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Speaker 1: Crime alert. I means he grace breaking crimes. Now straight

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Speaker 1: out to Nicole Parton for the latest.

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Speaker 2: Nancy, an ex boyfriend of Laken Snelling, a cheerleader at

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Speaker 2: the University of Kentucky, is undergoing DNA testing to establish

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Speaker 2: whether he is the father of a newborn found dead

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Speaker 2: in her closet last month. Isaiah Hall, twenty one, who

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Speaker 2: previously dated Snelling, provided a DNA sample to authorities as

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Speaker 2: part of the investigation into the baby boy that Snelling

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Speaker 2: is accused of concealing in a towel and placing in

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Speaker 2: a trash bag, then hiding in her closet at her

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Speaker 2: off campus home in Lexington. Lexington Police asked him to

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Speaker 2: come and provide a sample, said Justin Smith, the boy's father,

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Speaker 2: who declined to comment further, saying I have no information

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Speaker 2: on this matter and we don't know if Isaiah is

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Speaker 2: the father. Hall, a prominent quarterback at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee,

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Speaker 2: was in a relationship with Snelling before she began dating

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Speaker 2: Connor Jordan, a former basketball player, as reported by The

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Speaker 2: Daily Mail, The timeline of Hall's relationship with Snelling remains unclear,

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Speaker 2: and he did not disclose when they broke up. The

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Speaker 2: father said, I prefer not to discuss this in detail

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Speaker 2: at this time. Snelling, who played basketball at King University

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Speaker 2: in Tennessee, appeared in several of Snelling's social media posts

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Speaker 2: leading up to her arrest on August thirty one. It

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Speaker 2: is unknown when they started dating, and he has since

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Speaker 2: removed his social media profiles Following the arrest. Snelling faces

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Speaker 2: charges including concealing the birth of a child, tempering with evidence,

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Speaker 2: and abuse of a corpse, to which she has pleaded

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Speaker 2: not guilty. The incoming senior, who participated in the stunt team,

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Speaker 2: was arrested after police received reports of an unresponsive infant

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Speaker 2: at her home. She allegedly confessed to authorities that she

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Speaker 2: attempted to hide the birth by cleaning up the scene

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Speaker 2: and disposing of the related items in the same trash

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Speaker 2: bag as the baby. An autopsy has been conducted, but

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Speaker 2: the cause of death for the infant remains inconclusive. Snelling

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Speaker 2: was released on one hundred thousand dollars bond and is

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Speaker 2: now under house arrest in her parents' home in Tennessee

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Speaker 2: until her next court date on September twenty six. She

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Speaker 2: has since withdrawn from school and is no longer a

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Speaker 2: member of the stunt team, according to a report from

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Speaker 2: the Lexington Herald. The university, which commenced the new semester

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Speaker 2: on August twenty five, has not disclosed the date of

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Speaker 2: her withdrawal.

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Speaker 1: Nicole, thank you more Primate Justice news after.

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Speaker 2: This and now let's head to Florida, where a teenager

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Speaker 2: is facing adult charges for allegedly stabbing a fourteen year

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Speaker 2: old boy during a dispute over a PlayStation. This happened

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Speaker 2: at their share group home, according to police reports. Sixteen

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Speaker 2: year old Reuben Whitworth was arrested and charged with second

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Speaker 2: degree murder with a weapon for the fatal stabbing of

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Speaker 2: Jordan Dowdy on August twenty five. Dowdy was discovered with

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Speaker 2: fatal wounds that afternoon at a residence located on Northeast

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Speaker 2: Third Avenue in Oakland Park. Jordan's mother, Tiffany Simpson, shared

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Speaker 2: with Fox WSVN that her son had previously encountered issues

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Speaker 2: with Whitworth, saying he cried out for help and no

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Speaker 2: one would listen.

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Speaker 3: He told you to know, shut the f up, or

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna stab you and kill you. Two weeks later,

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Speaker 3: he ended up dead and stop by. Nobody helped him. No,

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Speaker 3: they didn't take into consideration that he was stabbed or

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Speaker 3: not stabbed, that the kid kept threatening him. Disappointed in

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Speaker 3: the system, disappointed in the state, disappointed in the ARIIS office,

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Speaker 3: disappointed in many weeks.

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Speaker 2: A caregiver at the One Hope United Foster home where

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Speaker 2: the boys were living, witnessed the altercation and intervened just

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Speaker 2: before the stabbing occurred. I need paramedics immediately, she reported

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Speaker 2: to have said, during an emergency nine to one one

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Speaker 2: call where as he stabbed, asked the dispatcher, the caregiver responded,

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Speaker 2: I don't see the knife right now. I had to

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Speaker 2: break up the fight. She can then be heard trying

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Speaker 2: to keep Dowdy conscious during the call. Records from Broward

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Speaker 2: County Court labeled Dowdy's murder as a dangerous, depraved, and

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Speaker 2: lacking premeditation murder. As reported by ABC affiliate w PLG,

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Speaker 2: A neighbor of the group home, Bobby Pecora, recalled meeting

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Speaker 2: Dowdy earlier in the year, where he expressed feeling frightened.

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Speaker 2: He said it's scary. Pecor remembered she claimed that Dowdy

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Speaker 2: was subjected to ongoing intimidation before his death, and noted

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Speaker 2: that police had visited that group home multiple times regarding

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Speaker 2: incidents around the boy. Simpson also emphasized that Dowdy had

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Speaker 2: been threatened repeatedly, telling WSVN that she had raised her

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Speaker 2: concerns about others at the home. Witworth is said to

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Speaker 2: appear in court later this month and is currently being

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Speaker 2: held at the Broward County Jail in Fort Lauderdale without ball.

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Speaker 1: Nine year old Alexis Patterson walks from her Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: home to school with her stepdad, Lauren Bourgeois. Bourgeois says

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Speaker 1: he watched Alexis walk towards the playground before heading home.

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Speaker 1: After school. Bourgeois and Alexis's mother, Arianna larn Alexis is

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Speaker 1: absent from school. Mom believes Alexis skipped class because she

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Speaker 1: got in trouble for not completing homework and could not

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Speaker 1: bring cupcakes to school that day. Fellow classmates say they

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Speaker 1: saw Alexis crying on the playground before and after school.

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Speaker 1: Alexis reported missing. Police suspect foul play, as Alexis has

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Speaker 1: no runaway history. Searches of the surrounding area turn up nothing.

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Speaker 1: Alexis bio Dad Kenya Campbell cooperates with police, as does

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Speaker 1: Ariana and Lauren Bourgeois, but police say Bourgeois fails upon

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Speaker 1: polligraf still no arrest. Alexis Patterson an African American female child,

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Speaker 1: brown hair, brown eyes, three feet eight inches, forty two pounds.

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Speaker 1: At the time she disappeared, a scar below her right

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Speaker 1: eye and a bump on her left pinky. That was

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Speaker 1: twenty two years ago. If you have info on what

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Speaker 1: happened to little girl Alexis Patterson, please call Milwaukee PD

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Speaker 1: four one four nine three five seventy four zero one.

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Speaker 1: and help solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I'm

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace.