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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Pardon. On Wednesday, the Maryland State Police announced

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Speaker 2: via Facebook that a body has been found in Cecil

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Speaker 2: County as part of the investigation into the homicide of

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Speaker 2: little Nola Dinkins. They are currently awaiting confirmation of the identity. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: Delaware authorities have reclassified the case of the missing three

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Speaker 2: year old girl, initially the subject of an Amber alert,

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Speaker 2: as now a homicide investigation. During a press briefing on

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Speaker 2: Wednesday reported by the Fox affiliate WTTG in Washington, d C,

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Speaker 2: Sergeant Andrea Bottersbudge, spokesperson for the Newcastle County Police Department,

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Speaker 2: provided details regarding the Amber alert that was issued for

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Speaker 2: Nola Dinkins on Tuesday. Detectives determined that the initial account

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Speaker 2: of the investigation or of the incident given by the

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Speaker 2: mother was false. The Amber alert is now canceled and

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Speaker 2: there's no danger to the public. The police revealed that

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Speaker 2: Nolah's mother, whose identity has not been disclosed, fabricated a

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Speaker 2: story about her daughter's abduction when she reported her missing

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Speaker 2: at approximately seven point fifteen pm on Tuesday night, less

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Speaker 2: than a day after the Amber alert was activated, authorities

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Speaker 2: announced its cancelation. According to Bottersbush's statement, Nola's mother initially

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Speaker 2: claimed that she had stopped her vehicle in front of

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Speaker 2: an apartment complex in Newark, Delaware. She alleged that while

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Speaker 2: trying to calm Nola, a white male stranger approached them

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Speaker 2: and threatened her with a firearm. The mother reported that

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Speaker 2: the man forcibly took her daughter, fleeing in a dark

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Speaker 2: suv driven by a white female. Throughout the night, the

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Speaker 2: Newcastle Police Department's Criminal Investigation Unit, along with the FBI,

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Speaker 2: conducted extensive searches for little Nola. Ultimately, the police determined

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Speaker 2: that the mother's account of the kidnapping was false, and

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Speaker 2: the case was subsequently classified as a homicide investigation by

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Speaker 2: the Maryland State Police. Both Nola and her mother our

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Speaker 2: residence of Maryland. Botters Bush did not entertain questions during

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Speaker 2: her press conference and has yet to respond to inquiries

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Speaker 2: regarding the evidence that led to the homicide investigation. Authorities

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Speaker 2: have not disclosed any suspects or specific evidence related to

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Speaker 2: the case for Crime and Justice News after this. In Kansas,

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Speaker 2: an eighteen year old has been charged with murder. Even

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Speaker 2: the law enforcement has yet to track him down. Jaden

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Speaker 2: Watts is alleged to have shot twenty four year old

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Speaker 2: Demark Burgess multiple times on March twenty two, following a

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Speaker 2: confrontation that escalated into violence, as reported by the Wichita

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Speaker 2: Police Department. Tragically, Burgess succumbed to his injuries later that

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Speaker 2: day at a nearby hospital, while Watts vanished. On June three,

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Speaker 2: the District Attorney's Office for the eighteenth Judicial District in

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Speaker 2: Kansas officially filed charges against Watts. According to documents, Watts

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Speaker 2: is a charge of second degree murder. Additionally, another individual,

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Speaker 2: Triallen Ross, has been charged with tampering with evidence and

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Speaker 2: illegal possession of a firearm Due to his felony status,

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Speaker 2: The charges against Watts came shortly after the Wichita Police

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Speaker 2: issued a felony arrest warrant for him in connection to

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Speaker 2: the shooting. At that time, police stated Jaden is wanted

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Speaker 2: for questioning related to the case and may have valuable information.

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Speaker 2: They urged anyone who might know his location to immediately

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Speaker 2: call nine to one one. A few days later, the

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Speaker 2: police reiterated their appeal for information, saying the Wichita Police

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Speaker 2: Department is actively searching for Jaden Watts, we encourage anyone

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Speaker 2: with knowledge on his whereabouts to get in touch with investigators.

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Speaker 2: This message was broadcast across all their social media channels.

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Speaker 2: More than six weeks have passed since the announcement, yet

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Speaker 2: Watts remains elusive to authorities.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was the medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what

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Speaker 1: happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.

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Speaker 1: For an in depth look at the facts, see what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen? On Amazon. All proceeds to the National

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Speaker 1: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicol Partin