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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Police

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Speaker 1: in South Brunswick, New Jersey, respond to a call about

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Speaker 1: an unresponsive woman at home on Route twenty seven. Inside,

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Speaker 1: they find Lauren Saldona, thirty eight dead. Ex boyfriend forty

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Speaker 1: one year old Roman Romanofsky is there along with their

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Speaker 1: five year old son. He admits to strangling Saldona in

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Speaker 1: front of her four children. The Middlesex Medical Examiner has

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Speaker 1: yet to release an official cause of death. Police confirm

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Speaker 1: it's no random act.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Lauren Saldona had just welcomed her fourth child into

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Speaker 2: the world. She shared one other child with Romanovsky and

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Speaker 2: had two more children from previous relationships. A GoFundMe has

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Speaker 2: been set up to assist the nineteen sixteen, five year

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Speaker 2: old and newborn after the loss of their mother. Saldana's

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Speaker 2: five year old reportedly witnessed the murder, a trauma no

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Speaker 2: child should endure. Saldana's oldest daughter, Madison, says her mother's

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Speaker 2: relationship with Romanovsky was fullatile and unhealthy, but Saldana always

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Speaker 2: returned after a breakup because she wanted to see her son.

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Speaker 2: Madison is now seeking custody of her three younger siblings.

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Speaker 1: Romanovsky now charged with murder one two counts child endangerment.

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Speaker 1: Rats invade the Houston Police evidence room, eating seized drugs,

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Speaker 1: jeopardizing nearly four thousand cases. The infestation, first discovered in October,

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Speaker 1: reveals longstanding issues and a facility which stores one point

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Speaker 1: two million pieces of evidence, some dating back decades. Rodents

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Speaker 1: eating weed, coke, mushrooms. Efforts to remove the doped up

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Speaker 1: rats have been challenging. Only one active case involving mushrooms

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Speaker 1: appears impacted, but to prevent future contamination, evidence from active

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Speaker 1: cases will be moved to the Houston Forensic Science Center.

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Speaker 1: Crime and Justice News after this Now with the latest

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Speaker 1: Crime and Justice breaking Knees Crime Onlines John Lemley.

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Speaker 3: Two teenage brothers have been sentenced to twenty years in

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Speaker 3: prison for their roles in a drive by shooting that

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Speaker 3: killed a five year old girl in Albuquerque. The shooting

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Speaker 3: part of a surgeon violence in twenty twenty three led

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Speaker 3: New Mexico Governor Michelle Luhan Grisham to declare a public

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Speaker 3: health emergency, temporarily restricting guns in public parks and playgrounds.

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Speaker 3: Authorities say Galilea so Diego was sleeping in a mobile

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Speaker 3: home when the teens driving stolen vehicles opened fire, targeting

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Speaker 3: another teenager inside. The shots struck Galilea in the head.

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Speaker 3: She died at a hospital. The brothers, ages fifteen and

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Speaker 3: nineteen at the time, were among five defendants who reached

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Speaker 3: FLEA agreements. Prosecutors in Bernalillo Counties say another suspect received

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Speaker 3: six teen years, while two others receive lesser sentences. Despite

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Speaker 3: the crackdown on crime, Albuquerque continues to see deadly violence

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Speaker 3: involving juveniles, leaving communities on edge. Hawaii's correctional system is

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Speaker 3: under scrutiny as the state addresses concerns over inmate mental

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Speaker 3: health services and staffing shortages. Our Sydney Sumner has more

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Speaker 3: on the steps being taken.

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Speaker 2: Hawaii has agreed to permit two national experts to inspect

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Speaker 2: its prisons and jails to assess inmate mental health services.

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Speaker 2: This initiative is part of efforts to resolve a twenty

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Speaker 2: nineteen federal lawsuit concerning prisoner suicides. The experts will develop

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Speaker 2: a plan to enhance the state's correctional mental health system,

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Speaker 2: which currently faces significant staffing shortages. Tommy Johnson, director of

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Speaker 2: the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reports that twenty of

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Speaker 2: twenty three psychologists positions are vacant, with one filled by

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Speaker 2: an unlicensed provider. Inwenty five, there were five suspected or

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Speaker 2: confirmed inmate suicides the HYA since twenty sixteen. Nationally, forty

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Speaker 2: one percent of prisoners have a history of mental health issues.

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Speaker 2: Attorney Eric Sites, who filed the lawsuit, alleges that the

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Speaker 2: state subjects inmates with serious mental illnesses to extreme isolation

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Speaker 2: with minimal treatment. He emphasizes the urgent need for adequate

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Speaker 2: mental health services in Hawaii's correctional facilities. The experts doctor

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Speaker 2: beauchamp A Garcar of Atlanta and doctor Jeffrey Menzner of

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Speaker 2: Denver are expected to arrive in Hawaii in June to

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Speaker 2: begin their assessment.

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Speaker 3: The state is taking these steps to address critical mental

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Speaker 3: health issues within its correctional system, aiming for comprehensive reforms

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Speaker 3: in the near future.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John, seventeen year old Page Summer more known as Penny,

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Speaker 1: vanishes from her broken era Oklahoma home page Lassaye at

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Speaker 1: home in the early morning hours, wearing pink polka dot

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Speaker 1: boxer shorts, a gray Googo doll's shirt with long black

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Speaker 1: slips and red house slippers. She leaves with a few belongings,

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Speaker 1: including her phone, but never shows up for summer school class.

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Speaker 1: The missing seventeen year old initially classified as a runaway,

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Speaker 1: now police think foul play. Page five four, one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty pounds, blue eyes, pink dyed hair, multiple piercings.

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Speaker 1: Page now twenty nine remains missing despite extensive investigations. If

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Speaker 1: you have info, please contact Broken ARROWPD nine one eight

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Speaker 1: two five nine eighty four hundred. For the latest crime

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Speaker 1: our best with your help to find missing people, especially children,

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Speaker 1: and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I Nancy

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