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Speaker 1: Crime alert I means he grays breaking crimes. Now. Chantel

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Speaker 1: Gardner has two children, ages two and four, at home,

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Speaker 1: but she lives with her boyfriend. Gardner leaves the toddlers

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Speaker 1: unattended practically twenty four to seven, only coming home a

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Speaker 1: few hours and what's a day to feed them. When

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Speaker 1: Gardner returns home for a feeding, her four year old

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Speaker 1: son comes to greet her, but the taut girl, Skyler

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Speaker 1: does not. Gardner finds the little girl under a dresser,

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Speaker 1: cold and stiff, she runs outside calls nine one one.

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Speaker 1: First Responders say Skyler died from a large puncture wound

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Speaker 1: on her neck, the rest of her body covered in bruises.

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Speaker 2: Nancy first responders have to wade through trash, rotting food,

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Speaker 2: soiled items, and even things like steak knives to get

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Speaker 2: to Skyler. Gardner admits the children are neglected and tells

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Speaker 2: Belie she only bathes them about every two weeks, often

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Speaker 2: finding them covered in feces when she returns home to

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Speaker 2: feed them. Despite the neglected mission, Gardner denies physically abusing

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Speaker 2: the toddlers and has no explanation for Skuyler's injuries.

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Speaker 1: Chantel Gardner, thirty three, now charged with child neglect causing death.

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Speaker 1: Florida CoP's called when a fight breaks out at a funeral.

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Speaker 1: Officers five Marine and Kathleen Degan, sixty and sixty six,

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Speaker 1: locked in a brawl just feet from their father's casket.

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Speaker 1: After breaking up the fight, family explains the younger Deagan

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Speaker 1: was upset that her daughter was left out of Kathleen's eulogy.

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Speaker 1: The older sister, Maureene, reportedly chest bumped Kathleen, who responded

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Speaker 1: by yanking her sister's hair. Maureene then began throwing punches

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Speaker 1: at Kathleen until both women fall to the floor full

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Speaker 1: on wrestling. The deacon's sisters both booked at Clearwater County

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Speaker 1: Jail on battery in order to have no contact. Well

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Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Dad. More crime and justice news after

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Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking these

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Speaker 1: crime on lines.

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Speaker 3: John Lemley, South Carolina has carried out its third execution

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Speaker 3: in four months, marking the first in the US this year.

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Speaker 3: As Crime Online Sidney Sunder tells us, a forty four

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Speaker 3: year old man was put to death, maintaining his innocence

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Speaker 3: until the end.

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Speaker 2: Marion Bowman, Junior was executed by lethal injection at Broad

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Speaker 2: River Correctional Institution. Convicted in two thousand and two for

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Speaker 2: the two thousand and one murder of twenty one year

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Speaker 2: old Candy Martin, Bowman has always denied responsibility. His final words,

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Speaker 2: I did not kill Candy Martin. Prosecutors built their case

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Speaker 2: largely on witness testimony from friends and relatives who took

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Speaker 2: plea deals. Bowman had refused a plea bargain, opting instead

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Speaker 2: for trial. His was the first execution in the US

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Speaker 2: this year, part of South Carolina's push to clear a

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Speaker 2: backlog of death row cases after a thirteen year pause

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Speaker 2: due to drug shortages. A new state law now shields

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Speaker 2: the identities of lethal injection drug suppliers, allowing executions to resume.

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Speaker 2: Bowman declined to request clemency from Governor Henry McMaster. His attorney,

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Speaker 2: Lindsay Vaughan, said he refused to spend decades fighting a

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Speaker 2: system he believed had failed him. In his final statement,

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Speaker 2: Bowman expressed hope that Martin's family could find peace.

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Speaker 3: Five members and associates of New York's Luksey crime family

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Speaker 3: have pleaded guilty to racketeering, money laundering, and illegal gambling.

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Speaker 3: Federal prosecutor say the group ran a multimillion dollar online

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Speaker 3: sports betting operation called Rhino Sports that took in as

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Speaker 3: many as thirteen hundred wagers a week, primarily in the

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Speaker 3: Bronx and Westchester County. Among those pleading guilty Anthony Velani,

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Speaker 3: a sixty year old Luksey soldier from Elmsford, New York.

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Speaker 3: He admitted to owning and operating the betting rings since

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Speaker 3: the early two thousands, employing mob connected bookmakers to collect winnings.

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Speaker 3: As part of his plea deal, he'll forfeit four million dollars.

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Speaker 3: He faces up to twenty years in prison. Federal prosecutors

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Speaker 3: say illegal gambling businesses like this rely on violence to

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Speaker 3: enforce debts and fend off rivals. US attorney John Durham

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Speaker 3: call the case a reminder that quote the defendant's luck

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Speaker 3: ran out. Four others tied to the operation have also

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Speaker 3: pleaded guilty, while a sixth remains at large.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John, seven year old Patrick Alfred and his younger

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Speaker 1: sister placed in foster care while mom finds a good

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Speaker 1: home for the family in New York City. Three weeks later,

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Speaker 1: seven year old Patrick, not adjusting well, says he wants

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Speaker 1: to run away and find Mommy, Patrick's foster mom gets

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Speaker 1: distracted by a phone call while Patrick helps her take

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Speaker 1: out trash. Moments later, Patrick disappears. Police use canines to

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Speaker 1: track the boy, but they lose his scent after just

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Speaker 1: a few blocks. Police not on nine thousand doors, interview

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Speaker 1: fourteen thousand people, search over two hundred buildings. There's no

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Speaker 1: sign of Patrick. If you have info on Patrick Alfred,

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Speaker 1: please contact New York Crime Stoppers eight hundred five seven

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Speaker 1: seven tips. That's eight hundred five seven seven eight four

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