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Speaker 1: Crime alert, I mean see grace breaking crime needs now.

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Speaker 1: Donovan Holt finds his wife April twenty nine, almost lifeless

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Speaker 1: in their Antiox, Tennessee apartment, with a plastic bag taped

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Speaker 1: around her neck. She's pronounced brain dad in the hospital

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Speaker 1: and taken off life support. Metro National PD ruled the

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Speaker 1: death of suicide, but her mom, Jamie Dickerson, doesn't accept that.

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Speaker 1: Dickerson discovers a report that says Donovan Holt's fingerprints are

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Speaker 1: on the bag and tape, not April's. Jamie confronts Donovan,

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Speaker 1: who admits he murdered his wife Nancy.

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Speaker 2: Donovan Holt did not even tell Jamie Dickerson that April

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Speaker 2: had a bag over her head while April fought for

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Speaker 2: her life in the hospital. On finding that out, Jamie

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Speaker 2: did not believe April would take her own life just

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Speaker 2: a few hours after making plans with her for the

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Speaker 2: next day over text. After Jamie secured the confession, Nashville

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Speaker 2: PD reopened the investigation and arrested Holt in San Antonio, Texas.

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Speaker 2: Holt has now been extradited back to Nashville.

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Speaker 1: Donovan Holt, thirty three, charged with reckless homicide, false reporting,

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Speaker 1: and tampering with evidence. A woman trying to enter Presidio,

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Speaker 1: Texas from Mexico, stopped for extra inspection when her luggage

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Speaker 1: weighs a lot more than expected. Border patrol finds eight

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Speaker 1: hundred pounds of Mexican bologney in the suitcases, prohibited in

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Speaker 1: the US due to the risk of foreign animal disease.

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Speaker 1: The woman, forty three, also carrying nearly three hundred boxes

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Speaker 1: of meds Xanax valuum. The attempted smuggler now facing one

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Fine, well, that's a bunch of bolognay, okay, sorry.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. Now with the

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Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Onlines.

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Speaker 3: John Linley, a California judge accused of murdering his wife,

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Speaker 3: is now on trial Orange County Superior Court judge Jeffrey Ferguson,

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Speaker 3: who's charge with the August twenty twenty three shooting death

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Speaker 3: of his wife, Cheryl Ferguson. Prosecutors say the seventy four

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Speaker 3: year old judge was drinking when an argument turned deadly

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Speaker 3: inside their Anaheim Hills home. Court filings reveal he later

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Speaker 3: texted his staff quote, I just lost it. I just

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Speaker 3: shot my wife. I won't be in tomorrow. I will

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Speaker 3: be in custody. I'm so sorry. Authorities found forty seven

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Speaker 3: weapons and more than twenty six thousand rounds of ammunition

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Speaker 3: in his home, but Ferguson has pleaded not guilty, claiming

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Speaker 3: the shooting was accidental. His defense attorney, Cameron Tally, says

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Speaker 3: the judge was putting away his gun when it discharged.

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Speaker 3: Ferguson is expected to take the stand in his own defense.

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Speaker 3: The case has shaken Orange County's legal community. A Los

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Speaker 3: Angeles County judge is overseeing the trial to avoid conflict

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Speaker 3: of interest, but the proceedings remain in Orange County. If convicted,

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Speaker 3: Ferguson faces to two twenty five years to life in prison.

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Speaker 3: A Connecticut man has admitted guilt in the fatal shooting

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Speaker 3: of an olympian's mother, struck by a stray bullet while

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Speaker 3: in her own home. Crime Online Sidney Sumner brings us

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Speaker 3: the details.

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Speaker 2: Twenty three year old Jasper Green of New Haven, Connecticut,

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Speaker 2: has pleaded guilty to the murder of fifty six year

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Speaker 2: old Mabel Martinez Anton Georgy. The incident occurred on April ninth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two in Waterbury, Connecticut, when a bullet pierced

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Speaker 2: the wall of Martinez Anton Georgie's home, fatally striking her

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Speaker 2: in the head as she was sewing. At the time.

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Speaker 2: Her daughter, Olympic athlete Yarimar Mercado Martinez, was in Brazil

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Speaker 2: for a competition. The shooting stem from a dispute involving

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Speaker 2: co defendant Franklin Robinson, who, along with Green and another man,

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Speaker 2: fired at a car parked on Martina's Antung Georgie Street,

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Speaker 2: mistakenly believing their target was inside. As part of a

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Speaker 2: plea agreement, Green faces a thirty five year prison sentence,

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Speaker 2: with the opportunity to argue for a reduced thirty year

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Speaker 2: term at his sentencing on June third. Robinson was previously

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Speaker 2: convicted and sentenced to ninety years in prison. The third suspect,

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Speaker 2: Levi Brock, has pleaded not guilty in is awaiting trial.

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Speaker 3: Another bystander was wounded in the incident but survived thanks John.

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Speaker 1: Lisa Kandler's two sons staying with their dad for the week,

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Speaker 1: so she plans a six hour drive from her Wolf City,

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Speaker 1: Texas home to visit Mom Starks Louisiana. Lisa calls mom

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Speaker 1: to let her know she's leaving after a doctor's appointment,

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Speaker 1: and the next morning, when she doesn't show up and

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Speaker 1: doesn't answer calls, Mom drives to Wolf City, finds Lisa's

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Speaker 1: car in the driveway, her dog running loose in the

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Speaker 1: front yard, the doors to the home unlocked, windows open,

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Speaker 1: TV on perse inside. Caninees tracked Lisa down Highway thirty

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Speaker 1: four to five miles until her scent abruptly stops. No

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Speaker 1: further clues found. Lisa Chandler forty four five six, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and ten pounds, brown hair, hazel eyes, scar upper

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Speaker 1: lip and below left eye. If you have info on

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Speaker 1: Lisa Candler, now missing seventeen years, call Hunt County, Texas

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Speaker 1: Sheriffs nine zero three four five three sixty eight hundred.

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Speaker 1: For the latest crime injustice news, go to crime online

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories, where we do our best to find missing people,

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Speaker 1: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,

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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.