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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 sunny family bike ride in San Diego turned into

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Speaker 1: a broad daylight massacre when an unlicensed driver allegedly struck

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Speaker 1: a six year old boy, paused to think about her

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Speaker 1: next move, and then floored it, running over the child's

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Speaker 1: body a second time. Hudson Stephen O'Laughlin, a vibrant first

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Speaker 1: grader at McKinley Elementary, was pedaling alongside his dad on

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Speaker 1: Pacific Beach Drive at three forty five pm when thirty

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Speaker 1: two year old Tiffany Sanchez turned her SUV into an

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Speaker 1: alley and slammed into that little boy. The horror, though

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Speaker 1: did not stop with the first impact. Witnesses observed the

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Speaker 1: driver veer into the alley and flatten the child with

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Speaker 1: both wheels. They recounted the sickening sequence where the driver

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Speaker 1: came to a day stop for nearly ten seconds, long

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Speaker 1: enough for people to record her license plate, before she

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Speaker 1: made the cold blooded decision to accelerate over the boy's

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Speaker 1: body once more to facilitate her getaway. Despite the window

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Speaker 1: to render aid, Sanchez allegedly chose to crush Hudson's small

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Speaker 1: frame a second time under the weight of her vehicle

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Speaker 1: before speeding southbound toward National City. Hudson's dad, Matthew o' laughlin,

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Speaker 2: You hit a kid, You hit a kid. You hit

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Speaker 2: a kid, and he's like moving and she ran him over,

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Speaker 2: taken off and blake. You wouldn't even do that to

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Speaker 2: an animal. She has left them die in my streak.

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Speaker 1: The trauma only deepened as a bystander believed to be

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Speaker 1: a paramedic, rushed to help the mangled child. In a

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Speaker 1: gut wrenching final Momenthudson reportedly managed to stand up in

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Speaker 1: a state of shock and visible agony before collapsing and

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Speaker 1: stopping his breathing on the pavement. Hudson was rushed to

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Speaker 1: the hospital but could not be saved. The science loving

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Speaker 1: boy who dreamed of being a military scientist, leaves behind

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Speaker 1: a young brother and a community in mourning. San Diego

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Speaker 1: police tracked Sanchez down hours later, booking her on charges

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Speaker 1: of vehicular manslaughter and felony hit and run. While she

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Speaker 1: was initially held, community outrage has peaked as reports indicate

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Speaker 1: the woman who allegedly flattened a child twice has already

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Speaker 3: On bail.

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Speaker 1: Hudson's mom, Juliana Kapovich, is now pleading for justice for

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Speaker 1: her little boy. The investigation continues and officials ask anyone

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Speaker 1: with information if you saw anything, know anything, call crimestoppers

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Speaker 1: at eight eight eight five eight zero eighty four seventy seven.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this, I'm Drew Nelson.

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Speaker 3: TikTok is facing a law suit in Delaware over the

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Speaker 3: so called choking challenge or blackout challenge, with six families

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Speaker 3: alleging the platform played a role in their children's deaths.

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Speaker 3: Five of the families are from the United Kingdom, one

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Speaker 3: from Delaware. All say their children, ranging in age from

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Speaker 3: eleven to seventeen, were exposed to dangerous videos on TikTok

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Speaker 3: before they died. The families argue the platform's so called

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Speaker 3: algorithm repeatedly pushed harmful content to miners. The choking challenge

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Speaker 3: involves intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain by strangulation

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Speaker 3: or holding their breath until the person feels lightheaded or

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Speaker 3: loses consciousness. Videos often frame it as a test of

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Speaker 3: endurance or a way to experience a brief head rush

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Speaker 3: without showing the severe risks. Doctors warn the challenge can

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Speaker 3: cause sudden brain injury, cardiac arrest, or death within seconds,

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Speaker 3: even when attempted alone and without warning signs. Michelle Ortiz

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Speaker 3: is the mother of Jaden, who died in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 4: Children make decisions not knowing finality the way that adults do,

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Speaker 4: and they bank on this.

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Speaker 3: The families are represented by attorney Matthew Bergman.

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Speaker 5: TikTok has a for you page that deliage's young people

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Speaker 5: with dangerous material, in this case, dangerous choking challenges. Not

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Speaker 5: material that kids want to see, what material that kids

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Speaker 5: can't look away from.

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Speaker 3: TikTok's lawyers ask the judge to dismiss the case. They

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Speaker 3: argued the lawsuit is barred by the First Amendment and

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Speaker 3: the Communications Decency Act, which generally shields Internet companies from

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Speaker 3: liability for content created by users. TikTok has also said

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Speaker 3: the case should be handled in the United Kingdom rather

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Speaker 3: than Delaware, where the company is incorporated. Parents say one

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Speaker 3: of the most troubling issues is that they still do

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Speaker 3: not know exactly what their children were shown on the app.

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Speaker 3: They alleged. TikTok has refused to release that information. Liam Walsh,

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Speaker 3: whose child is among those named, in the lawsuits, says

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Speaker 3: the families are simply trying to learn what happened. We

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Speaker 3: just won the truth, and this company are doing everything

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Speaker 3: they can to prevent us from getting to the truth.

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Speaker 3: TikTok has issued a statement expressing sympathy for the families.

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Speaker 3: The company says it strictly prohibits content that promotes dangerous

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Speaker 3: behavior and claims it uses detection systems and enforcement teams

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Speaker 3: to remove videos that violate its rules. The judge has

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Speaker 3: not yet decided whether the lawsuit will be allowed to

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Speaker 3: move forward.

