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Speaker 1: Crime al Art hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole parton heartbreaking news coming out of Minnesota. Isaac

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Speaker 2: Arthur Aren't, an eighteen year old, is accused of murdering

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Speaker 2: his fourteen year old girlfriend, Jalen Nicole Walker in Moorhead, Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: He has been ordered to remain in custody on a

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Speaker 2: one million dollar bond. The tragic incident occurred when Aren't

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Speaker 2: allegedly stabbed Jalen more than a dozen times at Gooseberry

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Speaker 2: Park and then disposed of her body in the Red River.

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Speaker 2: Arned initially reported to the Clay County Law Enforcement Center,

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Speaker 2: claiming to be a victim of an assault. However, upon

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Speaker 2: noticing cuts on his fingers, the police grew suspicious. Arned

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Speaker 2: and narrated a story involving an unidentified white male attacking

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Speaker 2: him and Jalen at the park, but authorities found inconsistencies. Eventually,

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Speaker 2: Armed confess to the crime, revealing that Jalen had confronted

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Speaker 2: him about a new relationship, leading to a violent altercation

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Speaker 2: that resulted in her death. Jalen's mother reported her missing

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Speaker 2: to the Moorhead police, who located her body with multiple

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Speaker 2: stab wounds near the Red River. After further investigation and questioning,

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Speaker 2: Arned admitted to stabbing Jalen multiple times, then cutting her

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Speaker 2: throat after that quote, giving her one final hug before

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Speaker 2: inflicting one last fatal stab wound. Arned was arrested and

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Speaker 2: transported to jail and Fargo before being brought back to

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Speaker 2: Minnesota for his first court appearance. He is charged with

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Speaker 2: second degree murder. The judge set his bond at one

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Speaker 2: million dollars, ensuring that he remains in custody as the

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Speaker 2: legal proceedings continue. Jalen's family has started a petition in

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Speaker 2: hopes of having the case reevaluated and the charges changed

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Speaker 2: from second degree to first degree murder. Change dot Org

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Speaker 2: Justice for Jalen.

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Speaker 3: I'm Drew Nelson. Came the ground right now, right now,

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Speaker 3: right now. A man in California starts singing Tina Turner

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Speaker 3: and Stevie Wonder after police shoot him. Following a gruesome

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Speaker 3: double murder in a quiet mobile home community. Officers from

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Speaker 3: Orange County Sheriffs responded to a distressing nine to one

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Speaker 3: one call in San Juan Capistrano. The caller, a relative

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Speaker 3: of the victims, reported receiving disturbing photos of her elderly

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Speaker 3: aunt and uncle covered in blood. When deputies arrived at

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Speaker 3: the San Juan mobil estates, they were confronted with a

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Speaker 3: grisly scene. Inside the mobile home, they discovered the decapitated

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Speaker 3: bodies of seventy seven year old Ronald Gerdville and seventy

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Speaker 3: nine year old Antoinette Gerdville, along with their mutilated dog.

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Speaker 3: One of their heads is brazenly placed on the kitchen counter.

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Speaker 3: The suspect, forty one year old Joseph Gerdville, is the

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Speaker 3: son of the slain couple. Witnesses reports seeing him acting

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Speaker 3: erratically earlier that morning, after allegedly attacking a maintenance worker

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Speaker 3: with a fork. He stole the worker's golf cart and

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Speaker 3: sped off. Deputies soon spotted him, covered in blood, driving

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Speaker 3: the stolen cart near a bike path. They attempted to

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Speaker 3: arrest him, but he became aggressive, throwing a heavy shovel

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Speaker 3: at them. He ignored their repeated commands to stop and

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Speaker 3: charged at the officers, and they had no choice but

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Speaker 3: to open fire. That's when the show starts. We got

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Speaker 3: another one by the groin. That's body camera footage capturing

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Speaker 3: the intense encounter. The deputies fired five shots at Gerdville

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Speaker 3: as he walked toward them. The first three bullets seemed

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Speaker 3: to have no effect, but the fourth brought him down.

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Speaker 3: Blood poured from his wounds as he collapsed to the ground.

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Speaker 3: Despite his injuries, Gerdville's behavior remained bizarre. As the officer

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Speaker 3: surrounded him, he said, quote, I love you. I'm sorry

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Speaker 3: you're going to have to die, and then he pleaded, quote,

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Speaker 3: just finish me off. Put one in my head, please,

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Speaker 3: I beg of you. Once he was done, singing Tina Turner,

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Speaker 3: he shifted to Stevie Wonders. I just called to say

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Speaker 3: I love you, singing softly as the officers worked to

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Speaker 3: stabilize him. Paramedics soon arrived and rushed Guardwill to a

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Speaker 3: nearby hospital, where he was treated for his injuries and

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Speaker 3: later stabilized. He was in charge with two counts of

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Speaker 3: homicide for the brutal slayings of his parents. The motive

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Speaker 3: for the killing remains unclear, but neighbors described Gerdviille as

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Speaker 3: having a troubled history. One neighbor recalls seeing him argue

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Speaker 3: with his father the day before the murders, appearing angry

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Speaker 3: and agitated. Another suggests Gerdville has a drug problem, which

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Speaker 3: may have contributed to his violent actions.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Gould, a Utah children's book author. Corey Richins

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Speaker 1: will stand trial for the alleged murder of her husband

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Speaker 1: with fentanyl. The shocking twist evidence suggests she may have

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Speaker 1: been having an affair and texted her alleged lover in

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Speaker 1: the days leading up to the crime. A judge ruled

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Speaker 1: there was enough evidence to proceed after a preliminary hearing

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Speaker 1: revealed the disturbing details. Prosecutors alleged Corey Richins not only

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Speaker 1: poisoned her husband, Eric Richard, with a moscow mule laced

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Speaker 1: with fentanyl, on March third, twenty twenty two, but also

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Speaker 1: attempted to kill him just seventeen days prior with a

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Speaker 1: fentanyl laced sandwich. The case took a further bizarre turn

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Speaker 1: when a forensic expert revealed text messages exchanged between Corey

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Speaker 1: and a man named Robert Grossman in the days leading

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Speaker 1: up to Eric's death. Here's the prosecutor, Brad Bludworth at

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Speaker 1: the hearing.

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Speaker 2: The defendant is spending Valentine's Day with her pair.

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Speaker 1: More, Corey reportedly texted Grossman love you the day before

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Speaker 1: and then kept him updated on her arrival time while

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Speaker 1: driving to see someone on Valentine's Day the same day,

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Speaker 1: Prosecutors believe she tried to poison Eric with that sandwich.

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Speaker 1: Further investigation revealed deleted text messages and location data suggesting

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Speaker 1: an ongoing extramarital affair. Corey even allegedly texted quote if

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Speaker 1: he could just go away, life would be so perfect

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Speaker 1: end quote the day after Valentine's Day. The prosecution paints

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Speaker 1: a picture of a desperate woman facing financial ruin allegedly

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Speaker 1: three point one million dollars in debt, who saw her

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Speaker 1: husband's five million dollar estate as a way out. They

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Speaker 1: believe she poisoned him for both love and money. Corey

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Speaker 1: self published a children's book on grief titled Are You

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Speaker 1: with Me? After her husband's death. Prosecutors described the book

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Speaker 1: as a calculated cover up attempt, but Corey maintains her innocence.

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Speaker 1: Her defense team argues there is no evidence a fentanyl

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Speaker 1: in the home, and they insist the charges will not

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Speaker 1: hold up in court. The trial is set to begin

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Speaker 1: on April twenty eighth, twenty twenty five. She faces twenty

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Speaker 1: five years in prison if convicted for the latest crime

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Speaker 1: and justice news. Follow the Crime Alert hourly update on

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Speaker 1: your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert. I'm Jennifer

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Speaker 1: Gould