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Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.

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Speaker 1: A hostage situation ends in two depths, including the team

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Speaker 1: with the gun during a late night standoff in northern Illinois.

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Speaker 1: Just before midnight on Saturday, police in Polo got a

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Speaker 1: nine to one to one call about a shooting in

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Speaker 1: the five hundred block of West Mason Street. Ogle County

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Speaker 1: Sheriff Brian van Vikel said a nineteen year old male

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Speaker 1: suspect had shot an occupant and was holding additional household

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Speaker 1: members hostage inside the home. The hostages were able to

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Speaker 1: escape the resident safely before the cops got there. Officers

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Speaker 1: from the Ogle County Emergency Response Team and the Northwest

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Speaker 1: Illinois Critical Incident Team were sent in. When they entered

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Speaker 1: the home, they found the gunman and the first victim

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Speaker 1: both dead. The names of those involved have not been released.

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Speaker 1: The sheriff says there is no more threat to the public.

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Speaker 1: He also said more details would be shared quote when appropriate.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely going to shake the town to their core.

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Speaker 1: It's I have no doubt that most people in town

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Speaker 1: know the people that were involved, and you know, our

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Speaker 1: main goal is to get all of the facts of

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Speaker 1: what happened. That's Sheriff vanvickl On WIFR, the Polo Police Department,

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Speaker 1: local Fire Services, and a trauma doctor from Mercy Health

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Speaker 1: Systems helped at the scene. The city thanked the first

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Speaker 1: responders for their quote, dedication and professionalism. In a statement,

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Speaker 1: Polo City leaders said, quote the Polo Police Department, alongside

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Speaker 1: many of the law enforcement teams, demonstrated the extraordinary commitment

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Speaker 1: in ensuring the safety and security of our residents during

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Speaker 1: an unimaginably difficult situation. The Polo Community School District announced

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Speaker 1: it would offer counseling at the high schools starting this morning.

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Speaker 1: The Ogle County Sheriff's Office is leading the investigation. More

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Speaker 1: crime man Justice news after this. A convicted con man

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Speaker 1: is arrested in Arizona after police say he shot and

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Speaker 1: killed an eighty two year old woman in her garage,

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Speaker 1: then stole her debit card and fled the state. Derek

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Speaker 1: Bulwinkle was taken into custody at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport

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Speaker 1: after being extradited from Salt Lake City, Utah. He is

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Speaker 1: charged with first screen murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, and burglary

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Speaker 1: in the death of Linda Barron, who was found in

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Speaker 1: the back seat of her car on February eleventh. Police

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Speaker 1: said Baron had been shot on the side while she

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Speaker 1: had her hands up. Her body was discovered after family

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Speaker 1: members asked for a welfare check at her home in Mason,

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Speaker 1: near Ellsworth and Baseline Roads. Signs of a struggle were

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Speaker 1: found near her front door. Her car was still in

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Speaker 1: the garage. Detective said Bullwinkle had lived next door to

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Speaker 1: barn until he was evicted about three weeks before the killing.

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Speaker 1: He had been pressuring her for money. Around six fifteen

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Speaker 1: pm on February ninth, a neighbor saw Bullwinkle park his

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Speaker 1: van about one hundred feet from Baron's house. By seven pm,

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Speaker 1: he was seen running from the home and driving off

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Speaker 1: Roughly twenty minutes after that, Bullwinkle used Baron's debit card

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Speaker 1: at an aightm. Police say he made nine attempts to

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Speaker 1: withdraw money and successfully took four grand. Surveillance footage from

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Speaker 1: the bank and nearby businesses showed him accessing her account.

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Speaker 1: Investigators also tied his phone location to the crime scene.

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Speaker 1: Court documents. Bullwinkle fled Arizona after the murder. It's not

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Speaker 1: clear how he was located in Utah. Baron has survived

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Speaker 1: by five children, many grandchildren, great grandchildren, and two cats.

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Speaker 1: Her obituary remembered her as a woman full of wit

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Speaker 1: and love, saying she was now reunited with her late

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Speaker 1: husband and their beloved chinchilla gadget Bullwinkle has a long

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Speaker 1: history of fraud. In twenty fourteen, he and his wife

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Speaker 1: were hit with a two point one million dollar judgment

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Speaker 1: for scamming people through a fake house sitting scheme. He

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Speaker 1: promised free rent and sold access to foreclosed homes, though

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Speaker 1: many were already occupied or unavailable. In twenty oh eight,

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Speaker 1: he was convicted of forgery and criminal impersonation for a

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Speaker 1: similar scheme involving forged deeds. His five felony convictions and

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Speaker 1: was not allowed to have a gun. His bond is

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Speaker 1: set at one million dollars cash only. Angie Spalding Hilbert

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Speaker 1: was last seen on June third of nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 1: The twenty two year old had just finished her shift

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Speaker 1: at a Gulf service station in Louisville, Kentucky. She was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be driving with her parents to Owen, where

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Speaker 1: they were moving. She never met up with them. She

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Speaker 1: was driving a gray nineteen eighty two Pontiac j two

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Speaker 1: thousand and four door. A witness last saw her car

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Speaker 1: in the dry Ridge Road area about midnight on June sixteenth.

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Speaker 1: Her family reported her missing ten days later. Her car

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Speaker 1: was found abandoned in the parking lot of the Toy

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Speaker 1: Tiger Lounge on the same street as where she worked.

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Speaker 1: There were no signs of a struggle at the scene.

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Speaker 1: Hilbert was pregnant at the time. She had stayed in

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Speaker 1: close contact with her parents up until the time she disappeared.

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Speaker 1: She's white, five four one seventeen strawberry blonde hair and

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Speaker 1: a ponytail hazel eyes. She has a scar on her

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Speaker 1: back from scoliosis surgery and a metal rod in her spine.

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Speaker 1: She was last seen wearing an orange top, blue jeans

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Speaker 1: and rebox. She had gold stud earrings, a gold watch,

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Speaker 1: and a man's gold high school class ring with a

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Speaker 1: yellow stone. Anyone with information should contact the Louisville Metro

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Speaker 1: Police at five oh two five seven to two thirty

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Speaker 1: four eighty. Angie would be fifty eight years old today.

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