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Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update, breaking crime news.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jackie Howard. Is there a serial killer in New England?

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Speaker 1: At least six bodies have been found in just over

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Speaker 1: a month's time, four in Connecticut, one in Massachusetts, and

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Speaker 1: one in Rhode Island. All are within a couple of

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Speaker 1: hours of each other and on the Atlantic Coast. Two

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Speaker 1: bodies were found on March sixth in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: The body of Page fan and thirty five was recovered

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Speaker 1: by the Norwalk Police, scuba team and fire rescue team.

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Speaker 1: She had been reported missing out of West Islip on

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Speaker 1: Long Island. The next day, she was reportedly seen in

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Speaker 1: New Haven. Her clothes and personal items were found on

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Speaker 1: the bank of the Norwalk River. There's little information on

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Speaker 1: the body found in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Unnamed, no information on

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Speaker 1: gender or age. The remains were found by a hunter

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Speaker 1: realizing the bones looked human, authorities were notified. Officials determined

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Speaker 1: the bone was the top half of a human skull

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Speaker 1: and its jaw and nasal area missing. The body of

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Speaker 1: a nun named female forty to sixty years old was

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Speaker 1: recovered inside a suitcase near a cemetery March sixteenth in Groton, Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: Groughton is eighty miles east of Norwalk. The body of

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Speaker 1: Denise Leary, fifty nine, was found March twentieth in new Haven, Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: She went missing last September. The remains were found in

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Speaker 1: a wooded area in an advanced state of decay. New

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Speaker 1: Haven is about fifty miles west of Groughton. Michelle Romano,

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Speaker 1: fifty six, was found March twenty sixth, eight months after

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Speaker 1: she disappeared. Her remains were also found in a wooded

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Speaker 1: area of Foster, Rhode Island. Another unidentified body was found

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Speaker 1: April ninth in killing Lee, Connecticut. So far, police say

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Speaker 1: there is no information connecting these crimes, but public speculation continues.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after.

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Speaker 3: This, I'm Nicole Pardon. A tragic update from Florida State

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Speaker 3: University's Tallahassee campus, where two people have died and six

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Speaker 3: others have been injured following a mass shooting. The alleged shooter,

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Speaker 3: twenty year old student Phoenix Eichner, opened fire near the

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Speaker 3: student union during lunchtime on Thursday. According to authorities, Eichner

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Speaker 3: is the son of a Leon County sheriff's deputy and

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Speaker 3: reportedly used his mother's former service weapon in the attack.

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Speaker 3: Eichner is a political scientist major at FSU. Law enforcement

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Speaker 3: responded swiftly, and officers shot Eichner after he did not

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Speaker 3: follow their commands. Unfortunately, two men who were not students

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Speaker 3: were killed in the shooting. Five others were injured by gunfire,

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Speaker 3: while a sixth individual was hurt while fleeing the scene.

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Speaker 3: The injured victims are currently reported to be in fair

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Speaker 3: condition at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare. Police confirmed that Eichner, who

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Speaker 3: was hospitalized with injuries that are non life threatening, used

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Speaker 3: his mother's former service firearm, which she had retained for

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Speaker 3: personal use after the department transitioned to new equipment. Leon

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Speaker 3: County Sheriff Walter McNeil expressed his sorrow over the incident.

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Speaker 2: This is obviously a heinous crime. Our deepest condolences go

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Speaker 2: out to the FSU family, the families of the students

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Speaker 2: who are here, and we understand that you all have

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Speaker 2: been devastated because of this person's actions. The question as

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Speaker 2: relates to who is a shooter. The shooter is twenty

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Speaker 2: year old Phoenix Eckner Eichner, and he's a son of

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Speaker 2: a Land County sheriff Deputy. Our Deputy Deputy Eichner has

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Speaker 2: been with the LeAnn County Sheriff's Office for over eighteen years.

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Speaker 2: She has a tremendous job that she's done. Her service

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Speaker 2: to this community has been exceptional. Unfortunately, her son had

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Speaker 2: access to one of her weapons and that was one

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Speaker 2: of the weapons. That's what's found at the scene.

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Speaker 3: No motive on the shooting has been given at this time,

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Speaker 3: but the investigation is certainly ongoing.

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Speaker 4: I'm Drew Nelson. An eighty year old man in South

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Speaker 4: Carolina opens fire inside a neighbor's home, killing an eleven

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Speaker 4: year old girl that admits to killing his wife earlier

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Speaker 4: that same night. Wednesday night, deputies rushed to Floyd Drive

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Speaker 4: in Sumter County after reports of gunfire. They found a

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Speaker 4: child shot dead and an elderly man, Reuben Arthur Leonard,

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Speaker 4: being held down by the girl's family members. The child

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Speaker 4: was later identified as Ashley McFarlane, a fifth grade student

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Speaker 4: at Kingsbury Elementary School. She was shot in the front

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Speaker 4: room and died instantly.

