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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update Breaking crime News Now. I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: In Virginia authority say forty six year old Travis Turner,

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Speaker 1: head coach of the Union High School Bears in Big

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Speaker 1: Stone Gap, disappeared last Thursday. Turner, who stands six three

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Speaker 1: in weighs about two hundred and sixty pounds, was last

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Speaker 1: seen in Wise County wearing a gray sweatshirt, sweatpants, and glasses.

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Speaker 1: Search teams using dogs and drones focused efforts Monday around

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Speaker 1: the town of Appalachia, where Turner lives. State police say

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Speaker 1: agents visited his home Thursday as part of an investigation,

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Speaker 1: but stress the visit was not for an arrest. While

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Speaker 1: en route, they learned Turner was no longer at the location.

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Speaker 1: Turner's disappearance comes as his undefeated team advances to the

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Speaker 1: Class two playoffs. Union now twelve and zero will face

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Speaker 1: Ridgeview in the regional final on Saturday, with the winner

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Speaker 1: moving on to the eight semi finals on December six.

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Speaker 1: Wise County School's confirmed Turner is on paid administrative leave

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Speaker 1: while an external agency reviews an allegation. Officials emphasize this

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Speaker 1: is standard procedure and not a determination of any wrongdoing.

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Speaker 1: Anyone with information on Travis Turner's whereabouts has urged to

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Speaker 1: contact the Virginia State Police immediately or Crime and Justice

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Speaker 1: News After this, A fifty one year old woman from

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Speaker 1: West Virginia could spend the rest of her life in

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Speaker 1: prison due to her involvement in the starvation and neglect

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Speaker 1: of her fourteen year old daughter. Authorities discovered the girl

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Speaker 1: in an emaciated and skeletal state last year, days after

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Speaker 1: her death inside their home. Julie N. Miller appeared in

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Speaker 1: Boone County Circuit Court on Friday, where she entered a

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Speaker 1: guilty plea to one count of child death by a

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Speaker 1: parent in relation to the death of her daughter, Kennedy Miller.

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Speaker 1: Miller was first arrested in April eighteen. Phase three two one.

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Speaker 1: Miller was first arrested on April eighteen, facing charges of

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Speaker 1: murder by a parent for failing to provide essential needs

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Speaker 1: along with child neglect resulting in death. Initially pleading not guilty,

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Speaker 1: her trial was set to start on December two. However,

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Speaker 1: her lawyer later reached a plea deal with prosecutors. Miller's mother,

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Speaker 1: Donna Stone, and stepfather Jerry were arrested in May and

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Speaker 1: charged with similar offenses. After a mental health evaluation mandated

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Speaker 1: by the court, a judge ruled in September that Jerry

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Speaker 1: was unfit to stand trial. Donna is scheduled for trial

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Speaker 1: on the murder charges and neglect charges. In February, as

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Speaker 1: previously reported, deputies from the Boone County Sheriff's Office and

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Speaker 1: emergency medical staff responded to a report of a juvenile

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Speaker 1: girl in cardiac arrests at a residence in Morrisville, located

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Speaker 1: about thirty miles southwest of Charleston. Kennedy lived in the

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Speaker 1: home with her mother and grandparents. Upon arrival, first responders

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Speaker 1: discovered the teen's lifeless body in one of the homes bathrooms,

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Speaker 1: lying motionless on a foam pad in the floor. She

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Speaker 1: was pronounced dead at the scene. During an August twenty

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Speaker 1: four court hearing, Boone County prosecuting attorney Dan Holstein revealed

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Speaker 1: that Kennedy had been in the same location for four

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Speaker 1: to five days before her death. The Sheriff's office described

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Speaker 1: the victim's conditions as shocking, noting her extreme emaciation and

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Speaker 1: skeletal appearance. In a police interview, Donna reportedly admitted that

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Speaker 1: Kennedy had not attended school for about four to five years.

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Speaker 1: Authorities noted that the grandmother claimed Kennedy had left the

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Speaker 1: house only twice in five years. Investigators stated that Miller

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Speaker 1: had begun homeschooling her daughter in February twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: allegedly for medical reasons. An email attained by WCCHS indicated

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Speaker 1: that Miller expressed concerns about Kennedy contracting COVID nineteen while

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Speaker 1: living with her elderly grandparents, so the mother chose to

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Speaker 1: keep her daughter home. Additionally, donnas Stone mentioned that Kennedy

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Speaker 1: had an eating disorder and had been unable to care

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Speaker 1: for herself for several days prior to her death. The

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Speaker 1: grandmother also indicated that Kennedy had not seen a doctor

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Speaker 1: in about five years. Following the plea hearing, attorney's express

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Speaker 1: satisfaction that Miller had admitted her guilt, prosecutor stated Miller

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Speaker 1: didn't challenge the important facts of the case. She knew

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Speaker 1: that her child needed that care that she deliberately withheld.

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Speaker 1: He added, we'll see at the sentencing hearing what her

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Speaker 1: attitude remains. Miller is set to return to court for

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Speaker 1: that sentencing in February, where she could face a prison

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Speaker 1: term of fifteen years to life and she will be

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Speaker 1: required to read register on the Child Abuse and Neglect Registry.

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