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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news. Now a key

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Speaker 1: serial killer erects. Huermann's lawyer reprimanded by a New York

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Speaker 1: judge of emotions that would further delay the trial. Michael Brown,

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Speaker 1: the lawyer, challenging evidence and twenty search warrants carried out

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Speaker 1: by l law enforcements, frustrating the judge, this case has

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Speaker 1: been dragging through the system over two years. According to Mazzi,

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Speaker 1: the judge, the trial will begin after Labor Day, Come

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Speaker 1: hell or high water. Okay, Judge, that's a promise, right.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner, just as Tim Mazzi was very clear

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Speaker 2: he expects trial to begin a schedule despite the challenges

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Speaker 2: on several key pieces of evidence. Huerman's main argument stems

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Speaker 2: from the piece of pizza crust connecting him to the

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Speaker 2: murders of six women between nineteen ninety three and twenty ten.

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Speaker 2: Huerman claims investigators violated his right to privacy rifling through

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Speaker 2: his trash for possible DNA. Experts call the argument far reaching,

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Speaker 2: explaining that by discarding an item, you are essentially giving

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Speaker 2: up any rights associated with the item. A similar argument

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Speaker 2: failed before the coburger case went to trial. The last

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Speaker 2: nail in the coffin before changing his plea to guilty.

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Speaker 2: Attorney Michael Brown is also challenging the evidence tying Huerman

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Speaker 2: to a seventh victim, Sandra Castillo, a single piece of

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Speaker 2: hair found on her shirt when her body was discovered

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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety three. Brown wants the entire indictment thrown out,

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Speaker 2: claiming the hair as insufficient evidence to charge Hewerman with

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Speaker 2: Castillo's murderer. The defense plans to pin Castillo's murder and

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Speaker 2: several others on already convicted killer John Bitrolf. Bit Rolf

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Speaker 2: was found guilty of killing sex workers Rita Tangretti and

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Speaker 2: Colleen McNamee. Tangretty was found dead on November two, nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety three, in Suffolk County. Mcname was found naked in

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Speaker 2: the woods of Shirley, New York, beaten and strangled. Bit

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Speaker 2: Rolf was previously a suspect in the Long Island serial killings,

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Speaker 2: two of the victims Hewerman is now accused of murdering

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Speaker 2: found just three miles from bit Rolf's home. The victims

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Speaker 2: were partially dismembered, and friends of bitralfh claimed he once

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Speaker 2: cut the heart out of a deer he shot and

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Speaker 2: ate it raw. When Huerman was named a suspect. Bitralf

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Speaker 2: requested DNA testing of evidence in the Tangretti and mcname cases,

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Speaker 2: but Huerman was ruled out as a DNA contributor and

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Speaker 2: Bitralf remains behind bars. Meanwhile, on the state side, district

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Speaker 2: Attorney Ray Tierney shares Judge Massi's frustration, telling the court

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Speaker 2: his team is not contributing to the delays and is

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Speaker 2: prepared to go to trial after labor day. Tierney did

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Speaker 2: comment he can't blame Brown for his strategy, saying the

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Speaker 2: motions filed come with the nature of the business. Tierney

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Speaker 2: refused to comment on the possibility of a plea deal,

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Speaker 2: claiming prosecutors are only focused on preparing for trial. Huerman's

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Speaker 2: family did not appear at his latest hearing, commenting only

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Speaker 2: they are looking forward to resolution in the case one

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Speaker 2: way or another. Huerman has staunchly maintained his innocence since

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Speaker 2: his arrest in twenty twenty three, thirty years after the

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Speaker 2: first murder he stands accused of. Hureman will be back

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Speaker 2: in court marched first to hear arguments on the challenges.

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Speaker 2: More crime and Justice news After this, a Port Authority

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Speaker 2: Police officer shot and killed his sister and critically wounded

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Speaker 2: their mother before killing himself on Thursday. New York police

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Speaker 2: responded to the Bronx apartment Thursday morning after someone at

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Speaker 2: the reception desk called nine one one and reported hearing gunshots.

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Speaker 2: At about eight a m. Officers found the fifty five

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Speaker 2: year old man and his fifty nine year old sister

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Speaker 2: dead with gunshots to the head. They rushed their eighty

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Speaker 2: six year old mother, who was shot in the face,

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Speaker 2: to a hospital. Police said they found two firearms in

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Speaker 2: the apartment. Law enforcement sources said the killer had worked

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Speaker 2: for the port authorities for twenty years, most recently at

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Speaker 2: LaGuardia Airport. Police have not released the identities of any

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Speaker 2: of the people involved. The killer was found in a hallway,

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Speaker 2: a firearm in his Port Authority Police identification next to

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Speaker 2: his body. The sister was found in a bedroom and

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Speaker 2: the mother was found in another room. She was said

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Speaker 2: to be in critical but stable condition. Neighbour Jane Burbank

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Speaker 2: says the fifty nine year old woman had lived in

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Speaker 2: the apartment for years and that her mother had recently

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Speaker 2: moved in with her. Quote she had nieces and nephews.

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Speaker 2: She had a big family. She was a wonderful person.

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Speaker 2: She was full of life. She loved to dance, She

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Speaker 2: loved to get people together. She loved to cook. She

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Speaker 2: loved to travel and was looking forward to her retirement

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Speaker 2: so she could travel more. A missing Arizona woman's boyfriend

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Speaker 2: was arrested last week for stealing and damaging her car,

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Speaker 2: which was reportedly discovered with blood in it. Avondale police

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Speaker 2: said Isabella Comas, twenty one, was last seen leaving a

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Speaker 2: friend's home on January eleventh. Not only was Komas's phone

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Speaker 2: discovered at a recycling center a day after her disappearance,

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Speaker 2: her car was also found in Phoenix on January thirteenth.

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Speaker 2: On January fifteenth, Tommy Rodriguez, thirty nine, was arrested upon

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Speaker 2: returning from a trip to California. Rodriguez allegedly admitted to

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Speaker 2: arguing with Komas a day before she vanished, but police

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Speaker 2: noted other inconsistencies with his claims. Detectives said license plate

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Speaker 2: readers and surveillance footage showed Rodrigaez drive being Komas's car

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Speaker 2: on January twelfth. They also claimed that a passenger seat

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Speaker 2: and trunk lining were missing from Comas's vehicle, which was

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Speaker 2: covered in blood. There were also gas canisters, trash cans,

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Speaker 2: and a tarp found inside the car. Authorities also stated

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Speaker 2: that a tracking application on Komas's phone was manually turned

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Speaker 2: off shortly after she vanished. While police said Rodriguez could

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Speaker 2: not explain where Comas was, he has not been charged

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Speaker 2: in connection with her disappearance. Rodriguez has a lengthy criminal history,

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Speaker 2: which includes a prison sentence for second degree murder. He's

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Speaker 2: also on probation for a twenty twenty incident in which

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Speaker 2: he stocked an ex girlfriend and threatened her with a

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Speaker 2: hammer and machete. Komos was described as standing five feet

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Speaker 2: three inches tall, weighing about one hundred and ten pounds,

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Speaker 2: and having brown eyes and pink hair. She was last

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Speaker 2: seen wearing a baggy navy blue shirt, blue pants with

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Speaker 2: a white stripe down the side, and sandals. Anyone with

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Speaker 2: information regarding Komas's whereabouts is asked to call the Avondale

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Speaker 2: Police Department at six two three three three three seven

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Speaker 2: thousand for the latest crime and justice breaking news. Be

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Speaker 2: favorite podcast app with this crime Alert I'm Sydney Sumner,