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Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm John Lemley. We begin this hour with

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Speaker 1: a major cold case development on Long Island. After four

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Speaker 1: decades of unanswered questions, new DNA testing has led prosecutors

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Speaker 1: to a suspect they say is responsible for a teenager's

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four rape and murder. Sixty three year old

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Speaker 1: Richard Billdeaux of Seder Mariches has been charged with two

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Speaker 1: counts of murder in the death of sixteen year old

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Speaker 1: Teresa Fusco. The high school junior disappeared after leaving her

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Speaker 1: job at a Lynbrook roller skating rink in November nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty four. Her body was found weeks later in a

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Speaker 1: wooded area nearby. The case was long considered one of

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Speaker 1: Long Island's most troubling miscarriages of justice. Three men were

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Speaker 1: convicted and spent years in prison before DNA evidence cleared

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Speaker 1: them in two thousand three. To later received multimillion dollars

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Speaker 1: settlements for wrongful imprisonment. Prosecutors now say Billido became a

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Speaker 1: focus after investigators developed several new leads last year. Surveillance

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Speaker 1: teams recovered a cup and straw that he discarded at

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Speaker 1: a smoothie shop in neighboring Suffolk County. Laboratory testing showed

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Speaker 1: the geneticterial match samples preserved from Fusco's body in nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty four. Billidou, who was twenty three and living with

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Speaker 1: his grandparents at the time of the crime, pleaded not

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Speaker 1: guilty and was ordered held without bail. If convicted, he

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Speaker 1: faces up to twenty five years to life in prison.

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Speaker 1: At the courthouse in Mineola, Fusco's father, Thomas Fusco, expressed

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Speaker 1: that while revisiting the case as painful, he hopes the

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Speaker 1: new arrest will finally bring closure to his family. Nassau

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Speaker 1: County District Attorney Anne Donnelly emphasized that her office is

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Speaker 1: committed to pursuing justice in long unsolved crimes, calling this

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Speaker 1: case an example of how persistence and modern science can

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Speaker 1: work hand in hand. Assistant DA Jared Rosenblat said the

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Speaker 1: defendant appeared aware that previous mistakes in the investigation had

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Speaker 1: allowed someone to escape accountability. He added that the time

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Speaker 1: for reckoning had finally come. The original investigation also drew

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Speaker 1: attention because two other teenage girls, Kelly Morrissey and Jacqueline Martirella,

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Speaker 1: went missing around the same time. Period, Morrissey was never found,

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Speaker 1: and Martirella's body was discovered the following year at a

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Speaker 1: nearby golf course. Authorities say this latest indictment represents a

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Speaker 1: turning point in the case that once symbolized failure and

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Speaker 1: may now stand as proof that time does not erase justice.

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Speaker 1: When we return, deadly gunfire at a Texas workplace, a

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Speaker 1: North Carolina police officer killed inside a hospital, and new

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Speaker 1: arrests in an alleged Halloween terrorism plot that stretched from

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Speaker 1: Detroit to the West Coast.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice news. Go

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Speaker 2: to crime online dot com and please join us for

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Speaker 2: our daily podcast, Crime Stories. More crime and justice news

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Speaker 2: after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news,

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Speaker 2: Crime Online John Lemley.

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Speaker 1: In San Antonio, Texas police say a twenty one year

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Speaker 1: old man shot and killed three co workers before taking

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Speaker 1: his own life. Investigators identified the gunman as Jose Hernandez Gallo,

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Speaker 1: an employee at a landscape supply company on the city's

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Speaker 1: north side. The victims, two men and a woman, were

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Speaker 1: found dead Saturday morning after shots rang out around eight am.

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Speaker 1: Other workers ran from the building as officers surrounded the area.

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Speaker 1: Gallo's body was located hours later with what investigators say

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Speaker 1: was a self inflicted gunshot wound. San Antonio Police Chief

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Speaker 1: William McManus said the attack did not appear to be random,

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Speaker 1: though the motive remains under investigation. Officials continue gathering evidence

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Speaker 1: as they worked to determine what led up to the

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Speaker 1: deadly workplace violence. Turning to North Carolina, a police officer

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Speaker 1: assigned to a hospital campus was killed during an encounter

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Speaker 1: in the emergency department lobby. Authorities A officer, Roger Smith

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Speaker 1: of the WakeMed Health System police was fatally shot around

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Speaker 1: nine a m. Saturday at the WakeMed Garner health Plex

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Speaker 1: just south of Raleigh. A person of interest was detained.

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Speaker 1: Shortly after the shooting. The emergency lobby was closed as

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Speaker 1: investigators from multiple agencies processed the scene and interviewed witnesses.

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Speaker 1: Governor Josh Steins at the incident underscores the risks faced

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Speaker 1: by law enforcement officers every day and praise Smith's service

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Speaker 1: and sacrifice. WakeMed confirmed its officers or fully sworn and

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Speaker 1: States certified patrolling six facilities across the system. Officials say

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Speaker 1: their cooperating fully with investigators as the inquiry continues. Finally,

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Speaker 1: in a widening federal counter terrorism investigation. Two additional young

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Speaker 1: men had been charged with attempting to aid the Islamic

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Speaker 1: State group. Nineteen year olds Thomas Jimenez Gutsel of Montclair,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, and Said Murray of Kent, Washington, are accused

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Speaker 1: of conspiring to provide material support to a designated terrorism organization,

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Speaker 1: according to the FBI, Jimenez Gutzl was arrested at Newark

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Speaker 1: Airport while trying to fly to Turkey, while Murray was

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Speaker 1: taken into custody in Washington. State Investigators say both have

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Speaker 1: been in contact with suspects recently charged in Michigan for

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Speaker 1: allegedly plotting an attack in suburban Detroit. Court filings described

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Speaker 1: detailed online conversation about plans to travel abroad and participate

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Speaker 1: in violent activity overseas. Agents believed the men accelerated those

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Speaker 1: plans after several associates were arrested in late October. In Michigan,

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Speaker 1: prosecutors alleged a related group had discussed potential attacks targeting

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Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus venues and even scouted a theme park in

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Speaker 1: neighboring Ohio. Authorities say a sixteen year old boy is

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Speaker 1: also in federal custody and connection with that case. Federal

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Speaker 1: officials stressed that the arrest disrupted the network before any

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Speaker 1: violence occurred, and that all known suspects are now in custody.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice needs. Go

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Speaker 2: our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our best

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Speaker 2: to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.

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Speaker 2: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.