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Speaker 1: Crime a Lord hourly update Breaking crime News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Dave Mack. A body matching the description of a Michigan

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Speaker 1: pregnant missing woman, Rebecca K. Park was discovered Tuesday, November

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth, and shortly after her fiance and younger sister

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Speaker 1: are arrested. Rebecca twenty two, has not been seen since

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Speaker 1: just before midnight November three, and a massive search effort

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Speaker 1: has been underway to locate her, with family members appearing

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Speaker 1: on local news programs to spread the word. There was

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Speaker 1: an added sense of urgency to the search efforts because

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Speaker 1: Rebecca was thirty eight weeks pregnant at the time she

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Speaker 1: went missing. Rebecca's phone has been found near her mother's house.

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Speaker 1: Her body is found in Manistee National Forest, Michigan State

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Speaker 1: Police saying. Officials declined to say if the remains of

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Speaker 1: a newborn are also discovered, or if the victim was

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Speaker 1: or had been pregnant. Park was due to give birth

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Speaker 1: November eighteen. Among the very vocal family members asking for

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Speaker 1: help locating Rebecca have been her fiance, Richard Faller, and

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Speaker 1: her younger sister, Kimberly Valor suggest in an interview with

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Speaker 1: WWTV the day Rebecca vanishes. An unknown person picks her

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Speaker 1: up from her mother's home and takes her away in

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Speaker 1: a car. Shortly after the discovery of the body, Fowler,

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Speaker 1: forty three, is booked into custody at the Wexford County

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Speaker 1: Jail around seven thirty pm, according to custody records obtained

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Speaker 1: by People. A few hours later, shortly after midnight on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: November twenty sixth, Kimberly Park, twenty one, is also booked

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Speaker 1: into the same jail. The reasons for the arrest have

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Speaker 1: not been disclosed, and it is not clear whether they

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Speaker 1: relate to Rebecca Park's case. There are no charges listed

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Speaker 1: for either Fowler or Kimberly at this time. Dwickford County

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Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office declined to comment further offending an autopsy.

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Speaker 2: I'm nicole Parton. Authorities alleged that a Virginia assistant principal

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Speaker 2: and his brother were recently overheard discussing plans to harm

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Speaker 2: immigration officers, though their legal representatives dispute the validity of

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Speaker 2: these claims. Federal investigations into John Wilson Bennett and Mark

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Speaker 2: Mark Booth Bennett began on November seventeen, following an off

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Speaker 2: duty police officer in Norfolk, Virginia, who reportedly heard them

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Speaker 2: planning to quote kill police officers and ICE agents, according

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Speaker 2: to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. Allegedly,

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Speaker 2: Mark Bennett also expressed intentions to meet with quote like

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Speaker 2: minded people in Las Vegas to purchase firearms, including ammunition

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Speaker 2: designed for explosive impact, to execute their plans. On November nineteen,

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Speaker 2: Mark Bennett was arrested at Norfolk International Airport, where he

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Speaker 2: was preparing to travel to Las Vegas, with a layover

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Speaker 2: in Charlotte, North Carolina. His brother, John, who serves as

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Speaker 2: the assistant principal at Kempsville High School, was arrested the

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Speaker 2: same day in Virginia Beach. It is alarming that someone,

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Speaker 2: especially an educator, would consider plotting to kill and attack

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Speaker 2: law enforcement officers and ICE agents discussing how to acquire

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Speaker 2: high caliber rifle capable of penetrating bullet proof vests, remarked

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Speaker 2: Assistant Secretary Trisha mcglothin with DHS. Both brothers are facing

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Speaker 2: charges of conspiracy to commit malicious wounding. It remains unclear

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Speaker 2: whether they have entered a plea. Their defense team has

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Speaker 2: contended that the conversations were hearsay and that both brothers

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Speaker 2: do not pose a threat to the community, as reported

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Speaker 2: by the Associated Press, Their attorneys also claim that Mark

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Speaker 2: was traveling to Vegas to attend a Formula one race,

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Speaker 2: not to acquire weapons. The brothers have been placed under

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Speaker 2: house arrest until their pre trial.

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Speaker 3: I'm Drew Nelson, a Utah father sits in jail without

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Speaker 3: bail after prosecutors charge him with child torture and abuse

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Speaker 3: tied to a dangerous mountain hike that nearly killed as

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Speaker 3: three children. Micah Smith was charged in Salt Lake County

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Speaker 3: with three counts of child torture and three counts of

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Speaker 3: without bail to rescue folks.

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Speaker 4: For them, this hike was a hard hike. This is

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Speaker 4: not an easy height. This is a one that even

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Speaker 4: has strained and professional today suffered injury trying to respond

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Speaker 3: District Attorney sim Gill adds that as conditions worsened, the

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Speaker 3: eight year old was taught CPR.

