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Speaker 1: Crime al art, I mean see grace breaking crime. The

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Speaker 1: is now our Jennifer Gould standing by Jennifer Nancy.

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Speaker 2: A father's chilling unraveling has been caught on camera. Just

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Speaker 2: three days before Travis Decker allegedly murdered his three young daughters.

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Speaker 2: A newly released dash cam video shows the Washington State

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Speaker 2: dad acting like a man on the very edge during

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Speaker 2: a bizarre roadside encounter. The May twenty seventh footage from

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Speaker 2: the Wenatchee Police officer Timothy Jeffreys cruiser captures Decker, thirty two,

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Speaker 2: in the aftermath of a minor car crash, but it's

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Speaker 2: his unsettling behavior that truly alarms. He's seen pestering the

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Speaker 2: other driver, reportedly with obsessive questions, repeating quote are U

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Speaker 2: okay at least six times in under two minutes despite

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Speaker 2: being reassured. According to King Fi TV, his reported disjointed

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Speaker 2: responses mumbling about quote needing to get some where end quote,

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Speaker 2: and blank stares paint a portrait of a man spiraling

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Speaker 2: before the unthinkable crime that shattered a community. The driver

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Speaker 2: Decker crashed into told King TV off camera that Decker

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Speaker 2: appeared quote nervous and fidgety. End quote, and kept telling

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Speaker 2: him quote not to call police end quote. He even

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Speaker 2: described Decker's body language is quote intimidating, and his handshake,

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Speaker 2: which lasted nine seconds, as quote tight. The man stated

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Speaker 2: he quote could tell he was not in his full

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Speaker 2: senses end quote, and that Decker admitted he quote feared

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Speaker 2: going to jail end quote. Decker was cited for driving

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Speaker 2: without insurance, and authorities also noted he'd left the scene

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Speaker 2: of a separate crash on May fourth. Then on May thirtieth,

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Speaker 2: a mere three days after this unsettling interaction, Decker picked

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Speaker 2: up his daughters, Peyton nine, Evelyn eight, and Olivia five

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Speaker 2: for a court ordered visitation. He never returned them to

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Speaker 2: their distraught mom, Whitney Decker, sparking an immediate missing person's report.

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Speaker 2: Then on June second, the unthinkable occurred. The girl's small,

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Speaker 2: lifeless bodies were discovered near Decker's abandoned truck at Rock

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Speaker 2: Island Campground in Shellan County, roughly seventy five to one

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Speaker 2: hundred yards down an embankment. Autopsies delivered the grim truth

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Speaker 2: the girls died of asphyxiation with plastic bags over their heads,

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Speaker 2: and at least one with her wrists zip tied. Two

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Speaker 2: bloody handprints were also on the tailgate of his truck.

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Speaker 2: DNA confirmed it was Decker's cementing his presence at the

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Speaker 2: crime scene. Decker, an Army veteran with survivalist training who

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Speaker 2: had recently researched moving to Canada and Canadian jobs, vanished

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Speaker 2: into the rugged terrain, triggering a massive manhunt now dragging

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Speaker 2: into its seventh week near Sheland County Sheriff Mike Morrison

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Speaker 2: at a previous news conference, He's going to have to

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Speaker 2: aim for perfection. He's not going to be able to

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Speaker 2: make a mistake, because all we need is one mistake

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Speaker 2: and one day to go in our favor, and he's

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Speaker 2: going to be in our custody. The US Marshall Service,

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Speaker 2: alongside a formidable coalition of local, state, and federal agencies,

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Speaker 2: has scoured hundreds of square miles of unforgiving terrain. A

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Speaker 2: June tenth siding near Blue At Pass, based on hiker's

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Speaker 2: reports of a lone, disheveled man avoiding contact, raised hopes,

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Speaker 2: but searches yielded nothing. A July fifth tip in Idaho's

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Speaker 2: Sawtooth National Forest led to a lookalike hiker later cleared,

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Speaker 2: stalling that lead officials note no certain evidence confirming Decker

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Speaker 2: is alive, and cadaver dogs have now joined the effort.

