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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: William Stephenson, who is the former spouse of Jill Biden,

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Speaker 1: was arrested and charged with murder the murder of his

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Speaker 1: current wife, according to officials on Tuesday. The seventy seven

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Speaker 1: year old Stevenson was taken into custody on Monday and

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Speaker 1: faces first degree murder charges in connection with the death

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Speaker 1: of Linda Stephenson. As reported by the Newcastle County Police

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Speaker 1: in Delaware, officers responded to a domestic dispute call on

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Speaker 1: December twenty eighth, where they discovered Linda Stephenson unresponsive at

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Speaker 1: their residence. Following her death, her remains were sent to

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Speaker 1: the Delaware Division of Forensic Science for an autopsy. As

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Speaker 1: of Tuesday, authorities had not disclosed the cause of death.

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Speaker 1: Stephenson's arrest came after a thorough investigation that lasted several weeks.

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Speaker 1: A grand jurion guided Stevenson on Monday, leading to his

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Speaker 1: transfer to the Howard Young Correctional Institution after he was

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Speaker 1: unable to post a half million dollar cash bail. Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden and Stevenson were married in nineteen seventy when she

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Speaker 1: was just eighteen and a student at the University of

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Speaker 1: Delaware while he was twenty three. Their marriage lasted for

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Speaker 1: five years before they divorced, and she later married then

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Speaker 1: Senator Joe Biden, who became the President of the United States.

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Speaker 1: War Crime Injustice news after this, a woman from Michigan

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Speaker 1: has been sentenced to over six years in federal prison

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Speaker 1: for impersonating a registered nurse using stolen identities. Letitia Galazaro,

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Speaker 1: fifty one, previously of Wayland, was handed a seventy five

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Speaker 1: month sentence on January sixth, after she pleaded guilty to

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Speaker 1: charges of fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to a

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Speaker 1: press release from the US Attorney's Office for the Western

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Speaker 1: District of Michigan, Prosecutors revealed that Galarzo secured a position

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Speaker 1: at a Michigan nursing home from August twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: to May twenty twenty three by submitting fake nursing credentials,

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Speaker 1: including a counterfeit license, diploma, and ID all while using

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Speaker 1: the name of a legitimate registered nurse. During her time

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Speaker 1: at the facilities, she conducted patient assessments, administered medications, started

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Speaker 1: IV lines, and even oversaw the healthcare staff after being

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Speaker 1: promoted to the unit manager when in fact she was

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Speaker 1: not a nurse at all. When her performance began to

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Speaker 1: decline and she faced demotion, Galarzo sought new employment. However,

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Speaker 1: a potential employer discovered her true identity and alerted police.

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Speaker 1: After pleading guilty in October twenty three, she attempted to

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Speaker 1: evade justice by again fraudently working as both a registered

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Speaker 1: nurse and a physician's assistant in Illinois and California. She

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Speaker 1: was eventually arrested near La and returned to Michigan. This

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Speaker 1: case smarked Galarzo's third conviction for nurse impersonation, following similar

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Speaker 1: incidents in Michigan in twenty sixteen and Texas in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: According to the US attorney, Timothy ver Hay, he said

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Speaker 1: rightly deserved the sentence, emphasizing that the case was far

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Speaker 1: more than a fraud and highlighted the critical nature of

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Speaker 1: a nurse's life and death responsibilities for their patients. This

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Speaker 1: seventy five month federal prison sentence sends a clear and

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Speaker 1: unmistakable message, said FBI officials at a press release. You

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Speaker 1: may not pretend to be something you are not, especially

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Speaker 1: when it impedes the safety of others and now to

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, the Concord Police are searching for twenty seven

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Speaker 1: year old Kristin Lynch. Officer say he has been missing

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Speaker 1: since Monday night around seven thirty pm. He was last

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Speaker 1: seen leaving his home that's on Simpson Court. Lynch has

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Speaker 1: autism and has not had his medication since he has

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Speaker 1: been missing. Anyone with information is asked to immediately reach

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Speaker 1: out to nine to one pin one. Lynch is described

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Speaker 1: as a black male, approximately five nine, weighing one hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty pounds, with dreadlocks. He was last seen wearing

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Speaker 1: a gray jacket and white baseball cap. Anyone with information

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Speaker 1: should immediately reach forward to law enforcement. For the latest

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