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Speaker 2: I was in shock last night, in shock.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't believe it. A neighbor of the victims, speaking

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Speaker 4: to WIS Chief Deputy Hampton Gardner says Leonard used an

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Speaker 4: assault rifle and fired at everyone he saw and.

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Speaker 3: For vote sinceless something like this should never occur.

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Speaker 4: About ten people were inside the home. Leonard had walked

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Speaker 4: roughly one hundred yards through the woods from his own house.

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Speaker 4: He had long complained about target shooting in the backyard

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Speaker 4: of the Floyd Drive home. Deputies had responded several times.

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Speaker 4: Days earlier, Leonyard had been charged with breach of peace

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Speaker 4: for an argument at that address.

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Speaker 3: Nowhere near his yard.

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Speaker 2: Again, He's through a wood line on another street, so

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Speaker 2: he'd been going over and talking to them about the shooting.

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Speaker 4: Although the shooting practice was legal, Leonard threatened to end

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Speaker 4: it quote one way or another. On Wednesday, just hours

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Speaker 4: before the killings, the sheriff had warned Leonard to call

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Speaker 4: law enforcement instead of taking matters into his own hands.

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Speaker 4: After his arrest, Leonard told deputies he had already killed

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Speaker 4: his wife. Officers checked his home on Saltwood Road. They

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Speaker 4: found seventy six year old Felicia Leonard shot to death

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Speaker 3: He did not deserve to neither one of them.

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Speaker 4: He was a sick man, and we kept trying to

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Speaker 4: tell him he needed help. Gardner said Leonard had both

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Speaker 4: an ar style rifle and a handgun. He was injured

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Speaker 4: during the incident and is still in the hospital. When

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Speaker 4: jail facing two murder charges.

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Speaker 5: I'm Jennifer Gould. A Long Island family's home became a

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Speaker 5: scene of unimaginable horror when a seemingly ordinary punishment over

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Speaker 5: a computer allegedly triggers a brutal and deadly attack. A

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Speaker 5: fifteen year old boy, enraged after his mom and grandmother

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Speaker 5: discussed taking away his beloved computer as a consequence for

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Speaker 5: missing school, unleashed a violent fury that left his grandmother

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Speaker 5: to escape the teen's rage, authority say. Defense attorney Pete

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Speaker 5: Meyer spoke to the media at the courthouse.

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Speaker 3: There's a fifteen year old child here, okay, and he

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Speaker 3: is presumed innocent.

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Speaker 4: We have a presumption of innocence in America.

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Speaker 5: The deadly confrontation erupted on the night of April seventh

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Speaker 5: in the family's Selden residence. According to the Suffolk County

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Speaker 5: District Attorney's office, the thirty six year old mom, Vanessa Chandemi,

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Speaker 5: had confronted her son about skipping classes, a disciplinary measure

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Speaker 5: that her fifty six year old mom, Concetta Chandemi supported,

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Speaker 5: but the mere suggestion of taking away his device allegedly

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Speaker 5: sent the fifteen year old into a murderous tantrump. The irighteen,

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Speaker 5: whose identity has not been released due to his age,

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Speaker 5: reportedly grabbed a knife and first turned his rage on

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Speaker 5: his granny, stabbing her multiple times. He then allegedly turned

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Speaker 5: the weapon on his own mom. According to the DIA's office,

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Speaker 5: after being stabbed, Vanessa Chandemi fell to the ground, instinctively

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Speaker 5: playing dead in a desperate attempt to survive the onslaught. Undeterred,

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Speaker 5: the still armed teen allegedly continued his vicious assault on

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Speaker 5: his grandmother, stabbing her more than thirty five life times

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Speaker 5: in total before fleeing the scene. Neighbor DJ Cortes spoke

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Speaker 5: to CBS New York, could.

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Speaker 3: You possibly heard your grandmother and your mother like that?

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Speaker 3: Like obviously, I'm assuming he just wasn't in the right

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Speaker 5: Miraculously, the injured mom managed to stumble outside her home

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Speaker 5: and flag down a passing driver. That good samaritan allowed

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Speaker 5: her inside their car and called nine one one. When

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Speaker 5: police arrived at the Old Town Road residence, they found

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Speaker 5: the lifeless body of Conchitah riddled with multiple stab wounds.

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Speaker 5: Vanessa was rushed to a local hospital, where she continues

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Speaker 5: to recover from the injuries she sustained in that brutal attack.

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Speaker 5: The fifteen year old boy was caught later that night

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Speaker 5: and charged with second degree murder and attempted second degree murder.

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Speaker 5: He was arraigned before a judge and ordered to be

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Speaker 5: held without bail as the legal proceedings unfold. If convicted,

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Speaker 5: the teen could face a sentence of fifteen years to

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Speaker 5: life behind bars. The teen is due in court on

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Speaker 5: May twenty first. For the latest crime and justice news,

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Speaker 4: How