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Speaker 1: Crime alert, I mean see grace breaking crimes Now. Reginald McLaren,

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Speaker 1: eighty one calls Colorado cops to report his wife and

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Speaker 1: adult daughter have been murdered. Cops find the women's bodies

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Speaker 1: in two trash cans inside the home, one dismembered. McLaren

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Speaker 1: then admits he killed them as an act of quote mercy,

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Speaker 1: because the family faced eviction. Crime onlines John Lemley. Nancy McLaren,

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Speaker 1: who had recently lost his job, knew quote what a

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Speaker 1: miserable life they would have had if they lost their home,

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Speaker 1: so he killed his family, knowing they are quote in

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Speaker 1: a better place. McLaren's wife, Bethany, and daughter Ruth were

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Speaker 1: both attacked with an axe. Cops also located a hacksaw

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Speaker 1: used in the dismemberment. McLaren now charged with two counts

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Speaker 1: of murder and abuse of a corpse. Have you heard

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Speaker 1: of swatting? It's when a person makes a false nine

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Speaker 1: one one call in order to get an armed response

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Speaker 1: from police at an innocent person's home. Ashton Garcia makes

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Speaker 1: multiple such calls, reporting threats or even major crimes. Garcia

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Speaker 1: records the calls, then post them to discord as quote entertainment.

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Speaker 1: Garcia is accused of making more than twenty of these

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Speaker 1: calls in a bid to extort victims for money, sexual photos,

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Speaker 1: or their credit card information. Law enforcement entered victims homes

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Speaker 1: with guns drawn on several occasions, but thankfully, Nancy, no

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Speaker 1: one was hurt. Garcia twenty now facing ten felony counts

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Speaker 1: of threat, hoax and extortion. More Crime in Justice news

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Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime in Justice breaking

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Speaker 1: news Crime Onlines. John Lemley, a man with a hatchet

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Speaker 1: jumped over a wall and invaded a daycare center in Brazil,

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Speaker 1: killing four children and wounding at least five others. The

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Speaker 1: assailant turned himself in at a police station and did

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Speaker 1: not appear to have any connection with the center, which

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Speaker 1: offers nursery, serve, preschool education, and after school activities. The

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Speaker 1: dead were between the ages of five and seven. A

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Speaker 1: police detective says authorities are still searching for a motive

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Speaker 1: for the attack, which took place in Bluemenow, a city

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Speaker 1: in southern Brazil near the Atlantic coast. Images broadcast on

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Speaker 1: network showed weeping parents outside the private daycare. According to

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Speaker 1: the local affiliate of television network Globo, the attack took

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Speaker 1: place on the center's playground. The TV station showed a

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Speaker 1: photo of the suspect with a closely shaved head. Police

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Speaker 1: have yet to confirm his identity. Bluemenow's mayor suspended classes

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Speaker 1: and said he will declare a thirty day morning period.

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Speaker 1: The state government said in the statement that rumors circulating

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Speaker 1: on social media of other potential attacks were false. Back

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Speaker 1: in this country now, a fifth suspect has been arrested

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Speaker 1: in a March fourth mass shooting at a sixteenth birthday

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Speaker 1: party in suburban Atlanta, an attack that killed two teens

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Speaker 1: and wounded seven others. For more, we turned to Sidney

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Speaker 1: Sumner with Crime Online to kell Marquise Beverly Smart, a

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Speaker 1: twenty one year old resident of Dallas, Georgia, was arrested

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Speaker 1: in connection with the shooting at a house in the

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Speaker 1: city of Douglasville. In addition to two counts of murder,

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Speaker 1: Beverly Smart is facing forty counts of participating in gang activity,

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Speaker 1: nine counts each of aggravated assault and aggravated battery, and

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Speaker 1: twenty counts of being a party to a crime. Beverly Smart,

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Speaker 1: like the four other suspects arrested so far, was denied bail.

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Speaker 1: Arrested earlier were three seventeen year olds and one eighteen

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Speaker 1: year old. They all face murder and gang charges, while

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Speaker 1: two also face aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and gun charges.

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Speaker 1: The Sheriff's office didn't detail Beverly Smart's alleged role in

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Speaker 1: the killings or say who is believed to have fired

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Speaker 1: the guns. The two victims in the shooting have been

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Speaker 1: identified as fifteen year old Samuel Moon and fourteen year

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Speaker 1: old A John ye Hill. The Justice Department says it

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Speaker 1: has tentatively settled a lawsuit over the twenty seventeen mass

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Speaker 1: shooting at a Texas church that will pay victims and

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Speaker 1: their families more than one hundred forty four million dollars.

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Speaker 1: More than two dozen people were killed when Devin Patrick

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Speaker 1: Kelly opened fire during a Sunday service at First Baptist

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Speaker 1: Church of Sutherland Springs. Kelly, who died of an apparent

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Speaker 1: self inflicted gunshot wound after he was shot and chased

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Speaker 1: by two men who heard the gunfire at the church,

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Speaker 1: had served in the Air Force prior to the attack.

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Speaker 1: Authorities put the official death toll at twenty six because

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Speaker 1: one of the twenty five killed was pregnant. US District

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Speaker 1: Judge Xavier Rodriguez had previously ruled that the Air Force

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Speaker 1: was quote sixty percent liable for the attack because it

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Speaker 1: failed to submit Kelly's assault conviction during his time in

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Speaker 1: the Air Force to a national database. The Justice Department

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Speaker 1: says the settlement is still subject to court approvals. A

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Speaker 1: Nebraska judge has rejected a challenge to the death penalty

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Speaker 1: and the case of a man charged in the killings

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Speaker 1: of four people last summer in a small town in

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Speaker 1: the northeastern corner of the state once again Crime Online's

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Speaker 1: Sydney Sumner. Judge Bryan Meismer said in a ruling that

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Speaker 1: the lawyers representing forty two year old Jason Jones didn't

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Speaker 1: prove that Nebraska's death penalty law is unconstitutional, and it's

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Speaker 1: too soon to determine if that penalty is appropriate in

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Speaker 1: this case because it is still early in the process.

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Speaker 1: Jones has yet to officially enter a plea in the case.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutors said in January that they intend to seek the

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Speaker 1: death penalty in this case because the killings were done

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Speaker 1: at the same time other felonies were committed, and at

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Speaker 1: least two of the killings were carried out to conceal

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Speaker 1: the other two plus. Prosecutor said Jones set fire to

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Speaker 1: the victim's homes in an effort to help conceal his identity.

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Speaker 1: Jones is charged with arson, weapons counts and four counts

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Speaker 1: of first degree murder and the August killings of an

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Speaker 1: elderly couple, their daughter, and a neighbor. Jones is being

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Speaker 1: held without bond. He is now scheduled to appear in

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Speaker 1: court May twenty second. A Utah mom takes her two

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Speaker 1: children out for dinner, but says she doesn't feel okay

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Speaker 1: and she sure doesn't act okay. The mom pulls the

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Speaker 1: car over, strips naked, and walks off. Forgiving her children

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Speaker 1: her oldest child, a daughter, follows barefoot. The woman bangs

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Speaker 1: on doors, Cops are called, the children are taken to

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Speaker 1: the hospital. The mom, who is high on meth, now

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Speaker 1: charged with child endangerment, abandonment, lewdness, and public drunk. Thanks

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Speaker 1: Mommy for the way this crime in justice news. Go

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Speaker 1: to crime online dot com with this crime alert. I'm

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace