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Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace Breaking Crime News Now Kenya.

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Speaker 1: Butler and her two children had for supper at George's

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Speaker 1: Juicy Crab restaurant. Noticing unattended belongings one booth over, Butler

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Speaker 1: points out a purse and urges her seven year old

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Speaker 1: daughter to steal it. The little girl grabs the purse,

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Speaker 1: hands it to mommy, and the group quickly leaves. They

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Speaker 1: also skip out on a five hundred dollar bill Nancy.

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Speaker 2: The entire incident was caught on surveillance video, which helps

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Speaker 2: lead authorities to their suspects. Butler is seen holding her

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Speaker 2: toddler in her arms while pointing out the purse to

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Speaker 2: her older daughter. The little girl questions her mother, but

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Speaker 2: Butler insists, and the girl grabs the purse, hiding it

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Speaker 2: under a jacket until they make it outside the restaurant.

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Speaker 1: While the little daughter's not in trouble Kenya. Butler twenty eight,

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Speaker 1: now charged with theft and contributing to delinquency of a miner.

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Speaker 1: A bakery owner reviews surveillance footage after noticing items missing

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Speaker 1: from the shop. The video shows a blonde woman dressed

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Speaker 1: in black outside the shop doing a series of stretches

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Speaker 1: and yoga poses before breaking in. The owner reports a

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Speaker 1: pair of shoes and iPad cleaning products and several croissants missing.

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Speaker 1: Social media joke the woman one or two quote work

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Speaker 1: off the calories she's about to steal. The so called

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Speaker 1: bendable burglar now out on bail for theft and burglary.

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

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Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Limley.

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Speaker 3: A judge has dismissed a prosecutor's request to add abduction

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Speaker 3: charges against an Indiana man accused of killing two teenage girls.

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Speaker 3: This while the judge has now accepted two more murder

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Speaker 3: counts against the defendant. With more here Sidney Sumner with

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Speaker 3: Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Richard Allen of Delphi has now been charged with additional

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Speaker 2: counts including murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping,

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Speaker 2: after being taken into custody in our October of twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two. Allen was accused of killing fourteen year old

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Speaker 2: Liberty German and thirteen year old Abigail Williams in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: In response to the initial murder allegations, he entered a

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Speaker 2: not guilty plea. When he submitted the revised charges in January,

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Speaker 2: Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas mclealand stated that they quote more

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Speaker 2: accurately aligned the charging information with the causes discovery and

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Speaker 2: probable cause affidavit. Apart from authorizing the fresh accusations, Special

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Speaker 2: Judge fran Gul decided that all subsequent proceedings in the case,

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Speaker 2: aside from the May thirteenth jury selection, will take place

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Speaker 2: in Carroll County. Gol is an Allan Superior Court judge

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Speaker 2: in Fort Wayne, where several hearings have taken place. It

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Speaker 2: was on February thirteenth, twenty seventeen, that a relative of

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Speaker 2: one of the teens left the two girls at a

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Speaker 2: hiking trail near Delphi, which is roughly sixty miles northwest

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Speaker 2: of Indianapolis. When they failed to appear at the meeting

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Speaker 2: spot where they had made arrangements to be picked up

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Speaker 2: that evening. They were reported missing the following day. Their

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Speaker 2: bodies were discovered close to the path in a rough,

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Speaker 2: densely forested location. Delphi, a town of approximately three thousand

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Speaker 2: people where Allen worked in a pharmacy, has been traumatized

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Speaker 2: by the killings and the case has drawn a lot

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Speaker 2: of attention from both state and federal authorities. Gull issued

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Speaker 2: a gag order in December twenty twenty two prohibiting lawyers,

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Speaker 2: police officers, court employees, the coroner, and relatives of the

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Speaker 2: girls from discussing the matter with the public or the

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Speaker 2: media in any way. Citing increasing public scrutiny and media attention,

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Speaker 2: prosecutors had requested the order.

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Speaker 3: It was after a Carroll County judge resigned that Gall

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Speaker 3: was appointed as a special judge to supervise the case.

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Speaker 3: Now to Washington State as a man from Portland Suburbs

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Speaker 3: has been convicted of the nineteen eighty cold case murder

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Speaker 3: of a nineteen year old college student once again crime Online,

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Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: According to a press release issued by the Moltnomah County

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Speaker 2: District Attorney's office, sixty year old Robert Clinton was found

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Speaker 2: guilty of first degree murder in the death of Barbara

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Speaker 2: May Tucker by Moltnomah County Circuit Judge Amy Baggio. As

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Speaker 2: to the judge's ruling, Plimpton was not found guilty of

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Speaker 2: any crime related to rape or sexual abuse because the

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Speaker 2: prosecution was unable to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that

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Speaker 2: the incidents occurred while she was still alive. A medical

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Speaker 2: examiner's finding revealed that Tucker had been beaten and sexually

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Speaker 2: assaulted using DNA technology. A parabond Nana Labs genealogist determined

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one that Plimpton was most likely connected

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Speaker 2: to DNA in the case. Prosecutors claimed that Gresham Police

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Speaker 2: Department detectives discovered Plimpton residing in Troutdale. They began monitoring

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Speaker 2: the suspect and gathered a chewing gum fragment he had

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Speaker 2: spit onto the ground. Following the discovery by the Oregon

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Speaker 2: State Police Crime Lab that the gum's DNA profile matched

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Speaker 2: that of swabs collected from Tucker's remains, Clinton was taken

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Speaker 2: into custody. On January fifteenth, nineteen eighty, Tucker was scheduled

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Speaker 2: to attend a night class at mount Hood Community College

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Speaker 2: in Gresham. Witnesses reported seeing her bolting from a wooded

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Speaker 2: back to the school. The following day, a student discovered

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Speaker 2: Tucker's body next to a school parking lot. Climpton claimed

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Speaker 2: to be innocent and to not fit the description of

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Speaker 2: the man who was observed dragging the woman into the bushes.

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Speaker 3: Sentencing is said to take place in June.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John. Caroline Meister visits the Tasajara Zen Mountain Center

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Speaker 1: in rural Carmel Valley, California for meditation. At ten a m.

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Speaker 1: She leaves the center to hike, heading up wind Cave

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Speaker 1: Trail to loop back to the center. She leaves her

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Speaker 1: belongings behind, only taking water and snacks. When she doesn't

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Speaker 1: return by eleven thirty PM, Caroline's reported missing. After an

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Speaker 1: extensive foot in helicopter search, Caroline has not been found.

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Speaker 1: She was lasting one week ago, wearing teal boots and

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Speaker 1: carrying a blue bag. Hikers are asked to keep an

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Speaker 1: eye out for her. If you know or think you

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Speaker 1: know anything about Caroline Meister's disappearance, contact Monterey County, California

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Speaker 1: Sheriffs eight three one seven five five five to one

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Speaker 1: one one. For the late this crime and justice news,

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Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace