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Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crime needs now.

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Speaker 1: Celebrity support still not happening. In the courtroom for Shawn

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Speaker 1: Combe's aka Diddy our Jennifer Gould standing by Jennifer What

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Speaker 1: do you.

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Speaker 2: Know, Nancy? The federal sex trafficking trial against Sean Ditty

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Speaker 2: Combs plunged into new depths of depravity on Wednesday with

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Speaker 2: a chilling allegation of balcony terror, a cash for video payoff,

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Speaker 2: and that infamous footage showing the music mogul brutally attacking

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Speaker 2: his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Day sixteen at the high

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Speaker 2: stakes trial began with a return to the stand by

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Speaker 2: Eddie Garcia, a former security supervisor at the Intercontinental Hotel

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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. Under an immunity order. Garcia testified that

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Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, Combs paid him a staggering one hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars cash for surveillance footage depicting the Mogul violently

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Speaker 2: assaulting Ventura in a hotel hallway. Garcia stated the mogul

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Speaker 2: had him sign a non disclosure agreement with Combe's team,

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Speaker 2: believing it secured the only copy. Next forensic expert Stephen

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Speaker 2: Piazza testified, establishing the authenticity of that graphic twenty sixteen

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Speaker 2: hotel footage. Piazza's analysis confirmed no anomalies in the recording,

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Speaker 2: bolstering the prosecution's case that Combs's violence was habitual. The

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Speaker 2: afternoon delivered further harrowing testimony from Brianna Bongolan, another accuser

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Speaker 2: and close friend of Ventura. Bongalon, who was granted immunity

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Speaker 2: to testify after initially invoking her fifth Amendment right, recounted

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Speaker 2: a chilling twenty sixteen incident where Combs allegedly stormed into

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Speaker 2: Ventura's Eli apartment, threatening her life and dramatically dangling Ventura

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Speaker 2: over the edge of a seventeenth floor balcony railing for

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Speaker 2: ten to fifteen seconds. Mongolong said she feared she would

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Speaker 2: fall to her death. After finally pulling her back, Coombs

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Speaker 2: a led hurled her onto patio furniture, leaving her with

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Speaker 2: bruises and neck pain and causing ongoing night terrors and paranoia.

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Speaker 2: Bogolon also detailed another incident where Combs allegedly threatened her life,

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Speaker 2: saying quote, I'm the devil. I could kill you end quote,

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Speaker 2: and she recalled seeing Ventura with a black Eye multiple times.

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Speaker 2: Defense attorney Nicole Westmoreland began cross examination, aiming to challenge

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Speaker 2: her credibility. Day seventeen is expected to feature testimony from

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Speaker 2: an accuser using the pseudonym of Jane, focusing on further

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Speaker 2: allegations of abuse and coercion, with prosecutors planning to introduce

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Speaker 2: text messages as evidence. Combs has remained engaged, taking notes

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Speaker 2: and conferring with his defense team, who continues to argue

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Speaker 2: that the mogul's actions were part of a swinger lifestyle

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Speaker 2: and all activity was consensual. His family, including his mom Janis,

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Speaker 2: has been present, though some left during explicit testimony. Combs,

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Speaker 2: fifty five, faces five federal charges, including racketeering and sex trafficking.

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Speaker 2: If convicted, he could face life behind bars. For the

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Speaker 1: Thanks Jennifer more Crime and Justice News.

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Speaker 2: After this, the serene landscapes of Washington's National Forest became

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Speaker 2: the chilling backdrop for an unthinkable tragedy. Three young sisters,

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Speaker 2: Peyton Decker nine, Evelyn Decker eight, and Olivia Decker five,

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Speaker 2: were found dead at the Rock Island campground near Leavenworth.

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Speaker 2: Four documents obtained by Fox thirteen paint a horrifying picture.

