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Speaker 1: Crime Alert Imnancy Grace breaking crime news now. Paul Jacopelly,

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Speaker 1: and anesthesiologist at a New York hospital, hires a nanny

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Speaker 1: to watch his children while he works over night shifts.

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Speaker 1: One night, the twenty five year old nanny briefly wakes

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Speaker 1: up with a rag over her nose and mouth before

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Speaker 1: blacking out. She hides a camera in the living room

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Speaker 1: near the couch where she sleeps. The video catches Jacopelli

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Speaker 1: himself holding a cloth over her nose and mouth, then

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Speaker 1: groping her while she's unconscious.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Jacopelly discussed having a quote chloroform fetish with colleagues

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Speaker 2: at work and told one friend that as nanny was

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Speaker 2: a perfect target because she is a heavy sleeper, and

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Speaker 2: nanny hid the camera behind a dehumidifier for the children's

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Speaker 2: turtle tank. Based on her statements, prosecutors believe Jacopelly abused

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Speaker 2: the twenty five year old four times.

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Speaker 1: Paul Jacopelly, sixty, pleads guilty to sex abuse and assault.

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Speaker 1: Grace Sharp notices her neighbor hosting her young son's birthday

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Speaker 1: party and steps out into her backyard to greet them.

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Speaker 3: While completely nude.

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Speaker 1: Sharp walks up to the chain link fence separating the

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Speaker 1: two yards, as her neighbor shoes the children inside. When

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Speaker 1: the neighbor points out Sharp is naked, she responds, I

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Speaker 1: know it's hot out here. Cops are called Grace Sharp

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Speaker 1: fifty six, charged with indecent exposure and ruining a kid's

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Speaker 1: birthday party. More crime and justice news after this. Now

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Speaker 1: with the latest crime in justice breaking news Crime Onlines

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Speaker 1: John Lemley.

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Speaker 3: We begin with a significant development in a decade's old

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Speaker 3: cold case as authorities arrest as sixty three year old

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Speaker 3: man in connection with the two thousand murder of a

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Speaker 3: Northwest Georgia woman. Let's get right to Sidney Sumner of

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Speaker 3: Crime Online for details.

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Speaker 2: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation in the Walker County Sheriff's

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Speaker 2: Office have announced the arrest of Clarence D. George, who

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Speaker 2: now feaces charges of murder and aggravated as songault in

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Speaker 2: the death of Julie Ann MacDonald. MacDonald, a respected pharmacist,

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Speaker 2: was discovered brutally stabbed in our La Fay at Georgia

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Speaker 2: home in June two thousand. The town, located approximately twenty

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Speaker 2: five miles south of Chattanooga, was shaken by the crime,

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Speaker 2: which remained unsolved for over two decades. During a press conference,

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Speaker 2: law enforcement officials credited advancements in crime lab technology combined

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Speaker 2: with persistent investigative efforts for leading them to George Walker.

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Speaker 2: County Sheriff Steve Wilson confirmed that George was apprehended in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Speaker 2: He's currently being held in the Jefferson County Jail awaiting

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Speaker 2: extradition to Georgia.

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Speaker 3: This arrest marks a critical step forward in a case

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Speaker 3: that has haunted the Lafayette community for years now to

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Speaker 3: a major development in a decade's old cold case out

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Speaker 3: of southern California. Once again, crime online Sydney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: Authorities have now confirmed that the nineteen eighty six murder

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Speaker 2: of nineteen year old Kathy Small has been linked to

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Speaker 2: a notorious serial killer already on death row. William suff

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Speaker 2: known infamously as the Riverside prostitute killer, has now been

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Speaker 2: connected to Small's killing through DNA evidence. This according to

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lieutenant Patricia Thomas. Suff a convicted murderer,

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Speaker 2: was sentenced to death in nineteen ninety five for the

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Speaker 2: brutal killings of twelve women in Riverside County between nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty nine and nineteen ninety one. His violent history, however,

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Speaker 2: stretches back much further. In nineteen seventy four, he was

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Speaker 2: convicted for the death of his two month old daughter

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Speaker 2: in Texas and was sentenced to seventy years in prison. Yet,

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Speaker 2: despite the severity of that crime, suff was paroled in

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four and relocated to California. Kathy Small's body

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Speaker 2: was discovered on February twenty second, nineteen eighty six, in

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Speaker 2: the early morning hours on a street in South Pasadena,

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Speaker 2: a quiet suburb of Los Angeles. The young woman, dressed

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Speaker 2: only in a nightgown, had been stabbed and strangled. For years,

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Speaker 2: she remained unidentified a Jane Doe, until a resident from

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Speaker 2: Lake Elsinore came forward, suspecting that the victim might be

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Speaker 2: a local woman he had known. He recounted that Small

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Speaker 2: had mentioned a man named Bill was going to pay

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Speaker 2: for fifty dollars to drive with him to Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: the night before she was found dead. Despite this lead,

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Speaker 2: the case went cold, with no arrests made. That changed

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Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen when an LA County Medical Examiner's investigator,

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Speaker 2: responding to the natural death of a man in South Pasadena,

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Speaker 2: discovered a newspaper article in the deceased home. The article

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Speaker 2: detailed the identification of Kathy Small as the victim in

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Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty six case. This discovery prompted detectives to

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Speaker 2: re examine the evidence, which had never been tested for DNA.

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Speaker 2: New forensic analysis provided a breakthrough matching the DNA from

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Speaker 2: Small's case to William Suff. Though another unidentified male's DNA

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Speaker 2: was also found, the man who was discovered dead in

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen was not linked to the crime. In twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two, detectives conducted a two day interview with Suff

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Speaker 2: at a Los Angeles County jail. Given as prior convictions

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Speaker 2: and existing death sentence, authorities do not anticipate pursuing additional

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Speaker 2: charges against Suff for Kathy Small's murder.

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Speaker 3: It's important to note that California has had a moratorium

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Speaker 3: on the death penalty since twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John Mason Smith, youngest of six, moves with his

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Speaker 1: family to Saint George, Utah, from Canada just before his

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Speaker 1: senior year of high school as a punishment for staying

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Speaker 1: up too late. Mason's dad, Darren takes away his electronics

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Speaker 1: for a few days. The next morning, Darren wakes Mason

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Speaker 1: for school. Mason leaves seven forty five am to walk

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Speaker 1: to Desert Hills High. When he doesn't come home as expected,

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Speaker 1: his parents learned a seventeen year old never arrived at school.

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Speaker 1: Mason didn't have his phone or a laptop and left

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Speaker 1: behind his wallet. He did not take extra clothing or money.

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Speaker 1: A few days into the search, his parents discover he

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Speaker 1: left a note indicating he intended to harm himself. Several

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Speaker 1: people report seeing Mason, but the sightings are never confirmed.

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Speaker 1: Mason seventeen sixty four, two hundred pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes,

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Speaker 1: speech impediment, bites fingernails to the quick. If you have

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Speaker 1: info on Mason Smith, now missing nine years, call Saint George,

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Speaker 1: Utah PD four three five six two seven forty three hundred.

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