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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime is now. Cedar

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Speaker 1: Sartan calls Robert Gagner the biodad or five year old

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Speaker 1: little boy Body to tell him something bad has happened.

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Speaker 1: Gagner the biodad doesn't pick up, so Sartain leaves a

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Speaker 1: voicemail stating, please don't freak out, we don't have a

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Speaker 1: son anymore. Sartan then calls nine one one. Alaska paramedics

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Speaker 1: find a bloody twenty pound kettlebell weight with little body

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Speaker 1: beaten and stabbed dead Nancy.

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Speaker 2: Investigators say Certain stabbed Body's body after beating him to

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Speaker 2: death with the kettlebell. Certain sliced her arms, neck and

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Speaker 2: face after the attack in an attempt to take her

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Speaker 2: own life, but was found still conscious at the horrific

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Speaker 2: crime scene. Bodie's father, Robert Gagner, shared custody of the

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Speaker 2: boy with Certain, and says Certain's demeanor was off when

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Speaker 2: he dropped body off with her, but not enough to

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Speaker 2: make him uncomfortable, leaving him. Sartain was previously charged with

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Speaker 2: child endangerment after roughly twisting Bodie's head when he was

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Speaker 2: sixteen months old.

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Speaker 1: Mom, if you can collar that, Cedar, Sartin forty three,

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Speaker 1: charged with murder one. Michael Schuer extremely upset Disney removes

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Speaker 1: him from his role creating menus for the park's restaurants.

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Speaker 1: His passwords still work, so he makes several edits to

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Speaker 1: every menu. He changes the font to wingdings, adds profanity

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Speaker 1: to the listings, and marks dishes with peanuts as allerge

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Speaker 1: and safe. He also accesses employees' personal information and eggs

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Speaker 1: one of their homes. Michael Schuer now facing a federal

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Speaker 1: charge for his hack job. That jail sale is not

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Speaker 1: going to be much of a Disney fantasy. Enjoy Schuer.

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

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Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines.

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Speaker 3: John Limley, attorneys for Brianburger, charged in the fatal stabbings

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Speaker 3: of four University of Idaho students, have asked an Idaho

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Speaker 3: judge to remove the death penalty as a possible sentence

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Speaker 3: for the latest returned to Sidney Sumner of Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Brian Coberger is accused in the murders of Ethanshepen, Xana Kernodle,

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Speaker 2: Madison Mogen, and Kigley Gonsolves. On November thirteenth, twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Prosecutors say DNA evidence, surveillance footage, and sell data link Coberger,

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Speaker 2: a former graduate student at Washington State University, to the crime.

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Speaker 2: In the latest pre trial hearing, Coberger's defense argued that

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Speaker 2: capital punishment violates federal, state, and international law, calling it

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Speaker 2: cruel due to the prolonged weight inmates' face on death row.

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Speaker 2: They cited international treaties claiming the prohibit execution under such conditions. However,

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Speaker 2: Fourth District Judge Stephen Hipler questioned whether these treaties are relevant,

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Speaker 2: noting they are primarily meant to ensure fair trials. Prosecutors

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Speaker 2: countered that Idaho Supreme Court has previously upheld the death penalty.

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Speaker 2: Coberger's defense is preserving these arguments for a potential appeal

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Speaker 2: if necessary. Judge Hitler will rule on the motions later.

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Speaker 2: Kilelygansolvez's parents, Christy and Steve, attended the hearing. They continue

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Speaker 2: to support the death penalty, with Christie citing knowledge of

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Speaker 2: the case's disturbing details. Kober's attorneys have claimed he was

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Speaker 2: on a late night drive during the killings.

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Speaker 3: Coberger's trial is set for next August and could last

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Speaker 3: up to three months. Now to a disturbing story out

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Speaker 3: of Colorado. John and Carrie Halford, owners of Return to

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Speaker 3: Nature funeral Home, are expected to plead guilty to hundreds

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Speaker 3: of charges, including corpse abuse. Prosecutors say the couple deceived

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Speaker 3: families by storing one hundred and ninety bodies in a

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Speaker 3: run down facility while giving loved ones fate ashes, often

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Speaker 3: substituting dry concrete. Authorities discovered the bodies last year after

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Speaker 3: neighbours reported a foul odour coming from a building in Penrose,

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Speaker 3: southwest of Colorado's Springs. Inside, they found bodies stacked on

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Speaker 3: top of each other in horrific conditions, so hazardous that

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Speaker 3: has MATT teams needed full protective gear for entry. According

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Speaker 3: to prosecutors, the Halford's misused customer payments and nearly nine

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Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars in COVID relief funds to finance luxury

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Speaker 3: items like cars, vacations, and cryptocurrency. The Halford's previously pleaded

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Speaker 3: guilty to federal fraud charges, admitting to defrauding customers and

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Speaker 3: the government. The cases led to tighter regulations in Colorado's

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Speaker 3: funeral industry, which had some of the nation's weakest oversight.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John. Melanie Ballinger forty six, spending a lot of

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Speaker 1: time resting in preparation for upcoming heart surgery. Leans on

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Speaker 1: her husband Daniel for help keeping up with their two

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Speaker 1: young daughters and chores and their Wiley, Texas home. Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: Daniel joins Melanie in bad TENPN when you gets something.

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Speaker 1: Next morning, six am, Melanie gone her phone, wallet and

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Speaker 1: med's still inside. Her car still parked outside. There's no

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Speaker 1: sign of mom. Intense foot searches turn up nothing. Police

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Speaker 1: working to retrace her steps. The last confirmed signing is

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Speaker 1: on surveillance video at Walmart with her family Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: It's extremely dangerous for Melanie to go without her meds.

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Speaker 1: Her family desperate to bring her home. She's five seven,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five pounds, chestlink, black hair, brown eyes.

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Speaker 1: Last scene wearing unspecified pajamas. If you have NFO on

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Speaker 1: Melanie Ballinger now missing ten days, called Wiley, Texas PD

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