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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace of Breaking Crime News Now.

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Speaker 1: Jessica Weeks refuses to go to the hospital for her

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Speaker 1: baby's birth because she used pot meth during the pregnancy.

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Speaker 1: She asks a friend to help her with a home birth,

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Speaker 1: and what's delivered. The baby's barely breathing. The friend can't

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Speaker 1: tell if it even has a pulse. She begs Weeks

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Speaker 1: to report the infant's death, but reluctantly leaves the baby

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Speaker 1: with Weeks. Months later, the friend calls police when she

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Speaker 1: never hears another word about the baby.

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Speaker 2: Nancy. The infant's body was discovered in a suitcase in

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Speaker 2: Weeks backyard, and it's determined the baby died between thirty

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Speaker 2: six to forty weeks of gestation. The baby had methamphetamines

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Speaker 2: in their system and showed no signs of bodily trauma.

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Speaker 2: The friend was very emotional in her account of the

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Speaker 2: baby's birth and her attempts to resuscitate the infant, and

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Speaker 2: will not be facing any charges.

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Speaker 1: Weeks thirty two charged with concealing evidence injuring a child

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Speaker 1: and failing to report a death. Mary Marcott thirty gets

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Speaker 1: in an argument with her daughter after a grocery run Suddenly,

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Speaker 1: she grabs a whole frozen chicken and hurls it at

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Speaker 1: her daughter, who is hit by the frozen bird. Marcott's

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Speaker 1: sister sees it all and calls the cops. They recognize Marcott.

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Speaker 1: Years earlier, she headbutted her husband during an argument. He

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Speaker 1: declined press charges, but this time Marquette's charged with misdemeanor battery.

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Speaker 1: Has spent twenty hours on ice at the county jail.

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Speaker 1: More Crime and Justice news after this Now with the

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Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime on Lunch.

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Speaker 3: John Lemley, a Texas man, has been put to death

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Speaker 3: after he unsuccessfully contested the validity of the state's lethal

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Speaker 3: injection medicines and questioning the reliability of the evidence a

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Speaker 3: jury had used to find him guilty of the death

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Speaker 3: of an elderly woman decades earlier. With more here Sidney

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Speaker 3: Sumner with Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Following an injection at the State Penitentiary in Huntsville, forty

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Speaker 2: eight year old Jedediah Murphy was declared dead late Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: He was executed for the October two thousand shooting death

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Speaker 2: of eighty year old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking

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Speaker 2: in the Dallas suburb of Garland. Whilemurphy was strapped to

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Speaker 2: a gurney in the Texas death Chamber, he said, quote

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Speaker 2: to the family of the victim, I sincerely apologize for

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Speaker 2: all of it. A Christian pastor then prayed for the

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Speaker 2: victim's family, Murphy's family and friends, and the prisoner himself

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Speaker 2: while placing his right palm on Murphy's chest. The execution

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Speaker 2: happened just a few hours after the U. S. Supreme

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Speaker 2: Court reversed a decision that had prevented the death penalty

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Speaker 2: from being carried out. The High Court denied a second

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Speaker 2: appeal late in the day to postpone Murphy's execution due

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Speaker 2: to allegations that the medications he would receive through injection

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Speaker 2: were contaminated after being subjected to intense heat and smoke

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Speaker 2: during a recent fire, putting him at danger of experiencing

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Speaker 2: unnecessary agony. Following a complaint filed by Murphy's attorneys requesting

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Speaker 2: DNA testing of the evidence used in this two thousand

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Speaker 2: and one trial, the Fifth U. S. Circuit Court of

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Speaker 2: Appeals on Monday affirmed a federal judge's ruling from last week,

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Speaker 2: postponing the execution. The Fifth Circuit's finding was challenged by

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Speaker 2: the state Attorney General's office, and the Supreme Court ruled

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Speaker 2: in favor of Texas.

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Speaker 3: With his death, Murphy becomes the twentieth DAD mate executed

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Speaker 3: in the United States this year, the sixth in Texas

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Speaker 3: now to Oklahoma, as a man has been exonerated by

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Speaker 3: a Pontatot County judge after DNA testing determined he was

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Speaker 3: not guilty of a nineteen eighty seven rape and burglary.

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Speaker 3: The man had served thirty years in prison for the crimes.

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Speaker 3: Perry Lott's conviction is now overturned and the case permanently dismissed,

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Speaker 3: according to a final ruling delivered by District Judge Stephen Kessinger.

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Speaker 3: Following the initial disclosure of the DNA results, Lot was

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Speaker 3: freed from jail in twenty eighteen, but only after reaching

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Speaker 3: an agreement to have his sentence modified with former District

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Speaker 3: Attorney Paul Smith. As the move to vacate was being heard.

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Speaker 3: Lott was able to leave prison and remain free thanks

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Speaker 3: to the deal. Smith claimed at the time that Lot

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Speaker 3: remained a suspect despite the DNA findings. However, the Innocence Project,

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Speaker 3: which assisted in Lott's release, approached recently elected district Attorney

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Speaker 3: Eric Johnson earlier this year. After reviewing the case, Johnson

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Speaker 3: concurred that the conviction should be overturned in light of

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Speaker 3: recent gun seizures, a decrease in gunfire reports in the

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Speaker 3: Albuquerque metro area, and an increase in jail bookings. New

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Speaker 3: Mexico Governor Michelle Leuhan Grisham is defending her decision to

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Speaker 3: treat gun violence as a public health epidemic. Once again

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Speaker 3: crime online.

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Speaker 2: Sydney Sumner Governor Luhan Grisham stood by her decision while

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Speaker 2: awaiting a significant court decision on a landmark proposal to

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Speaker 2: suspend the right to carry a gun in public parks

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Speaker 2: and playgrounds. An emergency public health decree concerning gun violence

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Speaker 2: was extended by the governor last week for an additional

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Speaker 2: thirty days through early November. A federal judge has placed

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Speaker 2: temporary restrictions on the ability to carry a gun in

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Speaker 2: public parks, playgrounds, and other places where children congregate. The

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Speaker 2: public is reacting negatively to Grisham's public health order, which

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Speaker 2: includes gun limitation clauses that opponents claim violate constitutional rights

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Speaker 2: to bear arms for self defense. The governor stated that

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Speaker 2: in light of evolving legal precedent, and it is her

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Speaker 2: duty to look into the possibility of creating quote save

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Speaker 2: speces where guns are prohibited.

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Speaker 3: Following the US Supreme Court's decision last year to expand

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Speaker 3: gun rights, officials in some states are exploring new options

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Speaker 3: for limitations, leading to several standoffs, like the one currently

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Speaker 3: in New Mexico.

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Speaker 1: After about of pneumonia, Tracy Bell doesn't show up to

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Speaker 1: work when she's set to return. Concerned, her boss at

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Speaker 1: the Illinois State Attorney's Office ask cops to check on her.

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Speaker 1: Police find Tracy at home, uninjured but disoriented. They call

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Speaker 1: paramedics to check her blood sugar, as she's recently been

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Speaker 1: diagnosed diabetic. By the time they leave, she's no longer confused.

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Speaker 1: Next day, she doesn't come to work again, followed by

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Speaker 1: a second welfare check, but this time Bell's gone. Her

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Speaker 1: purse is missing from her home, her car still parked outside,

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Speaker 1: no activity on her bank account or cell phone. Now

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Speaker 1: nearly six years. If you have info on Tracy Bell,

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Speaker 1: please call Richton Park PD seven eight four eight one

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Speaker 1: eight nine five six For the latest crime injustice needs.

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Speaker 1: Go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert I'm

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace