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Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm John Lemley At this hour. A decade's

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Speaker 1: old mystery remains unsolved in the Heartland, investigators or renewing

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Speaker 1: calls for public assistance. In one of Illinois's most haunting

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Speaker 1: cold cases, the body of Eulalia Lali Chavez, was discovered

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Speaker 1: almost forty years ago in a remote cornfield near Lebanon, Illinois.

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Speaker 1: On September sixth, nineteen eighty six, a farmer found her

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Speaker 1: nude body off Oak Grove School Road, strangled and brutally mutilated.

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Speaker 1: Authorities later learned she had been strangled with her own clothing,

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Speaker 1: and evidence at the scene suggested signs of extreme violence.

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Speaker 1: Her killer cut her pelvic area and attempted to remove

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Speaker 1: her reproductive organs, but no suspect was ever identified. For

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Speaker 1: more than three decades, the case went cold. In two

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Speaker 1: thousand and seven, the victim was finally identified as twenty

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Speaker 1: seven year old Chavez, runaway from pala Alto, California, who

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Speaker 1: had vanished in the mid nineteen seventies while hitchhiking and

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Speaker 1: following music concerts across the country. Despite technological advances in

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Speaker 1: forensic science, including DNA analysis and composite imaging, law enforcement

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Speaker 1: has not charged a suspect. The FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension

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Speaker 1: Program has issued a ViCAP alert seeking information about Chops

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Speaker 1: and anyone connected to her in the months before her death.

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Speaker 1: Authorities are urging anyone with details, no matter how small,

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Speaker 1: to come forward.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime injustice news. Go to

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Speaker 2: crime online dot com and please join us for our

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Speaker 2: daily podcast crime Stories. More crime and justice news after

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Speaker 2: this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news.

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Speaker 2: Crime Online John Limley.

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Speaker 1: Federal authorities have launched a civil rights investorgation into a

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Speaker 1: controversial fatal shooting in Minnesota. The US Department of Justice

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Speaker 1: has announced a federal civil rights probe into the death

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Speaker 1: of Alex Pretti, a thirty seven year old Minneapolis resident

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Speaker 1: and intensive care nurse who was shot and killed by

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Speaker 1: federal immigration officers during a protest earlier this year. The

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Speaker 1: FBI is now leading the inquiry after taking over from

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Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security. Pretti was shot on January

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Speaker 1: twenty fourth while documenting a federal border patrol operation as

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Speaker 1: part of an immigration enforcement initiative. Video footage reviewed by

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Speaker 1: officials showed pretty holding only a cell phone when officers

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Speaker 1: tackled him and later being shot after a firearm for

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Speaker 1: which he held a legal permit was removed from his waistband.

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Speaker 1: Early claims by federal officials that Pretty had attacked officers

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Speaker 1: were contradicted by those videos, which show he did not

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Speaker 1: reach for the weapons. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said

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Speaker 1: investigators are examining all aspects of the encounter, including events

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Speaker 1: leading up to the shooting. The decision to open a

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Speaker 1: civil rights probe stands in contrast to the Justice Department's

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Speaker 1: earlier handling of another recent Minneapolis law enforcement shooting. The

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Speaker 1: case has sparked public outcry and renewed scrutiny of federal

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Speaker 1: use of force in protest policing. In Louisiana, authorities have

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Speaker 1: arrested two teenagers in connection with a weekend shooting that

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Speaker 1: injured multiple people during a community parade. Law enforcement officials

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Speaker 1: save the suspects. Both juveniles were taken into custody following

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Speaker 1: the chaotic incident that left at least one child among

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Speaker 1: the wounded. According to local prosecutors, the shooting occurred in

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Speaker 1: a residential area where families had gathered to watch a

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Speaker 1: festive procession. Police have not yet released the names of

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Speaker 1: those arrested due to their age. In Investigators report that

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Speaker 1: several of the victims were struck by gunfire, and at

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Speaker 1: least one child was hospitalized with non life threatening injuries.

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Speaker 1: Authorities have charged the suspects with multiple counts related to

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Speaker 1: aggravated assault and unlawful discharge of a firearm. Officials are

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Speaker 1: urging anyone with information about the incident to contact local

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Speaker 1: law enforcement as the investigation continues. And finally, also from Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: all eight inmates who escaped from a parish jail last

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Speaker 1: week have now been captured. Authorities confirmed that the group

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Speaker 1: broke out of the facility under unclear circumstances, prompting an

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Speaker 1: immediate manhunt that extended across multiple parishes. Local, state, and

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Speaker 1: federal law enforcement agencies worked around the clock to track

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Speaker 1: down the fugitives. Over the course of the search, officers

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Speaker 1: apprehended all escapees without any reported injuries to residents or

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Speaker 1: responding personnel. Well. Those captured are now back in custody,

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Speaker 1: and parish officials say they will face additional charges related

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Speaker 1: to the escape itself, along with any outstanding warrants they

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Speaker 1: may have had prior to fleeing. The Sheriff's Department announced

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Speaker 1: a review of the facility's security measures to prevent similar

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Speaker 1: incidents in the future.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime in justice needs. Go

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Speaker 2: to crime online dot com and please join us for

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Speaker 2: our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our best

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Speaker 2: to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.

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Speaker 2: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.