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

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Speaker 1: A man from Georgia is currently facing trial for the

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Speaker 1: long unsolved murder of his wife, who happened to be

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Speaker 1: the daughter of a notorious convicted serial killer. Christopher Wolfenbarger

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Speaker 1: was taken into custody in August twenty twenty four in

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Speaker 1: connection with the death of his wife, Melissa. Her remains,

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Speaker 1: which included her severed head, were discovered in trash bags

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Speaker 1: in April and June of nineteen ninety nine. Initially, her

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Speaker 1: remains were misidentified, and it wasn't until two thousand and

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Speaker 1: three that they were correctly identified. According to the Atlanta Police,

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Speaker 1: Melissa went missing in late nineteen ninety eight. During that time,

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Speaker 1: Christopher claimed she had voluntarily left and not returned. As

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Speaker 1: per court documents, He informed investigators that he didn't report

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Speaker 1: her disappearance because he believed she had moved on with

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Speaker 1: her life. Prosecutors revealed that Melissa had sought a temporary

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Speaker 1: protective order against Christopher in July nineteen ninety eight, indicating

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Speaker 1: her intention to leave him. At a press conference announcing

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Speaker 1: his arrest, authorities revealed that Christopher had always been a

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Speaker 1: person of interest in the case, though they did not

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Speaker 1: disclose the reasons behind his arrest after so many years.

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Speaker 1: Court documents indicate that Melissa's remains were discovered quote directly

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Speaker 1: across the street from Christopher's workplace at the time. Christopher

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Speaker 1: has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of

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Speaker 1: murder and felony murder. Jury selection started today more crime

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Speaker 1: and justice news after this. A man from Florida has

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Speaker 1: been convicted of murdering his girlfriend, despite his claims that

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Speaker 1: her death from a spear was accidental. Adam Crespo, forty nine,

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Speaker 1: was found guilty of second degree murder on Monday in

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Speaker 1: relation to the twenty nineteen death of thirty two year

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Speaker 1: old Silvia Galva. According to reports from w TVJAY, the

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Speaker 1: jury took just under two hours to reach their decision.

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Speaker 1: After Crespo attempted to argue that his girlfriend's fatal chest

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Speaker 1: injury was an accident, The defense called a single witness,

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Speaker 1: a retired medical examiner, who testified that the cause of

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Speaker 1: Galva's death should be considered undetermined. However, the jury did

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Speaker 1: not accept this assertion, even after dramatic reenactments were presented

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Speaker 1: to illustrate how the incident might have unfolded. Police reports

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Speaker 1: indicate that on the evening of July twelve, twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: officers responded to the couple's home and discovered the woman

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Speaker 1: on the bedroom floor suffering from a severe chest wound.

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Speaker 1: Despite efforts to save her, she died from her injuries

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Speaker 1: that night, after being impelled by a spear that had

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Speaker 1: been used as a decorative bedpost. In his recorded interrogation

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Speaker 1: played during the trial, why A. Crispo suggested that during

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Speaker 1: an argument with his girlfriend, he had pulled her off

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Speaker 1: the bed by her ankles. He claimed that in an

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Speaker 1: effort to prevent her from falling, she must have grabbed

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Speaker 1: the spear. He stated that while he was turned away

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Speaker 1: from her, he heard a snap, and upon turning back,

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Speaker 1: he saw the spear blade embedded in her chest. He

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Speaker 1: recounted pulling the blade out, hoping it was quote not

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Speaker 1: too bad, before he asked a neighbor to call nine

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Speaker 1: one one, he applied pressure to her wound. He said.

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Speaker 1: When authorities arrived, they found the spear broken and the

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Speaker 1: blade had penetrated through the woman's body and into the

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Speaker 1: bed sheets. During the proceedings, Assistant State Attorney Jacqueline Brodie

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Speaker 1: argued that Crispo exhibited clear malice and intent, stating he

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Speaker 1: had quote hatred for his girlfriend and was determined to

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Speaker 1: push her out of his life. Another medical expert testified

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Speaker 1: that the angle and force of the wound indicated it

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Speaker 1: was indeed homicide, declared there is no imaginable scenario where

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Speaker 1: this was an accident. This was deliberate. Crispo's attorney, Christopher O'Toole,

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Speaker 1: countered that the lack of physical evidence supported a murder claim,

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Speaker 1: pointing at an argument, saying, just an argument doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: he murdered her. There's no physical evidence that there was

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Speaker 1: a murder. Ultimately, the jury sided with the prosecution, convicting

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Speaker 1: Crispo of second degree murder. He is set to be

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Speaker 1: sentenced on October thirty one. Police in South Carolina need

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Speaker 1: your help in locating a missing woman. The Richland County

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Speaker 1: Police Department Special Victims Unit investigators are searching for thirty

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Speaker 1: seven year old woman Alissa Maddox. She was reported missing

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Speaker 1: on August five. Maddox was last seen at a Nesley

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Speaker 1: Court home and reportedly just vanished. Police say her family

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Speaker 1: hasn't seen or heard from her since, and it's completely

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Speaker 1: out of character for her to walk away from from

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Speaker 1: her home. Anyone who sees her or knows anything concerning

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Speaker 1: the whereabouts of Alissimatics is asked to contact crime Stoppers

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