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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking Crimes now ten PM.

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Speaker 1: Texas cock speed to a USPS facility after reports shots

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Speaker 1: fired in the building. They find contractor Kevin Hines dead

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Speaker 1: shot execution style on the back of the head. Employees

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Speaker 1: who witness the shooting say coworker Derrick Lott Junior was

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Speaker 1: behind the gun. Lott tries to blend in with dozens

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Speaker 1: of evacuating employees when he's cuffed. Lot refuses to admit

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Speaker 1: why he killed Hines Nancy.

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Speaker 2: Many details of the shooting are unclear, including what led

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Speaker 2: up to it and where in the building it occurred. Reportedly,

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Speaker 2: Lot Junior was not scheduled to be working at the

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Speaker 2: time of the attack. The facility was shut down into

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Speaker 2: the morning after the shooting, in work resumed that afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Hines leaves behind a beloved son who says he

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Speaker 2: felt it when his dad passed away. Marquise Hines says

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Speaker 2: his father always pushed him to be better and he

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Speaker 2: will continue living by his dad's example.

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Speaker 1: Derrick Lott Junior, twenty four, now charged with murder. A

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Speaker 1: Florida Hilton employee caused police to report an SUV stolen

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Speaker 1: from the valet, but not just any suv. It's a

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Speaker 1: Rolls Royce police spot. Is stolen suv a few miles away,

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Speaker 1: but the thief, not willing to give up his prize,

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Speaker 1: takes off. Six miles from the Hilton, he crashes the

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Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars car into a checker's restaurant. Malik

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Speaker 1: Patterson tries to flee on foot, but cannot outrun the

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Speaker 1: canine unit. Patterson twenty one, charged with grand theft and

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Speaker 1: resisting without violence, now facing thirty years behind bars for

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Speaker 1: a very short lived joy ride. But oh he went

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Speaker 1: in style. More crime and justice news after this. Now

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Speaker 1: with the latest crime and justice breaking news crimal lines.

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Speaker 3: John Lemley, a Connecticut man, is facing charges in a

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Speaker 3: shocking drive by shooting that claimed the lives of a

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Speaker 3: twenty year old mother and her four month old baby.

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Speaker 3: Twenty three year old Lance Morales appeared in Hartford court,

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Speaker 3: where bail was set at five million dollars. If convicted,

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Speaker 3: he could face life without parole. Police alleged Morales opened

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Speaker 3: fire on Jessica Mercato and her son, Messiah Diaz on

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Speaker 3: November nineteenth in Hartford. A third passenger was injured, while

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Speaker 3: a fourth escaped harm. According to an arrest warrant, the

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Speaker 3: attack followed a dispute over four hundred dollars. Mercato reportedly

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Speaker 3: owed Morales for renting his SUV. Morales, arrested in Puerto

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Speaker 3: Rico after the shooting, was extradited back to Connecticut over

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Speaker 3: the weekend. Witness accounts cited in the warrant claimed Mercato

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Speaker 3: pleaded for her child's safety before Morales allegedly replied, I

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Speaker 3: don't care and began shooting. Authorities believe the firearm used

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Speaker 3: was fully automatic. Court records show Morales has a prior

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Speaker 3: attempted assault conviction and additional pending cases. His attorney said

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Speaker 3: he cannot afford bail. Morales's due back in court January eighth.

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Speaker 3: In a chilling conclusion to a decade's old mystery, authorities

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Speaker 3: have confirm that James Vanest, a man recently killed during

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Speaker 3: a federal arrest attempt, was responsible for the brutal nineteen

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Speaker 3: eighty one murder of eighteen year old Deborah Lee Miller

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Speaker 3: in Mansfield, Ohio. For more, we turned to Sidney Sumner

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Speaker 3: of Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Deborah Lee Miller, a young waitress, was found beaten to

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Speaker 2: death with an ovengrate in her apartment. On April twenty ninth,

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty one, Mansfield Police Chief Jason Bamman announced that

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Speaker 2: advances in DNA technology reopened the cold case. In twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one, leading to a breakthrough. Investigators uncovered a definitive

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Speaker 2: DNA link connecting Vanest van Miller's twenty six year old

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Speaker 2: upstairs neighbor to the crime scene. James Vanest, questioned but

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Speaker 2: never named, a suspect in the original investigation, had a

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Speaker 2: shadowy history. Allegations of police misconduct in the nineteen eighties

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Speaker 2: cast doubt on the integrity of several local homicide investigations,

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Speaker 2: including Miller's. A special inquiry later cleared officers of wrongdoing,

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Speaker 2: but raised troubling questions about the handling of her CAUs

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Speaker 2: By twenty twenty four, prosecutors were preparing charges against him

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Speaker 2: for Miller's murder. However, Vaness evaded accountability after fleeing Ohio

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Speaker 2: amid mounting legal troubles. He was indicted on federal firearms charges.

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Speaker 2: Authorities tracked into a motel in North Campton in November.

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Speaker 2: A standoff ensued, during which Vanest allegedly opened fire injuring

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Speaker 2: one swat officer before being fatally shot. Detective Terry Butler,

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Speaker 2: who pursued the case with personal ties. His great uncle

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Speaker 2: was one of the first officers at the scene in

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty one, said the outcome underscores law enforcement's commitment

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Speaker 2: to justice no matter how much time has passed.

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Speaker 3: Chief Bamman declared the case closed, expressing hope that this

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Speaker 3: resolution provides long awaited solace to Miller's family.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John and Kip makes deliveries nationwide for r XO.

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Speaker 1: Kip does not have a permanent address, but has her

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Speaker 1: mail delivered to Decayterur, Alabama, OC taber ten. She makes

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Speaker 1: a delivery Corinth, the Mississippi. A week later, she asked

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Speaker 1: for few days off, says she's not feeling well. October twenty,

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Speaker 1: she's scheduled to make a pickup in Scottsburg, Indiana. It

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Speaker 1: appears she checked into a hotel there, but she doesn't

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Speaker 1: show for the pickup and doesn't answer calls or texts.

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Speaker 1: None of her family members can reach her, and drives

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Speaker 1: at twenty eighteen for Transit with a white RXO decal

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Speaker 1: on the driver and passenger side doors. Michigan license plate

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Speaker 1: eight Q Queen d Delta B Brother nine one and

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Speaker 1: Kip five eight strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes. If you

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Speaker 1: have info on Ann, Kip or the van, please call Decatur,

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Speaker 1: Alabama PD two five six three four one four six

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Speaker 1: find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With

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