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

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Speaker 1: A week long preliminary hearing concluded Friday for the man

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Speaker 1: accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Utah County prosecutors

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Speaker 1: aimed to show enough evidence against twenty three year old

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Speaker 1: Tyler Robinson to proceed to trial for the September tenth

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Speaker 1: aggravated murder on the Utah Valley University campus. The state

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Speaker 1: is actively seeking the death penalty. Robinson's lawyers called a

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Speaker 1: final witness, trying to raise doubts about the prosecution's case.

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Speaker 1: The defense previously challenged the reliability of ballistics tests on

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Speaker 1: a bullet fragment recovered from Kirk's body, which an ATF

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Speaker 1: expert labeled inconclusive. They also fought the release of a

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Speaker 1: recorded interview with Robinson's roommate and boyfriend, Lance Twiggs. In

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Speaker 1: private discord chat messages Robinson wrote on Friday, defense attorney

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Speaker 1: Michael Bert grilled ATF Section Chief Caitlin Oliver about testing

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Speaker 1: on an unknown item. Judge Graff ruled no further exhibits

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Speaker 1: would be shown in court or via live stream. After

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Speaker 1: cameras accidentally flashed photos of a burned note Robinson wrote

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Speaker 1: to Twiggs. Graff had previously blocked the note's public release.

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Speaker 1: Bert used Oliver's testimony to highlight DNA limitations, noting government

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Speaker 1: policies don't allow analysts to call DNA evidence infalliable. Oliver

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Speaker 1: admitted third party DNA transfer as possible, agreeing that shaking

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Speaker 1: hands could migrate genetic material onto a weapons trigger. Deputy

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Speaker 1: Utah County Attorney Chad Grunnander questioned her relevance, stating prosecutors

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Speaker 1: already met their burden through four days of overwhelming testimony.

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Speaker 1: Judge Graff will rule on the trial advancement after reviewing

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Speaker 1: transcripts and written briefs. Oral arguments are set for September first.

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Speaker 1: Robinson has yet to enter a plea next. A North

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Speaker 1: Carolina couple accused of performing exorcisms on their adopted children

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Speaker 1: will spend decades in prison after pleading guilty too the

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Speaker 1: murder and abuse of their four year old son, Skyler Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Joseph Paul Wilson, forty five and Jody and Wilson, forty two,

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Speaker 1: pleaded guilty in Surrey County Superior Court to second degree

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Speaker 1: murder and child abuse related charges Both were sentenced to

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Speaker 1: thirty two to forty years in prison and waived their

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Speaker 1: rights to appeal. The Wilsons used dangerous disciplinary methods learned

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Speaker 1: from alternative parenting books, which escalated to prolonged physical restraint

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Speaker 1: with duct tape. On January fifth, twenty twenty three, Jody

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Speaker 1: wrapped Skyler in a bedsheet and used duct tape to

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Speaker 1: Airy home for several hours. Joseph knew of the restraint

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Speaker 1: and had purchased duct tape and bandages earlier that day

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Speaker 1: for that purpose. When Joseph returned home for lunch and

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Speaker 1: found Skyler restrained, he left him there and went back

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Speaker 1: to work. After Jody eventually released Skyler and realized he

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Speaker 1: was severely injured, she messaged her husband to hurry home.

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Speaker 1: Joseph later called nine one one, reporting Skyler was having

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Speaker 1: a seizure, while Jody could be heard in the background

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Speaker 1: saying it's my fault. Emergency personnel found Skyler unresponsive. He

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Speaker 1: died four days later at Brenner's Children's Hospital after being

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Speaker 1: removed from life support. An autopsy determined Skyler died from

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Speaker 1: a hypoxic ischemic brain injury caused by compressional and positional

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Speaker 1: asphyxia from prolonged restraint, with starvation keto acidosis as a

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Speaker 1: contributing factor. A former foster parent had reported concerns to

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Speaker 1: social services less than a month before his death. More

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Speaker 1: crime and justice news After this, A chaotic scene in

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Speaker 1: Summit County ended Tuesday night with the arrest of Julius Edwards,

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Speaker 1: a man wanted for attempted murder who led police on

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Speaker 1: a multi jurisdictional pursuit, including onto a golf course. The

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Speaker 1: violent chain of events began around six am in Canton,

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Speaker 1: where police responded to a home and found a thirty

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Speaker 1: three year old woman bleeding from apparent stab wounds on

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Speaker 1: the second floor with a large knife protruding through her

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Speaker 1: right arm. Officers found a blood trail leading to the driveway,

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Speaker 1: and a male voice came through the front door ring camera,

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Speaker 1: identifying himself as Edwards, stating he wanted to kill her

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Speaker 1: and believed he did. Hours later, troopers spotted Edwards driving

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Speaker 1: a gray Kia Tellur Ride he fled initiating a pursuit.

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Speaker 1: Edwards ran a red light on Arik's Road, causing a

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Speaker 1: serious crash that injured multiple people. Edwards then fled on foot,

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Speaker 1: He then carjacked a silver Chrysler Town and Country minivan,

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Speaker 1: sparking a second pursuit. Edwards drove the stolen minivan directly

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Speaker 1: through the fox Den golf Course in Stowe, forcing golfers

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Speaker 1: to flee. News five Cleveland spoke with golfer's logan Conrove

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Speaker 1: and Joe Messina about the terrifying encounter. It was coming

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Speaker 1: right at us too, and my girlfriend was driving the

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Speaker 1: cart and I was like, you got to move the cart.

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Speaker 1: We got to move off to the left. I thought

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Speaker 1: he was going to flatten either my card or Joe's,

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Speaker 1: but I'm glad we were able to get out of

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Speaker 1: the way and come out unscathed. The chase continued through

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Speaker 1: nearby properties. Resident Michael Burrows described the moment the pursuit

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Speaker 1: tore through his property to News five Cleveland. And I

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Speaker 1: heard these sirens and he could hear them. It's not

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Speaker 1: like they were in my yard. Well, they were in

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Speaker 1: my yard. He kept going through and then he went

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Speaker 1: marks out there. He made a quick left. The pursuit

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Speaker 1: ended near Saybrook Boulevard when Edwards crashed into a Summit

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Speaker 1: Metro Parks police cruiser, totaling it and causing it to

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Speaker 1: roll over. The officer managed to jump out of his

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Speaker 1: vehicle just eight seconds before impact, suffering only minor injuries.

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Speaker 1: Edwards attempted to run, but was captured by Stowe Police

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Speaker 1: and state troopers. He is now in custody while his

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Speaker 1: stabbing victim recovers in a hospital. For more crime and

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Speaker 1: justice news, be sure to join us for crime stories

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Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace on Fox one YouTube Serious XM and

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Speaker 1: now streaming on two B with this crime alert, I'm

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Speaker 1: Sydney Silvannie