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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news. Now, two

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Speaker 1: year old Journey comes home from daycare crying and says

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Speaker 1: her back hurts. She tries to explain what happens, saying

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Speaker 1: my teacher hit me like this, then jumping and falling

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Speaker 1: to the ground. Florida police reviewed daycare surveillance video and

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Speaker 1: see employee Marlissa Roser approach Journey while she's playing. She

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Speaker 1: slaps the baby so hard that toddler falls to the ground.

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Speaker 1: Twenty minutes later, Roser lifts Journey three feet in the air,

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Speaker 1: walks her to a corner, and throws her on the ground.

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Speaker 2: Nan see a daycare employee watching over another room came

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Speaker 2: running to see what happened. After hearing a thump through

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Speaker 2: the wall. Rosier said a child had fallen and quote

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Speaker 2: all as well. When Rosier went on her lunch break

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Speaker 2: that afternoon, she did not return to work. Detectives now

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Speaker 2: say several children I've come forward with stories of miss

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Speaker 2: Rosier hurting them. Additional charges are expected.

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Speaker 1: Melissa Rasure, twenty five, now charged with child neglect causing

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Speaker 1: great bodily harm. May she rot in Hell. Ernest Smith

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Speaker 1: working at home and gets a notification of movement in

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Speaker 1: his driveway. He checks his ring camera and spots two

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Speaker 1: men trying to wheel off his motorcycle. He calls nine

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Speaker 1: one one and starts banging on the front window. The

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Speaker 1: thiefs realize they've been spotted and run for it. One

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Speaker 1: of the men apparently forgot a belt that morning, and

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Speaker 1: his pants start sliding down his legs, exposing his rear

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Speaker 1: end to the ring camera. The man grabs a handful

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Speaker 1: of pants to make it to the getaway car. Smith

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Speaker 1: now hoping someone will recognize that big rear end and

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Speaker 1: identify the motorcycle thieves. Now that's one lineup I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen yet, but it's something I'm certainly looking forward to.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. Now, with the

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Speaker 1: latest crime in justice breaking these crime onlines, John Lemley.

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Speaker 3: South Carolina prosecutors are pursuing the death penalty for James

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Speaker 3: Douglas Drayton, a twenty six year old man accused of

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Speaker 3: a brutal crime that shocked the Inman community nearly two

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Speaker 3: years ago. For the latest, we turned to Sidney Sumner

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Speaker 3: of Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: The decision, announced by the Seventh Circuit Solicitor's Office, comes

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Speaker 2: as Drayton faces charges for the fatal shooting of five

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Speaker 2: individuals in October of twenty twenty two. Although the Solicitor's

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Speaker 2: office has yet to comment on the rationale behind seeking

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Speaker 2: capital punishment, the gravity of the charges is clear. Drayton

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Speaker 2: is accused of murdering five people, including four who were

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Speaker 2: found dead at the scene in a home located in Inmate,

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Speaker 2: roughly thirteen miles northwest of Spartanburg. The victims, identified as

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Speaker 2: thirty seven year old Thomas Ellis Anderson, forty nine year

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Speaker 2: old James Derek Baldwin, fifty nine year old Mark Allen Hewitt,

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Speaker 2: and thirty two year old Adam Daniel Morley, were killed

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Speaker 2: in what authorities have described as a drug fueled rampage. Victim,

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Speaker 2: nineteen year old Roman Christian Miguel Rocha, succumbed to his

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Speaker 2: injuries later at a hospital. The case has drawn significant

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Speaker 2: attention not only for the number of victims, but for

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Speaker 2: the circumstances surrounding Drayton's arrest. Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright

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Speaker 2: revealed that Drayton confessed to the murder shortly after his arrest,

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Speaker 2: stating that he was under the influence of methamphetamine and

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Speaker 2: had not slept for four days. According to Wright, Drayton

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Speaker 2: was staying at the home where the killings took place,

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Speaker 2: a location known for frequent drug use. Drayton also reportedly

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Speaker 2: surrendered the firearm he claimed to have used in the shootings.

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Speaker 2: Following the murders, Drayton fled to Georgia, where is run

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Speaker 2: from the law ended. After a high speed chase, deputies

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Speaker 2: in Burke County, Georgia, apprehended Drayton after he allegedly attempted

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Speaker 2: to rob a convenience store at gunpoint and kidnap an employee.

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Speaker 2: At the time of his arrest, Drayton was driving a

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Speaker 2: vehicle taken from the Inman crime scene. This according to authorities.

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Speaker 2: While no child date has been set, the decision to

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Speaker 2: seek the death penalty places this case within the broader

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Speaker 2: context of South Carolina's capital punishment policy. The state, which

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Speaker 2: has not conducted in execution since twenty eleven, recently sought

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court uphold the use of the firing squad, lethal injection,

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Speaker 2: or the electric chair as methods of execution.

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Speaker 3: This ruling has reignited the debate over the death penalty

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Speaker 3: in South Carolina, making the outcome of Drayton's case one

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Speaker 3: that will be closely watched.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John. Gordon White, seventy eight, owns a large property

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Speaker 1: in Idaho and frequently goes for ATV rides. Gordon diagnosed

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Speaker 1: with dementia, and lately, as condition worsens, neighbors see him

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Speaker 1: still has it come home. Friends and neighbors go searching

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Speaker 1: for Gordon and call for help when it becomes dark

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Speaker 1: in the early morning hours, Cops find Gordon's ATV part

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Speaker 1: on his property with gas still in the tank, but

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Speaker 1: Gordon is nowhere to be found. Dog teams ATVs, helicopters,

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Speaker 1: foot searches, canvas the property nothing. After eleven days, the

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Speaker 1: physical search is suspended. White Caucasian, six feet, one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy pounds, gray hair, brown eyes. He usually wears

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Speaker 1: a goatee. Now missing four years. If you have info

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Speaker 1: on Gordon White in Idaho, call Clearwater County, Idaho Sheriffs

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