaker 2: and get her to come to the police station. Officers

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Speaker 2: questioned Niko Savitch about what the children have told them

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Speaker 2: about going to bed hungry and having no electricity. She

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Speaker 2: tells investigators the electricity to their apartment has been cut

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Speaker 2: off for about six weeks because they got behind on

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Speaker 2: the bill. She also tells investigators she is trying to

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Speaker 2: get assistants with food stamps, but denies depriving her children

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Speaker 2: of food. As Azra Nikosavitch talks to police, her husband,

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Speaker 2: Sanel Kanovich, arrives at the police station and is asked

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Speaker 2: to give a statement through a Croatian speaker. An officer

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Speaker 2: translates for Kanovich, who invokes his right to have an

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Speaker 2: attorney present and stops talking to police. After talking to

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Speaker 2: the parents, the children, and reviewing the scene, a report

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Speaker 2: on the incident concluded, quote the defendant and co defendant

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Speaker 2: willfully failed to provide adequate care, supervision, and the basic

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Speaker 2: necessities required to maintain the victim's physical and mental health.

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Speaker 2: Once again, Holden Zapple gives us more details on the parents'

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Speaker 2: criminal charges.

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Speaker 5: Azra Nikosovich and Sanal Kanovich are arrested after leaving their

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Speaker 5: five children, ages six to twelve, unattended in a filthy

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Speaker 5: apartment with no food, no electricity, and no working toilet.

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Speaker 5: The other gave a statement to police and denies depriving

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Speaker 5: her children of food while their children's father refused to

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Speaker 5: speak to police without an attorney. Both are charged with

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Speaker 5: five felony child neglect charges, and the children were taken

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Speaker 5: into protective custody while authorities investigate. After being released from

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Speaker 5: jail on our own recognissance, Azra Nikosovich tells CBS News

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Speaker 5: Miami that she is going to fix everything.

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Speaker 2: Take care of your kids.

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Speaker 3: I let the job.

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Speaker 4: I was focusing more on the job than the kids,

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Speaker 4: and it got some of me, like the career and stuff.

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Speaker 3: But just take care of your kids and you know,

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Speaker 3: love them as much as you can.

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Speaker 2: Azra Niko Savitch speaking with reporter Chelsea Jones. For more

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Speaker 2: on the investigation into Azra Niko Sevitch and Snell Kanovich.

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Speaker 2: Tune into Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Doctor Phil's

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Speaker 2: Merritt Street Media at six and nine pm Eastern, or

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Speaker 2: listen to Crime Stories on your favorite podcast app. More

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Speaker 2: crime and justice news after this. Now to rural Macan, Georgia,

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Speaker 2: where a woman who maybe an extreme danger has been

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Speaker 2: missing for over four months. Nancy has more details.

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Speaker 1: Friends and family realize they haven't heard from Gina Joe

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Speaker 1: Rattler for days, last person to see her close friend

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Speaker 1: Jessica Fraser. Gena tells Fraser the person she's with is

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Speaker 1: quote very upset and taking it out on her. Gena

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Speaker 1: previously said she was in Making, Georgia with Tim Crow.

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Speaker 2: Crow is known to police as a violent felon. An

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Speaker 2: acquaintance of Gina's, Derek Johnston, says a friend of his,

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Speaker 2: Callie Goulesby, once told him Crow had put a gun

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Speaker 2: to her head inside a Making hotel room during an argument.

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Speaker 2: Goulesby mentions to police another woman was in the room

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Speaker 2: with Goulesby during the incident, but he can't remember her name.

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Speaker 2: Not long after this incident with Crow, another tragedy.

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Speaker 1: A week after Gina is reported missing, a woman named

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Speaker 1: Callie Goolesby is found shot dead on the side of

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Speaker 1: the road southwest Macon. The GBI suspects Tim Crow is

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Speaker 1: repet possible for Gouldsby's death.

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Speaker 2: In conjunction with US Marshals, the GBI tracks Crow down

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Speaker 2: to Rockdale County, Georgia. When they move to arrest him,

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Speaker 2: Crow leads a high speed chase, runs from cops on foot,

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Speaker 2: then ends the pursuit by shooting himself in the head.

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Speaker 2: There have been no other leads on Gina Joe Ratliff's whereabouts.

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Speaker 2: Gina Joe Ratliffe, fifty six, is five foot one, one

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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty five pounds with reddish brown hair and

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Speaker 2: blue eyes. If you have any information on Gina, now

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Speaker 2: missing four months, please call bid County, Georgia Sheriff's at

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Speaker 2: four seven eight five seven one seventy five hundred. For

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Speaker 2: app with this crime Alert, I'm Sidney Sumner.