WEBVTT - Crime Alert 10.17.23

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<v Speaker 1>Prime Alert, I'mancy Grace breaking crime news Now, Michael Arnold

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<v Speaker 1>puts the move on a married New York cafe owner,

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<v Speaker 1>Cassie Willis. Willis makes it clear she's not interested, and

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<v Speaker 1>Arnold continues. The pilot uses his plane to circle her

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<v Speaker 1>home for hours, He follows her in his car, and

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<v Speaker 1>he sends her threatening emails. Well, that's one way to

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<v Speaker 1>win a woman over Nancy.

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<v Speaker 2>The harassment began nearly four years ago, with increasing escalation,

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<v Speaker 2>Arnold flew so low over Wialush's home, the windows shook,

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<v Speaker 2>and on several occasions Arnold threw things at the home

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<v Speaker 2>from the plane. Arnold also sent disturbing messages to Walush,

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<v Speaker 2>including one that said her Karmo was responsible for her

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<v Speaker 2>husband's colon cancer death and her teen daughter is next.

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<v Speaker 2>Arnold also claims Walush is crazy and has no idea

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<v Speaker 2>who she is. A protective order banning Arnold from flying

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<v Speaker 2>led to his arrest at an upstate New York hanger.

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Arnold now facing nine counts criminal contempt and stalking.

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<v Speaker 1>A group of thieves target and Nebraska Vintage clothing shop,

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<v Speaker 1>first trying to wiggle the front door open, then breaking

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<v Speaker 1>a display window to get inside. Surveillance footage shows the

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<v Speaker 1>three men ransacking the store, trying and failing to get

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<v Speaker 1>into a locked back room. The owners worked with cops

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<v Speaker 1>to estimate the damage, and although the thieves make off

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<v Speaker 1>with nearly twenty thousand bucks in merchandise, most of the

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<v Speaker 1>stolen items were left shoes left shoes only. The matches

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<v Speaker 1>were all kept in the back room. The thieves couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>get into good luck selling those. More crime and justice

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<v Speaker 1>news after this Now with the latest crime and justice

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<v Speaker 1>breaking news, Prime my Lines to John Lemlay.

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<v Speaker 3>A trial date has been set for a man accused

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<v Speaker 3>of raping a woman a year before he was charged

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<v Speaker 3>with killing a school teacher. Out for an early run

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<v Speaker 3>with details Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.

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<v Speaker 2>Tennessee authorities say that because the sexual assault kit took

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<v Speaker 2>a long time to analyze, Cleota Apstin was not detained

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<v Speaker 2>on rape charges prior to Eliza Fletcher's death thirty nine world.

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<v Speaker 2>Abstin entered a not guilty plea in each of the cases.

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<v Speaker 2>Judge Lee Coffee of Shelby County set Abstin's trial for

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<v Speaker 2>April eighth on the allegations of raping and kidnapping a

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<v Speaker 2>woman in September of twenty twenty one. Abstin is accused

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<v Speaker 2>of robbing Fletcher on a street close to the University

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<v Speaker 2>of Memphis and forcing her inside an suv. A year later,

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<v Speaker 2>her body was discovered next to an empty duplex. After

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<v Speaker 2>being accused of Fletcher's murder, Absen, who was also gone

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<v Speaker 2>by the name Cliotha Henderson, was charged with the twenty

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<v Speaker 2>twenty one rape. The rape trial in April will take

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<v Speaker 2>place before the Fletcher case. Prosecutors have stated that if

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<v Speaker 2>Abstin is found guilty of first degree murder, he will

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<v Speaker 2>face the death penalty. No trial date for that case

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<v Speaker 2>has yet been scheduled.

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<v Speaker 3>The Memphis community was horrified by the death of Fletcher,

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<v Speaker 3>a thirty four year old mother of two and a

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<v Speaker 3>kindergarten teacher, with her family receiving an outpouring of support

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<v Speaker 3>by agreeing to enter a guilty plea. A seventy nine

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<v Speaker 3>year old South Carolina man has escaped the possibility of

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<v Speaker 3>being executed for ambushing police officers approaching his residence, murdering

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<v Speaker 3>two of them and injuring five more. The court appearance

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<v Speaker 3>for Frederick Hopkins and Aiken County was not announced, and

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<v Speaker 3>the court room was absent of reporters normally covering the

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<v Speaker 3>highly publicized case. Aiken County is located approximately one hundred

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<v Speaker 3>twenty miles from the site of the October twenty eighteen attack.

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<v Speaker 3>Two counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder

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<v Speaker 3>were brought against Hopkins. Now to South Florida, where a

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<v Speaker 3>judge has dismissed the lead prosecutor from the rapper YNW.

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<v Speaker 3>Mellie's double murder retrial once again crime Online Sidney Sumner.

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<v Speaker 2>Melley's defense team has argued that the prosecution had concealed

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<v Speaker 2>the fact that the primary detective gathering evidence in the

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<v Speaker 2>case had earlier been charged with lying exerting extreme caution.

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<v Speaker 2>Judge John Murphy of the Broward Circuit Court granted the

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<v Speaker 2>defense's move to remove prosecutor Christine Bradley from the case.

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<v Speaker 2>Bradley's integrity was not compromised, the judge said, but she

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<v Speaker 2>could not prosecute the case that the defense intended to

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<v Speaker 2>call her as a witness over the reliability of one

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<v Speaker 2>of the investigators. Attorneys representing Mellie, whose real name is

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<v Speaker 2>Jamel Demmons, requested last week that Murphy exclude the Broward

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<v Speaker 2>State Attorney's Office from the case and perhaps dismiss it completely.

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<v Speaker 2>The request was made in response to testimony given by

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<v Speaker 2>Assistant State Attorney Michelle Boutrose of the Broward office, who

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<v Speaker 2>claims to have heard the lead investigator in the Demon's case,

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<v Speaker 2>Mark Muretti, ask a Broward County deputy to fabricate an

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<v Speaker 2>account of his presence when last October, Moretti used an

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<v Speaker 2>unlawful search warrant to forcibly seize a phone from Demon's

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<v Speaker 2>mother as part of an investigation into witness tampering.

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<v Speaker 3>The process of choosing the jury is set to commence

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<v Speaker 3>this week, and Bradley's replacement has not yet been announced.

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<v Speaker 3>Wendy to Hay.

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<v Speaker 1>Drops her husband off at work before starting hercuy met

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<v Speaker 1>thirty miles north to the Georgia Pacific Mill facility, halts

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<v Speaker 1>the Oregon She never makes it. Wendy's boss calls her husband,

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<v Speaker 1>which he doesn't show up. He's concerned, reporting her missing.

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<v Speaker 1>Six days later, a man walking his dog finds Wendy's

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<v Speaker 1>per and turns it into a Buymart store in South Eugene,

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<v Speaker 1>the opposite direction of Wendy's commute. Four days later, investigators

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<v Speaker 1>speak with the dog walker. He leads them to an

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<v Speaker 1>abandoned car near the store. It's Wendy's. Wendy to Hoop

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<v Speaker 1>one of three women who go missing in the area

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<v Speaker 1>within a month. Now eighteen years ago. The two other

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<v Speaker 1>women found murdered no leaves in their cases. If you

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<v Speaker 1>have info on Wendy to Hoop, call Lane County Sheriffs

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<v Speaker 1>five four one, six eighty two forty three eleven. For

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<v Speaker 1>the latest crime in justice news, go to crime online

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<v Speaker 1>dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.