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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. Police in Alabama arrested a mother after

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Speaker 2: she allegedly abandoned her two sons, including a five year

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Speaker 2: old son with autism, at a hotel for an entire weekend.

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Speaker 2: A Nasa Smith, thirty three, is facing two charges of

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Speaker 2: endangering the welfare of a child. According to court records,

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Speaker 2: the incident took place at the Comfort Suites in Daphne,

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Speaker 2: located about thirteen miles southeast of Mobile. Daphne Police Department

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Speaker 2: and police Chief Brian Gullsby reported that hotel staff alerted

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Speaker 2: authorities on Saturday after noticing the children wandering the halls

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Speaker 2: unsupervised throughout the day, without food and asking for help.

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Speaker 2: Upon arrival at the hotel, officers spoke with the older child,

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Speaker 2: a fifteen year old boy, who managed to reach his mother. However,

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Speaker 2: she allegedly provided conflicting information to the police, initially claiming

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Speaker 2: she was at the store and later saying she was

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Speaker 2: in Tennessee. At one point, Atlanta was mentioned, Galsby noted

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Speaker 2: to an interview with local Fox affiliate WALA. The police

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Speaker 2: contacted the Department of Human Resources, which decided that the

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Speaker 2: children could stay at the hotel, expecting Smith to return

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Speaker 2: by Saturday night. However, as the night passed, she still

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Speaker 2: did not show up. By Sunday morning, the younger boy,

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Speaker 2: who is nonverbal, was found in the hotel pool, prompting

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Speaker 2: staff to call police again. The officers provided food for

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Speaker 2: both children on Saturday and Sunday, and finally the mother

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Speaker 2: arrived home around four pm on Sunday evening. Authorities later

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Speaker 2: discovered that was not an isolated incident. It had been

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Speaker 2: reoccurring a reoccurring problem since the family checked into the

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Speaker 2: hotel in July. The boys informed the officers and a

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Speaker 2: detective they had been left alone for an extended period

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Speaker 2: of time since moving to the hotel. Smith was subsequently

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Speaker 2: arrested and taken to the Daphne Municipal Jail. Her bond

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Speaker 2: was set at a small time two thousand dollars or

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Speaker 2: Crime and Justice News. After this, a man from Tennessee

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Speaker 2: faces attempted murder charges after allegedly instructing a friend to

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Speaker 2: ignite his wife's Chevy Camaro on fire while she was

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Speaker 2: inside the car. According to law enforcement, Travis Davidson, forty four,

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Speaker 2: encouraged the friend over the phone, exclaiming light that be

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Speaker 2: up During the incident that took place on July thirty

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Speaker 2: near the eight hundred block of South Second Street near Memphis.

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Speaker 2: Police say that Davison and his girlfriend, Jessica thirty nine,

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Speaker 2: were in communication with an unidentified individual responsible for the

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Speaker 2: fire as they poured gasoline on the Camaro and set

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Speaker 2: it ablaze. Footage captured by local CBS affiliate WRG shows

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Speaker 2: the car engulfed in flames after the wife successfully escaped

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Speaker 2: without injury. A neighbor who recorded a video wish to

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Speaker 2: remain anonymous, recounted the scene, stating that she and her

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Speaker 2: daughter witnessed the aftermath. We jumped out of our car

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Speaker 2: and started calling nine to one one police arrived before

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Speaker 2: the fire department, and I overheard her mentioning something regarding

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Speaker 2: being on the phone with her husband when it happened.

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Speaker 2: The Affidavid indicates that Davison was extremely loud as he

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Speaker 2: directed the accomplice toward his wife's vehicle, where she was seated.

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Speaker 2: Rhels could also allegedly be heard giving instructions to the

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Speaker 2: victim after the incident. The silver Camaro, the silver one

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Speaker 2: over there on that side of the street. The accomplice

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Speaker 2: reportedly arrived the night before in an suv and waited

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Speaker 2: for the woman so that he could set her car ablaze.

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Speaker 2: Following the directions from the male and female voices in

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Speaker 2: the BMW, the man who exited the silver suv doused

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Speaker 2: the Camaro in gasoline right in front of others, set

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Speaker 2: the car on fire with the woman right inside. The wife,

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Speaker 2: realizing she had been settled, managed to crawl out the

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Speaker 2: passenger window. Authorities noted had she not escaped just in time,

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Speaker 2: she would have easily lost her life. Reports state that

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Speaker 2: the individual who poured the gasoline and ignited the fire

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Speaker 2: made eye contact with the wife before fleeing the scene.

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Speaker 2: The wife informed officers that it seemed the group was

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Speaker 2: communicating via bluetooth. She was speaking to her husband, but

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Speaker 2: could hear him talking to other people explaining what her

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Speaker 2: car looked like. The occupants of the car who doused

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Speaker 2: her all acknowledged seeing the woman, saying yes, we did it,

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Speaker 2: We were involved. We were asked by our friends to

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Speaker 2: take care of his wife. The wife reported that she

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Speaker 2: and Davison had been married for nearly six years prior

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Speaker 2: to the attack. He now faces charges of attempted second

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Speaker 2: degree murder and attempted reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon.

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Speaker 2: Rios has been charged with attempted murder.

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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 a 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: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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