1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Crime Alart Hourly Update Breaking Crime US Now. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. A third bail hearing for Sean Diddy 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 2: Combs ended without a ruling. Amid allegations of witness tampering 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: by the disgraced mogul from his cell at the Metropolitan 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 2: Detention Center, Prosecutors claim that Sean Combs is blackmailing victims 6 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 2: and witnesses from behind bars. The Fed say Combs has 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 2: been using other MDC inmates phone access codes in an 8 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 2: attempt to circumvent call monitoring. Combs then calls his sons, 9 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 2: using them to loop in a third party or directly 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 2: contacts unauthorized individuals. While the contents of the calls have 11 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 2: been redacted in court documents, prosecutors say the conversations clearly 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 2: outline Combe's intent to silence witnesses. In their filing arguing 13 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 2: against pre trial release, prosecutors reference another piece of evidence 14 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 2: that shows Combs as tampering with witnesses crime Onlines. Holden 15 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 2: Zapple has more. 16 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 3: As part of the interagency contraband sweep at the MDC, 17 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 3: agents confiscating nineteen pages of notes from Shawn Combs's belongings 18 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,199 Speaker 3: and turn them over to federal prosecutors. Among those notes 19 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 3: are inspirational quotes, reminders about family and financial matters that 20 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 3: need to be discussed, and a to do list. That 21 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 3: list includes a need to instruct a family member to 22 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 3: quote fine dirt on two potential victims and quote find 23 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 3: everything on another victim. 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 2: Upon learning the Feds or in possession of those notes, 25 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 2: Comb's defense immediately insists they contain information that falls under 26 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:33,119 Speaker 2: attorney client privilege and prosecutors have just jeopardized their entire case. 27 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 2: Dave Mack with the details. 28 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: Attorney Mark Agnefilo expressed his shock and outrage that he 29 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: was not made aware of prosecutors were in possession of 30 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: the notes for weeks after they were confiscated. Agnifhilo accuses 31 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: prosecutors of a complete institutional failure and claims Combe's constitutional 32 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: rights have been violated as those handwritten notes contain privileged materials. 33 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: His defense team now calling for a dismissal of the 34 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: indictment or a recusal of the prosecution. 35 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 2: Prosecutors argue there has been no wrongdoing, as the notes 36 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 2: went to a filter team to confirm they did not 37 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 2: contain privileged information before prosecutors ever laid eyes on them. 38 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 2: Federal agent Mary Slovic says her team acted in a 39 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 2: completely appropriate fashion in regard to the nineteen pages of documents. 40 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 2: Judge Subermanian calls an emergency hearing on the matter. Shockingly, 41 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 2: Combs appears for the hearing, unshackled, a freedom granted for 42 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 2: all future court appearances. Comb seems more at ease, hugs 43 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 2: his attorneys, and surveys the courtroom to see who is 44 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 2: in attendance. Judge Subermanian rules that the notes will not 45 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 2: be allowed into evidence and prosecutors must destroy any in 46 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 2: all copies of the notes. Supermanian agrees with the defense 47 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 2: that there must be further investigation into the issue. Once again, 48 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 2: Dave Mack breaks it down for. 49 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: US Judge Subramania and found issue with the context in 50 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: which the notes were seized, and orders the Federal Bureau 51 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: of Prisons to save and review surveillance footage of the 52 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: searches to determine why agents confiscated the notes. The agencies 53 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: involved in this suitep at the MBC insist that the 54 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: sweep was planned prior to Combe's detention there and did 55 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: not target any specific inmates. 56 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 2: Supermanian shelved the issue for the moment pending further investigation 57 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 2: for any additional rulings. Supermanian is expected to rule on 58 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 2: the issue of bail sometime next week. For more on 59 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 2: the federal sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean Diddy 60 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 2: Comb's tune into Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Doctor 61 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 2: Phil's Merritt Street Media at six or nine pm Eastern, 62 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 2: or listen to Crime Stories on your favorite podcast app. 63 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this In Pennsylvania, State 64 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 2: police have made a huge step in a decade long 65 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 2: cold case and are hoping to bring closure to a 66 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 2: grieving family. Remains were covered in nineteen seventy three in 67 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 2: Lebanon Township have now been identified as fourteen year old 68 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 2: Ruth Elizabeth Brenneman. Brenneman had been considered a missing person 69 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 2: since she left for school early in the fall nineteen 70 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 2: seventy three semester and never returned home. Pennsylvania State Police 71 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 2: Sergeant Josh Lacey announced the identification at a press conference 72 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 2: revealing details about the discovery of her body. 73 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 4: On October tenth, nineteen seventy three, two Lebanon County game 74 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 4: wardens discovered the deceased body of a young female in 75 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 4: a wooded area off of Moonshine Road. The young female's remains, 76 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 4: which were decomposed, were concealed under a plastic tarp and 77 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 4: various brush. The deceased was described as a white female, 78 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 4: long brown and or blonde hair, approximately five foot three 79 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 4: to five foot six in height, and a thin to 80 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 4: average build. The manner of her death was ruled undetermined. 81 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 2: Brenneman's body was located nearly fifty miles from her home, 82 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 2: decomposed beyond recognition, details that prevented authorities from previously connecting 83 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 2: the two cases. With incredible advancements in DNA testing, forty 84 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 2: three years after the remains discovery, neck Meck assisted state 85 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 2: police in the exhumation of the remains in the hopes 86 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 2: of finding enough genetic material to reveal her identity. Using 87 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 2: a process called genetic genealogy, where DNA samples are compared 88 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 2: to public databases to build a family tree. Astralia Labs 89 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 2: finally confirmed Brenneman's identity this past October. Sergeant Lacey says 90 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 2: Brenneman's cause and manner of death is still under investigation, 91 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 2: but the attempted concealment of her body has raised extreme suspicions, 92 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 2: Lacey says, with Brenneman's identity confirmed, they can now focus 93 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 2: on who Brenneman was associated with and her activities leading 94 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 2: up to her disappearance and death. Investigators were unable to 95 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 2: answer questions about the exact circumstances of the fourteen year 96 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 2: old's disappearance. Lacey ended the conference with assurances the investigation 97 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 2: will continue. 98 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 5: Just because we identified her today, that doesn't end our investigation. 99 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 5: This is still an ongoing investigation, is still active fluent. 100 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 5: We're going to do our best and put our best 101 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 5: foot forward here to come to a conclusion. 102 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 2: For the latest crime and justice news, be sure to 103 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 2: follow the Crime Alert hourly update on your favorite podcast 104 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 2: app with this crime Alert. I'm Sydney Sumner.