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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I'm Nancy Grace breaking crimes nowt. Denver PD

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Speaker 1: get a tip a man may be in danger from

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Speaker 1: his housemates.

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Speaker 2: They perform a welfare.

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Speaker 1: Check, but the two men that open the door claim

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Speaker 1: they haven't seen their roommate in days. In the back bedroom,

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Speaker 1: the man's two other roommates are holding him down. They

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Speaker 1: haven't let him leave in two days Later, that afternoon,

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Speaker 1: the man makes it to a police station missing a finger.

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Speaker 1: He says his roommates refuse to let him leave due

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Speaker 1: to a dispute over money.

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Speaker 2: Nancy authorities did not have the power to enter the

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Speaker 2: home based on the evidence at hand, forced to take

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Speaker 2: the two residents at their word. The victim says his

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Speaker 2: roommates cut off his finger after he had been held

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Speaker 2: captive for roughly twelve hours. The suspects left the shared

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Speaker 2: home hours after the welfare check and the victim was

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Speaker 2: able to escape his restraints. Investigators are still working to

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Speaker 2: determine if the kidnapping could be gang related, but currently

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Speaker 2: believe it to be an isolated incident.

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Speaker 1: Roommates Panada Moreno. Nineteen in Darwin Gonzales thirty four now

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Speaker 1: charged with kidnap, assault, and criminal extortion. Ohio cops check

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Speaker 1: out to report a giant jack o lanterns blocking traffic.

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Speaker 1: They find a giant inflatable pumpkin had flown from someone's

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Speaker 1: yard and is now blocking half the road. As an

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Speaker 1: officer tries to remove the pumpkin, the gigantic inflatable knocks

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Speaker 1: into the ground and he can't get out from under

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Speaker 1: it until his partner steps in with backup. The cops

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Speaker 1: managed to return the decoration back to its owners, who

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Speaker 1: plan to add extra tise to keep it down next year.

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Speaker 1: More at Crime and Justice News after this Now with

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Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines.

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Speaker 2: John Lenley, a Tennessee man, has pleaded guilty to kidnapping

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Speaker 2: and killing Memphis school teacher Eliza Fletcher during her early

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Speaker 2: morning run near the University of Memphis in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Forty year old Cleota Abstin faces life in prison without

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Speaker 2: parole after entering guilty please for first degree murder and

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Speaker 2: aggravated kidnapping. Fletcher, a thirty four year old kindergarten teacher

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Speaker 2: and mother of two, was forced into an suv while

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Speaker 2: jogging before dawn on September second, twenty twenty two. Her

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Speaker 2: body was discovered days later near a vacant duplex. Abstin's

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Speaker 2: DNA was linked to the scene, and an autopsy confirmed

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Speaker 2: that Fletcher died from a gunshot wound to the head. Abstin,

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Speaker 2: also known as Cleiote Henderson, has a lengthy criminal history

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Speaker 2: dating back to the nineteen nineties and was previously sentenced

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Speaker 2: to eighty years for a twenty twenty one rape conviction

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Speaker 2: delayed by a backlog in processing a sexual assault kit.

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Speaker 2: Fletcher's death spurred new legislation in Tennessee mandating timely sexual

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Speaker 2: assault kit testing reports from the state's Bureau of Investigation.

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Speaker 2: A seventy three year old man from Mississippi has been

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Speaker 2: charged with the strangulation murders of three southern California women,

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Speaker 2: crimes that date back to nineteen seventy seven. We bring

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Speaker 2: in Sydney Sumner of Crime Online for details.

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Speaker 3: California authorities have now revealed that Warren Luther Alexander was

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Speaker 3: linked to the cold cases through a DNA match, raising

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Speaker 3: concerns that there may be additional victims. Alexander, who hails

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Speaker 3: from Diamondhead, Mississippi, has yet to be arraigned on the

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Speaker 3: three first degree murder charges. The arraignment has been postponed

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Speaker 3: until later this week, and he remains in custody without bail.

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Speaker 3: According to the Ventura County District Attorney's office, the path

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Speaker 3: that led to Alexander's arrests began when he was extradited

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Speaker 3: to California from North Carolina, where he is also a

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Speaker 3: suspect in another cold case murder from nineteen ninety two.

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Speaker 3: Ventura County District Attorney Eric Nassarenko disclosed during a press

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Speaker 3: conference that the California victims were found dead in Ventura County.

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Speaker 3: Each woman had been strangled with a ligature, a detail

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Speaker 3: that has haunted investigators for decades. The victims have been

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Speaker 3: identified as eighteen year old Kimberly Fritz, whose body was

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Speaker 3: discovered in Port whu nameI on May twenty ninth, nineteen

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Speaker 3: ninety seven, thirty one year old Velvet Sanchez, found dead

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Speaker 3: in Oxnard on September eighth of that same year, and

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Speaker 3: twenty one year old the Rain Rodriguez, whose remains were

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Speaker 3: uncovered in an unincorporated area on December twenty seventh, nineteen

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Speaker 3: seventy seven. Authorities were finally able to connect Alexander to

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Speaker 3: these heinous crimes after a DNA sample entered into a

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Speaker 3: national database last year provided a match. This breakthrough was

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Speaker 3: made possible through the use of investigated genealogy, a technique

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Speaker 3: that had previously linked Alexander to the unsolved North Carolina

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Speaker 3: murder of no Nakab in nineteen ninety two. Kabb's body

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Speaker 3: had been abandoned along Interstate seventy seven. Records indicate that

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Speaker 3: Alexander lived in Oxnard during the late nineteen fifties and sixties,

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Speaker 3: and he later returned to the area in the nineteen seventies.

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Speaker 2: During the seventies and extending into the early nineteen nineties,

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Speaker 2: Alexander worked as a long haul truck driver, a job

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Speaker 2: that often took him across the country, a detail that

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Speaker 2: may now hold even greater significance, as in BEA, investigators

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Speaker 2: explore the possibility of other unsolved crimes connected to his travels.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John Tony Williamson, seventy two depends on care she

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Speaker 1: receives at her Independence, Missouri nursing home. She suffers from dementia, schizophrenia,

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Speaker 1: and other medical conditions. Two am, she gets out of bed,

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Speaker 1: doesn't realize she's missing until six am. Police put out

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Speaker 1: a silver alert and search extensively find nothing. That afternoon

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Speaker 1: at tipster says she saw Tony near Prospect Plaza Park

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Speaker 1: in Kansas City. Tony Williamson five to two, one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventeen pounds long, blonde hair, blue eyes. She was

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Speaker 1: wearing clear frame glasses. Last scene on surveillance video wearing

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Speaker 1: light blue blue jeans, a light blue or gray zip

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Speaker 1: up hoodie and a face mask. If you have info

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Speaker 1: on seventy two year old Tony Williamson, now missing three years,

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Speaker 1: called Independence, Missouri PD E eight one six eight three

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Speaker 1: six thirty six hundred. For the latest crime injustice news,

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Speaker 1: our daily podcast Crime Stories with this crime alert. I'm

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace