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Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news. Now a

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Speaker 1: half naked Texas man wandering around the streets asking for

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Speaker 1: a shirt, Concerned neighbors call police, and now Brandon Ashley

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Speaker 1: facing murder charges in the death of his wife, Chelsea Spillers.

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Speaker 1: Detective say, Chelsea High School biology teacher died by blunt

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Speaker 1: force trauma in her own home. Straight out to Drew

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Speaker 1: Nelson for more. She was a wonderful lady, very loved

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Speaker 1: by the entire community.

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Speaker 2: Nancy. That's Alvareto High School teacher Shanna Valarel showing our

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Speaker 2: TV news partners at Fox four KDFW one of hundreds

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Speaker 2: of purple ribbons she helped students make, bearing miss Spiller's name.

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Speaker 2: Police say Spillers, h thirty three, was found dead in

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Speaker 2: her home on October eighteenth. Her husband, forty year old

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Speaker 2: Brandon Ashley, was later arrested in b Dies in Grimes County,

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Speaker 2: about one hundred and fifty miles south of Alboreto. After

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Speaker 2: those reports of the half naked man asking for a shirt,

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Speaker 2: deputy said he seemed to be in a mental health crisis.

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Speaker 2: Investigators said Alvareto police first went to the couple's home

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Speaker 2: on a disturbance call. When they got there, Ashley allegedly

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Speaker 2: held a gun to his head. He was arrested for

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Speaker 2: interfering with public duties and bonded out the next morning.

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Speaker 2: Two days later, officers were sent back for a welfare check.

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Speaker 2: They found Spillers dead inside the house. Her cause of

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Speaker 2: death ruled blunt force trauma. For this to happen to

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Speaker 2: her and the way it happened, it's heartbreaking, Grimes County

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Speaker 2: deputies said. Ashley was found outside a convenience store in

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Speaker 2: b Dies. He told officers he had hidden a gun nearby,

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Speaker 2: but refused to say where. Deputies later found a three

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Speaker 2: point fifty seven revolver and confirmed that he was wanted

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Speaker 2: for murder out of Johnson County. He was taken to

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Speaker 2: the hospital for evaluation before being booked into the Grimes

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Speaker 2: County jail. Mikaela Norris as a former freshman and sophomore

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Speaker 2: student of Miss Spillers.

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Speaker 1: It's still feels surreal because, like, how can someone do that?

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Speaker 1: I feel like though she's gone, she still lives. She

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Speaker 1: lives through all of the students.

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Speaker 2: She touched Spiller's tyology and chemistry and was known for

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Speaker 2: her upbeat attitude and for making a real connection with

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Speaker 2: her students. The Albareto Independent School District called her quote

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Speaker 2: a dedicated educator who loved her students and Alboreto ISD team.

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Speaker 2: A GoFundMe page has raised more than six thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: toward a modest goal to help her eleven year old

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Speaker 2: son and her mother, who was also a teacher who

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Speaker 2: spent forty years at mid Lothian High School. Friends and

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Speaker 2: former students described her as compassionate, intelligent, and fiercely dedicated

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Speaker 2: to her family. Spiller's funeral was held in Midlothian, where

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Speaker 2: she grew up and graduated in twenty ten. She survived

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Speaker 2: by her son Rylan, her mother and stepfather, Patty and

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Speaker 2: Kevin Tiller, her sister, Courtney Castillo, and her grandmother Caroline.

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Speaker 1: Spiller's thanks drew more crime and justice news after this.

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Speaker 2: The sister of a Houston, Texas man found hanging and

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Speaker 2: burned under a freeway overpass says her brother was murdered

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Speaker 2: and she is begging for justice. This Jeremy Glenn Carnes,

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Speaker 2: age forty six, was discovered beneath the Eye six' Ten

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Speaker 2: North loop overpass Near Kirkpatrick boulevard After Union Pacific railroad

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Speaker 2: workers reported what they believed was a brush. Fire when

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Speaker 2: the first responders, arrived they found a man's body hanging

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Speaker 2: from a rope and. Burning police have opened a homicide.

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Speaker 2: Investigation people look at homeless people.

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Speaker 1: And they don't see a human.

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Speaker 2: Good bye to. As carnes Sister Camilla, kidd told OUR

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Speaker 2: tv news partners At fox twenty Six houston she believes

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Speaker 2: her brother was targeted and killed by people who attacked him.

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Speaker 2: Earlier he was in the hospital two days before this

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Speaker 2: happened he was. Attacked carn's family said he was terrified

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Speaker 2: for his. Safety police have not announced any. Suspects investigators

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Speaker 2: said the combination of hanging and fire makes suicide quote highly.

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Speaker 2: Unlikely known in his hometown Of, Alvin texas by the Nickname,

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Speaker 2: Boogie carnes is remembered by relatives as, fearless, funny and.

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Speaker 2: Kind his obituary describes him as a man devoted to

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Speaker 2: his two, Children leelu And, logan and a man whose

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Speaker 2: quote end of life was unfair and. Tragic carnes Blue

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Speaker 2: healer Dog, cross who was missing after the, killing has

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Speaker 2: since been found and reunited with the family and may be.

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Speaker 2: PREGNANT a GoFundMe started by his sister has raised funds

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Speaker 2: to cover his funeral expenses and future expenses for cross

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Speaker 2: and travel for his children to attend the celebration of

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Speaker 2: life on the twenty. Ninth kid says her brother struggled with.

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Speaker 2: HOMELESSNESS i promise.

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Speaker 1: You As god as my, witness there's nothing he could

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Speaker 1: have deserved.

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Speaker 2: That the candlelight visil was held near the overpass where

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Speaker 2: his body was, found where his sister vowed to keep

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Speaker 2: pushing for. Answers anyone with information has urged to contact

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Speaker 2: The Houston Police Homicide division at seven one three three

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Speaker 2: eight thirty six. HUNDRED A South carolina death row inmate

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Speaker 2: who once taunted investigators with messages written in his victim's

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Speaker 2: blood has chosen to die by firing. Squad condemned forty

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Speaker 2: four year Old Stephen Corey bryant is scheduled to be

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Speaker 2: executed on the fourteenth The Broad River Correctional institution In.

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Speaker 2: Columbia he will become the third inmate this year to

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Speaker 2: Face South carolina's firing, squad Joining Brad sigmund And Michael.

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Speaker 2: Maddy bryant's decision to die by bullets comes amid renewed

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Speaker 2: controversy over the state's firing squad following claims That mahdi's

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Speaker 2: execution In april was. Botched attorneys From maddy say the

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Speaker 2: shooters missed his, heart causing him to moan and gasp

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Speaker 2: for more than a minute before. Dying prison officials insisted

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Speaker 2: the execution went as planned and that two bullets likely

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Speaker 2: entered the same wound. Channel bryant pleaded guilty in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and eight to three murders committed during a week

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Speaker 2: long rampage across Rural Sumpter county In october two thousand and.

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Speaker 2: Four prosecutors said he first killed thirty six year Old Clifton,

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Speaker 2: gainey then gunned down sixty two year Old WILLARD. T.

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Speaker 2: J teachIn in his, home burning the victim's eyes with

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Speaker 2: cigarettes before writing quote cash me if you can on

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Speaker 2: the wall in. Blood candles were lit Around teachin's, body

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Speaker 2: and a potholder dipped in blood more words quote victim

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Speaker 2: four in two. Weeks two days, Later bryant shot thirty

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Speaker 2: five year Old Christopher burgess after meeting him at a convenience.

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Speaker 2: Store another, Man Clinton, brown survived a gunshot wound in

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Speaker 2: an earlier. Incident investigators Said bryant's crimes quote Terrorized Sumter

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Speaker 2: counting and left families fearing a serial killer was on the.

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Speaker 2: Loose defense attorneys argued That bryant had begged for psychiatric

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Speaker 2: help before the, killings telling relatives and a probation officer

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Speaker 2: he was reliving sexual abuse he suffered as a. Child

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Speaker 2: they said he used math and marijuanas braied with. Insecticide

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Speaker 2: bryant was sentenced to death For teachin's murder and received

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Speaker 2: life terms for the. Others his final appeals were rejected last.

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Speaker 2: Month his death Willmarked South carolina's fiftieth execution since the

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Speaker 2: death penalty was. Reinstated Thanks drew for the.

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