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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: More than seven years have passed since Abby Williams and

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Speaker 1: Libby Jerman were tragically found dead near the Monon High

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Speaker 1: Bridge in Delphi, Indiana. Richard Allen, the individual accused of

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Speaker 1: their murders, is currently on trial and will face the

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Speaker 1: fifth day of proceedings. The trial commenced on October eighteen,

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Speaker 1: with sixteen Allen County residents chosen to serve as jurors,

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Speaker 1: eight women and four men. According to News thirteen, there

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Speaker 1: are hundreds of pages of exhibits that are part of

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Speaker 1: the trial. Reporters inside the courtroom are not allowed to

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Speaker 1: use recording devices, no photos, no videos, only given pen

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Speaker 1: and paper to make notes during the trial. One exhibit

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Speaker 1: of significant interest is a letter pinned by Richard Allen

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Speaker 1: to the Indiana Department of Correction Warden requesting an interview.

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Speaker 1: In the letter, it's reported that Allen expresses a readiness

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Speaker 1: to quote officially confess to the killings of Abby and Libby,

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Speaker 1: saying that he has a desire to apologize to the

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Speaker 1: families involved. The authenticity of Allan's alleged confessions has become

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Speaker 1: a focal point of contention between the prosecution and his

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Speaker 1: defense team. Despite defense claims that Allan was cohersed and

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Speaker 1: struggling with mental health issues when making these confessions, Judge

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Speaker 1: Francis Gull ruled in August that the jury could indeed

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Speaker 1: hear them. These confessions reportedly include over sixty admissions that

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Speaker 1: Allan made while in state prisons, directed toward various individuals,

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Speaker 1: including his own family members, prison staff, fellow inmates, and

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Speaker 1: mental health professionals. In addition to the letter from Allan,

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Speaker 1: exhibits also touched on odonism, with Allan's defense teams suggesting

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Speaker 1: that Abby and Libby's death were part of a ritualistic murder.

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Speaker 1: While the defense came up with several individuals they believed

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Speaker 1: could have been involved in such a ritual, Judge gol

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Speaker 1: has determined that the jury will not be presented with

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Speaker 1: this theory or information about other potential suspects, a decision

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Speaker 1: reached during a pre trial proceeding count on Crime Alert

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Speaker 1: hourly update to keep you posted on this developing trial

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Speaker 1: more crime and justice news after this. In another trial,

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Speaker 1: Sarah Boone, the accused suitcase killer, accused of murdering her boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: took the witness stand during her trial yesterday. The forty

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Speaker 1: six year old woman is facing a second degree murder

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Speaker 1: charge for the twenty twenty death of her boyfriend, forty

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Speaker 1: two year old George Torres Junior. Allegedly she convinced him

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Speaker 1: to climb into a suitcase at their Florida home when

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Speaker 1: they were playing a drunken game of hide and seek,

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Speaker 1: then closed that suitcase and refused to let him out,

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Speaker 1: leading to his death. In a soft spoken manner, Boone

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Speaker 1: shared details about her upbringing and family life. She reminisced

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Speaker 1: about meeting her ex husband, Brian Boone in their twenties,

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Speaker 1: their thirteen year old relationship, and the sun they share together.

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Speaker 1: Boone went on to narrate the events leading up to

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Speaker 1: Torre's death, detailing a day spent together involving drinking, cleaning, painting,

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Speaker 1: and listening to music.

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Speaker 2: I zipped him up. We thought it was funny and

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Speaker 2: we're joking about how he was small enough to the

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Speaker 2: inside of the suitcase.

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Speaker 1: Did you believe that he could breathe in there?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Did you ever believe he could die in there? No?

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Speaker 2: Were you afraid? Terrified is more of the word.

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Speaker 1: She explained how The tragic incident unfolded as a seemingly

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Speaker 1: harmless joke, turned into a heated argument when Torres allegedly

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Speaker 1: tried to break out of the suitcase. Describing her panicked

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Speaker 1: attempts to prevent his escape, Boone recalled grabbing a aseball

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Speaker 1: bat out of fear for her safety. She says that

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Speaker 1: she denies any intention to harm Torres, and expressed her

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Speaker 1: distress upon discovering him unresponsive the next morning.

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Speaker 2: Screaming, George, George, George, and I was shaking him. I

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Speaker 2: was shaking him, and I pulled him out and I

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Speaker 2: stretched him out flat, and then I began instantly trying

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Speaker 2: to do CPR.

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Speaker 1: As Boone emotionally recounted her efforts to revive Torres, she

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Speaker 1: called her ex husband then nine to one one. The

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Speaker 1: courtroom atmosphere was tense and hearing her comments, prosecutors presented

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Speaker 1: the suitcase as evidence, prompting Boone to demonstrate how she

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Speaker 1: zipped up her boyfriend inside. In a compelling and emotional testimony,

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Speaker 1: Sarah Boone painted a picture of a relationship that tragically

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Speaker 1: spiraled out of control, leaving a man dead and her

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Speaker 1: facing serious criminal charges for the latest crime. Injustice news.

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