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Speaker 1: Crime alert, I meansy grace breaking crime news now. Eric

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Speaker 1: Stiles wakes up to find his wife's body at the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the stairs in their California home. He tells

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Speaker 1: nine one one Susan must have fallen in the dark

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Speaker 1: while he slept. As cop starts the hum they find

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Speaker 1: a clump of her hair and bloodstains on the curtains

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Speaker 1: in their daughter's bedroom. Autopsy reveals she died of strangulation.

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Speaker 1: The husband, Eric Stiles, arrested.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Stills nine to one one call was oddly detached,

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Speaker 2: the fifty eight year old telling dispatcher's quote, we've got

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Speaker 2: a patient here who's fallen off the stairs and I

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Speaker 2: don't have a pulse. Stills was a medical director at

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Speaker 2: a fertility clinic co founded by Susan Stills. Text messages

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Speaker 2: between the couple reveal that their relationship became strained when

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Speaker 2: Susan Stills posted a topless photo after losing a bet.

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Speaker 2: Prosecutors claim that's why Stills killed his wife while their

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Speaker 2: twelve year old twins slept.

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Speaker 1: Eric Steeles, fifty eight, now sentenced to fifteen years on homicide.

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Speaker 1: Florida cops find two unsupervised children, five and seven swimming

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Speaker 1: in a hotel pool. The childrenly cops down to the

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Speaker 1: beach where mommy and boyfriend are passed out. Police find

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Speaker 1: an empty bottle of whiskey and beer cans around Alicia

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Speaker 1: Langley and boyfriend Timothy Stephens. After quite the effort by

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Speaker 1: cops to wait the couple, they're asked, where are your children?

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Speaker 1: Timothy Stephens scans the ocean. Cops bring out the cups,

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Speaker 1: but Stevens makes a run for it, falling flat on

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Speaker 1: his face just a few feet away. Alicia Langley and

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Speaker 1: Timothy Stephens twenty seven now charged with child neglect. More

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Speaker 1: crime and Justice news after this. Now with the latest

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Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news. Crime on Lunch, John Lemley.

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Speaker 3: An American woman who pretended to be a wealthy heiress,

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Speaker 3: is being extradited to Northern Ireland to stand trial for

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Speaker 3: alleged scams in which she is charged with defrauding investors

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Speaker 3: of more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. In

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Speaker 3: the past, she was found guilty in a Los Angeles

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Speaker 3: scam that was discussed on the Queen of Con podcast.

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Speaker 3: We turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online for more.

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Speaker 2: Both British and American officials say that as a mortgage

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Speaker 2: councilor in Northern Ireland from March two thousand and eight

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Speaker 2: to October twenty ten, fifty four year old Marian Smith

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Speaker 2: is suspected of tricking five clients into making investments with

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Speaker 2: her when she was employed there. According to the officials,

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Speaker 2: she is accused of defrauding five individuals out of over

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Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds roughly one hundred

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Speaker 2: and seventy two thousand U S. Dollars, money that she

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Speaker 2: claimed would be invested but was really pocketed for herself.

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Speaker 2: On February twenty third, a warrant for her arrest was

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Speaker 2: signed and issued in Maine. She is to be arrested

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Speaker 2: there and extradited to Northern Ireland, where she faces charges

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Speaker 2: of four counts of theft and four counts of fraud

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Speaker 2: by abuse of position in Bangor. An extradition hearing is

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Speaker 2: scheduled for April seventeenth. While employed by an Independent Mortgage

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Speaker 2: Solution Ltd. As an independent mortgage advisor, Smith is charged

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Speaker 2: with defrauding the five individuals. A lawsuit submitted to the U. S.

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Speaker 2: District Court of Maine said she was expected to quote

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Speaker 2: safeguard the financial inns interests of her clients in that capacity. Rather,

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Speaker 2: US prosecutors claimed on behalf of British officials requesting her

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Speaker 2: extradition that she had stolen her customer's money. In July

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Speaker 2: of two thousand and nine, police in Northern Ireland were

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Speaker 2: notified of Smith's theft and deception. By then, however, she

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Speaker 2: had left the United Kingdom and returned to the United States.

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Speaker 2: Smith was found guilty in Los Angeles of scamming podcaster

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Walton, who has stated that he once thought of

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Speaker 2: her as his best friend years after she vanished from

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Speaker 2: Northern Ireland in two thousand and nine. Smith received a

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Speaker 2: five year sentence after being found guilty of grand theft

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Speaker 2: in California in January twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 3: Prosecutors have stated in court that Smith might spend up

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Speaker 3: to ten years in prison for each of the allegations.

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Speaker 3: As reported by our friends with The Guardian newspaper, the

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Speaker 3: founder of Wiki Leagues, Julian Assange, has been granted permission

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Speaker 3: by the London High Court to reopen his appeal against

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Speaker 3: being extradited to the US on charges of espionage. Once again.

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Speaker 3: Crime Online Sydney Sumner unless.

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Speaker 2: The United States offered quote satisfactory assurances regarding Assonge's ability

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Speaker 2: to rely on the First Amendment of the Constitution in

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Speaker 2: his potential exposure to the death penalty. The court decided

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Speaker 2: that as Songe might pursue his appeal at a full hearing.

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Speaker 2: It further stated that his nationality should not be a

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Speaker 2: factor in any unfairness throughout the trial or punishment process,

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Speaker 2: to quote decide if the assurances are satisfactory, and to

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Speaker 2: make a final decision on leave to appeal. A follow

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Speaker 2: up hearing is scheduled for May twentieth. For over ten years,

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Speaker 2: Assonge has been resisting extradition. He spent the first seven

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Speaker 2: of those years in self exile at the Ecuadorian embassy

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Speaker 2: in London, in the last five at the highly secure

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Speaker 2: Belmarsh Prison outside of the British capital. Prosecutors in the

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Speaker 2: United States say that as Songe assisted US Army intelligence

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Speaker 2: analyst Chelsea Manning in stealing diplomatic cables and military papers

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Speaker 2: that WikiLeaks published over fifteen years ago, putting lives at danger.

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Speaker 3: Massage faces seventeen espionage accusations and one computer abuse allegation

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Speaker 3: related to the secret material burial that Wikileak's published Thanks Sean.

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Speaker 1: Neighbors call Carrol County, Georgia cops after hearing a gunshot

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Speaker 1: from Jeremy Talbart's home. Inside, Cops find Talbert shot himself

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Speaker 1: when they informed the family. Cops discoverer Talbert has an

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Speaker 1: ex wife, Samantha, who hasn't been seen or heard of

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Speaker 1: in nearly two weeks. The couple had a history of

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Speaker 1: domestic violence, but Samantha's truck was parked in Talbert's driveway.

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Speaker 1: Samantha's daughter says she last spoke with mom Feb twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Cops find Samantha's phone was shut off not long after

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Speaker 1: that call, and no activity on bank accounts since. Samantha

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Speaker 1: Talbert five four shoulder length blonde hair missing nearly a month.

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Speaker 1: If you have info on Samantha Talbert, called Carrol County,

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Speaker 1: Georgia Sheriff's seven seven zero eight three zero five nine

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Speaker 1: one six for the latest crime in justice nees go

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Speaker 1: to crime online dot com with this crime alert. I'm

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace