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

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Speaker 1: firefighters respond to an explosion at Ted Ralston and Joanna

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Speaker 1: Gormley's home. Inside the burn home, cops find the couple's bodies,

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Speaker 1: but they didn't die in the fire. Ralston was stabbed

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Speaker 1: dead and Gormley's net was broken. As police investigate, they

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Speaker 1: learned the couple's grandson, Ezra Ralston, lived with them. A

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Speaker 1: source of the younger Ralston's phone uncovers he and friends

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Speaker 1: planned the murder so they could quote start a commune

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Speaker 1: on his grandparents' waterfront property.

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Speaker 2: Nancy. Police found the couple's nie on CenTra parked outside

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Speaker 2: Ralston's girlfriend's house. They spoke with Rebecca Nubauer's mother, who

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Speaker 2: could not believe what had happened, as her daughter had

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Speaker 2: made a joke about killing Ralston's grandparents for their home

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Speaker 2: earlier that evening, Ralston invited two friends to his grandparents'

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Speaker 2: home to help him kill them and start the explosion.

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Speaker 2: For their involvement, Sean Higgins received a life sentence, Spencer

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Speaker 2: Klein received forty five years, and Newbauer received thirty three

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Speaker 2: years behind bars.

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Speaker 1: Ezra Rawlston twenty nine now sentenced to life for aggravated murder, murder, conspiracy,

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Speaker 1: and arson. Now he can commune behind bars. Indiana State

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Speaker 1: Police pull over John McKee on a busy roadway. McKee's

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Speaker 1: vehicle a Power Wheels toddler jeep. The fifty one year

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Speaker 1: old was enjoying an evening cruise in the toy car,

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Speaker 1: which has the top speed of five miles an hour,

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Speaker 1: stickers for lights, and no license plate. Cops asked McKee

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Speaker 1: to step out of the vehicle for a sobriety test,

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Speaker 1: which he fails. Cops later confirmed McKee had pot and

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Speaker 1: meth in his system at the time of the stop.

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Speaker 1: John McKee now charged with DUI and the Power Wheels

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Speaker 1: Jeep toad to impound. More Crime and Justice news after

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Speaker 1: this Now with the latest Prime and Justice breaking these

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Speaker 1: Prime onlines John Lemley.

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Speaker 3: The identities of four people discovered dead following a house

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Speaker 3: fire in Seattle have been made public by the King

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Speaker 3: County Medical Examiner's Office, which has classified three of the

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Speaker 3: deaths as homicides. With the latest here Sidney Sumner with

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Speaker 3: Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: According to the medical Examiner's report, four month old Valentina

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Speaker 2: Ragusa died from smoke inhalation. Seven year old Sebastino Ragusa

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Speaker 2: died from asphyxia caused by inhaling hazardous combustibles, and forty

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Speaker 2: year old Lana A. Stewart died from numerous sharp force injuries.

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Speaker 2: The medical examiner reported that forty eight year old Salvatore

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Speaker 2: Ragusa committed suicide by smoke inhalation. According to our friends

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Speaker 2: with the Seattle Times, police are looking into the fatalities

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Speaker 2: as an arson homicide. Investigators say they are not seeking

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Speaker 2: any suspects. Together with the Seattle Fire Department, the city's

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Speaker 2: police arson and bomb unit is attempting to discover what

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Speaker 2: caused the fire. Although Seattle A Police have not revealed

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Speaker 2: the relationship between Ragusa and the victims, neighbors have described

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Speaker 2: the two as a couple who live with their children

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Speaker 2: in the house where the fire took place.

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Speaker 3: According to court records, Ragusa completed a county mental health

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Speaker 3: program that was ordered by the court last year for

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Speaker 3: his part in a plan to firebomb a Black Lives

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Speaker 3: Matter demonstration in Las Vegas. In twenty twenty, A man

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Speaker 3: with ties to a far right extremist group calling to

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Speaker 3: overthrow the American government has been handed a life sentence

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Speaker 3: with the possibility of parole. According to court documents, Stephen

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Speaker 3: Parshall was sentenced by a state judge in Las Vegas

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Speaker 3: as part of a plea bargain Partiall was allegedly one

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Speaker 3: of three white men who planned to firebomb and harm

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Speaker 3: federal buildings during demonstrations against racism and police brutality. They

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Speaker 3: identified the group as being part of the informal far

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Speaker 3: right coalition known as the Boogaloo Movement, which claims to

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Speaker 3: be gearing up for a second and American Civil War.

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Speaker 3: Following allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, the felony convictions of four

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Speaker 3: former Navy officers in one of the worst bribery cases

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Speaker 3: in the maritime branch's history have been overturned once again.

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Speaker 3: Crime Online Sidney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: This is the most recent setback to the governments years

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Speaker 2: long pursuit of numerous military officials linked to a defense

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Speaker 2: contractor known as Fat Leonard. The misconduct was deemed outrageous

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Speaker 2: by US District Judge Janis Sammartino, who allowed the four

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Speaker 2: men to enter a plea of guilty to a misdemeanor

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Speaker 2: and each pay one hundred dollars fine. Sam Martino said

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Speaker 2: the chief federal prosecutor had engaged in quote flagrant misconduct

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Speaker 2: by failing to provide material to the defense attorneys after

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Speaker 2: the trial last year, but at the time he did

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Speaker 2: not feel this was sufficient to throw out the case.

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Speaker 2: The former Captains David Newland, James Dolan, and David Lausman,

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Speaker 2: as well as the former Commander Mario Herrera, had already

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Speaker 2: been found guilty on a number of offenses by a

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Speaker 2: federal b of receiving bribes from foreign military contractor Leonard

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Speaker 2: Francis and his business Glen Military Marine Asia, also known

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Speaker 2: as GDMA.

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Speaker 3: Sentencing is scheduled for several others in October. It's unclear

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Speaker 3: whether those cases could be jeopardized.

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Speaker 1: Ricky Smith lives with his parents, Jackie and Betty, at

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Speaker 1: their Texas home to help after Betty is diagnosed with dementia. Betty,

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Speaker 1: seventy two, loves to spend time outside and sits on

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Speaker 1: the porch every evening. Ricky notices his mom head out

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Speaker 1: to the porch and checks on her every so often.

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Speaker 1: When he comes out to tell her to come to bed,

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Speaker 1: Betty's gone. Betty has wandered short distances away from home before,

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Speaker 1: but the family searches for hours. With no trace of her,

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Speaker 1: they turn to police. Ten agencies have assisted searching for

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Speaker 1: Betty Kemp Smith, as well as search and rescue dog teams.

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Speaker 3: With no luck.

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Speaker 1: Her son and husband of fifty five years desperate. If

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Speaker 1: you have info on Betde Campsmith, missing three years, please

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Speaker 1: contact Panola County Sheriffs in Texas at nine zero three

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Speaker 1: six nine three zero three three three. For the latest

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