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Speaker 4: Hard to say for her brother and also to continue

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Speaker 3: On The case began October eleventh, a hike in Big

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Speaker 3: Cottonwood Canyon. Smith took his three children onto the Broad's

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Speaker 3: Fork trail. The children ages two, four, and eight. Investigators

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Speaker 3: the group climbed thousands of feet up the mountain a

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Speaker 3: storm moved in snow, hail, and rain. Family members reported

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Speaker 3: teams were sent into the canyon on October twelfth. Cruise

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Speaker 3: later found Smith on the trail. Rescuers said he was

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Speaker 3: suffered head trauma. One had stopped breathing. When rescuers reached

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Speaker 3: appeared lifeless. First responders could not detect a pulse. Cruise

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Speaker 3: performed about twenty minutes of CPR, rushing him to the hospital.

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Speaker 3: Doctors recorded his body temperature at sixty two point six

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Speaker 3: degrees He later suffered a stroke. Part of his skull

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Speaker 3: had to be removed, and a drain was surgically inserted.

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Speaker 3: The four year old remains hospitalized. The eight year old

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Speaker 3: worsened throughout the night. Video from Smith's phone captured one

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Speaker 3: Investigators also reviewed messages Smith exchanged with his wife. She

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Speaker 3: Smith still continued upward, charging document state. Smith later admitted

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Speaker 3: with him. About one month before the hike, Smith expressed

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Speaker 3: in his vehicle. Smith denied he planned to hurt himself.

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Speaker 3: On November tenth, weeks after the rescue, Smith was thrown

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Speaker 4: The defendant was trespassed from Primary Children's Hospital for interfering

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Speaker 4: with one of his child's care and tapering.

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Speaker 3: Without equipment, referring to the four year old boy. After

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Speaker 3: that incident, he was arrested for domestic violence. Details of

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Speaker 3: Gilsays the children are now receiving proper medical care. Child

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Speaker 3: Protective Services is involved. The investigation remains active as Smith

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Speaker 3: awaits further court proceedings.

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Speaker 1: In Salt Lake County, the revs. Hernandez case has taken

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Speaker 1: another turn, forcing police to finally provide some new information

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Speaker 1: to a case that has been creating headlines for months,

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Speaker 1: with LAPD remaining mostly silent. The story began when the

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Speaker 1: body of missing teen Celesterevas Hernandez was found decomposing in

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Speaker 1: the front of an abandoned Tesla registered to Singer D

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Speaker 1: four VD David real name David Anthony Burke in September.

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Speaker 1: Since the discovery of the body, the LAPD has remained

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Speaker 1: TMZ dot com and local news outlets. Recent reports from

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Speaker 1: an anonymous source tied closely to the investigation claims the

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Speaker 1: body was frozen and decapitate. Found That leaked information causes

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Speaker 1: LAPD Captain and commanding Officer of Robbery Homicide Division, Scott

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Speaker 1: Williams to provide an update, saying Celest's body was not

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Speaker 1: as to say, quote, the whole frozen thing doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 1: Her body was in the car for weeks unquote. While

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Speaker 1: the LAPD remains tight lived about the case, what is

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Speaker 1: known is that the timeline regarding the Tesla containing the

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Speaker 1: body of Celeste was last moved on July twenty ninth.

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Speaker 1: The vehicle was tagged by police and later towed to

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Speaker 1: impound on September fifth. On September eighth, police are called

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Speaker 1: Celeste remains are discovered one day after her fifteenth birthday,

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Speaker 1: leading some news outlets to identify her as being fifteen

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Speaker 1: only fourteen when she died. Celeste Revas Hernandez was reported

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Speaker 1: missing by her parents and like elsono Or, California, on

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Speaker 1: April five, twenty twenty four, when she was just thirteen,

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Speaker 1: Even though there's clear video of it and showing Celeste

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Speaker 1: at her parents' home in September of twenty two, twenty four,

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Speaker 1: was still considered a missing person when her remains were found.

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Speaker 1: The autopsy report for Celeste was listed as deferred while

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Speaker 1: awaiting toxicology and additional tests, but now LAPD Detective Joshua

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Speaker 1: Buyers refers to the case as an ongoing investigation of

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Speaker 1: murder and releasing the medical examiner's findings could endanger the

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Speaker 1: lives of witnesses and or compromise the investigation. Buyer says

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Speaker 1: making the document's public will reveal or tend to reveal

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Speaker 1: the ongoing investigation and the integrity of the investigation, as

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Speaker 1: well as the identity of witnesses and or informants who

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Speaker 1: are cooperating with law enforcement and the content of the

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Speaker 1: information they have provided, which could endanger the lives of

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Speaker 1: witnesses and or compromise the investigation. Los Angeles Superior Court

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Speaker 1: Judge Craig Richmond ordered that all documents related to the

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Speaker 1: court order be sealed until further order of this Court

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Speaker 1: Anthony Burke has been identified as a suspect and Celette's death.

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