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Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update Breaking crime these Now. I'm Drew Nelson.

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Speaker 1: Sean Diddy Combs will be sentenced on October three in

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Speaker 1: New York after a federal jury found him guilty on

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Speaker 1: two counts of transporting individuals to engage in prostitution. The

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Speaker 1: sentencing date is set after both sides reached an agreement

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Speaker 1: before Tuesday's hearing, Combs's representatives dropped a plan to ask

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Speaker 1: for an earlier sentencing date. Prosecutors planned to argue for

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Speaker 1: a sentence of four to five years, the defenses pushing

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Speaker 1: for a sentence closer to two years, claiming Combs did

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Speaker 1: not profit from prostitution and that any sex acts were

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Speaker 1: between consenting adults. Meanwhile, new civil lawsuits continue to surface.

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Speaker 1: On Monday, a man using the name John Doe sued

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Speaker 1: Combs for sexual battery and emotional distress. He alleged Comb's

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Speaker 1: masturbated into a shirt once worn by the late Notorious

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Speaker 1: Big and threw it on him, saying quote Rip Biggie.

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Speaker 1: The suit also claims Combs forced him to take drugs

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Speaker 1: and sexually assaulted him in two thousand and five and

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Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. Another male escort known during the

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Speaker 1: trial as Dawn has spoken publicly. Now Don says he

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Speaker 1: had taken part in sex parties with Combs and his

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Speaker 1: girlfriends Cassie and Jane, but claimed he did not know

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Speaker 1: the women were being coerced. On Saturday, a former escort

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Speaker 1: named Clayton Howard, who testified under the name Dave, filed

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Speaker 1: a twenty million dollar lawsuit against both Combs and Cassie Ventura.

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Speaker 1: Howard says he was drugged, manipulated, and forced into sex

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Speaker 1: acts for nearly a decade. He accused Ventura of giving

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Speaker 1: him an SDD, coercing him into unprotected sex, and aborting

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Speaker 1: his child without his knowledge. He also claimed that federal

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Speaker 1: prosecutors ignored Ventura's role in order to focus on convicting Combs.

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Speaker 1: Howard said in a video quote, the US Attorney's Office

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Speaker 1: is well aware that she was a co conspirator. They

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Speaker 1: only cared about getting ditty. Another exotic dancer, Charay Hayes,

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Speaker 1: who calls himself the Punisher, gave an interview to Radar

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Speaker 1: Online describing his own encounters at Freakf's. He said Combs

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Speaker 1: would watch from behind a head scarf while he had

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Speaker 1: sex with Ventura. In one instance, Combs reportedly got so

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Speaker 1: excited that he threw down a stack of cash mid

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Speaker 1: act in approval of what he was seeing. Since Comb's

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Speaker 1: acquittal on racketeering charges, the comparisons to the O. J.

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Speaker 1: Simpson trial have grown. Robert Shapiro, who helped acquit Simpson

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety five, praised Comb's legal team on Fox

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Speaker 1: News Digital for winning quote a rare federal acquittal. Harvard

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Speaker 1: Law professor and OJ lawyer Alan Dershowitz agreed, telling Fox

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Speaker 1: Quote the smart decision was not putting Combs on the

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Speaker 1: witness stand. He called the judge's denial of bail quote

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Speaker 1: vindictive and wrong, adding quote he was convicted of transactional

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Speaker 1: consensual sex with two adults, and Comb's lawyer, Tenny Gerrigos

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Speaker 1: just so happens to be the daughter of OJ lawyer

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Speaker 1: Mark Gerrigos. Combs sentencing on October third, comes coincidentally on

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Speaker 1: the same day O. J. Simpson was acquitted three decades earlier.

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Speaker 1: For more on the trial of Sean Diddy Comb's follow

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on your favorite podcast app

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Speaker 1: and join us Nancy at her new time seven pm

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Speaker 1: Eastern on Merritt Street Media. Check your local listenings, four

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Speaker 1: Channel Assignment more crime and justice news after this. Brian

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Speaker 1: coburger signed confession in the stabbing deaths of four University

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Speaker 1: of Idaho students is now public. Last Wednesday, Coburger submitted

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Speaker 1: a written statement to the court in Leyta County, Idaho,

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Speaker 1: confessing to all five felony charges against him that includes

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Speaker 1: one count of burglary and four counts of first degree murder.

