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Speaker 1: Crime alert.

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Speaker 2: I mean see grace breaking crime news now. Ethan and

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Speaker 2: Savannah Katz ask a close friend, Nicole Verzi, to babysit

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Speaker 2: Leon and Ari. They're six week old twins, just for

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Speaker 2: the day while they catch up on sleep. After several

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Speaker 2: hours with the boys, the babysitter rushes the two to

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Speaker 2: the hospital. Nicole Versey claims Leon fell from his bouncer

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Speaker 2: chair while she was preparing a bottle. The baby has

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Speaker 2: a skull fracture and multiple brain bleeds. Leon dies. Doctors

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Speaker 2: say there's no way Leon's injuries were an accident. Ari

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Speaker 2: also shows signs of abuse.

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Speaker 3: Nancy Versy is a fifth year PhD student studying depressions

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Speaker 3: effects on human behavior and physical health. Visi's lawyer describes

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Speaker 3: her as a longtime family friend with the catsas adding

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Speaker 3: that his client is backed by a quote loving and

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Speaker 3: supportive family. Versy is now held at the Allegant County Jail.

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Speaker 2: Nicole Verse twenty nine, pleads not guilty to homicide, ag assault,

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Speaker 2: and endangering welfare of children. Samey or Thomas eighteen, chats

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Speaker 2: online with a potential date for about a week before

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Speaker 2: they decide to meet in person. As the date walks

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Speaker 2: up the front drive. She suddenly gets cold feet, but

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Speaker 2: instead of canceling, she calls nine to one one, telling

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Speaker 2: the operator her quote abusive ex boyfriend refuses to leave

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Speaker 2: and is threatening to hurt her. Iowa CAUs meet the

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Speaker 2: confused man as he's leaving Thomas's front yard. He shows

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Speaker 2: him the messages between the two to prove he's never

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Speaker 2: even met Sameya Thomas. Officers turn their attention to the

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Speaker 2: teen girl, Samaya Thomas, now charged with a fake nine

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Speaker 2: one one call and making false statements to police. Beware

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Speaker 2: date number two. More crime and justice news after this.

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Speaker 2: Now with the latest crime and justice break needs fime onlines,

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Speaker 2: John Linley.

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Speaker 1: We began on the West Coast, as authorities say, a

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Speaker 1: man who prosecutors have accused of stabbing five people, two

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Speaker 1: fatally and a July fourth attack in a California beach town,

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Speaker 1: has now been charged with murder with Moore. Here's Sidney

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Speaker 1: Sumner of Crime Online.

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Speaker 3: Twenty six year old Logan Christopher Kelly faces charges of murder,

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Speaker 3: attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and battery on

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Speaker 3: a police officer. Prosecutors have applied the special circumstance of

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Speaker 3: multiple murders provision, which could result in the death penalty

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Speaker 3: or life without parole. The violent incident occurred just after

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Speaker 3: eleven pm in Huntington Beach, where a group was watching fireworks.

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Speaker 3: According to prosecutors, Kelly, under the influence of alcohol and

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Speaker 3: hallucinogenic drugs, began stabbing people with a knife. The attack

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Speaker 3: claimed the lives of forty two year old Eric Hodges

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Speaker 3: and forty seven year old William Collins. Three others were injured,

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Speaker 3: two thirty five year old men and one of their fathers,

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Speaker 3: aged sixty eight, who are expected to survive. Kelly, who

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Speaker 3: hails from nearby Redondo Beach, did not know any of

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Speaker 3: the victim. Bystanders, including a sixteen year old boy, managed

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Speaker 3: to detain him until police arrived. Kelly is also accused

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Speaker 3: of assaulting the boy, spitting on a police officer, and

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Speaker 3: using a racial slur during his arrest. The intersection where

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Speaker 3: the attack occurred is about five blocks from the beach.

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Speaker 3: On the fourth of July, thousands of revelers flocked to

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Speaker 3: the city to watch the annual Independence Day parade as

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Speaker 3: well as the city fireworks display, which began around nine pm.

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Speaker 1: The horrific event was part of a series of violent

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Speaker 1: incidents across the country on the fourth of July, resulting

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Speaker 1: in at least thirty three deaths, including eleven in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: The holiday remains one of the deadliest days in the

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Speaker 1: United States each year thanks John.

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Speaker 2: Janet Walt, seventy, lives alone shell Er Township, Pennsylvania, but

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Speaker 2: she enjoys frequent visits from her daughter. Janet attends physical

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Speaker 2: therapy once a week to deal with mobility issues, but

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Speaker 2: calls to cancel her appointment the very next day. When

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Speaker 2: Janet's daughter shows up for dinner. The next evening, she

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Speaker 2: can't mom. Janet's silver twenty eighteen Chevy Tracks is missing

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Speaker 2: from the driveway, along with her purse, but her cell

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Speaker 2: phone is on the charger upstairs. Searches of the area

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Speaker 2: turn up nothing. Her car, with Pennsylvania license plate KKAP

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Speaker 2: of T TARUS W six zero zero seven has never

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Speaker 2: been found. Janet Walsh now missing four years five three, short,

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Speaker 2: white hair, hazel eyes, about two hundred pounds. If you

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Speaker 2: have info on Janet Walsh, called Alleghany County, Pennsylvania PD

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Speaker 2: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace