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

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Speaker 2: Rachel Hanson, a sixteen year old from Gilbert, Arizona, lives

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Speaker 2: a remarkable life filled with accomplishments. She grows up in

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Speaker 2: a large, loving, adoptive family and quickly earns recognition in

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Speaker 2: her community for her talents and dedication. Crime Onlines Dave

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Speaker 2: Mack reports.

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Speaker 1: Todding Kim Hanson always wanted a big family, and they

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Speaker 1: become foster parents, adopting many of the children that come

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Speaker 1: into their Gilbert, Arizona home. They foster a little girl

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Speaker 1: who becomes a permanent part of the family. At six

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Speaker 1: years old, she chooses a new name, Rachel, from the Bible,

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Speaker 1: like her thirteen siblings. One day, Rachel comments that she

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Speaker 1: wishes they had a horse. The Hansons have raised horses before,

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Speaker 1: and they decide to break back into it for Rachel.

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Speaker 1: From that point on, it's nearly impossible to cry Rachel

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Speaker 1: away from the stable she had found her calling.

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Speaker 2: Rachel excels in every area of her life. By the

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Speaker 2: age of fourteen, she is a horse whisperer, a standout student,

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Speaker 2: and even the only girl on the school's football team.

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Speaker 2: He graduates high school at age sixteen. Post graduation, Rachel's

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Speaker 2: success continues. Crime Onlines Holden's Apple reports.

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Speaker 3: Rachel continues to flourish. After graduation. Rachel runs a busy

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Speaker 3: horse training business, AZ Hansen Horses, finding and breaking wild

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Speaker 3: horses for clients. Rachel also makes a deal with the

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Speaker 3: ranch owner in Queen's Creek to live and work on

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Speaker 3: the property as a trainer. At the onset of the pandemic,

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Speaker 3: Rachel also commits herself to running a dog rescue. With

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Speaker 3: her family's help, they find homes for over two hundred dogs.

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Speaker 3: In all her free time, Rachel studies to earn her

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Speaker 3: real estate license and has also found love engaged to Mary.

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Speaker 2: Seems like everything is going well, but then the challenges arise.

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Speaker 2: While living on the ranch, Rachel's relationship with the owner deteriorates.

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Speaker 2: Crime Onlines Dave Mack has more.

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Speaker 1: While living and working on the ranch in Queen's Creek,

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Speaker 1: Rachel's relationship with the owner begins to break down. There's

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Speaker 1: a payment dispute over a deal to breed Rachel's Mari Dash,

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Speaker 1: and Rachel gets in an accident while transporting horses, damaging

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Speaker 1: a horse trailer. The owner tells Rachel she won't be

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Speaker 1: paying her for the last month of work and will

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Speaker 1: no longer be needing her services. Rachel removes all of

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Speaker 1: her belongings from the property and makes plans to move

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Speaker 1: into an apartment that she's currently subletting to other tenants

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Speaker 1: next week.

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Speaker 2: Up next a terrifying encounter, Rachel calls nine one one

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Speaker 2: and says somebody broke in and shot me. Rachel has

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Speaker 2: a very hard time coping with her termination, and her

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Speaker 2: former boss calls police for a welfare check after receiving

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Speaker 2: texts from Rachel about suicide. Sedona cops find Rachel in

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Speaker 2: a hotel room with a gun and convince her to

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Speaker 2: seek treatment. Rachel's gun is impounded by Sedona police and

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Speaker 2: she spends five days in a Gilbert mental hospital. By

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Speaker 2: the time Rachel is released, her tenants have moved out

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Speaker 2: and her family helps her move into the apartment. Soon

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Speaker 2: after moving in, Rachel has a terrifying encounter crime onlines

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Speaker 2: Holden's Apple reports.

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Speaker 3: Rachel moves some of her belongings to the apartment, and,

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Speaker 3: while still very bare, it's enough to say sleep in.

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Speaker 3: Rachel decides to spend the night. Around midnight, Rachel wakes

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Speaker 3: up to someone standing over her. Rachel screams and the

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Speaker 3: intruder runs out. It appears they had a key. Rachel's

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Speaker 3: fiance comes straight away to help replace her lock with

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Speaker 3: one from his father's house. He suggests calling the police,

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Speaker 3: but Rachel is convinced the intruder simply didn't realize the

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Speaker 3: previous tenants moved out. The next day, Rachel continues to

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Speaker 3: unpack and spends time with her fiance that evening, going

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Speaker 3: out to dinner, then taking a dip in the pool together.

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Speaker 2: And then Rachel's life is cut short Crime Online's Dave Mack.

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Speaker 1: Just after two am, Rachel Hanson calls nine to one

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Speaker 1: one and says, someone broke in and shot me. The

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Speaker 1: dispatcher gets Rachel's address and tries to help her stop

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Speaker 1: the bleeding while police and paramedics are on the way.

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Speaker 1: Rachel says she doesn't have any kind of cloth or

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Speaker 1: towel near her to use, and the dispatcher notes that

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Speaker 1: Rachel is less and less responsive and it sounds like

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Speaker 1: she's about to pass out. The dispatcher notes that the

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Speaker 1: shooter has left the apartment, but Warren's officers to be vigilant.

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Speaker 2: When officers arrive, they find Rachel gravely wounded.

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Speaker 1: More from Gilbert p. D initially struggled to locate Rachel's apartment,

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Speaker 1: but arrived within five minutes of her call. Cops call

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Speaker 1: out for her and she weakly responds, I'm in here.

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Speaker 1: An officer finds her crumpled to the floor of her

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Speaker 1: bathroom with a gunshot wound to her chest. As another

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Speaker 1: officer sweeps the apartment, he finds blood in a spent

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Speaker 1: shell casing in Rachel's bed. Officers note that the apartment

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Speaker 1: seems oddly empty, but there are no signs of a

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Speaker 1: struggle in Rachel's jewelry and other valuables are untouched.

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Speaker 2: The investigative report reveals that Rachel spoke with Gilbert p.

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Speaker 2: D just two months prior about a threat made by

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Speaker 2: her fiance's father. It's unclear what led up to the threat,

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Speaker 2: but Rachel received a concerning text message that reads, if

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Speaker 2: I ever see you or Angel in my house again,

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Speaker 2: I will shoot you all in the head. Two years later,

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Speaker 2: Rachel's case remains unsolved. For more on Rachel's case, join

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Speaker 1: I'm Drew Nelson