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Speaker 2: Decker is described as white, five foot eight, one hundred

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Speaker 2: and ninety pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He

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Speaker 2: is considered armed and dangerous. Whitney Decker described her ex

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Speaker 2: husband as experiencing mental health issues and being homeless at

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Speaker 2: the time. She also stated through her attorney, she wants

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Speaker 2: the fugitive father found dead or alive for closure. A

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Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars reward is offered for information leading to

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Speaker 2: his capture. Contact the US Marshals at five zero nine,

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Speaker 2: nine two, five eight, five three four or nine one

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Speaker 2: one for the latest on this case. Watch Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: Thanks, Jennifer. More crime and justice news after this.

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Speaker 2: In a stomach churning betrayal, two Florida women allegedly applied

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Speaker 2: a juvenile girl with alcohol declared she was quote going

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Speaker 2: to become a woman tonight end quote and then orchestrated

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Speaker 2: her rape by a fifteen year old boy. Sandra Suarez Ramirez,

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Speaker 2: thirty three, and Jenessa Pierce, thirty four, now face a

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Speaker 2: litany of charges for their alleged roles in the depraved scheme.

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Speaker 2: Detailed by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, the horrific incident

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Speaker 2: unfolded at a home in Big Compet, Key. According to police,

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Speaker 2: Ramirez and Pierce deliberately coerced the underage victim into downing

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Speaker 2: to resist. The chilling prelude allegedly set the stage for

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Speaker 2: the unthinkable. Police say the woman's actions directly facilitated the crime,

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Speaker 2: allowing Pierce's younger brother, a fifteen year old, to then

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Speaker 2: rape the victim. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, taking over

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Speaker 2: the investigation due to jurisdictional ties, swiftly moved to arrest

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Speaker 2: Ramirez and Pierce. They were initially charged with john neglect,

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Speaker 2: delinquency of a minor. Following authorities are also considering further

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Speaker 2: charges related to sexual assault. Facilitation as the investigation continues.

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Speaker 2: The juvenile suspect, whose identity is protected due to his age,

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Speaker 2: faces rape charges and is being processed through the juvenile

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Speaker 2: justice system. Ramirez and Peers are currently held at the

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Speaker 2: Maricopa County Jail, both on a ten thousand dollars bond.

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Speaker 2: The investigation remains ongoing, and finally, imagine your heart seizing

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Speaker 2: as the police department calls, only to have your terror

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Speaker 2: turned to sickening rage when the voice on the other

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Speaker 2: end delivers not a warning but a vile, twisted insult.

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Speaker 2: This nightmare became chilling reality for Ohio resident Karen Clinton,

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Speaker 2: leading to the sensational arrest of a former nine to

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Speaker 2: one to one dispatcher now facing criminal charges for a

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Speaker 2: cruel and shocking phone call. Loretta Nash, a former Twinsburg

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Speaker 2: Police Department dispatcher, is now facing telecommunications harassment charges after

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Speaker 2: allegedly hitting Karen with a call designed to harass, intimidate,

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Speaker 2: or abuse. The city wasted no time confirming Nash is

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Speaker 2: no longer employed Swift Justice for an incident that has

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Speaker 2: shaken community trust in its emergency services. The disturbing call

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Speaker 2: began with classic police formality quote Karen, it's the Twinsburg

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Speaker 2: But then the prank turns to punishment. Nash allegedly told

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Speaker 2: Clinton she'd quote won a prize end quote for her

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Speaker 2: whopping one hundred and eighty three calls over fifteen years,

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Speaker 2: the grand prize. Take a listen, So you wouldn't the prize.

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Speaker 2: It's called the Booby Prize. You are the dumbest person

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Speaker 2: to call this police department on a repeated basis, So

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Speaker 2: thank you for being arrested this city and have a

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Speaker 2: wonderful light. Clinton, a former nine to one to one

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Speaker 2: dispatcher herself, was left stunned and emotionally shattered. She immediately

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Speaker 2: reported the malicious mouthful to city Hall, sitting in motion

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Speaker 2: the investigation that led to Nash's downfall. Nash pleaded not

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Speaker 2: guilty and is out on bond, with her trial set

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Speaker 2: for September. This phone drama definitely far from over, Nancy.

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