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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crimes now. Cantia Perez

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Speaker 1: and Jace Hershey keep their youngest daughter's crib and a

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Speaker 1: closet in their Indiana home. As the knights get colder,

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Speaker 1: the parents put a space heater in the closet with

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Speaker 1: the top. Perez and Hershey put the toddler in her

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Speaker 1: crib for the night at seven pm, then down check

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Speaker 1: on her again until three pm. The next day. The

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Speaker 1: little girl did with an internal temperature of one hundred

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Speaker 1: and nine degrees Nancy. The mattress in the girl's crib

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Speaker 1: was extremely soiled, as was another room where two more children,

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Speaker 1: ages three and five, were kept. The two older children

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Speaker 1: were removed from the home due to the quote extremely

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Speaker 1: unhealthy conditions. Responding officers said they felt an immediate heat

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Speaker 1: difference between the bedroom and closet where the little girl

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Speaker 1: was found. An autopsy revealed she died of hyperthermia or overheating.

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Speaker 1: Parents Cintia Perez twenty one and Jace Hershey twenty three,

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Speaker 1: charged with three counts each felony neglect. What about murder?

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Speaker 1: Neighbors confused when they spot Pamela Monsalve reaching over a

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Speaker 1: fence in their Florida neighborhood, saying there's a little boy

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Speaker 1: in the backyard alone. Neighbors tell her leave him alone,

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Speaker 1: he lives there in his mommy's home. Monsalf ignores the advice,

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Speaker 1: grabs the child and starts to walk off. The neighbors

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Speaker 1: alert the mom, who confronts monsalve. She puts the three

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Speaker 1: year old down, who runs to his mother as she

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Speaker 1: calls nine one one. Monself tells police she was just

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Speaker 1: trying to help, but she's booked on kidnapp More crime

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Speaker 1: and justice news after this Now with the latest crime

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Speaker 1: and justice breaking news Crime Onlines.

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Speaker 2: John Lemley, a Brooklyn man, has been indicted for murder

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Speaker 2: and arson and a shocking subway attack that left a

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Speaker 2: woman burned to death. We bring in Sydney Sumner of

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Speaker 2: Crime Online for more.

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Speaker 3: Prosecutors say thirty three year old Sebastian Zapeta set the

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Speaker 3: victim on fire while she slept aboard a stopped f

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Speaker 3: train at Coney Island. He allegedly fanned the flames with

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Speaker 3: a shirt before sitting nearby and watching as she was engulfed.

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Speaker 3: Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez called the act malicious and

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Speaker 3: revealed the top charge carries a maximum sentence of life

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Speaker 3: without parole. Authorities are still working to identify the victim

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Speaker 3: using DNA and fingerprints. Zapeida, a Guatemalan citizen deported in

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Speaker 3: twenty eighteen who later re entered the US illegally, was

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Speaker 3: arrested hours after the attack. During questioning, prosecutors say he

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Speaker 3: admitted to being the person in surveillance footage, but claimed

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Speaker 3: not to recall the incident, citing alcohol use. The incident

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Speaker 3: has reignited concerns over subway safety. While overall crime on

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Speaker 3: the system has declined, homicides have risen, with nine reported

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Speaker 3: this year compared to five during the same period last year.

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Speaker 3: Mayor Eric Adams has directed police to collaborate with federal

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Speaker 3: agencies to explore additional charges under arson laws. Meanwhile, state

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Speaker 3: prosecutors argue their case could result in harsher penalties.

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Speaker 4: A former Georgia district attorney will stand trial in early

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty five on charges she interfered with the investigation

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Speaker 4: into Ahmad Arbury's killing. Senior Judge John R. Turner's scheduled

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Speaker 4: jury selection for Jackie Johnson's trial to begin January twenty

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Speaker 4: first in Glen County, with a hearing set for December

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Speaker 4: eleventh to address final pre trial motions. Johnson was the

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Speaker 4: district attorney when Arbury, a twenty five year old black man,

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Speaker 4: was shot while fleeing three white men who pursued him

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Speaker 4: in February of twenty twenty. The men, including former investigator

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Speaker 4: Greg McMichael and his son, were later convicted of murder

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Speaker 4: and federal hate crimes. Johnson recused her office from the

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Speaker 4: case due to her prior working relationship with Greg McMichael.

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Speaker 4: In September twenty twenty one, a grand jury indicted Johnson

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Speaker 4: on charges of violating her oath and hindering law enforcement.

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Speaker 4: The case has seen delays, partly due to one of

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Speaker 4: Johnson's attorneys defending Upper young thug in a separate, high

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Speaker 4: profile trial. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr stated that his

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Speaker 4: office is ready to proceed, while Arbury's family has said

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Speaker 4: they won't consider justice fully served until Johnson faces trial.

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Speaker 1: Thanks john Graduation is just around the corner for Jimmy J. Lee,

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Speaker 1: the third studying at University Mississippi Oxford. He's already been

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Speaker 1: accepted into the graduate program there and he hesitantly makes

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Speaker 1: plans to meet with a man he's been seeing, despite

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Speaker 1: the fact the two got in a heated argument last

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Speaker 1: time they were together. Jay drives from his apartment in

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Speaker 1: the Campus Walk complex to a unit at molly Bar Trails.

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Speaker 1: Next day, he does not show up for a donation

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Speaker 1: drive he organized as part of his internship. His family

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Speaker 1: immediately reports him missing. Jay's carr found abandoned in the

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Speaker 1: parking lot at molly Bar Trails. Canines pick up a

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Speaker 1: scent and lose it in the parking lot. Jay Lee

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Speaker 1: African America five seven, one hundred and twenty pounds long,

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Speaker 1: blonde braids, brown eyes, tattoo of a crown on his

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Speaker 1: wrist and a flower on his abdomen. If you have

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Speaker 1: info on Jimmy Jay Lee, please call Oxford, Mississippip PD

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Speaker 1: six six ' two two three two twenty four hundred.

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Speaker 1: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crimeal Art,

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