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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.

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Speaker 1: A stomach turning display of sociopathic cool ended in a

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Speaker 1: high stakes takedown on the sands of Daytona Beach.

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Speaker 2: Florida, after a convicted.

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Speaker 1: Child killer was caught partying with unsuspecting spring breakers while

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Speaker 1: on the run from Ohio authorities. Chief Deputy Brian Henderson

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Speaker 1: of the Volusha County Sheriff's Department spoke to ABC News five.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna speak for all the Floridians. We don't want

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Speaker 2: child murderers in our state, and we definitely don't want

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Speaker 2: child murderers from another state.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Grove, forty five, a man branded armed and dangerous

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Speaker 1: by Ohio parole officers, was snatched by Vlusha County deputies

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Speaker 1: during a massive proactive sweep of unruly.

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Speaker 2: Vacation crowds on the beach.

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Speaker 1: Sporting neon green sunglasses, a silver chain, and a bizarre mohawk,

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Speaker 1: Grove was found nonchalantly boozing on a sea wall thousands

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Speaker 1: of miles from the state lines he was legally forbidden

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Speaker 1: to cross. The details of Grove's original depravity are horrifying.

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Speaker 1: In February twenty fifteen, during a heated domestic dispute over

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Speaker 1: smoking in the home, Grove launched a heavy ceramic coffee

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Speaker 1: mug at his baby mama. He missed his target, instead

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Speaker 1: striking his two month old son, Zealand, directly in the head.

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Speaker 1: The infant died the next day at Akron Children's Hospital.

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Speaker 1: Despite the fatal brutality, Grove dodged a murder charge and

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Speaker 1: served only eight years for involuntary manslaughter before being parolled

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. When Chief Deputy Henderson approached him

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Speaker 1: on the beach for a general icebreaker, Grove allegedly baited

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Speaker 1: the officer into a sympathy trap, claiming he had quote

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Speaker 1: unquote lost a child, while intentionally omitting that he was

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Speaker 1: the reason that little boy was dead.

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Speaker 2: It was caught on body camp. Dude, you okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's when we go sit in the car. You made

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Speaker 2: it sound like a kid as a car accident.

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Speaker 1: Henderson recalled how the killer tried to manipulate his emotions, stating,

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Speaker 1: quote as a father, that really pissed me off end quote.

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Speaker 1: Groves ruse disintegrated, though as a background check revealed an

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Speaker 1: active October twenty twenty five, warrant for his arrest. In

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Speaker 1: addition to the parole violation, Florida authorities slapped Grove with

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Speaker 1: charges for failing to register as a convicted felon and

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Speaker 1: drug possession after a THHC pen was found in his backpack.

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Speaker 1: He's currently held in the Belusha County Jail awaiting extradition

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Speaker 1: back to Ohio.

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Speaker 2: More crime injustice news.

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Speaker 1: After this, a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania woman transformed a Cloverly Road

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Speaker 1: home into a sadistic chamber of horrors, allegedly forcing her

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Speaker 1: children to choose the very weapons she would use to

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Speaker 1: beat them while her boyfriend sat back and did nothing.

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Speaker 1: Maria Roach, thirty one, was hauled off to the Dauphin

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Speaker 1: County Prison facing a litany of felony charges after a

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Speaker 1: twelve year old victim's desperate plea for help exposed a

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Speaker 1: domestic dungeon. Prosecutor say Roach did not just discipline the kids,

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Speaker 1: she terrorized them with a twisted game of the gun

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Speaker 1: or the belt, leaving the victims to pick their own

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Speaker 1: poison in a house of absolute atmospheric dread. The allegations

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Speaker 1: are demonic, according to the Harrisburg Bureau of Police. Roach

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Speaker 1: one ordered a child to retrieve a firearm before she

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Speaker 1: allegedly aimed at another sibling's head and then pulled the trigger.

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Speaker 1: The bullet narrowly missed that child, slamming into a nearby wall.

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Speaker 1: In another occasion, survivors claimed she shoved the cold barrel

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Speaker 1: of a gun directly between the eyes of another child,

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Speaker 1: while Roach allegedly rain down blows with a belt that

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Speaker 1: left marks across the victim's necks, arms, and backs. Her boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: William Witherspoon reportedly found the violence comical, watching the abuse

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Speaker 1: unfold with a sadistic smile and audible laughter. The investigation

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Speaker 1: took a forensic turn when one child revealed that Roach

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Speaker 1: kept her arsenal hidden beneath her bed. The brave survivor

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Speaker 1: even admitted to trying to secretly unload the weapons to

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Speaker 1: prevent a tragedy. Roach is now facing multiple counts of

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Speaker 1: aggravated assault on victims under theat and child endangerment, while

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Speaker 1: Witherspoon has been slapped with felony counts for his role

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Speaker 1: as a spectator to all that brutality. Both are being

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Speaker 1: held on ten thousand dollars bonds, with a preliminary hearing

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Speaker 1: set for April eighth, and finally talk about getting forked over.

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Speaker 1: Now when all you Can Eat nightmare is turning into

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Speaker 1: a high stakes courtroom menu. Gary Sellinger, fifty nine filed

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Speaker 1: a blistering lawsuit claiming Golden Corral staffers and Henderson, Nevada

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Speaker 1: skewered him over a false accusation of skipping the bill

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Speaker 1: despite allegedly holding a receipt. Selinger says he was choked,

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Speaker 1: slammed into a table, and stabbed with a fork by

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Speaker 1: aggressive employees. The buffet brawl reportedly left Celinger with a

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Speaker 1: traumatic brain injury and wounds across his body. While Henderson

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Speaker 1: police made no rests at the scene. Sellinger is now

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Speaker 1: serving up a negligent suit against the corporate giants and

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Speaker 1: the manager. He's seeking punitive damages to reimburse his pain.

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Speaker 1: It turns out when you dish out violence instead of dinner,

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Speaker 1: the law may carve out a massive settlement.

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Speaker 2: We shall see.

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