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Speaker 1: Crime Alert.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Naomi Elkins, twenty seven,

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Speaker 2: spends the night praying about her concerning thoughts, her words

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Speaker 2: not mine. Afterward, the next day, she brings her top

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Speaker 2: daughters back to their New Jersey home and kills them.

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Speaker 2: She stabs her one year old daughter in the stomach

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Speaker 2: and drowns her in the bathtub. She finds her three

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Speaker 2: year old hiding in another bathroom, draws a second bath,

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Speaker 2: then drowns the oldest daughter, just three.

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Speaker 1: Nancy Elkins worked at a daycare where both of her

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Speaker 1: daughters were enrolled. Elkins attorney, Mitchell Ansel, says his client

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Speaker 1: has a well documented history of mental illness, and while

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Speaker 1: Ansell postponed her detention hearing twice so that Elkins could

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Speaker 1: receive a psychological evaluation, Elkins has now waived her right

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Speaker 1: to the hearing, saying that pre trial detention is what's

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Speaker 1: best for her.

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Speaker 2: Naomi Elkins charged with two counts murder. Mitchell Vast sixty

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Speaker 2: visits antique stores Spring, Texas to beat the heat. He

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Speaker 2: wears a kilt paired with a tank. As he browses

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Speaker 2: one shop, the owner notices him pick items off the

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Speaker 2: shelf stick them under his kilt and then return the items.

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Speaker 2: Of a closer inspection, the items have THESS on them.

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Speaker 2: Cops are called. He's charged with criminal mischief, to which

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Speaker 2: he pleads guilty. The soiled items were all disposed. More

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Speaker 2: Crime and Justice news after this Now with the latest

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Speaker 2: crime and justice breaking these crime onlines John Limley.

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Speaker 3: Opening statements began Monday in the trial of Leilani Simon,

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Speaker 3: a Georgia mother accused of the murder of her twenty

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Speaker 3: month old son, Quentin Simon. Prosecutor say Simon killed the

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Speaker 3: toddler two years ago before dumping his body in a

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Speaker 3: trash bin near their Savannah home. Simon, who has pleaded

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Speaker 3: not guilty, faces nineteen charges, including malice, murder, felony murder,

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Speaker 3: and concealing the death of another. The case dates back

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Speaker 3: to October fifth, twenty twenty two, when Simon called nine

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Speaker 3: to one one to report her son missing from his playpen.

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Speaker 3: Days of intensive searching led Chatham County Police Chief Jeff

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Speaker 3: Hadley to conclude that Quentin was likely dead, naming Simon

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Speaker 3: as the sole suspect early in the investigation. Two weeks

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Speaker 3: after the boy's disappearance, law enforcement turned their focus to

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Speaker 3: a nearby landfill. After a month long search, investigators found

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Speaker 3: human remains that DNA later confirmed to be Quentin's. During

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Speaker 3: Monday's proceedings, lead prosecutor Jim Dean painted a grim picture

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Speaker 3: of Simon's life leading up to the death. He described

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Speaker 3: her strain relationship with the boyfriend Daniel Youngkin, and alleged

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Speaker 3: that Simon had been using cocaine and percocet in the

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Speaker 3: hours before her son's death. Dean claimed Simon killed Quinton,

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Speaker 3: discarded his body in a trash bin, and then went

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Speaker 3: to sleep. Videos of Simon's police interviews were presented to

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Speaker 3: the jury, showing her changing stories multiple times. At one point,

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Speaker 3: she reportedly suggested she may have blacked out and could

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Speaker 3: not remember what happened to her son. Notably absent from

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Speaker 3: the prosecutor's opening statement was an explanation of how Quinton

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Speaker 3: was killed. According to Dean, the toddler's remains were too

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Speaker 3: decomposed to determine a cause of death. In a sharp contrast,

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Speaker 3: the defense used just three minutes for their opening, accusing

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Speaker 3: the state of relying on speculation rather than hard evidence.

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Speaker 3: In Las Vegas, one of three suspects involved in a

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Speaker 3: deadly Thanksgiving twenty twenty shooting spree across Nevada and Arizona.

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Speaker 3: As pleaded guilty, we turned to Sydney Sumnurope Crime online

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Speaker 3: for more.

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Speaker 1: Thirty two year old Christopher MacDonnell admitted to twenty three

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Speaker 1: felony charges, including murder, attempted murder in illegal possession of firearms,

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Speaker 1: avoiding a trial. Next month, prosecutors dropped a terrorism charge

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Speaker 1: as part of the plea deal. The shooting rampage, which

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Speaker 1: left one man dead at a Henderson convenience store and

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Speaker 1: several others wounded, ended after a police chase in Arizona.

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Speaker 1: McDonald now faces a possible life sentence, with parole eligibility

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Speaker 1: starting after twenty one years. Sentencing is set for December thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: McDonald's co defendants, his brother Sean and ex wife Kaylee Lewis,

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Speaker 1: face trial in November on multiple felony counts, including terrorism.

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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald could face the death penalty if convicted.

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Speaker 3: Both men are jailed without bail.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John Veronica rays Diaz, twenty three has a girl's

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Speaker 2: night out over Florida. A friend drops her off at

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Speaker 2: her home, where her husband and little child are sleeping,

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Speaker 2: Veronica gets into her car to pick up her two

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Speaker 2: older children from her sisters. She tucks the children in.

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Speaker 2: Evidence suggests she planned to go out again. Her Chevy

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Speaker 2: Yukon is part outside the family home, keys and wallet inside.

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Speaker 2: Veronica has not been seen since her cell phone shut

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Speaker 2: down or dies before it can be located. Ras Diaz

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Speaker 2: twenty three four to ten, one hundred and forty five pounds,

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Speaker 2: brown hair, brown eyes. She has a dark mole under

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Speaker 2: her left eye, now missing four years. If you have

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Speaker 2: info on Veronica res Diaz, called Hillsborough County, Florida Sheriffs

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Speaker 2: eight one, three, two four seven eighty two hundred For

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Speaker 2: com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace