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

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Speaker 1: Silvanni Chilling. New details have emerged in the terrifying disappearance

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Speaker 1: of Nancy Guthrie as investigators examine a ransom note sent

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Speaker 1: to her family. Eighty four year old Nancy has been

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Speaker 1: missing from her Tucson home since January thirty first, after

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Speaker 1: being reported missing February first. Authorities believe a masked man

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Speaker 1: abducted her after surveillance video captured him tampering with her

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Speaker 1: doorbell camera. Speaking on the Crime Junkie podcast, crime journalist

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Speaker 1: Brianna Whitney revealed the alarming contents of the first ransom

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Speaker 1: note received by her daughter. NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Savannah, we have your mother Nancy. She is safe

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Speaker 2: but scared. She will be held for ransom and once

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Speaker 2: payment is received, she will be released unharmed. We will

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Speaker 2: be holding her for a maximum of seven days.

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Speaker 1: Whitney explained that the note demands millions of dollars in

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Speaker 1: US currency and set two strict payment deadlines. Sources previously

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Speaker 1: disclose the kidnapper initially demanded four million dollars in bitcoin

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Speaker 1: due by Thursday, February fifth, warning that if unpaid, the

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Speaker 1: demand would increase to six million dollars by Monday, February ninth.

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Speaker 1: The note promised Nancy would be released to a safe

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Speaker 1: drop off location in Tucson within twelve hours of payment.

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Speaker 2: If the payment is not received by the last deadline

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Speaker 2: on Monday the ninth, at five pm, she will be killed.

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Speaker 2: Your mother is aware of this, and her life is

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Speaker 2: in your hands. It is in the best interest of

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Speaker 2: everyone to have this completed as soon as possible. You

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Speaker 2: will not be able to contact me from here on out.

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Speaker 2: There will be no negotiation. Do not play games. Law

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Speaker 2: enforcement will not be able to help you.

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Speaker 1: The note concluded with details about the crime scene, mentioning

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Speaker 1: a white smart watch on the floor near Nancy's bed

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Speaker 1: in a destroyed backyard floodlight. While the FBI works to

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Speaker 1: verify the note's legitimacy, the lead agency, the County Sheriff's Department,

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Speaker 1: states it has no additional information. This follows a June

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Speaker 1: twenty second NBC news report regarding a second ransom note

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Speaker 1: sent to the family in media claiming Nancy was dead,

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Speaker 1: though it offered no apology or ransom request for her body.

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Speaker 1: Savannah Guthrie delivered a tearful appeal on the Today Show.

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Speaker 3: Somebody knows something, and this is a news story today

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Speaker 3: that is on your radar. But this is the life

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Speaker 3: that my sister lives, that I live, that my brother lives,

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Speaker 3: that our extended families live, that our children live every day,

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Speaker 3: and we are in agony.

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Speaker 1: We cannot be at peace. Savannah, who returned to co

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Speaker 1: anchor Today on April sixth, the alongside Craig Melvin and

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Speaker 1: Hoda Cobb, recently spoke on Today with Jenna Ann Chanelle,

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Speaker 1: admitting she cries every morning while leaning on support of

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Speaker 1: friends to hold both her sadness and joy together. More

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Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. In Saint Paul, Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: a dispute over a parking fee ended in a horrific

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Speaker 1: triple homicide inside an apartment complex leasing office on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Saint Paul police responded to frantic calls reporting gunshots and

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Speaker 1: screams at the complex just after four pm. Officers arrived

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Speaker 1: to find three workers shot to death, fifty six year

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Speaker 1: old Dina Silcock's, forty three year old Adam Wilwerdig and

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Speaker 1: twenty five year old Nancy Fuentes Zimbrono Silcox and Wilwardig

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Speaker 1: were found on the office floor, while Fuentes Zambrono was

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Speaker 1: found near a back window attempting to escape. Police arrested

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Speaker 1: thirty year old segob Binessu the following day in Virginia, Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: nearly two hundred miles away, driving Fuentes Zambrono's stolen vehicle.

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Speaker 1: Banessu faces three counts of second degree murder. According to

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Speaker 1: a criminal complaint, Banessu's roommate contacted police after Beanessu confessed.

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Speaker 1: The roommate explained that Beanessu, a trucker hoping to join

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Speaker 1: the Navy, had sold his car and attempted to cancel

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Speaker 1: a sixty five dollars month monthly garage parking contract he

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Speaker 1: had recently renewed. Staffers informed him over the phone that

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Speaker 1: the fee could not be canceled, prompting Beanessu to confront

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Speaker 1: them in person. Surveillance video captures Beanessu firing six shots

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Speaker 1: at Wilwardigg while covering his ears, then shooting Silcock six

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Speaker 1: times while shouting a profane insult. Four additional shots and

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Speaker 1: screaming were recorded off camera as he shot Fuintes Zambrano.

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Speaker 1: Following his arrest, Beinessu admitted he became overwhelmed by stress

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Speaker 1: over the contract and felt discriminated against as a black

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Speaker 1: immigrant from Ethiopia held on ten million dollars bond. Banessu

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Speaker 1: claimed life without his family no longer made sense. Victims

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Speaker 1: are remembered fondly by loved ones and former tenants. In

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Speaker 1: Saint Francis, Wisconsin, a young mother was gunned down during

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Speaker 1: a custody exchange hours after seeking legal protection against her

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Speaker 1: child's father. Authorities report thirty three year old Randall Lenyard

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Speaker 1: shot Keana Pliska six times in a part arking lot

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Speaker 1: on July sixteenth, in front of their six year old son.

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Speaker 1: Following the shooting, Lanyard called his sister, admitting to the

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Speaker 1: attack and threatening further violence against himself and his child.

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Speaker 1: His sister immediately alerted nine one one. Police arrested Lanyard

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Speaker 1: following a chase in Wauwatosa, and prosecutors charged to Monday

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Speaker 1: with homicide and stalking. Court documents reveal a harrowing pattern

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Speaker 1: of domestic abuse leading up to the tragedy. Plista filed

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Speaker 1: her second restraining order against Lenyard hours before her murder,

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Speaker 1: detailing how Lanyard kicked in her front door the previous day,

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Speaker 1: breaking the hinges while their son dialed nine one one.

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Speaker 1: Pliska also reported that Lanyard had been tracking her with

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Speaker 1: an air tag and had previously physically assaulted her at

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Speaker 1: another custody exchange, writing in her petition that she was

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Speaker 1: terrified of what he would do next. The criminal complaint

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Speaker 1: notes Lanyard previously threatened to engage in a shootout with

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Speaker 1: police if officers attempted to arrest him. For more Crime

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Speaker 1: I'm Sydney Silvani