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Speaker 1: com Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. On January fourteenth, twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: Savannah Fleet Pruett, fourteen year old, email from our County,

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Speaker 1: How did a fourteen year old little girl end up

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Speaker 1: Robin will Lensky. When I first heard there had been

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Speaker 1: I'm really surprised that they are letting her go back

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Speaker 1: Those teachers know when a child changes their personality. If

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Speaker 1: she made an outcry of some sort, Nancy, you and

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Speaker 1: I both know perpetrators that molest children if they think

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Speaker 1: the facts is about to get involved. In Georgia, we

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Speaker 1: go to Kentucky. We go to Tennessee. If Tennessee is

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Speaker 1: closing in on us and she's gonna make another outcry,

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Speaker 1: perhaps she's pregnant, then we go to Wisconsin. We hide

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Speaker 1: her and let me say something else. Nancy, and you

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Speaker 1: and I both know this that it is not popular

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Speaker 1: when I say it. But if stepfather is not her father, period,

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Speaker 1: Watch the way he seeks when he says things like, well,

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Speaker 1: it's rough when somebody takes jers. She ain't jers, sir,

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Speaker 1: she's not your daughter. So when he changes any language,

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Speaker 1: that should be a clue. Guys want to pause very

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Speaker 1: a mad kid ever, in her life and this is

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Speaker 1: just really way on left field for her. These parents

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Speaker 1: aren't giving up, absolutely not. How we lost home and

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Speaker 1: will we lose hope? No, please come home. We do

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Speaker 1: miss you terribly. M that's w VLTCBS Knoxville, and you

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Speaker 1: were hearing porter of Robert Grant speaking with the mom

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Speaker 1: and the stepdad Little SAVANNAHY Pruett. That's stepdad Randall Pruitt

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Speaker 1: now behind bars on rape being held with no bond.

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Speaker 1: This is but we know the adoptive dad of Little

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Speaker 1: Savannah is behind bars. She's been found in Wisconsin. He

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Speaker 1: was arrested charged with rape. Monroe County Sheriff Tommy Jones

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Speaker 1: said the missing team was found, but that the rape

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Speaker 1: charge does not necessarily have anything to do not directly

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Speaker 1: correlated with the girl's disappearance. Now, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: that means. The sheriff says, quote, we don't believe at

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Speaker 1: this time he has connection to her being missing. How

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Speaker 1: do you decipher that? To Robie Willinski, I think that

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Speaker 1: the police are looking at the tentacles of the stepfather,

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Speaker 1: who does he know what one down in Georgia before

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Speaker 1: they suddenly left and moved to Madisonville, Tennessee. Nancy. I

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Speaker 1: think that they're still investigating him. Who he knows, what

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Speaker 1: the associates are, What is the mothers involved in it?

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Speaker 1: In this was they're enabling? Was she looking the other way?

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Speaker 1: That's why they're not connecting all the dust and telling

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Speaker 1: the public what they think is the connection. Doctor Bethanie Marshall,

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Speaker 1: LA psychoalenst way In. Well, you know, the investigator says

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Speaker 1: multiple people, multiple charges. Sure, it could be the person

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Speaker 1: who helped her escape. It could be, as one of

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Speaker 1: the guests said, the tentacles of the father's involvement in

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Speaker 1: the community and how he may have co opted other

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Speaker 1: people into his crimes, But it could also mean the

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Speaker 1: other children in the household. So intra familial molesters, men

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Speaker 1: who molest within their own families are the most prolific

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Speaker 1: of all molesters. It's multiple offenses, multiple times against the

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Speaker 1: same victim. It's not somebody who snatches a child off

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Speaker 1: a lawn, molests them, wants and kills them. This is

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Speaker 1: repeat offending. So when he says multiple people, multiple charges,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to have a vast conspiracy in the

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Speaker 1: community to bring these kinds of charges. You can have

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Speaker 1: one guy running loose in his own household and there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of charges. And I'm wondering if that's

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Speaker 1: also what the investigator was referring to pi Way in Nancy.

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Speaker 1: You could also have the figure to report on behalf

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Speaker 1: of the mother. If she knew what was going on

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Speaker 1: inside that home, which I suspect she did, and she

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Speaker 1: did not come forward, then she's liable as well. So

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Speaker 1: that could be the other charges of these multiple people too.

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Speaker 1: Daryl Cohen, this guy is sitting behind Mars, what's his

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Speaker 1: lawyer telling him? You're the defense attorney? As a lawyer,

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Speaker 1: I would tell him kyd BMS, which is keep your

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Speaker 1: damn big mouth shut. I have again so many questions.

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Speaker 1: How did they know that he raped her? Did she

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Speaker 1: leave on her own? Was she taken? Did she have

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Speaker 1: a series of people that she stayed with? Was she kidnapped?

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Speaker 1: These are all things that I need to know before

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Speaker 1: I can rush to judgment. But if I were here

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Speaker 1: before you can rush to judgment, absolutely rush to Johnny cockform,

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Speaker 1: he would be so proud of you right now throwing

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Speaker 1: that up, Cheryl McCollum, did you hear Daryl coh and

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Speaker 1: just say, let's not rush to judgment. Well, we'd had

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Speaker 1: three weeks. I don't think that's three weeks, because if

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Speaker 1: three weeks, you had three weeks three weeks. Know that

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Speaker 1: this was not ransom. She was not killed. She had

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Speaker 1: two cell phones of her at eleven o'clock at night

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Speaker 1: on a Sunday that stopped pinging one hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: miles away from where she left. She's been fed, she's

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Speaker 1: had shelter for three weeks. A fourteen year old girl

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Speaker 1: didn't pull that off by herself. Not possible. So what

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Speaker 1: where are you going with this? Yarl? That multiple people

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Speaker 1: were involved to get her that far? She didn't coordinate that,

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Speaker 1: she didn't get these people and say, hey, come to

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Speaker 1: my house at eleven o'clock at night and I'll stage

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Speaker 1: a crime scene and then drive me to Wisconsin and

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Speaker 1: feed me and shelter me and don't letbody see us

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Speaker 1: when we stopped for gasoline and we stopped for food

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Speaker 1: the seven hundred miles you're gonna take me? And then

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Speaker 1: only when my stepfather's arrested are you going to quote

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Speaker 1: find me? Fourteen year old girl didn't pull that off.

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Speaker 1: But if you listen to again to the stepfather when

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Speaker 1: he says things like I can't say, I can't sleep,

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Speaker 1: I can't risk you know where you do all those

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Speaker 1: things in the bed. So, Cheryl, you're saying this is

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Speaker 1: a conspiracy with a number of people that took her

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Speaker 1: after her stepfather raped her. I think you're dreaming, no

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Speaker 1: thought of conspiracy. That's my point. She did not pull

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Speaker 1: this off. She was taken, but she didn't do it.

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Speaker 1: Robert Willisky, it's my understanding that she was found because

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Speaker 1: of a tip, the one we've been broadcasting every day.

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Speaker 1: That is correct. Someone either saw her picture on TV,

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Speaker 1: on the crime online website, heard this on the news nationally,

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Speaker 1: knew it was her, and called the FBI hotline. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering to doctor Bethany Marshall, Psychoana's joining us about

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Speaker 1: her re entry into her home with her mother. Now

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Speaker 1: we're assuming a lot, Okay, We're assuming the rate charge

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Speaker 1: of the stepfather, Randall Pruett. We're assuming that she Savannah Leepruit,

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Speaker 1: the little girl, is the victim. Okay. Now they've said

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Speaker 1: very clearly that the charge is not correlated to her disappearance.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how else to interpret this, but I

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Speaker 1: know the dad, the step dad's behind bars on rape

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Speaker 1: and she's about to get on a plane with our

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Speaker 1: friend to take to phil Yaw who's going to bring

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Speaker 1: her home? Bethany, what will happen when she comes back

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Speaker 1: in the home. Well, Savannah needs a lot of support.

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Speaker 1: This idea that the rape charge is not connected to

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Speaker 1: her disappearance. How could what about this? What about this, Cheryl?

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Speaker 1: What about this? He's not charged with kidnapping her, but

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Speaker 1: the rape charge could have been the catalyst for her

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Speaker 1: leaving the home, Absolutely, Nancy. Investigators have interviewed her siblings,

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Speaker 1: They've interviewed neighbors, they've interviewed her friends. Clearly evidence about

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Speaker 1: the stepfather has come to the purpose. That's without discussion.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's a fact. Because he's been arrested. We

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Speaker 1: now know it's worth sexual assault Again, Was she spent

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Speaker 1: the West Thompson because she's pregnant? Did she you know,

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Speaker 1: make an out pride of somebody. I'm telling you, for

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Speaker 1: everything to be put into place, for her to get

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Speaker 1: seven hundred miles away and be kept for three weeks

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Speaker 1: virtually undetected is an extraordinary thing to happen. Instantly when

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Speaker 1: somebody inside the home was also staging the seat. Doctor Bethany,

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Speaker 1: what were you saying what I was saying. If the

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Speaker 1: rep charge is not connected to her disappearance, if the

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Speaker 1: father's a predator, or anything could have happened. She could

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Speaker 1: have watched witnessed him raping the mother in a domestic

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Speaker 1: violent situation. She could have witnessed him raping one of

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Speaker 1: her friends. We can't just assume it's sort of linear

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Speaker 1: in the way that we're thinking. You know, he's up

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Speaker 1: on rape charges. She was secreted away from the house

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Speaker 1: with a lot of help. She's a clever young woman. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: she got support from the community in extricating herself from

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Speaker 1: a very functional home. Something bad happened in that home,

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Speaker 1: and my clinical experience tells me that what we think

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00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: happened and what really happened may not be. There may

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Speaker 1: not be a one to one correspondence. It could be

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Speaker 1: worse than we think. She could have witnessed him raping

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Speaker 1: one of the siblings. But she definitely needed to get

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Speaker 1: away from a toxic environment, and I think she deserves

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Speaker 1: a lot of congratulations for getting the support and getting

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Speaker 1: away from this household. I mean, she obviously is quite resourceful.

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Speaker 1: We are just now getting breaking news out of the

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Speaker 1: Monroe County Sheriff's office. The authorities have confirmed that Randall

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Speaker 1: Lee Prue at forty one years old, yes, is charging

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Speaker 1: connection to the case of the missing girl, but the

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Speaker 1: charge was not directly correlated with the fourteen year old

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Speaker 1: daughter's disappearance. We are learning Prue was arrested after explicit

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Speaker 1: photos and videos were found on the team's cell phone.

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Speaker 1: Now what does that mean? Who is the victim? Why

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Speaker 1: is it on her cell phone? How did they get it?

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Speaker 1: Did they get her cell phone or did they get

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Speaker 1: it from their records request of all the cell phone

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Speaker 1: and media digital media data? Is that where they saw it?

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Speaker 1: Who is in it? What is it all about? We

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Speaker 1: don't know yet, but this is unfolding. We are learning, repeat,

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Speaker 1: we are learning, repeat that the circumstances of the arrest

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Speaker 1: of the adoptive father, the stepdad, regarded explicit photos videos

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Speaker 1: found on the teens cell phone. Nancy Grace Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: signing off goodbye,