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Speaker 4: I'm Nicole parton new information on a chilling case out

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Speaker 4: of North Carolina. Five search warrants in the case against

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Speaker 4: a Wellington dickens IID have shed new light on his

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Speaker 4: actions after the murder of his four children, and apparently

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Speaker 4: he confessed after calling nine to one one, The father said,

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Speaker 4: I killed my children. Take a listen.

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Speaker 3: I killed my children.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot to explain, but in a nuss fault.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't up to me like I had God. This

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Speaker 2: inflors me.

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Speaker 4: The father went on to say that three of his

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Speaker 4: children and his step son were dead in the trunk

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Speaker 4: of his car, while his three year old son was

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Speaker 4: inside the home alive. It was on January fourteen and

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Speaker 4: fifteen that new search warrants about the evidence collected at

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Speaker 4: Dickens's home were filed. These included requests for his computer

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Speaker 4: and at least two iPhones that were discovered police, though

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Speaker 4: those were forensically reviewed by detectives. From that review, one

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Speaker 4: of the new warrants filed seek's account access from one

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Speaker 4: specific app, Grinder. Grinder is described in the warrant as

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Speaker 4: a dating, casual sex app for gay and bisexual men.

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Speaker 4: According to the detective who applied for the warrant, Dickens

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Speaker 4: had text exchanges with multiple people in which he was

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Speaker 4: in reducing himself as the person that they were just

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Speaker 4: speaking with on Grinder. These messaging suggest they frequented the

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Speaker 4: home during the time span of the murders, when the

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Speaker 4: murders were taking place and while his children were decaying

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Speaker 4: in the trunk of his car. The text also suggests,

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Speaker 4: according to the warrant, that the people Dickens had connected

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Speaker 4: with through the app were inside the home while those

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Speaker 4: corpses were decomposing in his garage then his trunk. The

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Speaker 4: search warrant, which was approved by the magistrate, will seek

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Speaker 4: to further investigate Dickens's account, including any geolocation information, photos,

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Speaker 4: and videos that was sent using that app. It is

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Speaker 4: unclear what if anything, has been turned over by Grinder

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Speaker 4: in the case. For now, prosecutors say they are seeking

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Speaker 4: the death penalty. The next court appearance in the case,

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Speaker 4: a homicide status hearing, is set for March twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: An eighty three year old Ohio man is facing a

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Speaker 1: life behind bars after or a jury convicted him of

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Speaker 1: cold bloodedly executing an innocent uber driver who he wrongly

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Speaker 1: believed was a package man for a criminal extortion ring.

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Speaker 1: Brock of South Charleston, Ohio, was found guilty of three

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Speaker 1: counts of murder, kidnapping, and felonious assault following the March

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four slaughter of sixty one year old Lolitha Tollenhall.

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Speaker 1: Jurors took less than two hours to reject Brock's self

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Speaker 1: defense fairy tale, deciding instead that the elderly man acted

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Speaker 1: as judge, jury, and executioner on his own front lawn.

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Speaker 1: The tragedy was orchestrated by a puppet master scammer who

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Speaker 1: played both victims like a fiddle. The crook called Brock,

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Speaker 1: claiming his grandson was in a fatal wreck and needed

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Speaker 1: twelve thousand bucks in bail money. Simultaneously, the scammer used

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Speaker 1: the Uber app to send Hall, a hard working grandmom,

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Speaker 1: from Dublin, to Brock's home to quote pick up a

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Speaker 1: package end quote. When Hall stepped out of her car,

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Speaker 1: she did not find a delivery, she found Brock leveling

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Speaker 1: a handgun at her head. Chilling dash cam footage captured

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Speaker 1: the final moments of Hall's life as she desperately tried

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Speaker 1: to explain she was just an Uber driver listen.

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Speaker 4: Yes if.

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Speaker 1: Brock reportedly threatened to quote blow her brains out end quote,

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Speaker 1: unleashed a hail of lead, shooting her six top times

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Speaker 1: the pavement while Brock called nine to one one, spinning

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Speaker 1: a lie that she had attacked him. Clark County Prosecutor

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Speaker 1: Dan Driscoll called the case quote really unfortunate end quote,

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Speaker 1: noting both parties were victims of sophisticated scammers who unfortunately

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Speaker 1: remain at large. Brock, now in custody with his bond revoked,

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Speaker 1: faces a potential life sentence, and finally talk about a

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Speaker 1: test drive that went way off the map. Todd Mars

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Speaker 1: fifty one is in the hot seat after allegedly abducting

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Speaker 1: a saleswoman at Performance Luxury Sport in Marysville, Ohio. Mars

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Speaker 1: reportedly got behind the wheel of a cheap wrangler, but

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Speaker 1: steered the deal into a total wreck after ditching the

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Speaker 1: planned route. He reportedly told the terrified associate to quote

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Speaker 1: phone and forcing her along on his personal errands, including

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Speaker 1: a hospital pickup. The Central Ohio suspect was hauled to

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Speaker 1: the Tri County Regional Jail facing abduction charges. It seems

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Speaker 1: Mar's attempt to hijack the sales process has stalled out completely,

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Speaker 1: leaving him with a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: bond and a permanent flat tire on his freedom. For

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Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice news, follow the Crime Alert

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Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Gould.