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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. Jennifer

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Speaker 1: and John Wolfthall, adoptive parents to three young children, rushed

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Speaker 1: their eight year old daughter to the hospital unconscious in

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Speaker 1: organ failure and injured. The eight year old extremely malnourished.

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Speaker 1: Doctors don't think the swollen bruise on the back of

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Speaker 1: her head and severe cuts are related to a fall.

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Speaker 1: On a visit to the home, police officers find their

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Speaker 1: two older children, nine and eleven, also showing signs of

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Speaker 1: neglect and abuse.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Jennifer Wolfthall is a children's author, but her book

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Speaker 2: A Real Friend has now been ripped from shelves. The

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Speaker 2: wolf Thals adopted their children in twenty fourteen and did

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Speaker 2: not regularly feed or bathe them, spanked them to the

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Speaker 2: point of drawing blood, and douse them in bed with

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Speaker 2: cold water, leaving them to sleep in wet bedding. The

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Speaker 2: little girl was diagnosed with pneumonia in a staph infection,

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Speaker 2: but is said to be doing better after weeks of

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Speaker 2: round the clock care.

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Speaker 1: Jennifer and John wolfthaal convict that have aggravated child abuse

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Speaker 1: and neglect resulting in great bodily harm, sent us to

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Speaker 1: twelve and ten years in prison, respectively.

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Speaker 3: In a plea deal.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutor struck to avoid re traumatizing the children at trial.

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Speaker 1: This dealer thought he had the perfect cover for his

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Speaker 1: cocaine business. Alvin Lewis works as a drug counselor at

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Speaker 1: a New York rehab all while distributing cocaine under the table.

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Speaker 1: After multiple reports from the public, cops sent under covers

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Speaker 1: to visit Lewis, who happily collects their money. Lewis shot

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Speaker 1: when he's pulled over and arrested. A few hours later.

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Speaker 1: Searches off his home and car revealed a large number

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Speaker 1: of prepackaged baggies of crack. Alvin Lewis, fifty four, charged

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Speaker 1: with delivery and seal of a controlled substance. More crime

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Speaker 1: and justice news after this Now with the latest crime

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Speaker 1: and justice breaking news.

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Speaker 3: Crime Onlines. John Limley, the man who shot and killed

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Speaker 3: a Kentucky Sheritt's deputy during a routine traffic stop, will

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Speaker 3: spend the rest of his life life behind bars. Forty

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Speaker 3: seven year old Stephen Shingshang pleaded guilty in a Scott

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Speaker 3: County courtroom to multiple charges, including the twenty twenty three

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Speaker 3: murder of Deputy Caleb Conley. He was sentenced to life

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Speaker 3: in prison without parole plus seventy years, though that time

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Speaker 3: will run Concurrently, authorities say Shingshang fled after the shooting,

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Speaker 3: committing a string of crimes across Scott and Fayette Counties.

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Speaker 3: In total, he admitted to fourteen felonies. Kentucky Attorney General

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Speaker 3: Russell Coleman has declared that the outcome is justice served.

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Speaker 3: Deputy Conley served four years with the Sheriff's Department and

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Speaker 3: was an eight year US Army veteran. At sentencing, his

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Speaker 3: family delivered emotional victim impact statements. Coleman says this case

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Speaker 3: sends a clear message those who take the life of

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Speaker 3: a Kentucky law enforcement officer will face the toughest penalties

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Speaker 3: allowed by law. A troubling case has emerged out of

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Speaker 3: Washington State involving a young woman connected to the fatal

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Speaker 3: shooting of a US Border Patrol agent. As Crime Online

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Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner tells us, the story has expanded nationally, linking

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Speaker 3: to multiple homicide investigations.

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Speaker 2: Twenty one year old Teresa Youngblood has been ordered held

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Speaker 2: without bail facing federal firearms charges tied to the death

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Speaker 2: of Border patrol agent David Mayland, who was shot on

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Speaker 2: January twentieth during a traffic stop in Vermont. Young Blood

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Speaker 2: allegedly open fire, resulting in a shootout, then also claimed

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Speaker 2: the life of her companion, Felix Backholt. Authorities revealed that

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Speaker 2: the weapon used in the Vermont incident was linked to

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Speaker 2: prior killings in Pennsylvania, where Richard and Rita Zoshko were

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Speaker 2: murdered in their home on December thirty one, twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Both young Blood and the alleged gun buyer have ties

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Speaker 2: to a person detained in the Zoshko case, which is

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Speaker 2: also a person of interest in a homicide in California,

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Speaker 2: complicating matters. Jack Lesoda, another individual implicated in these events,

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Speaker 2: faces separate charges of obstructing law enforcement. He was arrested

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Speaker 2: a short distance from the Zoshcode crime scene as authority

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Speaker 2: son the murder weapon. Lesoda has a checkered history, including

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Speaker 2: a bizarre incident in twenty twenty two where he was

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Speaker 2: falsely reported dead after a boating accident, only to re

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Speaker 2: emerge later in connection with criminal activities. Additionally, a federal

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Speaker 2: alert has been issued regarding a woman named Michelle Jocklin

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Speaker 2: Zoshko reportedly involved in purchasing firearms associated with the Vermont shooting.

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Speaker 2: She shares a home address in Pennsylvania with the Zashkos

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Speaker 2: from twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 3: A preliminary hearing for young Blood is scheduled for February seventh.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John, despite a medical condition that leads to memory loss.

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Speaker 1: Valerie Smiley, forty one, is a wonderful mom to four

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Speaker 1: children and runs her own business in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Friday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: she leaves home in a red Ford expedition to run errands,

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Speaker 1: but oddly isn't home by dinner time. Family checked life

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Speaker 1: three sixteen. It looks like Valeries all the way in Decatur,

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Speaker 1: an hour north. She's reported missing, and over the next

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Speaker 1: two days her phone pings Fayeville and Union City, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: before cutting off entirely. No one has any explanation for

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Speaker 1: why she would have gone there. Police still searching for

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Speaker 1: Valeries SUV with Tennessee license plate zero seven nine B

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Speaker 1: brother F Frank Q, Queen D Dog and a TSU

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Speaker 1: mom sticker on the back window. Valerie Smiley African American

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Speaker 1: five five two hundred pounds long, black curly hair. Her

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Speaker 1: name tattooed on her outer right CAF wearing Pastelle yellow

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Speaker 1: polo shirt denim shorts. If you have info on Valerie Smiley,

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Speaker 1: called Chattanooga, TENNESSEEPD four two three six nine eight two

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Speaker 1: five two five. For the latest crime and justice news,

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Speaker 1: for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our

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Speaker 1: very best along with you to find missing people, especially children,

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Speaker 1: and all of unsolved homicides. With this Prime Alert, I'm

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace