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

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Speaker 1: discovers Michael Garvin and mom Lucy Garvin shot dead in

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Speaker 1: their Vermont home. That afternoon, cops arrests Christopher Ellis when

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Speaker 1: they find him driving Garvin's missing truck. Ellis tells cops

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Speaker 1: he meets Michael Garvin in prison and was staying with

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Speaker 1: him since release. Ellis admits he came to hate Garvin

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Speaker 1: and planned to kill him for weeks.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Ellis added that he had no plan for retirement

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Speaker 2: and would rather spend the rest of his life behind

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Speaker 2: bars than in an old folks home. Ellis said that

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Speaker 2: he did not intend to kill Lucy Garvin, but as

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Speaker 2: she was home at the time of Michael Garvin's killing, she.

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Speaker 1: Quote had to go. Ellis, fifty four, are charged with

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Speaker 1: two counts of murder. One Nearly seventy miles off the

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Speaker 1: Georgia Coastguard officials come across the man in a giant

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Speaker 1: metal drum kept afloat by Booie's, equipped with paddles that

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Speaker 1: move as someone runs Think hamster will. The Coast Guard

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Speaker 1: deems the boat unsafe for travel, but the sailor inside,

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Speaker 1: forty four year old Resa Balucci refuses to exit, saying

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Speaker 1: he's running across the Atlantic and claims to have a

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Speaker 1: bomb on board, threatening to kill himself if anybody tries

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Speaker 1: to remove him. After four days negotiating, Luci finally admits

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Speaker 1: there is no bomb. The Coastguard takes him back to Florida,

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Speaker 1: where he's charged with obstruction of a boarding foiling his

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Speaker 1: fourth attempt to cross the Atlantic in a hamster ball.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. Now with the

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Speaker 1: latest crime in justice breaking news Crime on Line is

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Speaker 1: John Limley.

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Speaker 3: We begin in North Dakota, where a man has been

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Speaker 3: sentenced to five years behind bars for running over and

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Speaker 3: killing an eighteen year old following a small town street

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Speaker 3: dance last year with Moore. Here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: It was back in May that Shannon Brandt of Glenfield,

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Speaker 2: North Dakota, admitted to manslaughter in connection with the murder

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Speaker 2: of Kayler Ellingson in McHenry, North Dakota in September twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two. According to court documents, Brandt first asserted that

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Speaker 2: he struck Ellingson following a political debate in that the

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Speaker 2: team was a member of a radical group and had

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Speaker 2: threatened him within day's authorities announced that there was little

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Speaker 2: indication to believe that the altercation was political in nature.

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Speaker 2: Brandt was given a five year jail term by a

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Speaker 2: state district court judge, with credit for almost a year

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Speaker 2: already served. This was followed by three years of supervised

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Speaker 2: probation and one year suspension of Brandt's driver's license. The

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Speaker 2: maximum sentence for the offense is ten years in prison,

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Speaker 2: a twenty thousand dollars fine, or both. Initial charges of

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Speaker 2: criminal vehicular homicide were dismissed. Later after being charged with murder,

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Speaker 2: he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

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Speaker 3: In a pleaar agreement. The charge of leaving the scene

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Speaker 3: of a fatality against Brant was also dropped. A man

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Speaker 3: convicted of murder in nineteen ninety three has been granted

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Speaker 3: a new trial by a Massachusetts judge after new DNA

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Speaker 3: evidence brought the verdict into doubt. Thomas Rosa was found

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Speaker 3: guilty of killing Gwyndelne Taylor, then eighteen years old, in

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Speaker 3: nineteen eighty five. Rosa, who has consistently maintained his innocence,

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Speaker 3: went through three separate trials for the murder. Rosa's conviction

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Speaker 3: was overturned. By Suffolk Superior Court Justice Michael Richudi, allowing

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Speaker 3: for the possibility of a new trial. According to Richude,

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Speaker 3: new DNA evidence quote cast doubt regarding the reliability of

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Speaker 3: the eyewitness testimony in the case. Milacunis and Ashton Kutcher

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Speaker 3: have now apologized after writing character letters in defense of

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Speaker 3: their fellow that seventies show starred Danny Masterson once again

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Speaker 3: crime online Sidney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: The celebrity couple wrote the letters ahead of masterson sentencing

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Speaker 2: for rape. Masterson was handed a thirty to life term

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Speaker 2: by a judge in Lafe, Los Angeles, for raping two

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Speaker 2: women in two thousand and three. In a video sent

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Speaker 2: via Instagram, Kutcher and Cunis expressed regret for whatever hurt

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Speaker 2: the letters may have costed. According to Kutcher, the letters

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Speaker 2: requesting mercy quote were intended for the judge to read

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Speaker 2: and not to undermine the testimony of the victims or

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Speaker 2: retraumatize them in any way. We would never want to

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Speaker 2: do that and we're sorry if that has taken place.

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Speaker 2: After the actor was found guilty of the assaults in May.

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Speaker 2: Kutcher claims that Masterson's family got in touch with the

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Speaker 2: pair and wanted them to write character letters supporting quote

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Speaker 2: the person that we knew for twenty five years. The

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Speaker 2: Hollywood Reporter and other internet outlets then published the letters online.

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Speaker 3: Masterson was a star on the television program That seventy

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Speaker 3: Show from nineteen ninety eight to two thousand and six,

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Speaker 3: alongside Ashton Kutcher, Meelacunis and Toper. Grace.

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Speaker 1: Candy Stargelds seventy five and best friench Reirly Weaver eighty

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Speaker 1: three often take drives in remote California to look at

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Speaker 1: the same Henry. The women mention their heading to Wendell

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Speaker 1: and take off in Candy's white Toyota Round four. When

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Speaker 1: they don't come home, their families report them missing. Two

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Speaker 1: weeks later, a pair of Nevada hunters discover their car

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Speaker 1: parked on a remote road two hours northeast of their destination.

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Speaker 1: The car has a flat The hood was raised, and

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Speaker 1: help was spelled on the ground with objects from inside

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Speaker 1: the car. Surely, Weaver is found dead in the passenger seat,

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Speaker 1: Candy Sturgeon nowhere to be found. Authorities say Weaver's death

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Speaker 1: does not appear to be suspicious, but Candy has not

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Speaker 1: been located nearly three years later. If you have info

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Speaker 1: on Candy Sturgel's disappearance, please call Lauren County Sheriff's five

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Speaker 1: For the latest crime in justice news, go to crimeonline

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Speaker 1: dot com. This crime alert I Mancy Grace