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Speaker 1: In the signed document, Coburger said he quote did unlawfully

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Speaker 1: enter the residence located at eleven twelve King Road, Moscow, Idaho,

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Speaker 1: with the intent to commit the crime of murder. He

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Speaker 1: also admitted he quote did wilfully, unlawfully, deliberately, with premeditation

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Speaker 1: and with malice of forethought, kill and murder Madison Mogan,

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Speaker 1: Kaylee Gunzalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Coburger's attorneys said

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Speaker 1: he made the statement voluntarily without co version. Sentencing has

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Speaker 1: not yet been scheduled. Under the plea agreement, he avoids

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Speaker 1: the death penalty and does not have to give a

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Speaker 1: detailed confession. A California man is behind bars after police

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Speaker 1: say he tried to slip back into the country just

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Speaker 1: days after the body of his missing ex girlfriend was found.

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Speaker 1: Martin Mendoza, aged twenty, was arrested Sunday at the Calexico

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Speaker 1: border crossing. Police say he had fled to Mexico soon

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Speaker 1: after eighteen year old Marissa Danapoli vanished. He is not

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Speaker 1: cooperating with authorities. Danapoli was last seen alive June twenty ninth.

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Speaker 1: She had left a home in Morgan Hill that morning

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Speaker 1: with Mendoza, who was her ex boyfriend. Dianapoli had sent

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Speaker 1: a text to her family the night before saying she

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Speaker 1: was staying with a friend. When she didn't return messages

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Speaker 1: or answer calls, her family reported her missing on June thirtieth.

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Speaker 1: On Thursday, police found her body near Anderson Reservoir. Investigators

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Speaker 1: found footage of Mendoza walking away from the home again alone,

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Speaker 1: this time carrying a large bag. Pelisse say he refused

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Speaker 1: to answer questions and disappeared soon after. Appoli's family blames

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Speaker 1: police for letting him go. They are asking for an

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Speaker 1: outside review of how the case was handled. An Indiana

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Speaker 1: man is jailed for murder after police say he hunted

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Speaker 1: down and killed a sex offender who had been released

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Speaker 1: from prison just weeks earlier for molesting his young family member.

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Stanley, H thirty five, is accused of shooting Alan

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Speaker 1: Cogswell June twenty fourth at the Daylight Inn in Elkhart.

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Speaker 1: Witnesses saw Stanley looking through the window of Cogswell's motel

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Speaker 1: room holding a gun. Police say he knocked on the door,

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Speaker 1: opened fire, and then fled. Cogswell was found dead inside

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Speaker 1: the room with gunshot wounds to his head and chest.

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Speaker 1: Surveillance footage captured Stanley at the scene. The getaway vehicle

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Speaker 1: was traced to his father, Pelise Say. Stanley first claimed

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Speaker 1: he did not know Cogswell had been released. Stanley later

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Speaker 1: spoke in a jailhouse interview with WBND, I did what

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Speaker 1: I had to. I took him out. I'm just I'm

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Speaker 1: tired of pretending like I get something wrong, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like I did anything. Long in their

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Speaker 1: thousands of people out there that agree with Stanley is

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Speaker 1: being held without bond. A former MTV sixteen and pregnant

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Speaker 1: star is back in jail, and Georgia charged in a

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Speaker 1: fentanyl death just weeks after losing her own son, Whitney

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Speaker 1: Blake Purvis, aged thirty three, is being held without bond

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Speaker 1: in Floyd County. Police say she gave thirty seven year

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Speaker 1: old John Mark Harris a street drug mix known as Trenk,

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Speaker 1: which includes fentanyl and the animal tranquilizer zylazine. He overdosed

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Speaker 1: inside a home in Rome, Georgia, on February sixteenth. Purvis

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Speaker 1: is charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and other crimes. Court

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Speaker 1: records say she did not mean to kill Harris, but

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Speaker 1: that the drugs that she gave him quote directly contributed

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Speaker 1: to his death. Just a month earlier, June second, Purvis

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Speaker 1: lost her son, Weston Owen Gosa Junior, at age sixteen.

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Speaker 1: After his death, Purvis accused her ex partner, Weston Gosa Senior,

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Speaker 1: of neglecting the boy's medical needs. She said Weston Junior

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Speaker 1: had health problems and no insurance. She also said Gosa

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Speaker 1: blocked her from attending the funerals. Stepmother later told the

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Speaker 1: media that Purvis hadn't spoken to her son in years

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Speaker 1: and arrived late to the funeral service. Purvis appeared on

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Speaker 1: MTVS sixteen and Pregnant in two thousand and nine. Before

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Speaker 1: her arrest. She commented on John Mark Harris's online obituary quote,

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Speaker 1: thank you for being such a great friend to me

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Speaker 1: and always making me feel beautiful and cared for. For

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Speaker 1: the latest crime and justice news, follow Crime Alert hourly

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Speaker 1: update on your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert.

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Speaker 1: I'm Drew Nelson