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Speaker 1: Crime a Lord hourly update Breaking crime news Now. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jackie Howard, a young Ohio woman shot dead playing a

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Speaker 1: game of Russian Roulette with a friend. According to prosecutors,

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Speaker 1: Rachel Counts, twenty three, suffered a gunshot wound to the

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Speaker 1: chest October fifth at a home in northern Cincinnati. Reportedly,

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Speaker 1: Rachel had been playing cards with O'maron Horn, also twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Horn allegedly pulled out a gun, removed all but one bullet,

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Speaker 1: asking Rachel if she wanted to play Russian Roulette. Prosecutor

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Speaker 1: say Horn then pointed the gun at Rachel and pulled

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Speaker 1: the trigger. Rachel pronounced dead at the scene and Horn arrested,

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Speaker 1: charged with felony murder, felony assault, and reckless homicide. More

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Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jennifer Gould. The long awaited new official review of

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Speaker 2: Ellen Greenberg's mysterious twenty eleven death has delivered a devastating

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Speaker 2: final blow to her family. The Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office

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Speaker 2: has again classified the case as a suicide, despite the

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Speaker 2: beloved twenty seven year old teacher being found with twenty

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Speaker 2: stab wounds, including to the back of her head. Chief

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Speaker 2: Medical Examiner doctor Lindsay Simon upheld the controversial ruling in

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Speaker 2: a thirty two page report. Simon acknowledged the case's grim facts,

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Speaker 2: noting that, quote the distribution of injuries is admittedly unusual

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Speaker 2: end quote, but concluded that Greenberg, who was being treated

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Speaker 2: for anxiety, quote, would be capable of inflicting these injuries

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Speaker 2: herself end quote. The Emmy's office stated its opinion was

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Speaker 2: expressed with a quote reasonable degree of medical certainty end quote.

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Speaker 2: Ellen's father, Josh Greenberg, spoke to Nana Grace on a

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Speaker 2: previous episode of Crime Stories The Truth.

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Speaker 1: That's all Sanny and I have ever a S four

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Speaker 1: for Ellen, The Truth about Her Our Dead.

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Speaker 2: Greenberg was discovered dead in her apartment on January twenty six,

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Speaker 2: twenty eleven, by her fiance Sam Goldberg, during a blizzard.

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Speaker 2: The autopsy confirmed the horrific scene twenty puncture wounds to

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Speaker 2: her neck, heart, and back, with the knife still launched

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Speaker 2: in her chest. Goldberg has never been id'd as a suspect.

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Speaker 2: The ruling ignited immediate fury from the family's attorney, Joseph Padroza,

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Speaker 2: who called the report quote unquote tribe and a quote

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Speaker 2: deeply flawed attempt to justify a predetermined conclusion end quote.

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Speaker 2: Pedraza specifically attacked Simon's attempt to dismiss a stab wound

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Speaker 2: found in the victim's spinal column, calling the official theory

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Speaker 2: a quote insult to Ellen and her family end quote.

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Speaker 2: The lowd added that the review dismissed unexplained bruises, missing

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Speaker 2: surveillance footage, and a physical recreation that proved Greenberg could

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Speaker 2: not have inflicted all the wounds herself, stating quote, shame

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Speaker 2: on you, Simon, end quote, citing the report's reliance on

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Speaker 2: quote distorted portrayals of Ellen's mental health end quote. The

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Speaker 2: controversy is a painful rewind to twenty eleven, when then

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Speaker 2: assistant coroner Marlon Osborne initially ruled the death a homicide,

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Speaker 2: only to bizarrely reverse his decision to suicide weeks later

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Speaker 2: after meeting with Philadelphia police. Parents Sandy and Josh Greenberg

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Speaker 2: forced this MAO reevaluation by settling a lawsuit in February.

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Speaker 2: After an appellate court in twenty twenty three called the

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Speaker 2: original investigation quote deeply flawed end quote, their legal war continues.

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Speaker 2: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted an appeal in July of

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Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty four, to review the death, and a

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Speaker 2: separate civil suit seeks damages for the alleged quote unquote

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Speaker 2: cover up. The moo's decision now cements the suicide findings,

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Speaker 2: leaving the family with a clear message quote the truth

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Speaker 2: will not come from Philadelphia's law enforcement machinery. End quote,

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Speaker 2: Butdraza vows to seek justice for Ellen's murder bi quote

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Speaker 2: any means necessary, end.

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Speaker 3: Quoting I'm Nicole Parton. Authorities in Santa Barbara County, California,

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Speaker 3: have launched a troubling search for a missing nine year

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Speaker 3: old girl who hasn't been seen in over a year

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Speaker 3: and not even in a photograph for two The Santa

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Speaker 3: Barbara County Sheriff's Office began actively searching for Melody Buzzard

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Speaker 3: on Tuesday after a school administrator raised concerns that the

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Speaker 3: child hadn't attended school in quite some time. Deputies attempted

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Speaker 3: to locate Melody and her mother, Ashley Buzzard, at their home,

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Speaker 3: but Melody was not there, and officials say no clear

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Speaker 3: explanation was given for her whereabouts. Although this missing person's

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Speaker 3: case is just one day old, detectives say they've been

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Speaker 3: unable to confirm a single siding of Melody in the

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Speaker 3: past year. The most recent photo they could find was

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Speaker 3: taken at least two years ago. The Sheriff's office is

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Speaker 3: urging anyone with information, no matter how small, to come forward.

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Speaker 3: In a statement, they said even small details may be

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Speaker 3: critical in helping investigators ensure her safety. If you've seen

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Speaker 3: Melody Buzzard or have any contact with her in the

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Speaker 3: past year, please call eight zero five six 't eight

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Speaker 3: one four one five zero. Anonymous tips can also be

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Speaker 3: seven to. One at this, time authorities have not confirmed

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Speaker 3: whether foul play is, suspected but they do Say melody

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Speaker 3: is currently classified as an at risk missing.

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Speaker 4: PERSON i And Drew nelson like the lonely man in

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Speaker 4: The genesis Song Turn It On. AGAIN A denver meteorologist

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Speaker 4: says her stalker blurred the line between television and real

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Speaker 4: life until he believed she was his.

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Speaker 5: Wife look at all of this. Lightning these storms are

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Speaker 5: we are still under that severe thunderstorm morning there until

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Speaker 5: six o'clock this.

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Speaker 4: Morning Kylie, verse aged thirty six Of fox thirty One,

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Speaker 4: denver says the sixty nine year old viewer followed her

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Speaker 4: home last month and rang her doorbell after years of

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Speaker 4: sending messages and showing up at public. Events here's what

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Speaker 4: she said On facebook a few weeks.

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Speaker 5: AGO i had a man WHO i have ever screened

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Speaker 5: multiple restraining orders against follow me home from. Work he

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Speaker 5: used his truck to follow me into the, alley trapping

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Speaker 5: me in my. GARAGE i was able to get into my.

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Speaker 5: House he then went around to the front door and

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Speaker 5: started ringing the. Doorbell WHEN i was able to call

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Speaker 5: nine on, one grab my dog and get out of.

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Speaker 5: There what's wild is this man has been stalking me

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Speaker 5: for over three years, now and he was let out

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Speaker 5: of jail on a.

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Speaker 4: Misdemeanor the man was really on a fifteen hundred dollars.

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Speaker 4: Bond burst says that she was told there had been

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Speaker 4: too big of a time gap between his last contact

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Speaker 4: and the new incident to charge felony. Stalking burce first

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Speaker 4: began hearing from the man in twenty twenty, two when

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Speaker 4: messages appeared on her social. Pages he called her a

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Speaker 4: quote my beautiful. Wife she blocked him many, times but

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Speaker 4: he kept creating new. Accounts he also contacted her family and,

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Speaker 4: friends even trying to buy art from her sister in.

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Speaker 4: Law the stalkers showed up at, events including a charity

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Speaker 4: hike in twenty twenty, three and told her he had

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Speaker 4: a pair of hiking boots for. Her when she told

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Speaker 4: him she couldn't accept, gifts he began to. Cry she

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Speaker 4: later obtained a restraining order that he violated more than fifty. Times,

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Speaker 4: now she says she no longer feels safe living in her.

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Speaker 4: Home she told The Denver post, quote it's a horrible

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Speaker 4: sick toier stomach. Feeling she hopes sharing her story will

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Speaker 4: push lawmakers to treat stalking as a serious. Crime for

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