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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 horrific discovery in a Chicago alleyway leaves a family

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Speaker 1: completely shattered in local community organizers demanding immediate answers. Zenobia

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Speaker 1: Ze Weatherspoon, a thirty eight year old aspiring nurse, is dead.

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Speaker 1: Her heartbroken mother shared beautiful memories with reporters, describing a

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Speaker 1: young woman who found pure joy and drawing, reading literature,

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Speaker 1: and braiding hair. Her mother officially reported her missing on

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Speaker 1: July tenth, days after she was last seen. On Saturday,

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Speaker 1: July eleventh, police responded to an alley in the back

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Speaker 1: of the yard's neighborhood. Officers discovered her body inside a

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Speaker 1: trash can just blocks from her home near fifty fourth

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Speaker 1: in Union State. Senator Lakeisha Collins, whose children Weatherspoon wants babysat,

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Speaker 1: publicly identified the woman alongside her devastated family, urging people

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Speaker 1: online to remember Zee for who she was and treat

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Speaker 1: her story with proper dignity. The family learned of Z's

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Speaker 1: passing from social media videos of police removing her body

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Speaker 1: from the dumpster, showing her clothing. Speaking to WGN nine,

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Speaker 1: her cousin Fatima McKay described the shocking ordeal.

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Speaker 2: It's very devastating. It was very gruesome, and to see

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Speaker 2: how Facebook pushed it in your face even more and

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Speaker 2: it was nothing you can do about it. You couldn't

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Speaker 2: force anybody to take it down, and you got to

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Speaker 2: see her in that state. It's like shocking.

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Speaker 1: The family is pleading with chicagoans to show compassion and

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Speaker 1: help remove the video from social media. Family members gathered

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Speaker 1: near the discovery site for a balloon release, expressing intense anguish.

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Speaker 1: Because no suspects have been identified, as reported by the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Tribune, authorities have not announced the cause or manner

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Speaker 1: of death. At the gathering, Weatherspoon's brother Javon spoke with

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Speaker 1: WGN nine about his pain.

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Speaker 3: A personal who you see every day and the next

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Speaker 3: day you don't see them, but you feel something is

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Speaker 3: not right in the atmosphere. My sisters probably calling though

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Speaker 3: for help and I couldn't answer.

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Speaker 1: Local organizers call for justice and vow to fight for

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Speaker 1: a thorough investigation. Troy Gaston, an organizer with Black Lives

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Speaker 1: Matter Chicago, stated that too often when black women are harmed,

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Speaker 1: the world remembers the violence before the woman. Gaston shared

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Speaker 1: these words with WGN nine.

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Speaker 4: We would not speculate, we were not assigned blame without evidence.

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Speaker 4: We would I speak over the family, but we do

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Speaker 4: call for what justice require, a full, serious, transparent investigation.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. In the Florida Panhandle,

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Speaker 1: a massive manhunt is underway for a woman facing a

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Speaker 1: murder charge who is actively evading law enforcement. The Walton

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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office announced that thirty eight year old Isabel

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Speaker 1: Johnson is charged in the slaying a forty three year

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Speaker 1: old Jason Christopher Coldheart. Tart was last seen on May

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Speaker 1: twenty fourth, leaving the College condominiums. Investigators developed information leading

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Speaker 1: them to a property in Freeport, where his remains were

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Speaker 1: recovered from a shallow grave on June twenty fifth. Niceville

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Speaker 1: Chief of Police Mark Hazy stated they will continue working

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Speaker 1: closely with partners to see this case through authority. Say

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Speaker 1: Johnson is using multiple aliases, including Harley, Jessica Elaine Bowman,

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Speaker 1: Jessica Elaine Thrush, and Jessica Dowdy. She was captured on

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Speaker 1: surveillance video days after the discovery and may have changed

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Speaker 1: her appearance. Three other individuals have already been apprehended by

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Speaker 1: authorities for accessory to a capital felony after the fact

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Speaker 1: and obstruction. Seventy four year old Michael Ray White knowingly

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Speaker 1: helped Johnson evade law enforcement for five days in late June,

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Speaker 1: while fifty nine year old Kathleen Morris admitted providing transportation

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Speaker 1: and supplies while actively misleading deputies about Johnson's presence in

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Speaker 1: her home. Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson explicitly warned that

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Speaker 1: anyone found assisting Isabel Johnson will face severe legal consequences

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Speaker 1: under the law. Turning now to Texas, where two teenagers

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Speaker 1: face charges for concealing evidence linked to an eighteen year

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Speaker 1: old man suspected drowning. Daniel Irving was last seen at

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Speaker 1: his Dallas residence on Woodlands Trail on April thirteenth. His

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Speaker 1: body was found three days later near the paddle Point

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Speaker 1: area of Lake ray Hubbard, as reported by the Roulette

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Speaker 1: Police Department on Facebook. Following an investigation by the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Police Department, nineteen year old Lucas Roper and a seventeen

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Speaker 1: year old suspect were arrested on July ninth for tampering

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Speaker 1: with physical evidence. The affidavit States, Irving visited the lake

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Speaker 1: with the suspects jumping into the water from a railroad

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Speaker 1: bridge near Miller Road, where he drowned. According to the

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Speaker 1: official arrest affidavit, investigators allege the two suspects callously dumped

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Speaker 1: Irving's clothes and cell phone before fleeing the immediate scene

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Speaker 1: in the victim's own vehicle. Roper also explicitly admitted to

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Speaker 1: deleting text messages exchange between himself and Irving. Department spokesperson

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Speaker 1: Erica Brown confirmed the individual's failed to report the incident.

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Speaker 1: Irving's family spoke out at a press conference seeking transparency

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Speaker 1: and calling for murder charges, where his mother, Tamika Irving,

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Speaker 1: shared her grief.

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Speaker 5: A reasonable minded person wouldn't know if you are not

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Speaker 5: guilty of a crime, why would you throw away his

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Speaker 5: clothes and delete messages and not even cow his mother.

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Speaker 1: Irving was an honor roll student, a swim team member,

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Speaker 1: and a talented athlete. Family attorney Sean Dartia stated the

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Speaker 1: drowning claim simply does not add up.

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Speaker 4: He was a strong, healthy, young athlete.

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Speaker 1: For these two suspects to say he drowned and they left,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't add up.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't add up, something smells off to.

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Speaker 1: Us or the latest crime and justice breaking news. Be

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Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Sidney Silvanni