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Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, Breaking crime News Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jackie Howard. Shots rang out as Charlie Kirk sat

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Speaker 2: on a stage at a Utah Valley University event. The

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Speaker 2: conservative activists reportedly hit near his neck and killed. According

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Speaker 2: to reports, the shot was fired from the roof of

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Speaker 2: a campus building about two hundred yards away. Social video

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Speaker 2: posts show Kirk in a pose familiar to his proved

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Speaker 2: me Wrong movement. He was speaking into a handheld microphone,

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Speaker 2: sitting under a white tent emblazoned with the slogans the

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Speaker 2: American comeback and proved me wrong. The single shot booms

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Speaker 2: and Kirk reaches up with his right hand. Blood gushes

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Speaker 2: from underneath. Spectators screamed and ran away. Kirk was speaking

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Speaker 2: at a debate hosted by his non profit political organization.

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Speaker 2: Seconds before he was shot. Kirk was answering a question

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Speaker 2: about transgender mass shooters in America. An audience member asked,

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Speaker 2: do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass

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Speaker 2: shooters over the past ten years? Kirk responded to many.

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Speaker 2: Then came a follow up question, do you know how

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Speaker 2: many mass shooters there have been in America over the

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Speaker 2: last ten years? Kirk countered with counting or not counting

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Speaker 2: gang violence. Then the shot was fired. The Utah Valley

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Speaker 2: campus was immediately evacuated and remains closed. Classes are canceled

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Speaker 2: until further noticed. More Crime and Justice news.

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Speaker 3: After this, a seven month old baby girl abandoned in

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Speaker 3: her car seat on a random lawn was the first

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Speaker 3: chilling sign of a tragedy that would soon grip the nation.

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Speaker 3: Hours later, police discovered the bodies of four members of

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Speaker 3: the same family shot dead in Lake County, Tennessee, a

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Speaker 3: staggering forty miles from where the infant was left. The

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Speaker 3: herrowing discovery launched a week long manhunt for Austin Drummond,

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Speaker 3: twenty eight, a man with a savage criminal history who

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Speaker 3: prosecutors now say should never have been free. The victims

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Speaker 3: were identified as the abandoned baby's parents, Matthew Wilson twenty

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Speaker 3: one and Adrianna Williams, twenty along with the baby's grandmother,

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Speaker 3: Courtney Rose thirty eight, and uncle Brayden Williams fifteen. Matt Wilson,

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Speaker 3: Matthew's dad, had a nine word message for Drummond. He

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Speaker 3: spoke to Action News five.

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Speaker 2: There's a special place in there for you, buddy.

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Speaker 3: As the search for Drummond intensified his history of violence

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Speaker 3: became public. Ten months before the massacre, Drummond was released

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Speaker 3: from prison after serving ten years of a thirteen year

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Speaker 3: sentence for a twenty fourteen aggravated robbery. In that case,

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Speaker 3: he stole only forty four bucks from a Circle K

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Speaker 3: gas station in Jackson, Tennessee, and was convicted as an

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Speaker 3: adult after he was found to have threatened the clerk

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Speaker 3: with a gun. While behind bars, he racked up twenty

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Speaker 3: five disciplinary infractions, including a violent jail house fight where

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Speaker 3: he was seen on video attacking another inmate with what

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Speaker 3: appeared to be a weapon. Despite all the violence, a

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Speaker 3: plea deal for the aggravated robbery conviction was upheld. He

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Speaker 3: was released on bond for a subsequent attempted murder charge

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Speaker 3: related to the jailhouse brawl, and was also out on

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Speaker 3: bond for drug and contraband charges. This angered victims' families,

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Speaker 3: who believed the justice system failed them. Danny Goodman, the

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Speaker 3: district attorney for Dyer in Lake Counties, also stated that

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Speaker 3: he did not believe Drummond should have been released from

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Speaker 3: prison at all. The week long hunt for Drummon ended

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Speaker 3: when a construction worker in Jackson, Tennessee, spotted him hiding

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Speaker 3: in a poolhouse in a gated community. He was arrested

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Speaker 3: by US Marshals in a sweat soap capture, and later

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Speaker 3: authorities charged him with four counts of first degree murder.

