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Speaker 1: Crime Art hourly update, breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jackie Howard. An eighty eight year old woman arrested

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Speaker 2: for leaving the scene of a crash. Carolyn Segrest is

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Speaker 2: driving her Buick Vision in the parking lot of a

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Speaker 2: Clearwater Sam's Club when she hits Laverne Hampton's mobility scooter.

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Speaker 2: Hampton is hospitalized after being thrown from the scooter. Four

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Speaker 2: hours later, the retired off to Janarian is booked for

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Speaker 2: leaving the scene of a crash involving serious injury. That's

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Speaker 2: a felony.

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Speaker 3: I'm Nicole Parking. Disturbing news out of New Mexico. A

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Speaker 3: mother faced arraignment this week on charges of child abuse

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Speaker 3: and allegations that she and her husband sexually assaulted their

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Speaker 3: sixteen year old daughter and her siblings while living in

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Speaker 3: extreme conditions on a sprawling thirty five acre plot of land,

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Speaker 3: which included living in underground tunnels. This according to prosecutors,

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Speaker 3: Valerie Cordell, forty one, from Demming, pleaded not guilty during

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Speaker 3: her arraignment in Luna County. As recorded in online court documents,

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Speaker 3: She faces sixteen counts of child abuse, one count of

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Speaker 3: criminal sexual penetration, and one count of conspiracy to commit

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Speaker 3: child abuse this following her arrest. According to prosecutors, Valerie

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Speaker 3: and her husband, Melvin Cordell, fifty, were involved in an

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Speaker 3: abusive treatment of their daughter, cohersing her into sexual acts

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Speaker 3: with her siblings in front of other adults. The six

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Speaker 3: Judicial District Attorney's Office reported in a press release that

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Speaker 3: during a four month investigation, authorities discovered that the family

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Speaker 3: of nine was residing in a semi rural area of

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Speaker 3: Luna County. Investigators described the living environment as inhumane like squalors,

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Speaker 3: detailing a rundown trailer, several unusable camping trailers, abandoned cars,

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Speaker 3: decaying food, heaps of trash buckets filled with human waste

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Speaker 3: scattered throughout the properties, while the children were living in

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Speaker 3: man made tunnels under Authorities became aware of the situation

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Speaker 3: in October and began their investigation after receiving tips from

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Speaker 3: New Mexico State police about the alleged sexual abuse occurring

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Speaker 3: at their residence. The couple's seven children, ages between six

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Speaker 3: months and sixteen years old, have been placed in protective

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Speaker 3: custody by the state. The DA's office indicated that authorities

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Speaker 3: were initially informed of a child who had been sexually

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Speaker 3: assaulted by her father since she was thirteen years old,

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Speaker 3: spanning four years. The children were reportedly found living in

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Speaker 3: filthy conditions, spending their nights on a mattress in a

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Speaker 3: semi underground cave tunnel, or trying to seek shelter in

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Speaker 3: a dilapidated vehicle. The sixteen year old victim allegedly told

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Speaker 3: authorities that she had been pregnant at least twice before,

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Speaker 3: with one pregnancy occurring when she was just sixteen years

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Speaker 3: old and another at fourteen. According to local news outlets

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Speaker 3: k r KAS, prosecutors described the Cordell property as resembling

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Speaker 3: a quote city trash landfill, with trash and spoiled food

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Speaker 3: scattered everywhere. Alongside the underground tunnels, the surrounding desert landscape

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Speaker 3: was said to be filled with rundown campers and cars.

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Speaker 3: Melvin Cordell is set to be arraigned on May five.

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Speaker 3: The couple is being held without bond.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was a medical examiner's official ruling. After a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide? Why what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen Greenberg a huge American miscarriage of justice.

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Speaker 1: For an in depth look at the facts, see What

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National

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Speaker 1: Set for Missing Unexploited Children.

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Speaker 4: I'm Drew Nelson, A bodybuilder father in New Jersey is

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Speaker 4: beaten to death in front of his teenage daughter after

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Speaker 4: confronting her alleged attacker. On Easter Sunday, fifty four year

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Speaker 4: old Lewis Gus Surbeck of Millville drove with his nineteen

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Speaker 4: year old daughter Brooke to a home on Leeming's Mill

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Speaker 4: Road and violin. Brooke had told him she was assaulted

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Speaker 4: there the day before by a seventeen year old boy.