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Speaker 2: The girls likely died by asphyxiation, their wrists bound with

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Speaker 2: zip ties and plastic bags over their heads. Their father,

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Speaker 2: Travis Decker thirty two, is now a fugitive charged with

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Speaker 2: recounts a first degree murderer and kidnapping, prompting a nationwide manhunt,

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Speaker 2: and now officials are offering a twenty thousand dollars reward

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Speaker 2: for information leading to Decker's arrest. This resident spoke to

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Speaker 2: Cairo seven News.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry for the family. Inform for the mother. That's devastating.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely cannot imagine. The horror began when Decker, a

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Speaker 2: former military member with extensive training, failed to return the

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Speaker 2: girls to their mom, Whitney Decker, on May thirtieth, as

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Speaker 2: stipulated by their court ordered parenting plan, and endangered missing

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Speaker 2: person alert was issued the very next day. But hope

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Speaker 2: turned to despair when a Shellane County Sheriff's deputy discovered

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Speaker 2: Decker's twenty seventeen white gmccer a pickup truck marked with

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Speaker 2: two bloody handprints, seventeen miles up Icicle Road. The girl's

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Speaker 2: bodies were found seventy five to one hundre dred yards

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Speaker 2: away down an embankment, surrounded by scattered zip ties and

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Speaker 2: plastic bags. According to court records, Decker's cell phone activity

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Speaker 2: showed he had visited the campground a day prior to

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Speaker 2: picking up the girls. Decker's documented mental health struggles cast

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Speaker 2: a long shadow over the tragedy. Court documents detail a

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Speaker 2: history of instability, revealing a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two. This psychological evaluation was ordered during

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Speaker 2: his contentious divorce from Whitney after she reported his erratic behavior,

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Speaker 2: including angry outbursts and suicidal ideation. The evaluation revealed his

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Speaker 2: struggles with emotional regulation, impulsivity, and paranoia. Whitney granted primary

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Speaker 2: custody in twenty twenty three, required Decker to undergo ongoing

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Speaker 2: mental health treatment and anger management counseling as conditions for

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Speaker 2: supervised visitation, but records show he attended only three therapy

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Speaker 2: sessions in twenty twenty four and stop taking prescribed meds

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Speaker 2: citing a distrust of medical professionals. Whitney told investigators Decker's

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Speaker 2: mental health had deteriorated in recent months. He was reportedly homeless,

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Speaker 2: living in his truck or motels. His military background, including

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Speaker 2: trading in survival tactics, has heightened concerns about his ability

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Speaker 2: to evade capture. Authorities do not know if he has

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Speaker 2: a weapon on him, but they are treating him as

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Speaker 2: armed and dangerous. Decker is described as white, five foot eight,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

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Speaker 2: Authorities urge anyone with information on his whereabouts to call

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Speaker 2: nine to one one, emphasizing he should not be approached.

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Speaker 2: Tips can also be submitted anonymously to crime stoppers at

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Speaker 2: one eight hundred two to two tips. And finally, he

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Speaker 2: stepped in to do the right thing to protect a stranger,

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Speaker 2: and for that selfless act, Tice Carter was brutally butchered.

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Speaker 2: The forty one year old Long Island hero endured a

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Speaker 2: savage two on one beat down at a Brentwood, Long

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Speaker 2: Island bus stop, a confrontation that ended with his nose

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Speaker 2: bitten right off. But from that horrifying moment of disfigurement,

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Speaker 2: a medical miracle has emerged, giving Carter his face and

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Speaker 2: his life back. This past January, Carter saw two men

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Speaker 2: harassing a young woman at that bus stop and intervened.

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Speaker 2: The situation, though escalated, turning into a horrific two on

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Speaker 2: one assault. He knew he'd been bitten because his jacket

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Speaker 2: was full of blood, but it wasn't until he got

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Speaker 2: to the hospital that he saw the devastating reality that

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Speaker 2: his nose was gone, his world seemingly shattered. Carter's life

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Speaker 2: was transformed by doctor Lorent Ganry, an oral and maxillofacial

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Speaker 2: surgeon at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Here's Tyson at

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Speaker 2: the news conference. Someone who hasn't seen me for a

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Speaker 2: while looks in my face unless they really unless you

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Speaker 2: really look, you can't even tell that it's let anything happen.

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Speaker 2: Over nine grueling weeks, doctor Ganry performed three cutting edge surgeries.

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Speaker 2: He used a three D printed model of Carter's face

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Speaker 2: and clay to meticulously sculpt a precise nose template, even

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Speaker 2: using Carter's old selfies for reference. Skin and muscle were

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Speaker 2: also grafted from Carter's forehead and arm employing a technique

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Speaker 2: refined from ancient Indian surgical methods. For Carter, the surgery

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Speaker 2: not only restored his confidence, but also his ability to

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Speaker 2: wear glasses, which are crucial because he can only see

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Speaker 2: six inches in front of him without them. He still

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Speaker 2: faces one final procedure for breathing, but Carter remains remarkably resilient,

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Speaker 2: proof the tragedy can be turned into triumph. Nancy.

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