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Speaker 3: He was also charged with felony murder, especially aggravated kidnapping,

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Speaker 3: and unlawful possession of a weapon in a bazaar jailhouse. Interviewed,

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Speaker 3: Drummond pleaded his innocence, claiming he was an FBI informant

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Speaker 3: and that he ran after his quote cover was blown

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Speaker 3: end quote. He also said that while he was quote

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Speaker 3: somehow directly involved end quote, he had no reason to

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Speaker 3: kill the victims. The family of Matthew Wilson and Adriana

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Speaker 3: Williams told the media that Drummond was dating Courtney Rose's

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Speaker 3: sister and was expecting a baby boy with her next

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Speaker 3: month in October. Prosecutors are now seeking the death penalty

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Speaker 3: for Drummond, who has been held without bond and has

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Speaker 3: entered a not guilty plea. Drummond is set to appear

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Speaker 3: back in on October twenty seventh. A man has confessed

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Speaker 3: his complicity in a harrowing family crime admitting he helped

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Speaker 3: his former Walmart Santa brother in law murdered two children

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Speaker 3: and bury their bodies in a backyard in Georgia. Mark Wright,

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Speaker 3: the uncle of the slain teens, entered a guilty plead

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Speaker 3: to avoid the death penalty, facing ten to eighty years

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Speaker 3: in prison for his role in the gruesome deaths of

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Speaker 3: his fourteen year old nephew, Elwyn Crocker Junior, and thirteen

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Speaker 3: year old niece Mary Crocker. The disturbing truth came to

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Speaker 3: light on December twentieth, twenty eighteen, when police following up

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Speaker 3: on a report of Mary's disappearance, discovered the emaciated bodies

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Speaker 3: of both children buried in the yard of their home.

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Speaker 3: A forensic pathologist later testified that Mary had a drastically

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Speaker 3: low body mass index of eight point six, suggesting she

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Speaker 3: had starved to death after enduring a year of unimaginable torture.

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Speaker 3: The surviving third child, also found in the home, was

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Speaker 3: locked naked in a dog kennel. According to the indictment,

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Speaker 3: Mary was zip tied, beaten with various objects, shot with

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Speaker 3: a stun gun, and burned with hot water. All of

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Speaker 3: this came as punishment for perceived infractions like stealing food,

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Speaker 3: and the food she was given was allegedly mixed with

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Speaker 3: vinegar by her father, Elwyn Crocker. Sor Wright pleaded guilty

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Speaker 3: to second degree murder, two counts a first degree cruelty

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Speaker 3: to children, two counts of concealing the death of another,

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Speaker 3: and false imprisonment. He was initially indicted in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 3: alongside his sister Candace Crocker, her husband Elwyn Crocker Senior,

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Speaker 3: his mother Kim Wright, and her boyfriend Roy Prater. The

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Speaker 3: case has already seen guilty pleas from Candice Crocker and

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Speaker 3: Roy Prater, who were sentenced to life without parole. Elwyn

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Speaker 3: Crocker Senior and Kim Wright have maintained their innocent please

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Speaker 3: and are awaiting trial, with prosecutors hoping to present text

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Speaker 3: messages allegedly found on their phones that discuss the children's burials.

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Speaker 3: The trial dates for the remaining defendants have not yet

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Speaker 3: been set, and finally, an Ohio apple orchard is raising

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Speaker 3: the steakes this fall after a family of bad apples

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Speaker 3: tried to make a fruitful escape with over three hundred

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Speaker 3: dollars worth of produce. Lynd Fruit Farm, a beloved family

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Speaker 3: owned business for five generations has been forced to beef

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Speaker 3: up security to combat a recent surge and apple solutely

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Speaker 3: brazen thefts. According to owner Andy Lynd, some folks are

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Speaker 3: getting a little too creative with their bushels, hiding fruit

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Speaker 3: in every nook and cranny of their car that is

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Speaker 3: rotten to the core. This picker spoke to ABC six,

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Speaker 3: you don't.

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Speaker 2: Need that many apples, like you're probably selling those apples

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Speaker 2: or trying to make a profit off of stealing apples.

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Speaker 3: To stem the tide of these fruity felons, the farm

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Speaker 3: is deploying covert security officers who will be peeling around

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Speaker 3: the property. They'll also be putting up extra signs to

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Speaker 3: make sure everyone knows the pitiful rules. While the farmers

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Speaker 3: decline to press charges, they did make the offenders pay

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Speaker 3: for their ill gotten gains. In a sweet turn of events, though,

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Speaker 3: one customer hearing of the thefts, offered an extra twenty

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Speaker 3: bucks to help with the losses, proving there are still

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Speaker 3: some good apples in the bunch.

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Speaker 2: Nancy.

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