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Speaker 1: Crime alert. I'm John Lemley. We began with a major

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Speaker 1: cold case solved. After nearly four decades. In Missouri, authorities

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Speaker 1: have finally identified a man whose body was discovered in

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Speaker 1: the Mississippi River south of Saint Louis back in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety four. The man was Benny Leo Olson from Edwardsville, Illinois,

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Speaker 1: a city just across the river. For more than thirty years,

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Speaker 1: he was known only as John Doe. His remains were

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Speaker 1: exhumed recently so new DNA samples could be taken. Investigators

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Speaker 1: say those samples, combined with fingerprints that had been on

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Speaker 1: file since an earlier incident, enabled officials to make the identification. Olson,

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Speaker 1: who would now be around seventy six years old, had

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Speaker 1: struggled with severe mental illness. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia,

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Speaker 1: and in nineteen eighty was charged in Illinois with trying

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Speaker 1: to hire someone to burn down his stepmother's house. He

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Speaker 1: was a found not competent to stand trial and treated

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Speaker 1: at a mental health facility. Importantly, though his identity has

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Speaker 1: been confirmed, investigators say there is no indication of foul

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Speaker 1: play in his death. Family members say the resolution brings

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Speaker 1: some closure. One of his half sisters Katherine Heston, reflected

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Speaker 1: that while they'd always suspected something had happened, they quote

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Speaker 1: never really knew.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice news.

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Speaker 3: Go to crime online dot com and please join us

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Speaker 3: for our daily podcast Crime Stories.

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Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this.

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Speaker 3: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime

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Speaker 3: Online John Lemley.

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Speaker 1: In suburban Chicago, a fatal confrontation involving immigration and customs

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Speaker 1: enforcement is during controversy and political debate in Franklin Park, Illinois,

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Speaker 1: just west of Chicago. Ice officers say they fatally shot

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Speaker 1: Silverio Vaugis Gonzales after he allegedly tried to evade arrest

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Speaker 1: by driving his car at officers, dragging one of them.

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Speaker 1: Both the suspect and the dragged officer were taken to

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Speaker 1: a hospital. The suspect was pronounced dead. This incident comes

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Speaker 1: as part of a broader enforcement campaign known as Operation

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Speaker 1: Midway Blitz, a federal effort to crack down in states

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Speaker 1: with sanctuary policies. Supporters say it's about enforcing immigration law.

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Speaker 1: Critics say it risks overreach and undermining trust in communities.

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Speaker 1: Illinois Governor JB. Pritzker has called for a full investigation.

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Speaker 1: Local immigrant rights groups are demanding transparency and to crying

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Speaker 1: what they view as excessive force. In New York City,

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Speaker 1: authorities have apprehended a suspect in a brutal double homicide

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Speaker 1: involving an elderly couple whose home was set on fire.

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Speaker 1: The victims, seventy six year old Frank Olton and seventy

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Speaker 1: seven years old Maureene Olton, were found dead in their

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Speaker 1: queen's home earlier this week. Mister Olton was tied to

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Speaker 1: a pole and stabbed. Missus Olton died in the fire,

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Speaker 1: severely burned. The suspect, forty two year old Jammel McGriff,

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Speaker 1: was arrested in Midtown Manhattan. Police were able to track

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Speaker 1: him through surveillance footage and reports that the couples stolen

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Speaker 1: credit cards had been used. McGriff is a parolee with

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Speaker 1: a long criminal record, including robbery convictions, and he failed

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Speaker 1: to register as a sex offender last year. Authorities also

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Speaker 1: report that McGriff entered the home under false pretense, asking

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Speaker 1: if he could charge his phone, and remained inside for

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Speaker 1: several hours before the deadly events. Our final story This Hour,

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Speaker 1: a decade's long mystery in New Hampshire has taken a

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Speaker 1: significant turn. Nearly twenty five years after four bodies were

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Speaker 1: discovered in Bearbrook State Park. One of the young girls

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Speaker 1: has now been identif as Rhea Rasmussen. The case is

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Speaker 1: tied to serial killer Terry Rasmussen, who died in prison

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Speaker 1: in twenty ten after conviction in a separate murder. He

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Speaker 1: used many aliases and targeted vulnerable women. Rhea's biological mother

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Speaker 1: has been identified as Pepper Red, who disappeared in the

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Speaker 1: late nineteen seventies and remains missing. Another woman, Denise Bodin,

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Speaker 1: also had long been connected to the case, but her

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Speaker 1: fate remains unclear. Investigators say this identification underscores the power

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Speaker 1: of genetic genealogy in solving cold cases, and they continue

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Speaker 1: to urge the public to come forward with any information

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Speaker 1: that might help resolve remaining questions.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice needs.

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Speaker 3: Go to crime online dot com and please join us

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Speaker 3: for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our

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Speaker 3: best to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.

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Speaker 2: With this crime, I'm alerd, I'm Nitty Grace,