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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crime News Now. Miranda Corsett's,

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Speaker 1: seventeen reported missing from Saint Petersburg when she doesn't come

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Speaker 1: home from a date. Investigators find Stephen Gress, thirty five,

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Speaker 1: sets up a date with Miranda at his home, but

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Speaker 1: when the teen arrives, she also makes his girlfriend, Michelle Brande's.

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Speaker 1: Not long into the date, Branda's flies into a rage

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Speaker 1: over a missing ring, accusing Miranda of being a thief.

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Speaker 1: The couple then torture Miranda, tying her to a chair,

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Speaker 1: beating her. Miranda dies when the couple shoves a pool

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Speaker 1: ball into her mouth and wraps her face with plastic wrap.

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Speaker 1: Gress and Branda's then dismember Miranda and leave her body

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Speaker 1: in a dumpster.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Will. Police believe Miranda died in Gress and Branda's

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Speaker 2: Saint Petersburg, Florida home. They believed the couple drove her

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Speaker 2: body to a home and largo, where they found evidence

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Speaker 2: of a dismemberment. A witness tipped police off to the

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Speaker 2: murder and believed the couple had dumped Miranda's body at

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Speaker 2: a gas station where Branda's works, but police had yet

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Speaker 2: to locate Miranda. Gress was already in custody when connected

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Speaker 2: to Miranda's disappearance on drug possession and pointing a dangerous

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Speaker 2: weapon a harpoon at his partner. Michelle Branda's later turned

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Speaker 2: herself in.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Gress thirty five. Michelle Branda's thirty seven charged with

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Speaker 1: kidnap and murder After a grocery run, Shelley Hardwick gets

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Speaker 1: in an argument with her boyfriend in their hotel room.

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Speaker 1: The argument turns into a screaming match. Shelley Hardwick grabs

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Speaker 1: a large watermelon and hurls it at the boyfriend. He dodges,

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Speaker 1: but he is covered in watermelon and seeds when it

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Speaker 1: explodes against the cabinet. Cops are called, while Shelley Hardwick

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Speaker 1: claims she only threw the watermelon out of frustration and

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Speaker 1: didn't intend to hurt her bow. The fifty one year

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Speaker 1: old Shelley Hardwick arrested for domestic battery by watermelon. 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 allize John Linley.

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Speaker 3: South Carolina is set to carry out its fifth execution

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Speaker 3: since resuming capital punishment last autumn after a thirteen year hiatus.

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Speaker 3: The state Supreme Court has scheduled Michael maddy to die

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Speaker 3: on April eleventh at six pm at a Columbia prison.

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Speaker 3: The forty one year old Maddi was convicted of murdering

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Speaker 3: an off duty police officer. He must choose between lethal injection, electrocution,

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Speaker 3: or a firing squad, the same method used earlier this

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Speaker 3: month for the nation's first execution by bullets in fifteen years.

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Speaker 3: If he does not decide by March twenty eighth, the

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Speaker 3: electric chair will be used. Meanwhile, the court has postponed

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Speaker 3: the execution of Stephen Bixby, convicted of killing two officers

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Speaker 3: in a two thousand three land dispute. A judge must

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Speaker 3: first rule on his mental competence. A psychologist says Bixby

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Speaker 3: understands his death sentence, but also believes blood found on

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Speaker 3: his clothes the night of the killings contains the debasa

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Speaker 3: of Jesus Christ. Three other inmates have been executed in

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Speaker 3: the States since September, all by lethal injection. A Pennsylvania

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Speaker 3: man has been sentenced for his role in a series

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Speaker 3: of high profile art and memorabilia thefts that spanned over

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Speaker 3: two decades. With more Here's Sidney Sunder of Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Forty nine year old Thomas Trotta of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, received

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Speaker 2: an eight year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to

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Speaker 2: the theft of major artwork. Trota was part of a

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Speaker 2: theft ring responsible for burglarizing twenty museums and institutions across

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Speaker 2: several states, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,

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Speaker 2: North Dakota, and Washington, d c. Among the stolen items

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Speaker 2: were Andy Warhol's silkscreen La Grand Passon and Jackson Pollock's

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Speaker 2: nineteen forty nine oil on canvas Springs Winter, both taken

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Speaker 2: from the Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and five. The group also targeted sports memorabilia, stealing nine

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Speaker 2: World Series rings and two MVP plaques belonging to baseball

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Speaker 2: legend Yogi Bearra. Trotta's attorney, Joe DeAndrea, acknowledged his client's

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Speaker 2: central role in the burglaries, stating he was the main burglar.

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Speaker 2: He was the one that went into the institutions and

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Speaker 2: burglarized them. The stolen items were often melted down and

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Speaker 2: sold for a fraction of their value, leading to the

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Speaker 2: loss of irreplaceable cultural artifacts.

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Speaker 3: Despite Trotta's cooperation with authorities, many stolen artworks and memorabilia

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Speaker 3: remain uncovered.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John. Antonio Sanchez, twenty three, works at mount Olive

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Speaker 1: Pickles in mount Olive, North Carolina. Antonio clucks out two

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Speaker 1: thirty pm Feb eight, planning to fish his usual spot

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Speaker 1: that afternoon. When he's still not home by nine pm,

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Speaker 1: his family reports him missing. Sure enough, mount Olive p

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Speaker 1: D finds his car parked at the cliffs of the

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Speaker 1: New State Park where he likes to fish. Officers hiked

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Speaker 1: down to his favorite spot find his gear, but no Antonio.

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Speaker 1: Searches by Wayne County Sheriffs, mount Olive p D, and

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Speaker 1: North Carolina State Parks r MAC, Water Response and Seven

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Speaker 1: Springs Fire Department turn up nothing. Antonio Sanchez Hispanic five eight,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty five pounds, shoulder length, black hair,

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Speaker 1: brown eyes. If you have any information on Antonio Sanchez,

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Speaker 1: please call Wayne County North Carolina Emergency Services nine one

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace