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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crimes. Now three thirty am.

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Speaker 1: Diego Leva, sixteen, calls nine one one from his New

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Speaker 1: Mexico home. Slurring words, Lava tells the operator he killed

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Speaker 1: his parents and siblings. When cops arrive, Leva stumbles out,

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Speaker 1: hands in the air, clearly drunk inside His parents dad

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Speaker 1: forty two, mom thirty five found dead from gunshot wounds.

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Speaker 1: His twin Adrian, and fourteen year old brother Alexander also dead.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Leva told both the nine one one operator and

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Speaker 2: responding officers that he was quote possessed when he killed

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Speaker 2: his family and never had thoughts of harming them before

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Speaker 2: police found Leva covered in blood and blood in the

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Speaker 2: home led them to the bodies of his parents and brothers.

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Speaker 2: One victim was found in a bathroom. There were meaning

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Speaker 2: three together in a hallway. A pistol found on the

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Speaker 2: kitchen table inside the home is believed to be the

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Speaker 2: murder weapon.

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Speaker 1: Diego Leva, just sixteen, now charged with four counts of murder.

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Speaker 1: A Florida woman and her eleven year old daughter enjoying

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Speaker 1: local Christmas decorations when Abraham Castro approaches, asking the woman

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Speaker 1: to take a photo of him in front of the decorations.

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Speaker 1: The woman counts to three and Castro drops his pants.

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Speaker 1: The woman drops his phone, pulls her daughter away and

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Speaker 1: calls cops. Officer spot Castro riding a bike near the scene.

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Speaker 1: He admits to flashing the mom and daughter, and he's

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Speaker 1: booked on lude and Lassevia's behavior on a child and

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Speaker 1: public in decency. More crime and justice news after this

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Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime

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Speaker 1: on Lines John.

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Speaker 3: Lemley, we begin in Texas and a Harris County courtroom

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Speaker 3: where a judge has now sentenced Gloria Williams to fifty

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Speaker 3: years in prison for the severe abuse and neglect of

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Speaker 3: her children, forcing three of them to live for over

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Speaker 3: a year with the decomposing remains of their eight year

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Speaker 3: old brother, Kendrick Leearities discovered the grim scene in October

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, where the children, alone and malnourished, were

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Speaker 3: surviving in an infested and squalid apartment. Investigators say Kendrick

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Speaker 3: was beaten to death by William's boyfriend, Brian Colter, who

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Speaker 3: was sentenced to life without parole in April, Yet Williams

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Speaker 3: never reported her son's death. Instead, the eldest sibling had

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Speaker 3: just fifteen found the courage to seek help. During sentencing,

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Speaker 3: Williams expressed regret, but prosecutors highlighted her role in the

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Speaker 3: trauma suffered by her children. She had moved to another

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Speaker 3: apartment with colter, abandoning her surviving children in appalling conditions.

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Speaker 3: Since her arrest, Williams has relinquished her parental rights. The

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Speaker 3: two younger siblings have been adopted, while the eldest is

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Speaker 3: now with a foster family. A forty one year old

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Speaker 3: injustice has been overturned in New York, clearing the name

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Speaker 3: of a man who spent nearly eight years in prison

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Speaker 3: for a crime heath. He says he didn't commit crime.

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Speaker 3: Online Sydney Sumner has the details.

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Speaker 2: In a dramatic turn of events, a Westchester County, New

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Speaker 2: York judge has vacated the decades old conviction of sixty

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Speaker 2: seven year old Jeffrey Koontz. Coons was found guilty of

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Speaker 2: armed robbery in nineteen eighty three, but prosecutors now say

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Speaker 2: his conviction was marred by flawed police tactics and unreliable

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Speaker 2: witness testimony. The case stems from a nineteen eighty one

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Speaker 2: robbery at the Vernon Stars rowd and Gun Club in

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Speaker 2: Mount Vernon, where patrons were forced to the ground, robbed

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Speaker 2: and three were injured by shotgun fire. Coons always maintained

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Speaker 2: his innocence, and new evidence suggests he wasn't even there

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Speaker 2: that night. An investigation by the District Attorney's Conviction Review

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Speaker 2: Unit uncovered that police pressured the sole eye witness to

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Speaker 2: identify Coons and use manipulated photo lineups. Alibi witnesses who

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Speaker 2: could have exonerated him, including a retired NYPD detective, were

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Speaker 2: never interviewed. In court, DA Mimi Rocca said the conviction

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Speaker 2: was quote tainted by questionable investigatory practices, and Judge James

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Speaker 2: McCurdy agreed, citing the weak evidence and improper procedures. However,

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Speaker 2: the judge declined to make findings of police misconduct, calling

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Speaker 2: them speculative. Jeffrey Coons thanked the court for what he

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Speaker 2: called vindication for himself and his family.

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Speaker 3: Among Jeffrey Konz's children is NFL player Malcolm Coons, who

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Speaker 3: was drafted by the Raiders in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John Tiffany went in twenty six shops of their

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Speaker 1: boyfriend at Marietta, Georgia Walmart in the early morning hours.

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Speaker 1: After checking out, employees stopped the couple to check their

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Speaker 1: receipts and Whitten runs out, leaving the cart behind. The

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Speaker 1: boyfriend finds her shoes and purse in the parking lot.

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Speaker 1: She used to work at an ihop across the street,

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Speaker 1: so he stops in. No trace of Tiffany. She usually

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Speaker 1: is active on social but no posts after running away,

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Speaker 1: leaving behind a six year old daughter. Tiffany Witten five three,

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Speaker 1: one hundred five pounds, blonde hair, green eyes, several small

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Speaker 1: including Chinese symbols on the left wrist and a butterfly

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Speaker 1: on our hip. Last scene wearing a cream V neck

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Speaker 1: T shirt, dark blue jeans, a dark colored headband. If

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Speaker 1: you have info on Tiffany Witten, call Marietta, Georgia PD

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Speaker 1: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,

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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace