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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: A former naval officer has been found guilty of murdering

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Speaker 1: and dismembering his wife in Georgia. Nicholas Casotis, forty three,

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Speaker 1: was convicted on all twelve charges against him, which included malice, murder,

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Speaker 1: felony murder, aggravated assault, and tampering with evidence related to

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Speaker 1: the death of forty year old Mindy Casotis in November

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Her dismembered body was discovered by hunters

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Speaker 1: on December two in Riceboro, with authorities reporting that her

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Speaker 1: remains were located in various sites within a three mile radius. Nicholas,

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Speaker 1: who is also known as Nicholas Killian James Stark, was

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Speaker 1: arrested in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on May twelve, twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: just a day after his wife's remains were identified through

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Speaker 1: genealogy DNA testing. According to a marriage announcement, Nicholas served

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Speaker 1: as a jag officer in the US Navy, while Mindy

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Speaker 1: was a writer and entrepreneur. At the time of her death,

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Speaker 1: the couple resided in Savannah. During the prosecution's opening statement,

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Speaker 1: they alleged that the couple was attempting to evade a

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Speaker 1: one point five million dollar divorce settlement that was owed

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Speaker 1: to Nicholas's first wife, and claimed that he was involved

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Speaker 1: in an affair with a woman whom he later married.

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Speaker 1: In contrast, the defense maintained that the couple was actually

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Speaker 1: fleeing from a person referred to as Jim McIntyre and

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Speaker 1: argued that the evidence presented by the state was circumstantial.

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Speaker 1: In the end, the jury has spoken, Nicholas has been

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Speaker 1: found guilty on all charges and is currently in the

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Speaker 1: sentencing phase of the trial. Or Crime and Justice news

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Speaker 1: after this in Florida, a k through a teacher was

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Speaker 1: taken into custody on a DUI charge following a crash

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Speaker 1: into the school fence on Tuesday morning. The Hernando County

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Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office responded to an incident report of a single

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Speaker 1: vehicle crash involving a teacher at the school at eleven

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Speaker 1: forty three am. The school Resource Deputy was first to

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Speaker 1: arrive on the scene, discovering that thirty two year old

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Speaker 1: Philip Sear had driven his car into a fence situated

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Speaker 1: in the rear parking area of the school. The deputy

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Speaker 1: found Sear unconscious behind the wheel with the car still

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Speaker 1: in gear. Additionally, several empty alcohol containers were reported to

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Speaker 1: be within reach. Syr was taken by ambulance to a

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Speaker 1: nearby hospital for assessment. Once at the hospital, a deputy

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Speaker 1: approached Syr for questioning and noted a strong scent of alcohol.

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Speaker 1: Despite multiple requests from the deputy for Sir to consent

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Speaker 1: to perform a blood draw to assess his blood alcohol

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Speaker 1: level and any potential substance influence, Syr refused to cooperate.

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Speaker 1: After being cleared by medical staff, he was charged with

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Speaker 1: one count of DUI. He was then transported to the

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Speaker 1: Hernando County Detention Center, where his bill was set at

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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars. This is not Sear's first run in

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Speaker 1: with the law. He was previously arrested for another DUI

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Speaker 1: in Broward County in twenty fourteen. Not a good way

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Speaker 1: to start the school year and now to Massachusetts. Police

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Speaker 1: have deployed drones and dogs in search of a missing

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Speaker 1: eighteen year old woman who was last seen in Rahaboth, Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: Kylie Montero, whose family members say is eleven weeks pregnant,

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Speaker 1: was last seen on August seven, near Country Road. Police

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Speaker 1: say Montero is six feet, heavy set, with brown hair

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Speaker 1: and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a red

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Speaker 1: T shirt with the phrase get over It printed on

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Speaker 1: the front. Montero is also known to carry a white

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Speaker 1: bag with her belongings. Family members say she got into

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Speaker 1: an argument with her boyfriend last week and feared for

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Speaker 1: her safety. The last contact made with anyone was Thursday,

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Speaker 1: through a text message, texting her sister saying she was

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Speaker 1: afraid afraid of her boyfriend after a fight. A friend

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Speaker 1: of Kylie's also spoke to her just before she disappeared.

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Speaker 1: She said to her friend, I don't feel safe right now.

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Speaker 1: Something's not right. I feel like someone will hurt me.

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Speaker 1: That was one of the last conversations she had with

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Speaker 1: family or friends. Neighbors say they are hoping that Montero

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Speaker 1: simply ran away, although her family says that's not the case.

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Speaker 1: She's disappeared. Something is wrong, said her mother. I know it.

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Speaker 1: Something is terribly wrong. Anyone with information regarding Montero's whereabouts

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Speaker 1: is asked to reach out to the Raja Both Police

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Speaker 1: Department by calling nine to one one. For the latest

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