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Speaker 4: Sirbek hoped to speak with the boy and his father,

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Speaker 4: fifty five year old Eric Hannah, who had been a

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Speaker 4: family friend for years. The meeting quickly turned violent. Prosecutors

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Speaker 4: said the teen punched Serbek in the face, then smashed

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Speaker 4: a window on his truck. When Sirbek tried to stop him,

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Speaker 4: the boy beat him in the head with a metal

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Speaker 4: baseball bat. Hannah then struck Sirbek in the skull with

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Speaker 4: a metal flashlight. Brooke was also hit in the head

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Speaker 4: during the fight. Police arrived to find Sirbek critically injured.

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Speaker 4: He died on the way to the hospital. The teen

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Speaker 4: and his father were arrested at the scene. Sirbek's brother

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Speaker 4: Christopher told w PVII, quote, he literally laid down his

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Speaker 5: He would do anything for anyone. He would take the

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Speaker 5: shirt off his back and give it to you just

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Speaker 5: because you needed it. You know, you call him, he'd

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Speaker 4: Christopher says the family had known each other for decades.

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Speaker 5: Who was a friend, no expectations of something like this

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Speaker 4: Surbeck was a father of two daughters and a grandfather

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Speaker 4: of two boys. He had grown especially close to Brook

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Speaker 4: in recent years. They often spent time together shopping or

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Speaker 4: working on projects. Family members say he once even called

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Speaker 4: His obituary described him as quote a fierce protector who

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Speaker 4: laid down his life to do what he does best,

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Speaker 4: to protect his family, to protect his baby girl. The

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Speaker 4: oh Bit also says, quote he was never happier than

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Speaker 4: when he had one of his daughters in his arms,

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Speaker 4: sharing a big, smiling cheek to cheek hug defely will

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Speaker 4: be missed. A fundraiser created by a friend of the

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Speaker 4: family has raised over eleven thousand dollars. Both suspects were

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Speaker 4: charged with homicide and weapons offenses. The teen also faces

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Speaker 4: aggravated assault charges for allegedly hitting broke. He remains in

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Speaker 4: as an adult. Hannah is being held at Cumberland County Jail.

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Speaker 6: I'm Jennifer Gould. A chilling declaration of misogyny permanently inked

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Speaker 6: across his chest allegedly foreshadowed a horrific crime spree that

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Speaker 6: has left a Florida community reeling. David Earl Gibson, forty,

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Speaker 6: a man bearing the words trust No Bitch as a tattoo,

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Speaker 6: is accused of a brutal rampage that ended the life

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Speaker 6: to a terrifying ordeal of savage beating, kidnapping, rape, and

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Speaker 6: ultimate confinement in a stifling toolbox. Washington County Sheriff Kevin

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Speaker 6: Cruz spoke to ABC thirteen News right after Gibson was

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Speaker 3: This man needed taken off the street, and it didn't

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Speaker 3: need to go another day.

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Speaker 6: It needed to happen today. The nightmare erupted around ten

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Speaker 6: victim's relatives owed him money, allegedly stormed their home. Gibson

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Speaker 6: allegedly began ransacking the residence, his rage quickly escalating into

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Speaker 6: woman's elderly mother in law, seventy four year old Letty

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Speaker 6: Cooper Collins, whom he allegedly beat mercilessly. The younger woman's

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Speaker 6: last horrifying glimpse of Collins alive was of her face

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Speaker 6: drenched in blood, her eyes swollen shut from the brutal assault.

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Speaker 6: The terror escalated to unimaginable levels when Gibson allegedly kidnapped

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Speaker 6: The ordeal continued as Gibson then shoved her into a

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Speaker 6: large toolbox into a shed on his property. Sheriff Cruz

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Speaker 6: chillingly described the scene at the news conference.

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Speaker 4: Sun around there and underneath if you could vision at

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Speaker 3: That's what he used.

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Speaker 6: Gibson then allegedly secured the toolbox, effectively bearing her alive

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Speaker 6: under plywood and other debris. But driven by an indomitable

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Speaker 6: her bound arms, pushing the heavy lid up the toolbox open,

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Speaker 6: a passing motorist found her and called for help. Deputies

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Speaker 6: were then led back to the victim's home, where they

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Speaker 6: found Letty Cooper Collins's lifeless body. Gibson was finally apprehended

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Speaker 6: after an hour's long manhunt involving state, federal, and local authorities.

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Speaker 6: He is currently held without bond facing charges of kidnapping,

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Speaker 6: sexual assault, and aggravated battery. Charges related to the brutal

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Speaker 6: death of Letty Cooper Collins are pending as the investigation continues.

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