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

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Speaker 1: The four siblings who were discovered in a Croatian orphanage

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Speaker 1: after reportedly being taken from Utah in November still face

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Speaker 1: a lengthy process before they can return to their father,

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Speaker 1: who reported them missing. The children, eleven year old Landon Seymour,

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Speaker 1: eight year old Levi Parker Seymour, seven year old Hazel,

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Speaker 1: and three year old Jacob Brady, were found at a

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Speaker 1: state run orphanage nearly two months after their disappearance from

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Speaker 1: West Jordan, Utah. As stated by Kendall Seymour, the father

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Speaker 1: of three of the children.

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Speaker 2: First thing I heard was a phone call from my

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Speaker 2: kid's babysitter that Alicia hired a whole long time ago,

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Speaker 2: and she was in a panic and just said, you know,

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Speaker 2: you're Kenny, I think your kids are missing. And at

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Speaker 2: first I thought she was just being, you know, a

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Speaker 2: little paranoid. But the more she talked, the more I

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Speaker 2: was like, this is this is serious. I need to

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Speaker 2: start calling a lot of people. And that day, you know,

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Speaker 2: it was just chaos of just talking to Westward and

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Speaker 2: police and her old friends and like trying to find

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Speaker 2: a coworker and talking to her family and trying to

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Speaker 2: fear out what's going on, getting a hold of her

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Speaker 2: ex boyfriend and trying to piece the story together.

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Speaker 1: Their mother, Alicia n Seymour, who has been accused by

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Speaker 1: UTAH officials of abducting them, has been arrested in Croatia,

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Speaker 1: according to the country's Minister of Foreign and European Affairs.

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Speaker 1: The children's discovery followed a vigorous fundraising campaign on GoFundMe

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Speaker 1: initiated by Kendall, the father, who revealed on January twenty

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Speaker 1: five that they weren't trapped in an orphanage. Croatian officials

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Speaker 1: have confirmed that the children are currently in a quote

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Speaker 1: safe custody while their situation is assessed further quote, the

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Speaker 1: welfare of the children is our priority, with a focus

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Speaker 1: on ensuring their physical and mental well being in accordance

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Speaker 1: to their best interest. They have been placed in a

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Speaker 1: suitable social welfare facility where they essential needs for care

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Speaker 1: and protection can be addressed. The Croatian Ministry of Interior

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Speaker 1: also confirmed that Kendall has been informed about the necessary

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Speaker 1: procedures and documentation required to reclaim the children and bring

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Speaker 1: them safely back to the United States. Given the international

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Speaker 1: nature of the case, the Ministry emphasized that US authorities

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Speaker 1: must play a vital role in verifying all relevant details

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Speaker 1: in circumstances to facilitate the transfer of the children. The

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Speaker 1: competent authorities from the children's home country must conduct the

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Speaker 1: necessary proceedings to reach a valid decision regarding the handover.

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Speaker 1: They said. The children were reported missing after West Jordan

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Speaker 1: Utah police performed a welfare check at Alisha's residence on

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Speaker 1: December two, only to find it unlocked and vacant. As

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Speaker 1: indicated by court documents, Surveillance footage from Salt Lake International

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Speaker 1: Airport showed a woman believed to be Alisha, traveling with

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Speaker 1: heavy bags and the four children, with at least two

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Speaker 1: of the kids also carrying luggage. The footage, which aired

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Speaker 1: on ABC four in Utah, shows Delta staff engaging with

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Speaker 1: the children. Subsequently, Utah officials charged her with four counts

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Speaker 1: of custodial interference and removing miners from the state, allegedly

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Speaker 1: abducting the children, according to court documents, after her arrest

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Speaker 1: in Croatia, Alicia is currently in pre trialed attention following

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Speaker 1: a ruling by a local court as confirmed by the

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Speaker 1: Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs. While her exact

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Speaker 1: motives remain unclear, acquaintances of the mother have reported that

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Speaker 1: she exhibited signs of paranoia about an impending apocalypse prior

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Speaker 1: to the children's disappearance. She was said to believe that

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Speaker 1: the quote end of time was here and she was

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Speaker 1: concerned about biblical events, according to her former boyfriend. In

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Speaker 1: his original GoFundMe post, Kendall, the father of the children,

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Speaker 1: mentioned that the mother had left a to do list

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Speaker 1: that included task such as shredding documents, destroying identifying photos,

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Speaker 1: disposing of her phone, and buying a prepaid burner phone

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Speaker 1: or Crime and Justice news. After this, authorities report that

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Speaker 1: a woman in South Carolina was shot and subsequently set

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Speaker 1: ablaze following an arrangement to purchase a puppy. The Florence

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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office has arrested Irena Fleming, nineteen and d

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Speaker 1: Kwan Thomas, thirty one, charging them with murder, first degree arson,

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Speaker 1: and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Dana Kinlaw, forty,

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Speaker 1: believed she was meeting someone to buy a puppy, but

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Speaker 1: investigators suspect that this encounter resulted in her being shot.

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Speaker 1: According to the sheriff, of flammable liquid was poured all

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Speaker 1: over her in a secluded location before she was ignited

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Speaker 1: while she was still inside her car. Deputies arrived on

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Speaker 1: the scene around five forty five pm to discover the

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Speaker 1: woman in inside the engulfed car. The investigation into the

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Speaker 1: murder is being treated as a possible act of retaliation

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Speaker 1: linked to another homicide in South Carolina. For the latest

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