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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crimes now. William Strausser

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Speaker 1: rams his car through an acquaintances driveway gate, walks up

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Speaker 1: to the front door, tries to break in. The homeowner,

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Speaker 1: hearing the commission, arms itself, stands on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the door. When Strousser does break through, the homeowner

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Speaker 1: shoots him and the leg Nancy Strousser attempted to break

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Speaker 1: into the Texas home on anotherwise quiet weekday and the

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Speaker 1: tiny town of Valley Mills with a population of just

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Speaker 1: over one thousand. Authorities declined to state how the suspect

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Speaker 1: knew the victim, but did let on that this was

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Speaker 1: not a random burglary attempt. The homeowner calls nine one

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Speaker 1: one immediately after shooting the suspect. The homeowner holding Strousser

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Speaker 1: a gunpoint till Texas cops arrive. Officers disarm the homeowner,

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Speaker 1: give a to Strouser, take him to the hospital. Strousser

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Speaker 1: now charged with attempted burglary. A woman calls police after

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Speaker 1: her beloved pets, Ella and Mister Cat start having seizures

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Speaker 1: and die at the vet months apart. The vets testing

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Speaker 1: indicates both pets have been poisoned. Florida cops learned seven

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Speaker 1: pets in the neighborhood recently die from ingesting chemicals. They

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Speaker 1: find several bowls of food outside Jeremy Stromwell's home. Testing

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Speaker 1: reveals it's mixed with antifreeze. Authorities partnered with an expert

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Speaker 1: from the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: who performed forensic necropsies on mister Cat and the exhumed

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Speaker 1: remains of Bella and two other cats, Little Peanut and Tiger.

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Speaker 1: This confirmed that the pets were poisoned. Authorities also partnered

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Speaker 1: with Texas A and M University's Medical Diagnostic Laboratory to

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Speaker 1: have the food left outside of Stromwell's home tested for poison.

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Speaker 1: Stromwell admits he doesn't like seeing cats around the neighborhood

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Speaker 1: and has been leaving out bowls of food mixed with

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Speaker 1: antifreeze and fish flavored rap poison to kill cats, while

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Speaker 1: he's now facing aggravated animal cruelty. Marco Batista pulls up

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Speaker 1: at an Indiana home to give an uber ride to

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Speaker 1: Racquecia Rogers. Batissa sees Rogers arguing with a mail in

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Speaker 1: the home and the man comes running out of the house,

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Speaker 1: jumps in Batissa's car, shouting drive. As Batissa tries to

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Speaker 1: calm the man down, Roger starts firing shots at the

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Speaker 1: uber car, hitting Batista in the back. The fight between

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Speaker 1: Rogers and her boyfriend apparently began when he took her

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Speaker 1: cell phone. In an interview with police, Rogers insisted that

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Speaker 1: she fired shots into the air to scare her boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: but video from cameras in Batista's car show the twenty

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Speaker 1: year old clearly firing directly at the car. The bullet

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Speaker 1: went through the trunk, backseat, and driver's seat before striking

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Speaker 1: Batista at waist level. Batissa flees the scene before calling

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Speaker 1: nine one one. He's taken to the hospital for a

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Speaker 1: gunshot w expected to recover. Rogers, twenty, who was aiming

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Speaker 1: for her boyfriend or should I say ex boyfriend, now

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Speaker 1: booked on agg battery. More crime and justice news after

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Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime in Justice breaking Knees

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Speaker 1: Crime Onlines John Lemley. A third stabbing death of a

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Speaker 1: homeless person on a Las Vegas sidewalk has now been

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Speaker 1: linked to a man already in custody pending competency evaluations

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Speaker 1: following his arrest last September in knife attacks on four people,

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Speaker 1: including two who died. Thirty three year old Christopher Stephen

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Speaker 1: Martel was identified by police as the suspect in the

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Speaker 1: killing of forty three year old Jeffrey Philip Pridgeon. Pridgeon

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Speaker 1: was found early February fifteenth, twenty twenty two, on his sidewalk,

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Speaker 1: not far from where the September attacks occurred on streets

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Speaker 1: around the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The Clark County

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Speaker 1: Coroner says Pridgeon had no known address and died of

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Speaker 1: stab wounds to the head, neck, and torso. His death

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Speaker 1: was ruled a homicide. A Connecticut man has been sentenced

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Speaker 1: to forty to seventy two years in prison on kidnapping

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Speaker 1: charges in connection with the nineteen eighty four home invasion

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Speaker 1: attacks on four women who say they were sexually assaulted,

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Speaker 1: crimes that were solved in twenty twenty with the help

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Speaker 1: of a genealogy database. Seventy one year old Michael Sharpe,

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Speaker 1: a former leader of a charter school organization, apologized to

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Speaker 1: the women during the hearing in Hartford's Superior Court after

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Speaker 1: saying he has memory problems and has no recollection of

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Speaker 1: the crimes. Three of the women were in the courtroom

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Speaker 1: and cried during his comments, while the fourth took part

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Speaker 1: via video conference. A death row inmate an Oklahoma whose

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Speaker 1: schedule to be executed on Thursday, cannot have his spiritual

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Speaker 1: adviser with him inside the execution chamber because of the

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Speaker 1: minister's history of anti day penalty activism, including an arrest.

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Speaker 1: Sixty one year old Scott Isisenberg had requested that his

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Speaker 1: spiritual adviser, the Reverend Jeff Hood of Arkansas, be allowed

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Speaker 1: inside the execution chamber during his lethal injection at the

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAllister, but doc officials expressed concern

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Speaker 1: that Hood would not ensure the dignity of the process.

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Speaker 1: Homeownerstands Oklahoma police video of a man stealing a package

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Speaker 1: off their porch while wearing women's underwear over his face.

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Speaker 1: Cops id the man, a Spencer gasually almost immediately why

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Speaker 1: he's been caught doing the same thing wearing the same

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Speaker 1: underwear on another occasion. Cops find the stolen package in

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Speaker 1: Gausler's home. He's charged with theft with underwear on his

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Speaker 1: face as an aggravating circumstance for the latest crime in justice,

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Speaker 1: and he's got a crime online dot com with this

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Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace