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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.

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Speaker 1: A Delaware mom's sickening lie ignited a desperate nationwide Amber

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Speaker 1: alert for her missing three year old daughter, only for

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Speaker 1: police to then drop a bombshell. The very mom who

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Speaker 1: spun a tale of gunpoint abduction is now accused of

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Speaker 1: brutally murdering her own toddler. This shocking betrayal also implicates

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Speaker 1: her boyfriend in a grim cover up. Here's Elena Russo,

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Speaker 1: a spokesperson for the Maryland State Police Department, at the

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Speaker 1: news conference. This is a tragic incident and for everybody

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Speaker 1: involved the Marylyn staplie. All the investigators are working tirelessly

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Speaker 1: to resolve what happened here and why it happened. So

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Speaker 1: our hearts go out to the community and to all

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Speaker 1: those of all. Darien Randall, thirty one, was arrested in

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Speaker 1: Maryland and charged with first and second degree murder, plus

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Speaker 1: first degree child abuse resulting in the death of a

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Speaker 1: minor under thirteen, and other related criminal charges. Her boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: Cedric Britten, forty four, of Northeast Maryland, was also nabbed,

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Speaker 1: facing charges as an accessory to first and second degree

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Speaker 1: murder after the fact and failure to report child death

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Speaker 1: betwisted two day saga began when Randall called Newcastle County

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Speaker 1: Police in Newark, Delaware. She spun a harrowing tale, claiming

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Speaker 1: she had pulled over to comfort her three year old daughter,

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Speaker 1: Nola Dinkins, when a terrifying encounter unfolded. Randal alleged a

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Speaker 1: white man armed with a handgun approached and snatched the child,

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Speaker 1: then fled in an older model black or dark colored

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Speaker 1: suv driven by a blonde, white woman believed to be

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Speaker 1: an accomplice. Officials immediately issued and Amber alert for Nola,

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Speaker 1: triggering a massive overnight manhunt across multiple states, but investigators

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Speaker 1: quickly found Randall's elaborate story just didn't add up. Inconsistencies

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Speaker 1: in her account ultimately determined her initial report was a lie.

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Speaker 1: This prompted the cancelation of the Amber alert, and the

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Speaker 1: case was grimly reclassified as a homicide investigation. Police then

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Speaker 1: honed in on Randall's last known address in northeast Maryland,

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Speaker 1: where they made contact with Britain. Further investigation and questioning

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Speaker 1: led them to a vacant lot nearby. There. Maryland State

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Speaker 1: Police Homicide unit investigators made a horrifying discovery human remains

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Speaker 1: consistent with that of a young child. While official positive

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Speaker 1: identification awaits autopsy results from the Office of the Chief

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Speaker 1: Medical Examiner in Baltimore, authorities believe the remains are those

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Speaker 1: of little Nola Dinkins. The cause and manner of death

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Speaker 1: are also pending. In a shocking admission to police, Randall

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Speaker 1: allegedly confessed to fabricating the entire abduction story to quote

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Speaker 1: divert attention from her boyfriend end quote. She also reportedly

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Speaker 1: admitted to beating her daughter to death with a belt

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Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty times, and then stuffing her daughter's body

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Speaker 1: in a blue suitcase and leaving it at the park.

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Speaker 1: Randall now faces a long list of charges, including filing

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Speaker 1: a false police report. In Delaware. She is being held

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Speaker 1: on a one million dollar bond awaiting extradition to Maryland, Britain.

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Speaker 1: Is currently in police custody in Maryland for crime and

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Speaker 1: justice news after this, a grandmother in Oklahoma stands accused

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Speaker 1: of turning her grandchildren's home into a living hell, allegedly

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Speaker 1: drugging the vulnerable kids and locking them in a dog

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Speaker 1: cage like animals. Divina Marx fifty three, was busted in

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Speaker 1: war Acres after after a year long investigation unearthed her

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Speaker 1: alleged reign of terror. These neighbors, who did not want

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Speaker 1: to be identified, said they weren't surprised and spoke to

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Speaker 1: News nine lots of cursing, lots of screaming, and degrading them.

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Speaker 1: Court records paint a grim picture. Marx, who gained custody

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Speaker 1: of her eight and ten year old grandchildren after their

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Speaker 1: father died in a twenty twenty two road rage incident,

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Speaker 1: allegedly subjected them to unspeakable cruelty. The horrifying truth began

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Speaker 1: to unravel in March of twenty twenty four, when a

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Speaker 1: social worker and police arrived at Marx's home on a

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Speaker 1: child abuse tip. The eight year old granddaughter bravely texted

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Speaker 1: the social worker during the visit, calling Mark's quote abusive

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Speaker 1: and mean. End quote outside, the child dropped a bombshell.

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Speaker 1: Marx allegedly gave them powerful antipsychotic drugs and locked them

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Speaker 1: in a dog cage whenever she left the house. The

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Speaker 1: confirming he was given sarah Quell, a sleep inducing drug

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Speaker 1: prescribed to Marx herself. A blood test later confirmed that

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Speaker 1: drug in his system. At a children's safe clinic, the

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Speaker 1: siblings detailed even more torment, forced exhausting exercise, and brutal

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Speaker 1: physical punishment. A doctor found bruising on the granddaughter's neck

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Speaker 1: and back consistent with being struck by a belt. The

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Speaker 1: children were swiftly removed from Marx's care and are now

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Speaker 1: under child welfare supervision. Marx now faces one count each

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Speaker 1: of child abuse and neglect. She remains locked up at

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Speaker 1: the Oklahoma County Detention Center. And finally, hold your horses,

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Speaker 1: or should we say hold your raccoons? A Kentucky man

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Speaker 1: just unleashed pure pandemonium in a bar after getting tossed,

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Speaker 1: turning happy hour into a furry nightmare. Police A Jonathan Mason, forty,

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Speaker 1: famously known as Cowboy Cody in the area, was booted

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Speaker 1: from the Big Apple Grill. Oh his response, he literally

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Speaker 1: let loose a live raccoon he'd caught earlier in the

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Speaker 1: day into the joint. The trash panda then bit an

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Speaker 1: employee who needed rabies shots for the rabid revenge. Mason

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Speaker 1: then tried to make a clean getaway, but was eventually

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Speaker 1: snagged by cops. This is not his first rodeo either.

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Speaker 1: He previously led police on a Muly wild drunken chase, yeah,

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Speaker 1: using a mule. He's now facing assault and trespassing charges

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Speaker 1: for this insane revenge plot. Talk about a weird tale

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