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

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Speaker 1: A grotesque domestic tragedy unfolded in Fort Pierce, Florida, leaving

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Speaker 1: a sixty four year old man dead from blunt force

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Speaker 1: trauma and his wife in custody after an alleged attempt

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Speaker 1: to destroy the evidence in a washing machine. Bonnie teaken sixty,

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Speaker 1: faces charges of second degree murder and tampering with evidence

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Speaker 1: in the savage bludgeoning death of her husband, William Teakan.

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Speaker 1: Neighbors say the couple, who'd been married for forty years,

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Speaker 1: had a rocky relationship. Sue Roseman spoke to the media,

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Speaker 1: you really don't think something's going to go that far.

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Speaker 1: You know that it's as much as a drink and

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Speaker 1: all their whole history, it finally came to that, and

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Speaker 1: it's I just don't think that's going to happen. Saint

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Speaker 1: Lucy County Sheriff's deputy swarmed the couple's Birch Drive home

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Speaker 1: around ten thirty pm after a welfare check was called

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Speaker 1: in by the couple's shocked adult children. Upon arrival, the

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Speaker 1: scene was damning. Deputies found Bonnie in the garage stand

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Speaker 1: near a washing machine, A blood soaked blanket lay on

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Speaker 1: the concrete floor, and inside the appliance were blood drenched

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Speaker 1: clothing and towels. Teetkins was reportedly in the process of

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Speaker 1: pressing the start cycle on the machine, attempting a clumsy

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Speaker 1: cover up of the brutal crime. A trail of blood

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Speaker 1: droplets led from the garage through the living room to

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Speaker 1: a bedroom, where deputies discovered William Teatkins lying face down

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Speaker 1: on the floor. He had suffered multiple severe head wounds,

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Speaker 1: consistent with being beaten with a billy club or a

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Speaker 1: bat a weapon. She later admitted using the severity of

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Speaker 1: the trauma confirmed he was beyond saving. The horror first

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Speaker 1: came to light though earlier that evening. After trying to

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Speaker 1: reach out to her adult sun by phone. Teatkins returned

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Speaker 1: his call around nine pm, delivering a bone chilling confession.

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Speaker 1: She allegedly told him quote dad's dead end quote and

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Speaker 1: admitted to striking him with the wooden club. The traumatized

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Speaker 1: children rushed to the scene and contacted authorities. In custody,

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Speaker 1: teat Gins appeared intoxicated and offered vague statements claiming she

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Speaker 1: had quote unquote, snapped and couldn't take it anymore end quote.

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Speaker 1: She also provided accusations that her husband had sexually assaulted

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Speaker 1: her earlier in the day. Official say the relationship has

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Speaker 1: been marred by past domestic incidents. Teatgins is currently being

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Speaker 1: held in the Saint Lucy Kenny Jail without bond as

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Speaker 1: the investigation continues. For the latest crime and justice news,

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Speaker 1: and YouTube. More crime and justice news. After this, a

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Speaker 1: North Carolina school therapists sinister scheme to poison her estranged

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Speaker 1: husband with his favorite energy drink, guided by chilling chat

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Speaker 1: GPD searches for lethal toxins, has landed her behind bars

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Speaker 1: facing attempted murder charges. Parents whose kids attend Charlotte Mecklenburg

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Speaker 1: schools are stunned and concerned. Sharonda Taylor spoke to w

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Speaker 1: SOOCTV news. Is it just the fact that he crossed

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Speaker 1: her the wrong way? And what if a child crossed

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Speaker 1: her the wrong way? Would she do something to that child.

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Speaker 1: Cheryl Harris Gates, forty three, was cuffed by Charlotte Mecklenburg

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Speaker 1: police on multiple felony counts attempted first degree murder, contaminating

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Speaker 1: food or drink with intent to harm, stalking, and misdemeanor

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Speaker 1: property damage. Court docs reveal a calculated, months long plot

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Speaker 1: inside the couple's home where Gates allegedly turned to the

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Speaker 1: artificial intelligence chat bought to mastermind a deadly cocktail against

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Speaker 1: her spouse. From July to September, Gates used the AI

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Speaker 1: chat bot to research for quote lethal and incapacitating prescription

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Speaker 1: drug combinations end quote that could be slipped into drinks

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Speaker 1: or injected. The arrest affidavit states her queries zeroed in

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Speaker 1: on poisons like oleander risin and foxglove plants, notorious for

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Speaker 1: stopping hearts. Investigators then found her workspace stocked with damning

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Speaker 1: physical evidence, syringes, medical droppers, digital scales, a capsule filling kit,

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Speaker 1: and prescription medications, all allegedly purchased online to execute her plan.

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Speaker 1: Her husband, who was living separately at the time, suffered

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Speaker 1: two terrifying episodes of incapacitation on July twelfth and August eighteenth,

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Speaker 1: after sipping his Celsius energy drink, which later tested positive

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Speaker 1: for a foreign controlled substance. Per the affidavit, he survived

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Speaker 1: without hospitalization and aided police by turning over the tainted

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Speaker 1: drinks and digital receipts linking Gates to the lethal purchases.

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Speaker 1: The poisoning charges followed Gates's arrest for stalking after she

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Speaker 1: allegedly planted a GPS tracker on her husband's car and

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Speaker 1: smashed a window at his home. Gates, a pediatric occupational

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Speaker 1: therapist for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, saw her staff profile yanked

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Speaker 1: from the district's website post arrest. She was initially released

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Speaker 1: on bond after the first arrest, but was denied it

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Speaker 1: after the attempted murder charges. Gates remains in Mecklenburg County Jail,

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Speaker 1: held without bond as police scour her devices for further plots.

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Speaker 1: And finally, a West Hollywood, California drama just went full

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Speaker 1: takeout terror. Six year old Floky the Feeline was allegedly

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Speaker 1: catnapped by a rogue food delivery driver right off his porch.

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Speaker 1: Surveillance video caught the perpetrator engaging with the below pet,

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Speaker 1: then stuffing him in the trunk of his Prius and

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Speaker 1: just speeding away. Owner Emir Eukrates was distraught, offering a

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Speaker 1: high stakes one thousand dollars reward for the safe return

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Speaker 1: of his meow missing baby. The shocking twist two weeks later,

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Speaker 1: the driver returned Floky to the station. A police station

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Speaker 1: then audaciously tried to collect that hefty reward. Emir spoke

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Speaker 1: to Fox eleven News, they like almost like, you know,

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Speaker 1: one of those movies where they kidnapped first, then they

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Speaker 1: asked the money later on, like this, it's unbelievable. Emir

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Speaker 1: refused to pay the alleged ransom. Now the West Hollywood

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Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department is serving up a feline felony investigation. This

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Speaker 1: was one delivery that definitely wasn't perfectly executed, and now

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Speaker 1: the driver is facing a massive tip of jail time

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Speaker 1: instead of a payout. For the latest crime and justice news,

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Speaker 1: app with this Crime Alert. I'm Jennifer Gould, the