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Speaker 1: Crime Lord Hourly Update, Breaking Crime News Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Dave matt. On the night of August third, nine

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Speaker 2: to one one is called about an unresponsive six year

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Speaker 2: old boy, Justin Elmore. The boy's father, Franklin Elmore Junior,

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Speaker 2: and Elmore's wife, Justin stepmother, tell first responders the boy

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Speaker 2: was hitting himself in the head due to behavioral issues.

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Speaker 2: Justin Elmore didn't survive, and neither did the story told

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Speaker 2: by his father and stepmother. An e R doctor and

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Speaker 2: trauma surgeon tell investigators they do not believe all of

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Speaker 2: the injuries were self inflicted. Those injuries included a brain

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Speaker 2: bleed and a punctured lung, as well as numerous bruises

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Speaker 2: and abrasions all over his body. During an interview with investigators,

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Speaker 2: Franklin allegedly admitted to police he had spanked the boy

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Speaker 2: before with a belt and sometimes put a bar of

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Speaker 2: soap in his mouth. Neighbors tell police they have seen

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Speaker 2: the father being harsh to his son, making the boy

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Speaker 2: do lengthy physical exercises in the Yardranklin admits to investigators

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Speaker 2: that this is his preferred method of discipline for his son.

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Speaker 2: Investigators find surveillance video from the home showing Franklin Elmore

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Speaker 2: pacing in the yard with his hands on his head

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Speaker 2: before Cheyenne calls nine to one one. He can be

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Speaker 2: heard muttering the word jail as he walked back into

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Speaker 2: the house, searching the father in stepmother's phones. Police find

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Speaker 2: no evidence of the child injuring himself, but they find

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Speaker 2: video and pictures of the boy with severe bruises, and

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Speaker 2: even some images of the child locked in his playroom.

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Speaker 2: The investigation reveals on the night of Sunday, August third,

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Speaker 2: just before nine pm, Franklin Elmore Junior attacked his ten

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Speaker 2: year old son Justin in his playroom. When the boy

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Speaker 2: became unresponsive, the boys stepmother, Cheyenne, called nine to one one.

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Speaker 2: The father and stepmother were both arrested and charged with

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Speaker 2: murder for the death of a six year old boy.

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Speaker 2: Franklin Elmore Junior pleads guilty in his sentence to fifty

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Speaker 2: five years for the murder of his son Justin and

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Speaker 2: ten more years for aggravated crimes. During sentencing, Or apologized

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Speaker 2: for his wrongdoing, but asked the judge to shorten his term,

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Speaker 2: saying quote, I want to come out as a better man,

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Speaker 2: different man, that's all I can do. The judge dismissed

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Speaker 2: his statement, telling Elmore, you literally beat your son to death.

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Speaker 2: Geanne Elmore pleaded guilty earlier this month to being partly

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Speaker 2: responsible in Justine's death. Personencing is scheduled for January thirteenth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. More crime injustice news coming out. The

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Speaker 2: death of Anna Kavner, the eighteen year old cheerleader found

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Speaker 2: dead under a bed on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship,

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Speaker 2: has been ruled a homicide on the death certificate and

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Speaker 2: was caused by a mechanical asphyxia, adding that she was

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Speaker 2: mechanically asphyxiated by other person persons. This could be explained

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Speaker 2: as the result of asphyxiation from a bar hold or

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Speaker 2: an arm held across the neck. Furthermore, her body showed

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Speaker 2: no signs of sexual assault, nor were drugs or alcohol

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Speaker 2: found in her system. Anna's grandmother said Anna was not

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Speaker 2: feeling well at dinner, had a problem with her braces

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Speaker 2: and excused herself, but was feeling better and joined her

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Speaker 2: in the casino later that evening. The date of her

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Speaker 2: fatal injury is listed as November sixth. Anna's grandmother is

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Speaker 2: now talking about the stepbrother who is possibly suspected in

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Speaker 2: her killing while on the family vacation. No person of

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Speaker 2: interest or suspect in the case has been publicly named,

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Speaker 2: but Anna's stepbrother may be the subject to a criminal

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Speaker 2: investigation in connection with her death, according to court filings

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Speaker 2: by captainer's stepmother and the woman's ex husband. In an

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Speaker 2: unrelated matter, Anna's grandmother, Barbara Kepner, says Anna and her

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Speaker 2: stepbrother were very close to peas in a pod. She

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Speaker 2: also says the sixteen year.

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Speaker 1: Old he was in a room with her. He was

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Speaker 1: the only one seen coming and going. So I can't

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Speaker 1: accuse him because I don't know what happened in that room,

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Speaker 1: but the summation would beat it that he did something.

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Speaker 2: Talking about the stepbrother on ABC.

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Speaker 1: He played soccer, very quiet young man. He had demons,

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Speaker 1: I think in his past and he was trying to

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Speaker 1: deal with those.

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Speaker 2: No details are given on what she means by demons

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Speaker 2: in this past, but the grandmother was present for part

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Speaker 2: of the FBI interrogation of the boy.

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Speaker 1: I heard him, in his own words say he does

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Speaker 1: not remember what happened.

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Speaker 2: The teen stepbrother reportedly hospitalized soon after her body was

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Speaker 2: found earlier this month. No reason has been given or

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Speaker 2: how long he was in the hospital, but it was

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Speaker 2: a mental health hospital. The attorney for chan Tell, Kapner's

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Speaker 2: ex husband alleges in court documents that Anna and her

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Speaker 2: sixteen year old stepbrother were allowed to drink alcoholic beverage

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Speaker 2: since the cruise was in international waters and contended Chantell

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Speaker 2: was not exercising appropriate supervision. Chantell's attorney, Millicent Athansen, pushed

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Speaker 2: back hard against this claim, citing videotapes from the ship

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Speaker 2: that showed no evidence of drinking. Anna had no alcohol

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Speaker 2: or drugs in her system when she died. Anna's father

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Speaker 2: wants his step son to face the consequences in the death,

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Speaker 2: and her biological mother, Heather Right, asks why was her

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Speaker 2: eighteen year old daughter sharing a cabin with a sixteen

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Speaker 2: year old boy. Wright has not been a big part

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Speaker 2: of Anna's life for many years, claiming her ex and

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Speaker 2: his father has painted her as the bad guy, and

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Speaker 2: that he initially left her out of Anna's online obituary

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Speaker 2: and banned her from attending the memorial service, threatening he

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Speaker 2: would have her thrown in jail for unpaid child support,

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Speaker 2: forcing her to go in secret. She also places blame

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Speaker 2: on her ex Christopher Kepner saying quote, he put them

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Speaker 2: in the same room together for the late is crime

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Speaker 2: Matt