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Speaker 1: Crime Lord hourly update, breaking crime news Now, I'm Dave mac.

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Speaker 1: Sandra Phelps is a seventy four year old great grandmother

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Speaker 1: who has beaten cancer five times. She's enjoying the Christmas

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Speaker 1: festivities with her family, holding a child while sitting on

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Speaker 1: her porch at her home in Comanche, Oklahoma. Christmas afternoon,

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Speaker 1: the family hears several gun shots and Phelps remarks that

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Speaker 1: someone nearby must have gotten a new gun for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Is just before three point fifteen PM when Sandra Phelps

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Speaker 1: cries out in pain and collapses on the porch. First

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Speaker 1: responders pronounced Phelps dead at the scene, and investigators determine

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Speaker 1: a bullet went through Phelps' right arm and traveled into

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Speaker 1: her chest cavity. Family members tell investigators about the five

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Speaker 1: to seven shots they heard prior to the matriarch of

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Speaker 1: the family, called Nanny, was hitting. Police begin to canvas

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Speaker 1: to the neighborhood, where they learned about one neighbor who

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Speaker 1: had been shooting a gun. Thirty three year old Cody

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Speaker 1: Wayne Adams. Adams home is less a mile away from

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Speaker 1: where Sandra Phelps was shot. When deputies go to Adam's home,

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Speaker 1: he tells them he's been firing his clock forty five

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Speaker 1: caliber handgun that he bought for himself as a Christmas gift.

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Speaker 1: Adams tells investigators he was shooting at a can laying

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Speaker 1: on the ground in his backyard. Deputies find several spent

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Speaker 1: shell casings on the ground in Adams's backyard. The affidavit

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Speaker 1: says from the point where Adams said he was shooting

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Speaker 1: toward the can, red and blue lights of emergency vehicles

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Speaker 1: at the home where Phelps was shot were visibly in

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Speaker 1: line with the shooting angle. When informed his shooting might

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Speaker 1: have caused the death of Sandra Phelps, Adams becomes visibly

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Speaker 1: upset and begins to cry. A deputy tells Adams there

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Speaker 1: was nothing behind his property to stop any bullets from

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Speaker 1: traveling beyond his property and hurting someone. After being read

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Speaker 1: his rights, Adams is interviewed at the Sheriff's office, where

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Speaker 1: he admits to firing multiple rounds southward from his residence.

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Speaker 1: The charging document alleges Adams caused phelps death by using

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Speaker 1: a firearm in a way that created a situation of

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Speaker 1: unreasonable risk and probability of death or great bodily harm

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Speaker 1: to another person and demonstrated a conscious disregard for the

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Speaker 1: safety of others. Sandra Phelps was known affectionately as Nanny

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Speaker 1: to her grandchildren, who range in age from eleven to

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Speaker 1: thirty nine, and to her great grandchildren, whose ages span

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Speaker 1: from just seven months old to twenty one years old.

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Speaker 1: Cody Adams was charged with first degree manslaughter. He appeared

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Speaker 1: in court and was released on one hundred thousand dollars bond.

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Speaker 1: He has been ordered to not contact the victim's family,

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Speaker 1: and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for February. More crime

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Speaker 1: and Justice news. Next, in an to the shocking murders

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Speaker 1: of Robin Michelle Reiner, police reveal Nick Reiner's testimony, saying

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Speaker 1: he is not mentally ill and admits to killing his parents.

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Speaker 1: During a recorded interrogation, Nick Reiner denies being mentally ill

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Speaker 1: and explicitly admits to killing both of his parents, insisting

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Speaker 1: his actions were deliberate and calculated, not the result of

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Speaker 1: psychosis or emotional instability. Nick Reiner tells detectives quote, I

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Speaker 1: am not sick. I knew exactly what I was doing.

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Speaker 1: What has stunned investigators most is the reason Nick gives

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Speaker 1: for the murders. Please say Reiner claims his parents were

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Speaker 1: quote about to expose something that would destroy everyone, and

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Speaker 1: killing them was, in his words, the only way to

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Speaker 1: stop what was coming. Authorities are not specifying what Reiner

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Speaker 1: is alleging his parents were planning to reveal, saying the

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Speaker 1: claim remains unverified and may form the basis of additional

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Speaker 1: charges have proven false. A senior investigator says this was

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Speaker 1: not rage, this was intent. Psychological screenings conducted after Nick

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Speaker 1: Reiner's arrest reportedly found no evidence of delusions, hallucinations, or

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Speaker 1: impaired reality, testing of finding that complicates potential legal defenses.

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Speaker 1: Medical experts consulted by the police described Reiner as oriented

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Speaker 1: and coherent, aware of consequences, emotionally controlled during questioning. A

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Speaker 1: forensic psychologist says that combination is rare in family annihilation cases.

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Speaker 1: Police also say the evidence aligns with Reiner's confession. Nick

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Speaker 1: Reiner's account matches key physical evidence, including CCTV footage showing

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Speaker 1: his movements before and after the incident, digital records indicating premeditation,

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Speaker 1: the absence of forced entry or struggle consisting with a

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Speaker 1: planned attack. Investigators in Phant size that the confession was

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Speaker 1: voluntary and legally obtained. Neighbors described the family as quiet

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Speaker 1: and private, with no prior reports of violence. Many expressed

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Speaker 1: disbelief after learning police do not believe minilllalness played a role.

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Speaker 1: What happens next, though, is prosecutors are reviewing whether to

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Speaker 1: pursue first degree murder charges with special circumstances, which could

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Speaker 1: carry the harshest possible sentence under state law. Police warned

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Speaker 1: that additional details from the testimony may be released in

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Speaker 1: the coming days as the case moves towards court. For investigators,

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Speaker 1: one conclusion is already clear. Though. This wasn't madness. It

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Speaker 1: was a decision, and that's what makes it terrifying. For

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