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

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Speaker 1: An entitled Missouri son is accused of committing a savage murder,

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Speaker 1: bludgeoning his own mother to death with a gardening tool,

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Speaker 1: official say. Christian County Sheriff Brad Cole spoke to Ozark's

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Speaker 1: First News.

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Speaker 2: For all intentsive, perfect purposes, we believe that it could

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Speaker 2: possibly have something to do with money.

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Speaker 1: Christian County deputies were dispatched to the Ozark home of

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Speaker 1: Carolyn Awling, sixty five, after her husband requested a well

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Speaker 1: being check, concerned she hadn't returned his calls all day.

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Speaker 1: Officers were met by her son, Derek Awling. Upon arrival,

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Speaker 1: the thirty nine year old's bizarre behavior and conflicting answers

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Speaker 1: immediately put the deputies on high alert. Sheriff Brad Coles

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Speaker 1: stated his deputies had quote a gut feeling that something

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Speaker 1: wasn't quite right end quote. That feeling was brutally confirmed.

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Speaker 1: When officers pressed Derek about his mom's condition, he remained silent.

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Speaker 1: Asked if she was still alive, the son delivered a

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Speaker 1: chilling reply of quote, he didn't think so. Alling then

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Speaker 1: told deputies his mom was in the guest house where

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Speaker 1: they found Carolyn Awlling's bloodied and beaten body. Authorities say

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Speaker 1: she had been bludgeoned repeatedly in the head and face

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Speaker 1: with a scraping or gardening tool, an attack so gruesome

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Speaker 1: it caused multiple school fractures. Prosecutors described Alling's alleged actions

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Speaker 1: as quote violent and gruesome. According to court documents, Alling

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Speaker 1: was the beneficiary of his mother's trust, Anne had been

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Speaker 1: aggressively demanding access to the money. Carolyn even had been

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Speaker 1: secretly recording her son acting aggressively in the weeks leading

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Speaker 1: up to her murder, a pattern corroborated by her husband.

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Speaker 1: Derek Holling has been charged with first degree murder and

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Speaker 1: armed criminal action. He was booked into Christian County and

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Speaker 1: is being held without bond. He pleaded not guilty. His

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Speaker 1: next court appearance is set for October fourteenth in Christian

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Speaker 1: County Circuit Court. For the latest crime and justice news,

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Speaker 1: crime and justice news. After this, a brutal sentence has

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Speaker 1: finally closed the door on a year's long Georgia House

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Speaker 1: of Whores, where a mother admitted to a monstrous act

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Speaker 1: killing her own eight year old daughter by cramming toilet

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Speaker 1: paper down her throat until she's suffocated. Britney Hall, thirty one,

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Speaker 1: of Lawrenceville, pleaded guilty to felony murder, eleven counts of

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Speaker 1: cruelty to children and concealing a death in Gwinnett County

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Speaker 1: Superior Court, immediately drawing a sentence of life without parole.

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Speaker 1: The plea exposed the gut wrenching details of the relentless

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Speaker 1: abuse suffered by her daughter, Amari Maya Hall, who was autistic.

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Speaker 1: The sickening murder unfolded on January eighteenth of twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutors detailed the crime, stating Hall and her then girlfriend,

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Speaker 1: Celeste Owens, both high on drugs, turned their rage on

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Speaker 1: Amari after the girl simply went the bed. The punishment

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Speaker 1: was utterly barbaric. Owens held the child down while Hall

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Speaker 1: forced wads of toilet paper into Amari's mouth and throat,

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Speaker 1: ignoring her desperate please. The pair then continued the torment,

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Speaker 1: submerging Amari's head and a bathtub filled with water and

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Speaker 1: ice until the child stopped breathing. Amari's younger sister, now nine,

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Speaker 1: tragically testified that her mom had placed the paper in

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Speaker 1: Amari's mouth so she quote would not wake up.

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Speaker 2: End quote.

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Speaker 1: This is her in court listen.

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Speaker 2: Let me tried to wake her up, and then after

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Speaker 2: that she got put in a container with the lead

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Speaker 2: it and that put in a trink.

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Speaker 1: Of a car. In the days that followed, Hall engaged

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Speaker 1: in a cruel deception, posting frantic Facebook please claiming Amari

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Speaker 1: was missing, even detailing the girl's blue tweetybird jacket and

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Speaker 1: rainbow light up shoes. But the charade quickly crumbled. Amari's

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Speaker 1: body was found in a wooded area near the Stone

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Speaker 1: Mountain Freeway, wrapped in a blanket, three white colored trash bags,

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Speaker 1: and duct tape. The mom's guilt was sealed by her

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Speaker 1: own actions post killing. Prosecutors revealed Hal's shocking Google searches

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Speaker 1: on the day Amari was reported missing, including quote lakes

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Speaker 1: near me end quote quote ways to dispose of a

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Speaker 1: body end quote, end quote you haul customer account end quote.

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Speaker 1: Surveillance footage later showed Owen's renting a U haul van

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Speaker 1: and driving it towards the shallow grave where little Amari

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Speaker 1: was found. Court records revealed the murder was the climax

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Speaker 1: of a pattern of torment dating back to twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Paul and Owens repeatedly beat Amari and her younger sibling,

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Speaker 1: then three, who suffered over thirty bruises and required emergency

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Speaker 1: surgery for a ruptured ear drum. Amari's two younger siblings

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Speaker 1: were put into state custody following the incidents. Owens is

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Speaker 1: already serving life plus twenty years and finally talk about

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Speaker 1: a date javu. A Miami date for one unlucky fellow

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Speaker 1: turned into a big time luxury heist. Angela Tina Chanelle

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Speaker 1: Etsy twenty five is known for allegedly giving men a

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Speaker 1: sleeping beauty potion before swiping their pricey Rolex watches. Her

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Speaker 1: latest alleged heist followed a familiar plot. Meet the victims

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Speaker 1: at a bar, head back to a Brickell apartment, and

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Speaker 1: then the men hit the snooze button. One victim woke

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Speaker 1: up to find his twenty thousand dollars Rolex and four

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars in cash all gone, all thanks to this

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Speaker 1: bad date bait. Cops say this known offender faces multiple

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Speaker 1: charges of grand theft in three separate cases across South Florida.

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Speaker 1: With a history of snatch and grab dates, it looks

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Speaker 1: like this brickle bandit though, just bought herself a very

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Speaker 1: long time out in a concrete cell. For the latest

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