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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crime news Now New York.

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Speaker 1: Firefighters respond to a house fire and find the homeowners

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Speaker 1: from Ayo Baldo and Rangeley Morano and their two toddlers dead,

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Speaker 1: But they didn't die, and the fire turns out all

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Speaker 1: four were stabbed to death. An arrestumate after police canvas

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Speaker 1: the neighborhood for videos and witness statements. Cops believe more

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Speaker 1: suspects than Julio Pimentel Serreno are involved.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Police have now named a second suspect, Louis Soriano

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Speaker 2: thirty one. Julio and Louis Soriano are brothers. The pair

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Speaker 2: are cousins to Frami Ubaldo. Cops believe Louis Soriano has

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Speaker 2: fled to Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic. While federal

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Speaker 2: officials and US marshalls work to attract Soriano down, family

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Speaker 2: and friends are mourning the young family. Several vigils have

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Speaker 2: been held outside the family's home as loved ones grapple

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Speaker 2: with their brutal murders.

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Speaker 1: The mental Sereno thirty four, charged with four counts of

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Speaker 1: murder and including two tots in Ohio. Mom panics when

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Speaker 1: she can't find her eight year old girl. She then

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Speaker 1: realizes her car's gone too. As mom is reporting the

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Speaker 1: girl missing, multiple drivers are reporting I suspected DUI. Cops

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Speaker 1: track down the car to a Target store and find

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Speaker 1: the little girl shopping inside. The girl admits she hit

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Speaker 1: a mailbox on the half hour drive to Target. Officers

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Speaker 1: let her finish her Starbucks crappuccino while family members come

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Speaker 1: to pick her up. Obviously, they did not let her

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Speaker 1: drive home. No one facing the charges. Cops just happy

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Speaker 1: the eight year old girl is safe. More crime and

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Speaker 1: justice news after this Now with the latest crime in Justice,

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Speaker 1: breaking news Crime on Lines.

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Speaker 3: John Linley, a Pennsylvania man, has entered no contest please

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Speaker 3: in connection with the deaths of his father and stepmother,

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Speaker 3: who were killed with a sword nearly five years ago.

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Speaker 3: Forty three year old Lebar Fountain has avoided a trial

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Speaker 3: by pleading to third degree murder charges in York County Court.

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Speaker 3: First degree murder charges, which would have carried a mandatory

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Speaker 3: life sentence, were dismissed. Court records indicate Fountain's sentencing is

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Speaker 3: scheduled for November eighth. Authorities say Fountain was not taking

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Speaker 3: his prescribed medication for schizophrenia when the killings occurred in

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Speaker 3: December of twenty nineteen. The victims, seventy four year old

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Speaker 3: John Fountain and sixty five year old Mary Fountain, were

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Speaker 3: found in the York home they shared with their son.

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Speaker 3: Investigators believed the sword used in the attack was found

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Speaker 3: in Fountain's bedroom. Officials revealed chilling details of the aftermath,

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Speaker 3: stating that Fountain moved the bodies to the basement, posted

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Speaker 3: a note on the door claiming the couple had relocated

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Speaker 3: to Florida, and then isolated himself in his room for

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Speaker 3: three days. Authorities say Fountain also killed the couple's dogs,

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Speaker 3: later explaining that he believed the animals represented quote lower

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Speaker 3: class dragons and had to be killed. Fountain's defense team

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Speaker 3: had initially prepared to argue an insanity defense, but the

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Speaker 3: trial was averted when Fountain opted to enter a no

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Speaker 3: contest plea. His attorney, Calesina Hautman, confirmed that Fountain's metal

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Speaker 3: state at the time of the killings was a significant

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Speaker 3: aspect of the case. Family members have expressed disbelief. Fountain's sister, Karen,

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Speaker 3: said he did not remember committing the crime and maintained

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Speaker 3: he would never intentionally harm his parents. Under the plea,

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Speaker 3: Fountain did not admit guilt, but he acknowledged that prosecutors

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Speaker 3: had enough evidence to convict him. Now to a developing

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Speaker 3: story out of New York as, two former high ranking

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Speaker 3: officials from the New York City Fire Department are facing

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Speaker 3: serious federal charges. Let's bring in Sidney sunder Now of

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Speaker 3: Crime Online for more.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Sokovino and Brian Cordosco, both former chiefs within the

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Speaker 2: department's Bureau of Fire Prevention, have now been taken into custody.

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Speaker 2: Federal authorities alleged the men were involved in a bribery

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Speaker 2: scheme that spanned from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: during which they are accused of soliciting and accepting tens

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Speaker 2: of thousands of dollars in bribes. According to the indictment,

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Speaker 2: Socovino and Cordosco provided preferential treatment in exchange for the payments,

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Speaker 2: allegedly favoring certain individuals and companies during the department's fire

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Speaker 2: safety inspections and regulation processes. The charges include conspiracy to

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Speaker 2: solicit bribes on his services, wire fraud, and making false statements.

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Speaker 2: As of now, the defendants' legal teams have not responded

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Speaker 2: to requests for comments ahead of their scheduled court appearances

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Speaker 2: in Manhattan Federal Court. These arrests are the latest development

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Speaker 2: in a broader corruption probe shaking New York City's government.

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Speaker 2: Over the weekend, Mayor Eric Adams, top legal adviser, resigned

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Speaker 2: suddenly following the resignation of the NYPD's top official after

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Speaker 2: federal agents seized his phone.

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Speaker 3: Authorities are expected to provide more details in the days

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Speaker 3: to come.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John Mama for Michelle Vanik thirty five sets out

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Speaker 1: for a hike of the Mountain of Holy Cross, Mentoring,

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Speaker 1: Colorado with friend Eric Sawyer. They're approaching the summit when

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Speaker 1: Michelle feels winded, she decides to head back down. She

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Speaker 1: encourages Eric to go on, saying she'll meet him back

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Speaker 1: at the car. He hopes to catch Michelle on the descent,

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Speaker 1: but he makes it back to Michelle's car, but no

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Speaker 1: sign of Michelle. An intense eight day search in the

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Speaker 1: area with two hundred and twenty volunteers turns up nothing.

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Speaker 1: Canines don't even pick up percent. Much later, searchers stumble

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Speaker 1: upon some of Michelle's belongings, including clothing, a backpack, hiking poles,

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Speaker 1: and Michelle's car keys. Still no Michelle. Michelle five eight,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty five pounds, shoulder length, blonde hair,

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Speaker 1: blue eyes, now missing nineteen years. If you have info

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Speaker 1: on Michelle Vanok, missing from Menttern, Colorado, called Eagle County

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Speaker 1: Sheriff's nine seven zero three two eight eighty five hundred.

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