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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'mancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Kevin Flick

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Speaker 1: excited to meet a seventeen year old high school girl

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Speaker 1: he's been talking to online. So the twenty one year

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Speaker 1: old Tennessee man hops applying to Michigan and tries to

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Speaker 1: enroll as a student at Mason County Central High School.

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Speaker 1: Employees are not fooled. Luckily, they call police.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Flick flies from Tennessee to Grand Rapids, then travels

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Speaker 2: around one hundred miles north to get to the school.

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Speaker 2: School officials became suspicious when Flick told them he flew

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Speaker 2: from Tennessee but did not have an ID. When police

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Speaker 2: show up, Flick gives officers fake names and ages, but

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Speaker 2: they eventually determine his real name in Ah.

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Speaker 1: Flick now charged with possessing child sex, abusive material, contributing

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Speaker 1: to the delinquents of a minor, and giving false info

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Speaker 1: to a cop. More crime and justice news after this

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Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news.

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Speaker 3: Crime Online's John Lemley, a Texas in who had long

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Speaker 3: maintained that his conviction more than twenty years ago was

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Speaker 3: founded on fabricated testimony and questionable evidence, has been put

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Speaker 3: to death for shooting two people, one of whom was

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Speaker 3: his cousin. We turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online

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Speaker 3: for details.

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Speaker 2: After being given a lethal injection at the State Penitentiary

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Speaker 2: in Huntsville, Texas for the November two thousand shooting deaths

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Speaker 2: of his twenty seven year old cousin, James Muskada in

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Speaker 2: his twenty two year old girlfriend, Amy Kitchen, Ivan Cantu

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Speaker 2: was declared dead a short time later. During his last

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Speaker 2: moments in the execution chamber, the fifty two year old

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Speaker 2: prisoner repeatedly declared his innocence. The prosecution claimed that Cantu

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Speaker 2: killed Kitchen and Muskada, two drug dealers, while attempting to

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Speaker 2: take cash, marijuana, and cocaine from his cousin's North Dallas residence.

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Speaker 2: Convicted in two thousand and one, the prisoner had long

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Speaker 2: maintained that his relative was slain by a rival drug

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Speaker 2: dealer in a money dispute. Police discovered a key to

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Speaker 2: the victim's house in bloody trousers with the victim's DNA

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Speaker 2: in Kantu's apartment. At his ex girlfriend's house, police discovered

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Speaker 2: Cantu's gun. Cantu's fingerprints were discovered on the gun's magazine,

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Speaker 2: while most Kada's blood was discovered on the weapons barrel.

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Speaker 2: Matthew Geller, a trial attorney for Cantu, stated in an

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Speaker 2: affidavit from two thousand and five that Cantu told him

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Speaker 2: quote he had indeed killed most Kada for ripping him

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Speaker 2: off on a drug deal, and that Kitchen was slain

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Speaker 2: because she was a witness. The primary witness for the

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Speaker 2: prosecution was Amy Baucher, Cantu's ex girlfriend. After most Cada

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Speaker 2: and Kitchen were killed, Cantu took Baucher back to the

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Speaker 2: crime scene. This according to her testimony. Baucher died in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 3: Cantu's lawyer, Gina Bunn, however, claimed that Baucher made numerous

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Speaker 3: false claims during testimony overseas. Now as, the trial of

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Speaker 3: a man being investigated in connection with the disappearance of

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Speaker 3: British toddler Madeleine McCann is now under way in Germany,

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Speaker 3: and his attorney has announced that the man will not

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Speaker 3: be answering to unrelated allegations of sexual offenses. The forty

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Speaker 3: seven year old German, identified by news outlets as Christian Brucker,

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Speaker 3: is on trial at the Northern German State Court in

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Speaker 3: Brownschfeig gone three charges of rape and two counts of

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Speaker 3: sexual abuse of children. It's alleged that between two thousand

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Speaker 3: and twenty seventeen he committed the crimes in Portugal. In

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Speaker 3: the German legal system, there are no formal pleas and

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Speaker 3: defendants are not required to answer to the allegations after

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Speaker 3: entering a guilty plea. A man has received a life

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Speaker 3: sentence in prison for the sexual assaults of four women,

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Speaker 3: three of whom were former members of the same National

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Speaker 3: Black Sorority, crimes that occurred in their Metro Dallas homes.

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Speaker 3: Once again Crime Online Sydney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: Fifty two year old Jeffrey Lemmer Wheat entered his plea

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Speaker 2: in Collin County District Court. According to our friends with

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Speaker 2: the TV station WFAA, the sentencing was issued by judges

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Speaker 2: from four different counties through video conferencing. The assaults took

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Speaker 2: place in the counties of Dallas, Denton, Colin, and Terrant.

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Speaker 2: Wheat was given two life termsters, one for a Arrant

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Speaker 2: County burglary with intent to commit another felony, and the

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Speaker 2: others from Colin County were now learning from prosecutors and

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Speaker 2: court documents that he was also sentenced to thirty years

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Speaker 2: in prison for an aggravated sexual assault charge from Dallas

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Speaker 2: County and twenty years for a sexual assault charge from

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Speaker 2: Denton County. W FAA is reporting that wheat sentences are

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Speaker 2: to be served concurrently. Technology limitations during the two thousand

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Speaker 2: and three investigation resulted in the case being suspended. However,

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Speaker 2: prosecutors in Tarrant County say that years later, DNA testing

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Speaker 2: connected the case to three others from twenty eleven. Colin

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Speaker 2: County prosecutors stated that after that detectives worked for two

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Speaker 2: years with genetic genealogy labs and performed genealogical research in

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Speaker 2: an effort to find a person of interest. The prosecution

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Speaker 2: said that all of the victims in the twenty eleven

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Speaker 2: cases were members of the sorority Delta Sigma Theta.

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Speaker 3: Colin County prosecutors also said that Plano police discovered that

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Speaker 3: Wheat's employment with a credit card processing company used by

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Speaker 3: the sorority gave him access to personal and information about

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Speaker 3: the victims.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John, The disappearance of Christine Marie Easton haunts investigators

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Speaker 1: over half a century. Christine nineteen vanishes January nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: one after a trip to the car wash. Her sixty

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Speaker 1: nine Ford Maverick found abandon locked with her purse inside.

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Speaker 1: Investigators release an AIDS progressed photo in nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: It pulls no leads at all, but in twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: a breakthrough a witness report seeing two men abduct Christine

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Speaker 1: and drive off in a white van. Still no suspects named.

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Speaker 1: There's a fifty thousand dollars reward for info leading to

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Speaker 1: the conviction of those responsible for Christine Marie Easton's disappearance.

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Speaker 1: If you have info on Christine, please contact Hayward, California

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Speaker 1: PD five one zero two ninety three seven one seven six.

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Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice news, go to crime

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