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Speaker 1: a listen Crime Alert Hourly Update. Breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Drew Nelson. Manhunt in Manhattan, an insurance company big week,

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Speaker 2: shot to death outside of Midtown hotel and what appears

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Speaker 2: to be a targeted at attack. Bryan Thompson, CEO of

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Speaker 2: United Healthcare, was killed this morning just outside the New

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Speaker 2: York Hilton Midtown.

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Speaker 3: This morning at six forty six am, patrol offices from

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Speaker 3: Midtown North priest And responded to a nine to one

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Speaker 3: one call of a person shot in front of the

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Speaker 3: Hilton Hotel located at thirteen thirty five Avenue of the Americas.

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Speaker 3: This is between West fifty third Street and West fifty

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Speaker 3: fourth Street. At six forty eight am, officers arrive and

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Speaker 3: find the victim, Brian R. Thompson, a fifty year old male,

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Speaker 3: on the sidewalk in front of the Hilton, with gunshot

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Speaker 3: wounds to his back and leg. Mister Thompson was removed

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Speaker 3: by EMS to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead

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Speaker 3: At seven to twelve am.

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Speaker 2: A masked man was reportedly waiting for Thompson, then fired

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Speaker 2: at him multiple times. The suspect fled east on sixth Avenue,

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Speaker 2: later riding away on a bicycle. Thompson, a fifty, was

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Speaker 2: taken to Mount Sinai West in critical condition, but was

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Speaker 2: pronounced dead there. Police described the shooter as a white

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Speaker 2: man wearing a cream colored jacket, black face mask, and

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Speaker 2: a gray backpack. Witnesses tail police the gunman had been

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Speaker 2: loitering near the hotel before Thompson got there. Investigators believed

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Speaker 2: the assailant knew Thompson's route and waited for his arrival.

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Speaker 2: United Healthcare is one of the largest health insurers in

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Speaker 2: the United States. Thompson had been with United Healthcare for

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Speaker 2: twenty years, becoming CEO in twenty twenty one. He lived

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Speaker 2: in Minnesota. By nine am this morning, police had cordoned

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Speaker 2: off West fifty fourth Street near the hotel, and despite

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Speaker 2: the shocking event, guests were still ordering coffee and loitering

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Speaker 2: in the lobby. Police are working to identify the possible

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Speaker 2: motive behind the attack. An NYPD spokesperson calls it brazen quote.

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Speaker 2: We are putting all our resources into finding who did this.

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Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this, a man from

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Speaker 2: Canada is finally extradited to New York City to face

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Speaker 2: charges in a nineteen ninety seven cold case murder. Authorities

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Speaker 2: in New Jersey have taken custody of Robert Creed, sixty

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Speaker 2: for the nineteen ninety seven murder of Tamera Tigner Tgner,

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Speaker 2: h twenty three, was found dead November fourth of nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety seven in the woods near Washington Valley Park in Bridgewater,

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Speaker 2: New Jersey. She'd been strangled. An ATV writer found her

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Speaker 2: body that day, and for years the case went unsolved.

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Speaker 2: Two decades or longer, investigators continued to work on the case,

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Speaker 2: but they had little evidence to move forward. But then

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Speaker 2: in January of last year, advancements in DNA technology gave

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Speaker 2: authorities new opportunities to re examine the old evidence, including DNA.

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Speaker 2: Earlier investigators had linked Creator to an Orange van Senior

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Speaker 2: Tigner on the day she died. Tigner, who was from Newark,

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Speaker 2: was last seen getting into the van that morning. This information,

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Speaker 2: combined with the DNA match, led to Creator's arrest. At

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Speaker 2: the time of the murder, Creator lived in New Jersey,

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Speaker 2: but he moved to Canada in two thousand and two

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Speaker 2: once the DNA linked him to the crime. The Somerset

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Speaker 2: County Prosecutor's office worked with the US Department of State

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Speaker 2: and Canadian authorities in Winnipeg to bring cret to justice.

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Speaker 2: Canadian authorities took him into custody in June, and he

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Speaker 2: was extradited to the States last month. Creator is now

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Speaker 2: held in the Somerset County Jail awaiting trial. Assistant Prosecutor

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Speaker 2: Mike McLachlan recalls how Tigner's mother never gave up hope.

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Speaker 4: It has been twenty seven years, as I said, nine

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Speaker 4: eight hundred and eighty five days since her body was found.

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Speaker 4: Tammy's mom called our office on November fourth of every year.

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Speaker 4: The universary of Tammy's death. Looking for an update, I

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Speaker 4: spoke with the victim's mother. I told her that we

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Speaker 4: had arrested the man who killed her daughter. It was

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Speaker 2: Creator now faces a first degree murder charge and is

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Speaker 2: expected to appear in court in Somerville today. Authorities say

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Speaker 2: there are eight other cold cases in Somerset County that

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Speaker 2: they hope to solve using similar DNA technology. Colonel Patrick J.

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Speaker 2: Callahan of the New York State Police says, quote, this

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Speaker 2: arrest shows the dedication of law enforcement to seek justice,

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Speaker 2: no matter how and how much time has passed. A

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Speaker 2: young woman from Missouri vanishes after a night out, leaving

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Speaker 2: her family desperate for answers. Desiree Ferris, then eighteen years old,

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Speaker 2: disappeared from Liberty, Missouri, in the early hours of May second,

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Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. She had been with her sister and two

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Speaker 2: other men. Her sister was dropped off that night, but

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Speaker 2: Desiree stayed with the men. They drove her to a

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Speaker 2: house in the Marlborough neighborhood of Kansas City, and she

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Speaker 2: was never heard from again. The last contact with Desiree

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Speaker 2: was a call she made at two oh six am

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Speaker 2: May second, followed by a text at five fourteen am.

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Speaker 2: Her mother, Patty Tam tells CASETV quote, she was my baby.

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Speaker 2: Patty keeps her living room filled with photos of Desiree,

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Speaker 2: clinging to memories as she fears, quote, there's probably nothing

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Speaker 2: left of her. She deserves to be home. The neighborhood

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Speaker 2: where Desiree was last seen was known for drug activity.

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Speaker 2: Investigators say the area has made searching difficult. Liberty Police

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Speaker 2: detective Josh Bodenhammer has been on the case since day one.

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Speaker 2: He believes Desiree may no longer be alive, but lacks

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Speaker 2: the evidence to prove it. Records have helped trace some

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Speaker 2: Desiree's movements. That night, she and her sister were driven

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Speaker 2: around Kansas City by a man named Jason Keegan, stopping

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Speaker 2: at various houses. Keegan dropped them off at a McDonald's

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Speaker 2: before Desiree went off with another man. The last ping

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Speaker 2: by Desiree's phone was around four point fifty one am.

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Speaker 2: Desiree Ferris is white with brown hair and brown eyes.

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Speaker 2: Five to one between ninety five and one hundred and

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Speaker 2: five pounds when she disappeared. She has a birthmark near

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Speaker 2: her navel and a one and a half inch scar

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Speaker 2: on her left forearm. She was wearing a white or

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Speaker 2: cream colored top, pink fuzzy jacket, and sweatpants when she

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Speaker 2: was last seen. She had a tan purse. There is

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Speaker 2: currently a reward fund of twelve thousand dollars or more

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Speaker 2: looking for information leading to her location. Anyone with information

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Speaker 2: should call the Tips Hotline at eight one six four

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Speaker 2: seven four tips. For the latest crime in justice news,

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Speaker 2: But this crime Alert, I'm Drew Nelson, E