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Speaker 1: Naomi Elkins, twenty seven, spends the night praying about her
Speaker 1: concerning thoughts, her words not mine. Afterward, the next day,
Speaker 1: she brings her top daughters back to their New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Home and kills them.
Speaker 1: She stabs her one year old daughter in the stomach
Speaker 1: and drowns her in the bathtub. She finds her three
Speaker 1: year old hiding in another bathroom, draws a second bath,
Speaker 1: then drowns the oldest daughter, just three.
Speaker 3: Nancy Elkins worked at a daycare where both of her
Speaker 3: daughters were enrolled. Elkins attorney, Mitchell Ansel, says his client
Speaker 3: has a well documented history of mental illness and has
Speaker 3: postponed her detention hearing twice so that Elkins may receive
Speaker 3: a psychological evaluation before her bail if any is decided.
Speaker 1: Naomi Elkins charged with two counts murder. Mitchell Vast sixty
Speaker 1: visits antique stores Spring, Texas to beat the heat. He
Speaker 1: wears a kilt paired with a tank top. As he
Speaker 1: browses one shop, the owner notices him items off the shelf,
Speaker 1: stick them under his kilt, and then return the items.
Speaker 1: Upon a closer inspection, the items have theses on them.
Speaker 1: Cops are called. He's charged with criminal mischief, to which
Speaker 1: he pleads guilty. The soiled items were all disposed. More
Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest
Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Limley.
Speaker 2: We begin in Rhode Island, where a police chase ends
Speaker 2: in the death of a man wanted for the murder
Speaker 2: of his wife. We hear details now from Sydney Sumner
Speaker 2: of Crime Online.
Speaker 3: Joseph Francis, sought by authorities for the alleged shooting of
Speaker 3: his wife, Stephanie Francis, was pronounced dead after his vehicle
Speaker 3: overturned during a high speed pursuit. Stephanie Francis was found
Speaker 3: with a fatal gunshot wound inside their Hopkinton, Rhode Island home,
Speaker 3: prompting a statewide manhunt on Saturday. Westerly police first attempted
Speaker 3: to apprehend Joseph Francis, but were unsuccessful. Later that officers
Speaker 3: from Richmond and Charlestown took up the chase. The pursuit
Speaker 3: ended dramatically when Francis failed to navigate a turn, causing
Speaker 3: his vehicle to roll multiple times before coming to a
Speaker 3: stop near a wooded area. Authorities found Francis dead inside
Speaker 3: the wreckage. Joseph Francis faced severe charges, including domestic violence, murder,
Speaker 3: and violating a no contact order. This followed a previous
Speaker 3: incident in May in which he was charged with disorderly conduct,
Speaker 3: domestic violence, and assault for allegedly attacking Stephanie Francis. Additionally,
Speaker 3: he was charged with violating state law by possessing high
Speaker 3: capacity magazines, with police seizing two handguns and several loaded
Speaker 3: magazines from Francis.
Speaker 2: A court order had also barred Francis from contacting his wife.
Speaker 2: A Massachusetts judge has declared a mistrial in the high
Speaker 2: profile case of Karen Reid, accused of killing her Boston
Speaker 2: police officer boyfriend once again crime online Sidney Sumner.
Speaker 3: Jurors unanimously found Reid not guilty of murder in leaving
Speaker 3: the scene of a deadly accident, but were deadlocked on
Speaker 3: a man slaughter charge. The mistrial was declared by Judge
Speaker 3: Beverley Cannon on the fifth day of deliberations. Reid's defense
Speaker 3: team revealed those details and a motion filed Monday arguing
Speaker 3: that retrying read on the acquitted charges would violate double
Speaker 3: jeopardy protections. The defense also called for a post verdict
Speaker 3: inquiry to confirm the jury's unanimous decisions on the two charges.
Speaker 3: Attorney Alan Jackson submitted an affidavit stating he was contacted
Speaker 3: by a juror, while Attorney David Yanetti reported receiving information
Speaker 3: from two sources connected to distinct jurors. Judge Cannon has
Speaker 3: ordered the names of the jurors to remain confidential, citing
Speaker 3: the risk of immediate and irreparable injury. She noted that
Speaker 3: individuals associated with the case have faced intimidation charges. Karen Reid,
Speaker 3: a former adjunct professor at Bentley College, was accused of
Speaker 3: hitting her boyfriend, officer John O'Keeffe with her suv in,
Speaker 3: leaving him to die in a snowstorm. In January twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, O'Keefe, a sixteen year veteran of the Boston Police,
Speaker 3: was found outside a fellow officer's home in Canton. An
Speaker 3: autopsy revealed he died from hypothermia and blunt force trauma.
Speaker 2: Trial, the defense argued that O'Keefe was killed inside the
Speaker 2: home after re dropped him off, and that she was
Speaker 2: framed by other officers as a quote convenient Outsider, Thanks John.
Speaker 1: Veronica rays Diaz twenty three has a girl's night out
Speaker 1: over Florida. A friend drops her off at her home,
Speaker 1: where her husband and little child are sleeping. Veronica gets
Speaker 1: into her car to pick up her two older children
Speaker 1: from her sisters. She tucks the children in. Evidence suggests
Speaker 1: she planned to go out again. Her Chevy Yukon is
Speaker 1: part outside the family home, keys and wallet inside. Veronica
Speaker 1: has not been seen since her cell phone shut down
Speaker 1: or dies before it can be located. Veronica rays Diaz
Speaker 1: twenty three, four to ten, one hundred and forty five pounds,
Speaker 1: brown hair, brown eyes. She has a dark mole under
Speaker 1: her left eye, now missing four years. If you have
Speaker 1: info on Veronica res Diaz, call Hill's Borough County, Florida
Speaker 1: Sheriffs eight one, three, two four seven eighty two hundred
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Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace