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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, Imancy Grace, breaking crime news Now on Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: Mom rushes for a baby boy to the hospital after

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Speaker 1: he comes back from his father's covered in bruises. The dad,

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Speaker 1: Stephen Nichols, tells the mom he tried to prop up

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Speaker 1: an iPad against a formula container for the boy to watch,

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Speaker 1: but it slipped and hit the baby with skull fractures,

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Speaker 1: a brain injury, and fractures to both femurs. Medical staff

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Speaker 1: say there's no way those injuries were an accident, Nancy.

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Speaker 2: In addition to the broken femurs and brain injury, the

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Speaker 2: childhood's final bleeding, three fractured ribs and burns on his buttocks.

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Speaker 2: During a phone call listened in on by police, Nichols

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Speaker 2: said he expected to go to jail, but that was

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Speaker 2: quote cool. Nichols reiterated the story about the iPad to police.

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Speaker 2: His bond has been set at seventy five thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: The dad, Steve Nichols, now charged with child abuse and neglect.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the

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Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines. John Lemley,

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Speaker 1: a parenting advice YouTuber, emaciated and severely brused son, appears

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Speaker 1: in A newly released video from the day his mother

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Speaker 1: and her business partner were arrested in southern Utah on

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Speaker 1: allegations of child abuse shows the child politely asking a

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Speaker 1: neighbor to drive him to the closest police station.

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Speaker 3: With details. Here's Sidney Sumner with crime Online.

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Speaker 2: According to documents made public by the Washington County Attorney's office,

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Speaker 2: the twelve year old son of Ruby Frankie, a mother

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Speaker 2: of six who gave advice to millions of people through

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Speaker 2: a well known YouTube channel, had escaped through a window

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Speaker 2: and approached several surrounding homes until someone answered the door.

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Speaker 2: A month after, Frankie and her business partner, Jody Hildebrandt,

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Speaker 2: a mental health counselor, were each sentenced up to thirty

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Speaker 2: years in jail. Crime scene images, body camera footage, and

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Speaker 2: interrogation tapes were made public. Eric Clark, the County Attorney

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Speaker 2: for Washington, revealed that a police investigation had found that

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Speaker 2: the women's brutal maltreatment of Frankie's children was driven by

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Speaker 2: religious fundamentalism. Forty two year old Frankie and fifty four

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Speaker 2: year old Hildebrandt entered guilty please to four charges of

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Speaker 2: aggravated childie abuse, which included manipulating Frankie's two youngest children

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Speaker 2: into believing they were wicked, making them work manual labor,

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Speaker 2: and placing them in circumstances that clark has likened to

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Speaker 2: quote concentration camp like. After Hildebrandt's neighbor, Danny Clarkson opened

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Speaker 2: his door to discover the malnourished boy, the women, who

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Speaker 2: claimed to be members of the Church of Jesus Christ

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Speaker 2: of Latter day Saints, were taken into custody at Hildebrant's

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Speaker 2: home in Ivan's acquaint Saint George neighborhood last August. Other

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Speaker 2: Mormon parenting bloggers have criticized the women for their behavior,

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Speaker 2: claiming that they misrepresented the church and their community.

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Speaker 3: In the months following his wife's imprisonment, Kevin Frankie has

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Speaker 3: filed multiple petitions in an attempt to reclaim custody of

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Speaker 3: his four minor children, who were placed under state custody.

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Speaker 3: A judge in Delaware has sentenced a woman found guilty

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Speaker 3: of abusing her two step sons with the knowledge and

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Speaker 3: assistance of their father, to one hundred six years in prison.

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Speaker 3: The judge described the torture as quote the most extensive

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Speaker 3: and persistent evil he had ever witnessed. Forty six year

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Speaker 3: old Mary Benson entered a guilty plea to thirty felony

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Speaker 3: counts last year, which included kidnapping, child abuse, strangling, and

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Speaker 3: reckless endangerment among the sentences. She could have received a

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Speaker 3: minimum of thirty years and a maximum of four hundred

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Speaker 3: forty four years. Now to South Dakota as a man

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Speaker 3: has been found guilty of manslaughter in the twenty thirteen

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Speaker 3: death of his girlfriend and now handed a ten year

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Speaker 3: prison sentence once again crime online Sydney Sumner in.

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Speaker 2: January, just one day before his trial was scheduled to begin,

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Speaker 2: fifty five year old Richard Schmitz accepted a plea agreement

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Speaker 2: in relation to the death of thirty eight year old

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Speaker 2: Michelle Will, whose severely decomposed body was discovered alongside a

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Speaker 2: road in the Black Hills Mountain Range. According to our

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Speaker 2: friends with the Rapid City Journal, Judge Craig Feifel imposed

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Speaker 2: the maximum penalty. Will and Schmidt slid across the hall

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Speaker 2: from one another in a building in the city of Custer.

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Speaker 2: Investigators say the two checked into a Keystone motel approximately

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Speaker 2: a week before her body was discovered. However, it took

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Speaker 2: eight years before Schmid's was charged with second degree murder

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Speaker 2: in the case. A pathology report from twenty twenty one

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Speaker 2: determined that her cause of death was either homicide or undetermined,

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Speaker 2: which led to his arrest. Her initial autopsy was unable

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Speaker 2: to determine the cause of death. Smitch was questioned by

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Speaker 2: investigators multiple times following Will's murder. After denying any involvement

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Speaker 2: for quite some time, he entered an alford plea to

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Speaker 2: second degree manslaughter on January thirtieth. That was an admission

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Speaker 2: without a clear admission of guilt that the state had

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Speaker 2: sufficient evidence to convict, while arguing that the state's case

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Speaker 2: was weak. Martha Rossiter, the Defense Council, did not deny

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Speaker 2: that Schmidts had lied to investigators.

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Speaker 3: In outlining the imposed sentence, Judge Feifel stated that he

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Speaker 3: took Schmitz's earlier convictions for assaulting against women into consideration

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Speaker 1: Thanks Jean Brady Ortego heads to work on a construction

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Speaker 1: side at the Hailbox Bridge. It spans at Mississippi River

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Brady works installing cameras with three other

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Speaker 1: workers when Hunter, Johnson and Kareem's is truck into the

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Speaker 1: work site, hitting all four men. Three walk away with

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Speaker 1: minor injuries, but Brady is knocked off the bridge into

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Speaker 1: the water. Louisiana police search for days, but no sign

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Speaker 1: of Brady. If you have info on Brady or Tago,

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Speaker 1: now missing three years, called Louisiana State Police five zero

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Speaker 1: four four seven one two seven seven five. For the

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Speaker 1: latest crime in justice news, go to crimeonline dot com

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Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.