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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.

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Speaker 1: A minor highway scratch on Interstate eight oh five in

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Speaker 1: San Diego, California transformed into a fatal nightmare when a

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Speaker 1: cold blooded driver allegedly used his vehicle as a five

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Speaker 1: thousand pound weapon to murder a dedicated father of three

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Speaker 1: in front of his traumatized young daughters. Family friend Peggy

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Speaker 1: Mock spoke to ten News co blooded, disgusting evil.

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Speaker 2: He didn't run?

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Speaker 1: Is bat already?

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Speaker 2: Why do you have to kill him?

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Speaker 1: Berrick Lowe, a forty eight year old regulatory attorney for Alumina,

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Speaker 1: was killed after stopping to exchange insurance information near the

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Speaker 1: State Route fifty two interchange. Lowe had just picked up

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Speaker 1: his daughter's, ages seven and nine, from fencing class and

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Speaker 1: was traveling to meet his wife and five year old

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Speaker 1: son for dinner when a Nissan pathfinder clipped his car.

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Speaker 1: The routine roadside and counter turned into a gruesome execution

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Speaker 1: when the other driver refused to get out of his car.

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Speaker 1: According to officials, low approached the suspect's window to fulfill

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Speaker 1: his legal obligation not only as a citizen, but also

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Speaker 1: an officer of the court. When the driver tried to

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Speaker 1: flee the scene, Lo reportedly stood in front of the

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Speaker 1: suv with his hands on the hood to prevent a

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Speaker 1: hit and run. Instead of stopping, the assailant allegedly floored

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Speaker 1: the accelerator, striking Low with such bone crushing force that

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Speaker 1: his head hit the edge of the pavement, inflicting unsurvivable

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Speaker 1: injuries while his daughters watched through the windshield. Low was

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Speaker 1: taken to a local hospital and died two days later

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Speaker 1: due to the extens of trauma. The suspect, fifty seven

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Speaker 1: year old Lawrence Win, was apprehended days later after witnesses

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Speaker 1: provided crucial tips that led investigators to his damaged car.

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Speaker 1: When a previously convicted felon whose criminal history stretches back

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Speaker 1: over thirty years, was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to

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Speaker 1: charges including murder and hit and run resulting in death.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutors revealed that due to his prior serious felony conviction,

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Speaker 1: Win could face up to twenty five years to life

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Speaker 1: under California's free strikes law. He remains in custody without bond.

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Speaker 1: More Prime and Justice News after this, in a stunning

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Speaker 1: development that has reignited decades of trauma. A Bay Area

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Speaker 1: mother who methodically smothered her three young daughters to death

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Speaker 1: has been found suitable for parole. In Daily City, California,

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Speaker 1: Megan Hogg, now fifty three, was deemed eligible for release

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Speaker 1: by a California Board of Parole hearings panel during a

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Speaker 1: session at the Central California Women's Facility. Relative Carla Douglas

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Speaker 1: spoke to the media.

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Speaker 2: I'm fearful for her to come in and say if

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Speaker 2: she started another family, I don't think she learned from it.

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Speaker 1: This marks the second time she has received such approval,

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Speaker 1: sending the final decision to Governor Gavin Newsom for a

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Speaker 1: high stakes review. The nightmare unfolded on March twenty third,

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, when a twenty five year old Hog

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Speaker 1: bound the mouths and feet of her girls, Antoinette seven,

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Speaker 1: Angelique three, and Alexandra two with duct tape. In a

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Speaker 1: display of chilling depravity, she clutched each child to her

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Speaker 1: chest until they suffocated inside their modest home. Prosecutors revealed

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Speaker 1: the motive was as petty as it was lethal. Hog

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Speaker 1: allegedly believed the girls loved their grandmother more than her.

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Speaker 1: After the executions, Hog down a toxic cocktail of hot

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Speaker 1: chocolate and painkillers in a failed suicide attempt before their

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Speaker 1: grandmother discovered the bodies. Despite pleading no contest to three

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Speaker 1: counts a first degree murder in nineteen ninety nine, Hog

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Speaker 1: has spent years fighting for freedom. While seven family members

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Speaker 1: supported her release during the recent hearings, other relatives continue

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Speaker 1: to lead the charge against her, stating that the prospect

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Speaker 1: of Hog's freedom is quote like ripping the band aid

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Speaker 1: off a wound that never healed end quote. Although former

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Speaker 1: Governor Jerry Brown blocked to release in twenty eighteen, the

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Speaker 1: current board claims Hogg's therapy and self help participation warrant

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Speaker 1: her return to society. Hog's fate now sits on Governor

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Speaker 1: Newsom's desk, with a final decision expected by late July.

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Speaker 1: If he fails to block the board's ruling within this

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty day review window, this child killer

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Speaker 1: will walk out of prison, possibly by this fall. And

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Speaker 1: finally he is not choe average thief, a Florida man

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Speaker 1: is in a real pickle after his spicy plan to

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Speaker 1: crunch the numbers at Target Wentz sour Keith Wallace thirty

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Speaker 1: nine was arrested in Palm Beach for allegedly seasoning seventy

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Speaker 1: five separate thefts with ninety nine cent taco packets Taco

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Speaker 1: about a bad idea. Between July of twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: and February twenty twenty six, Wallace allegedly swapped pricey trading

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Speaker 1: card bar codes for cheap spices, folding over forty thousand

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Speaker 1: bucks and eBay profits into his own pocket. He didn't

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Speaker 1: just want the whole enchilada, he wanted the cards too.

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Speaker 1: Now facing a supreme ninety years sentence for organized retail

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Speaker 1: theft and money laundering, Wallace's criminal career is officially chipped.

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