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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace of Breaking Crime News Now.

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Speaker 1: Leo Moore and Helly Barbara rent the extra room in

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Speaker 1: Johnny Ross Junior's Texas condo. Days after they move in,

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Speaker 1: neighbors realize they haven't seen Ross and there's a horrible

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Speaker 1: stinch coming from inside. Cops fine Ross's body wrapped in

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Speaker 1: rugs and sheets, stabbed dead. More and Barber, who stole

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Speaker 1: his Mercedes, lead cops on a high speed chase that

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Speaker 1: ends in their arrest Nancy.

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Speaker 2: After the couple's apprehension, Barber admits that they wanted to

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Speaker 2: kill Ross to rob him of his cars and money.

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Speaker 2: Barber says More slip something in Ross's drink than stabbed

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Speaker 2: Ross in the neck when he passed out in the

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Speaker 2: living room. The couple left the condo for the night,

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Speaker 2: but when they returned more than eight hours later, Ross

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Speaker 2: was still alive. Barber asked More to finish off Ross,

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Speaker 2: so Moore stabbed him in the back several more times

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Speaker 2: before the couple wrapped him in the materials and left

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Speaker 2: him to rot.

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Speaker 1: Both now charged with murder. Several LA residents living on

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Speaker 1: the same blot final insurance claims after a bear damages

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Speaker 1: their luck street cars four provide pictures of torn up

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Speaker 1: seats and doors, along with pictures of what looks like

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Speaker 1: a bear in the cars, but insurance investigators uncover surveillance

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Speaker 1: footage that tells a very different story. The video is

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Speaker 1: showing a person in a bear costume getting in each

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Speaker 1: car while owners take photos. Cops find the costume in

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Speaker 1: one of the claimant's homes. The four involved in the

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Speaker 1: game charge with insurance fraud for the bare brain scheme.

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Speaker 1: For a Crime and Justice News after this now with

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Speaker 1: the latest crime and Justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Limley.

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Speaker 3: In New York City, authorities have announced charges against thirty

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Speaker 3: people tied to violent gang rivalries in Upper Manhattan that

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Speaker 3: have left four bystanders dead in the past eighteen months.

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Speaker 3: Police say the violence stems from a cycle of retaliation

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Speaker 3: that began with a twenty eighteen killing, escalating into a

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Speaker 3: wave of shootings, robberies, and other crimes involving three rival

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Speaker 3: groups known as the two hundred eight Block, six Block

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Speaker 3: and Own Every Dollar or OED. Among the recent attacks,

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Speaker 3: a pregnant woman was injured by gunfire while sitting in

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Speaker 3: her car, and a stray bullet struck a bystander on

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Speaker 3: a crowded basketball court. Four other bystanders, aged forty four

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Speaker 3: to sixty six were killed in separate incidents. The indictment

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Speaker 3: reveals that gang members communicated through text and social media,

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Speaker 3: allegedly coordinating violent plans and threatening rivals. In total, authorities

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Speaker 3: linked the groups to eighteen shootings with seven fatalities. The

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Speaker 3: NYPD believes these prosecutions could significantly improve safety in the

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Speaker 3: Inwood and Washington Heights neighborhoods. A computer expert behind one

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Speaker 3: of the largest bitcoin thefts in history has been sentenced

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Speaker 3: to five years in prison. Sidney Sumner of Crime Online

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Speaker 3: Brings US details.

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Speaker 2: Elia Liechtenstein was found guilty of orchestrating the twenty sixteen

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Speaker 2: hack of bitfinex, a Hong Kong based cryptocurrency exchange, where

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Speaker 2: he stole about one hundred and twenty thousand bitcoin, worth

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Speaker 2: about seventy one million dollars at the time and now

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Speaker 2: valued at over seven billion dollars. Alongside his wife, Heather Morgan,

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Speaker 2: Liechtenstein spent years laundering about twenty one percent of the

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Speaker 2: stolen funds through a complex network of accounts and transactions,

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Speaker 2: hiding the trail from authorities. US District Judge Colleen Callerkotelli

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Speaker 2: described the scheme as meticulously planned. In court, Lichtenstein expressed regret,

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Speaker 2: calling it a waste of his talents and saying he

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Speaker 2: hopes to one day apply his skills to fight cybercrime.

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Speaker 2: Authorities say they recovered more than ninety six percent of

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Speaker 2: the stolen funds, with Lichtenstein's cooperation, totaling over six billion

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Speaker 2: dollars at current value. The remaining laundered money had been

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Speaker 2: worth fourteen million dollars in twenty sixteen and would have

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Speaker 2: exceeded one billion dollars when the couple was arrested. In

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 3: Morgan, an entrepreneur and amateur rapper, faced her own charges,

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Speaker 3: but maintains that Litkenstein initially involved her without fully disclosing

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Speaker 3: his actions.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John Isaac Hunt, twenty seven, shares a Saint Michael,

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Speaker 1: North Dakota home with his dad, but on a March afternoon,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't say where he's going. He leaves in the

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Speaker 1: passenger seat of a brown Chevy Tahoe. He doesn't come

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Speaker 1: home that night and calls and text goo unanswered. Next day,

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Speaker 1: family reports him missing. Volunteers on foot and with drones

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Speaker 1: search spirit Late reservation where his phone last pained no sign.

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Speaker 1: Isaac Hunt five nine one eighty, black hair, brown eyes,

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Speaker 1: scar above his lip, pierced ears, tattoos and aces Spade

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Speaker 1: and a Superman symbol on his neck in the names

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Speaker 1: Angelita and Adam on his forearms. Last scene wearing a

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Speaker 1: black jacket over a gray hoodie, dark blue jeans, white sneakers,

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Speaker 1: and a white baseball cap. If you have info on

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Speaker 1: Isaac Hunt, now missing seven months, called Fort Totten, Northcota,

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Speaker 1: PD seven one seven, six, six, four two three one.

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