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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime thece now. Chicago

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Speaker 1: police say thirty five year old Marco Evidente jumped on

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Speaker 1: top of his wife shoved a chemical doused rag in

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Speaker 1: her mouth during the struggle. Officers find zip ties, a

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Speaker 1: folding knife, the chemical doused towel, and a three inch

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Speaker 1: blade at the crime scene, plus three large garbage bags,

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Speaker 1: a twenty pound dumbbell, and directions to the nearby Chatham

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Speaker 1: Street bridge and his backpack.

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Speaker 2: Nancy. The item's paint a gruesome picture of what could

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Speaker 2: have happened had another resident of the apartment complex not

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Speaker 2: called nine one one When Copps arrived, the victim's first

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Speaker 2: question was about her three children, who were supposed to

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Speaker 2: be under her husband's care during the attack. We're also

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Speaker 2: learning that Evidente was out on bond for a previous

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Speaker 2: sexual assault charge, also involving his estranged wife.

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Speaker 1: Evidente charged with two counts aggravated battery and attempted murder.

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Speaker 1: Stacy Usher tries to outwit Florida police using a good

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Speaker 1: old fashion game of high ide and seek surprise surprize.

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Speaker 1: They found her inside a sofa. Usher, thirty nine, wanted

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Speaker 1: for violating her probation for selling fentanyl, among other things. Usher,

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Speaker 1: already a felon, has the criminal history of fraud, grand theft,

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Speaker 1: obtaining property by writing a bad check, and now ruining

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Speaker 1: a perfectly fine sofa. More Crime and Justice news after this.

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Speaker 1: Now with the latest Prime and Justice breaking these crime

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Speaker 1: onlines John Lemley.

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Speaker 3: This week saw the carjacking of an FBI agent in Washington,

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Speaker 3: d C, a crime coinciding with a dramatic rise in

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Speaker 3: carjackings in the nation's capital. For more, we turned to

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Speaker 3: Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: A federal grand jury indictment released this week charges twenty

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Speaker 2: six year old Charles Antonio Clifford in twenty eight year

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Speaker 2: old Michael Joseph Knox with forcing consumers in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: one to give up cash, phones, and, in one case,

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Speaker 2: a vehicle after following them home and holding them at gunpoint.

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Speaker 2: The two men from the Columbia area of South Carolina

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Speaker 2: deliberately selected victims who they thought to be Hispanic or Mexican.

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Speaker 2: This according to a news release from the US Department

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Speaker 2: of Justice. A total of nine counts were brought against

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Speaker 2: Clifford and Knox. The charges include three for hate crimes,

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Speaker 2: three for firearms violations, one for carjacking, and one for conspiracy.

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Speaker 2: The minimum sentence for offenses involving firearms is twenty one

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Speaker 2: years in prison. The maximum sentence for a hate crime

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Speaker 2: charge is ten years behind bars and fifteen years for

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Speaker 2: a carjacking offense.

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Speaker 3: In comparison to twenty twenty two, violent crime in general

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Speaker 3: in Washington has increased by more than forty percent this year.

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Speaker 3: A Texas man who, in an anti Semitic incident two

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Speaker 3: years ago, set fire to an Austin synagogue has been

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Speaker 3: handed a ten year prison sentence. Twenty year old Franklin

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Speaker 3: Secrest had already entered a guilty plead to charges of

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Speaker 3: arson and hate crime resulting in damage to places of

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Speaker 3: worship on Halloween twenty twenty one. The US Department of

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Speaker 3: Justice stated in a news release that he has also

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Speaker 3: been mandated to spend an extra three years of supervised

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Speaker 3: release once he leaves prison. Secrest has also been ordered

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Speaker 3: to pay four hundred seventy thousand dollars in reparations to

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Speaker 3: Congregation Beth Israel, according to federal authorities. Seecrest, a student

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Speaker 3: at Texas State University and a member of the Texas

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Speaker 3: State guard had written anti Semitic and racist diary entries

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Speaker 3: before starting the fire. Federal hate crime charges have been

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Speaker 3: leveled against two men in South Carolina related to robberies

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Speaker 3: that targeted Hispanic customers outside of gas stations and a

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Speaker 3: Mexican supermarket. Once again crime online Sidney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: For almost five decades, the teenager was known as simply

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Speaker 2: John Doe, but now, thanks to the results of DNA testing,

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Speaker 2: his real name has been revealed as Michael Ray Schlitch

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Speaker 2: of Cedar Rapids. According to a news release by the

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Speaker 2: Orange County Sheriff's Department in California, the teenager was long

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Speaker 2: believed to be a victim of a man known as

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Speaker 2: the scorecard killer Randy Kraft. After being found guilty of

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Speaker 2: torturing and murdering sixteen men over almost three decades, a

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Speaker 2: crimes free that culminated with his nineteen eighty three arrest,

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Speaker 2: Craft was handed a death sentence to be served at

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Speaker 2: San Quentin State Prison. Authorities have stated that, in addition

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Speaker 2: to the Orange County killings, for Witchcraft was found guilty

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Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty nine, The seventy eight year old is

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Speaker 2: also accused of killing other victims in California, Oregon, and Michigan.

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Speaker 2: On September fourteenth, nineteen seventy four, two people were off

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Speaker 2: roading on a fire road northeast of Laguna Beach, California,

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Speaker 2: when the body of the teen, now known as Schlitched

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Speaker 2: was discovered. The seventeen year old's death was initially ruled

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Speaker 2: to be accidental when an autopsy revealed high levels of

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Speaker 2: alcohol and diazepam in his system. However, detectives began to

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Speaker 2: connect other similar deaths that occurred in the years that

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Speaker 2: followed and categorized those as homicides. Several of the deaths

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Speaker 2: occurred just a few miles from the location of where

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Speaker 2: the teen's remains were found. The string of murders came

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Speaker 2: to an end in nineteen eighty three when a California

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Speaker 2: Highway Patrol trooper saw craft weaving and driving on the

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Speaker 2: shoulder of a freeway and pulled a come over. In

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Speaker 2: the passenger seat of the vehicle was the body of

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Speaker 2: a strangled US Marine.

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Speaker 3: South Carolina is one of just two states in the

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Speaker 3: country that does not have laws allowing for heavier sentences

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Speaker 3: for violent hate crimes. Wyoming is the other.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John, twelve year old Jalen Griffin walks his new puppy,

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Speaker 1: then tells mom he's going to walk to a local

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Speaker 1: store eleven am. He doesn't come back. His family immediately

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Speaker 1: reports him missing. He hasn't been seen or heard from

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Speaker 1: since twenty twenty. There have been reported sightings off him

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Speaker 1: around Buffalo, but none of them confirmed. When j went missing,

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Speaker 1: his mom said she believed he was being influenced by someone.

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Speaker 1: The mom, forty eight year old Joanne Ponzo, passed away

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Speaker 1: this year without ever knowing what happened to little Jalen.

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Speaker 1: If you have info regarding Jalen Griffin, contact Buffalo PD

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Speaker 1: seven one six eight five three two two two two

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Speaker 1: or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children one

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Speaker 1: eight hundred the Lost. For the latest crime in justice news,

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Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. Imancy

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