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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news now on

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Speaker 1: how Moreno crashes into four cars on a Dallas freeway,

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Speaker 1: then gets out, grabs an eight inch knife from his

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Speaker 1: trunk and attacks the other drivers. Bystanders try to subdue Moreno.

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Speaker 1: He stabs one of them and hijacks a truck, running

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Speaker 1: over the owner. Moreno then hijacks a second car. Again,

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Speaker 1: the car's owner is run over, but this time the

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Speaker 1: owner's dragged across two lanes of traffic. The car crashes, surprise, surprise,

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Speaker 1: and the group of men pulled Moreno from the car,

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Speaker 1: holding him down until police arrive.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Moreno's violent rampage unfolds during morning rush hour. Morino

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Speaker 2: first stabs a man who confronts him with a metal

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Speaker 2: pipe after he jumped on a bystander's windshield. That victim

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Speaker 2: was stabbed in the ear and stomach. Each time a

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Speaker 2: bystander tries to help a victim, Morino injures that bystander.

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Speaker 2: This vicious cycle loops three times before where enough people

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Speaker 2: joined together to subdue Marino until police arrives.

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Speaker 3: On Hell.

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Speaker 1: Moreno twenty six charged with agasalt car theft and criminal mischief.

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Speaker 1: I'm holding out for attempted murder. Veron Lydell, working for

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Speaker 1: the Harvey School Dishact in Illinois, is in charge of

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Speaker 1: ordering food for meal kits provided to children learning remotely.

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Speaker 1: Lydell orders over eleven thousand cases of chicken wings, but

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Speaker 1: then steals the one point five million dollar order and

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Speaker 1: resells the meat. The business manager discovered the invoice during

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Speaker 1: an audit. The audit was called because the school was

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Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars over budget with half a year

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Speaker 1: still to go. The sixty eight year old lunch lady,

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Speaker 1: Vera Lydell now sent us to nine years behind bars

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Speaker 1: on theft and operating criminal enterprise. The lunch lady who

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Speaker 1: to funk it war Crime and Justice and us after

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

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Speaker 1: Crime alignes.

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Speaker 3: John Nley, a seventy three year old man from Mississippi,

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Speaker 3: has been charged with the strangulation murders of three southern

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Speaker 3: California women, crimes that date back to nineteen seventy seven.

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Speaker 3: We bring in Sydney Sumner of Crime Online for details.

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Speaker 2: California authorities have now revealed that Warren Luther Alexander was

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Speaker 2: linked to the cold cases through a DNA match, raising

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Speaker 2: concerns that there may be additional victims. Alexander, who hails

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Speaker 2: from Diamondhead, Mississippi, has yet to be arranged on the

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Speaker 2: three first degree murder charges. The arraignment has been postponed

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Speaker 2: until later this week, and he remains in custody without bail.

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Speaker 2: According to the Ventura County District Attorney's office, the path

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Speaker 2: that led to Alexander's arrests began when he was extradited

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Speaker 2: to California from North Carolina, where he is also a

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Speaker 2: suspect in another cold case murder from nineteen ninety two.

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Speaker 2: Ventura County District Attorney Eric Nasarenko disclosed during a press

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Speaker 2: conference that the California victims were found dead in Venturre County.

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Speaker 2: Each woman had been strangled with a ligature, a detail

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Speaker 2: that has haunted investigators for decades. The victims have been

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Speaker 2: identified as eighteen year old Kimberly Fritz, whose body was

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Speaker 2: discovered in Port Whu Nami on May twenty ninth, nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety seven, thirty one year old Velvet Sanchez found dead

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Speaker 2: in Oxnard on September eighth of that same year, and

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Speaker 2: twenty one year old The Rain Rodriguez, whose remains were

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Speaker 2: uncovered in an unincorporated area on December twenty seventh, nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventy seven. Authorities were finally able to connect Alexander to

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Speaker 2: these heinous crimes after a DNA sample entered into a

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Speaker 2: national database last year provided a match. This breakthrough was

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Speaker 2: made possible through the use of investigative genealogy, a technique

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Speaker 2: that had previously linked Alexander to the unsolved North Carolina

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Speaker 2: murder of Nonakabb in nineteen ninety two. Kabb's body had

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Speaker 2: been abandoned along Interstate seventy seven. Records indicate that Alexander

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Speaker 2: lived in Oxnard during the late nineteen fifties and sixties,

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Speaker 2: and he later returned to the area in the nineteen seventies.

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Speaker 3: During the seventies and extending into the early nineteen nineties,

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Speaker 3: Alexander worked as a long haul truck driver, a job

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Speaker 3: that often took came across the country, a detail that

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Speaker 3: may now hold even greater significance as investigators explore the

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Speaker 3: possibility of other unsolved crimes connected to his travels.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Sean, Abigail Bernstein sets up a year long round

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Speaker 1: trip journey at sea for herself and her two boys,

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Speaker 1: CoA nine and Cush six. Abigail CoA and Kush say

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Speaker 1: goodbye to family outside of Boat Harbor there in Hawaii,

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Speaker 1: promising to visit when they return. Relatives never hear from

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Speaker 1: them again. The FBI says Abigail lives a nomadic lifestyle

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Speaker 1: with her children and may be off grid, but investigators

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Speaker 1: have not ruled out foul play. The family has ties

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Speaker 1: to the Big Island and Maui. Abigail CoA and Kush

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Speaker 1: Bernstein now missing nearly two years. Last seen there at

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Speaker 1: the Harbor in October twenty twenty two. Abigail long brown

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Speaker 1: here and where glasses, sons, Coha and Cush long blonde hair.

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Speaker 1: If you have info on the Bernsteins, please call the

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Speaker 1: FBI eight and zero eight six seven three two seven

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Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace