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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole parton trial update in the case against Richard Allen.

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Speaker 2: Thursday's testimony wrapped up with state witness twenty five. Number

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Speaker 2: twenty five was Tony Liggett. He is the Carroll County Sheriff.

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Speaker 2: He was questioned by prosecuting attorney Nicholas mcleland in September

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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty two. He reviewed the tip found by

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Speaker 2: Kathy Shank regarding Allan. He said, quote it stuck out.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't aware anyone had seen three girls on the

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Speaker 2: trail that day. We believed it was Bridge guy, said Liggott.

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Speaker 2: Liggott learned Allen owned a twenty sixteen Ford Focus and

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Speaker 2: a two thousand and six Ford five hundred. He found

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Speaker 2: that Allan worked at a CVS drug store in Delphi.

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Speaker 2: Liggott said he took pictures of Allan's car parked at

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Speaker 2: that drug store. He found it interesting that the vehicle

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Speaker 2: was backed into the parking spot at the CVS, also

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Speaker 2: observing the car into the DCS building lot as well.

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Speaker 2: Ligott shared Allan's timeline of events from February thirteen, twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Allan told investigators, he visited his mother that day, parked

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Speaker 2: at the DCS lot that he had been on the

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Speaker 2: Monon High Bridge trails from twelve pm until one thirty

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Speaker 2: pm that day. He said he passed three girls on

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Speaker 2: the bridge and said if he was going out of

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Speaker 2: town he would normally drive his Ford Focus because it

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Speaker 2: was a more reliable car. Ligott believed Allan's comment about

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Speaker 2: where he parked and his timeline was wishy washy, he said.

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Speaker 2: During the defensi's cross examination, attorney Baldwin inquired of Liggott

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Speaker 2: whether he was a candidate for the sheriff. Ligott confirmed

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Speaker 2: with a simple yes. Baldwin proceeded to inquire about the

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Speaker 2: potential rays Liggot would receive if he were to win

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Speaker 2: the election. Liggott stated that it would be a fifty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars increase. Further questioning from Baldwin revolved around whether

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Speaker 2: an arrest would impact Liggott's chance of winning the election.

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Speaker 2: Liggot's response was clear, quote this is not about me,

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Speaker 2: It's about two young girls. In quote Sheriff Liggett disclosed

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Speaker 2: his awareness that there had been a breach of information

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Speaker 2: regarding the crime scene. At some point, the defense maintained

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Speaker 2: that no surveillance footage showed Allen walking in the area

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Speaker 2: where his car was parked. Sheriff Liggett expressed his belief

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Speaker 2: that Allan was acting alone in the case. When asked

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Speaker 2: about any digital evidence connecting Richard Allen to the crime

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Speaker 2: scene among the thousands of pieces, Liggett replied in the negative.

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Speaker 2: Later that evening, two more witnesses were called to testify.

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Speaker 2: ISP detective David Veto was involved in the search of

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Speaker 2: Allen's residence in October. He captured images of the house,

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Speaker 2: including that ford focus parked outside during the search, nearly

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Speaker 2: thirty knives and four where box cutters were seized from

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Speaker 2: the premises. The defense probed Veto about the commonality of

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Speaker 2: hunters and fishermen owning knives, to which he agreed it

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Speaker 2: was not unusual. Veto confirmed that testing was conducted on

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Speaker 2: the jacket, car and knives found, but no evidence leaked

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Speaker 2: them to the crime scene. Notably, underwear and socks missing

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Speaker 2: from the crime scene were not discovered at Allen's residence.

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Speaker 2: Trust Crime Alert hourly update to keep you posted today

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Speaker 2: as this trial continues.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news. After this.

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Speaker 2: A grieving mother has filed a lawsuit against an AI

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Speaker 2: software company, holding them accountable for the tragic death of

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Speaker 2: her teenage son. So Well seltzer IID just fourteen years old,

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Speaker 2: took his own life in February at his home in

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Speaker 2: Orlando after forming a deep connection with a character chatbot

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Speaker 2: on an app Character AI. The chat bot, named Danny

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Speaker 2: after a character from Game of Thrones, became a significant

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Speaker 2: part of Seewell's life, leading him to express suicidal thoughts

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Speaker 2: and engage in explicit conversations with the bot. In a

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Speaker 2: heartbreaking exchange, Seewell, known as de Naro on the platform,

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Speaker 2: professed his love for the chat bot, promising to quote

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Speaker 2: come to her soon. The chat bot, in return responded

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Speaker 2: with affection, urging him to quote please come home, my king.

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Speaker 2: I love you as soon as possible.

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Speaker 1: Get to me. The mother of the boy, Megan Garcia,

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Speaker 1: blames the software company for her son's death, alleging that

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Speaker 1: they fueled his AI addiction, that they subjected him to

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Speaker 1: sexual and emotional abuse, and neglected to intervene when he

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Speaker 1: revealed his suicidal intentions. Character AI has released a statement

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Speaker 1: expressing their sorrow for the loss of the young man.

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Speaker 1: The user of their content and platform.

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Speaker 2: The company assures users that they are actively working on

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Speaker 2: implementing additional safety measures to prevent similar tragedies in the future.

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Speaker 1: The mother is continuing with those charges.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nicole Parton.