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Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Michael

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Speaker 1: Mahn's wife calls nine on one when she comes home

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Speaker 1: to their Pennsylvania home to find his beheaded body. She

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Speaker 1: says when she left, Man was home with their adult son, Justin.

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Speaker 1: In a YouTube video posted hours earlier, the son, Justin Mann,

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Speaker 1: holds his father's decapitated head up to the camera and

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Speaker 1: calls for violence against the government.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Michael Mann was a federal employee with the Philadelphia

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Speaker 2: branch of the US Army Corps of Engineers. In his

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Speaker 2: YouTube video, Justin Mann described a large government conspiracy and

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Speaker 2: called his father a treater to the country. The video

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Speaker 2: was quickly removed for violating the platform's policies. At the scene,

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Speaker 2: investigators found the victim's head wrapped in a plastic bag

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Speaker 2: inside a cooking pot next to the body.

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Speaker 1: Cops fine Justin Mann two hours from the crime scene,

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Speaker 1: driving his own dad's car. Man thirty two, booked on

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Speaker 1: murder and b use of a corpse. A Vegas judge

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Speaker 1: is in hot water after posting a picture off herself

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Speaker 1: in a hot tub with two public defenders. Judge Erica

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Speaker 1: Belou is pictured in a hot tub with a male

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Speaker 1: and female public defender with a racie caption posted at

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Speaker 1: the bottom. Belu has made questionable posts in the past.

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Speaker 1: Her social media habit now threatens her position. The Nevada

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Speaker 1: Commission on Judicial Discipline has filed two counts of violating

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Speaker 1: the Code of Judicial Conduct against Belu for activities that

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Speaker 1: undermine public confidence. You can say that again. Plus don't

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Speaker 1: they know those hot tubs are full of germs? More

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

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Speaker 1: crime in Justice, breaking news crime onlines.

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Speaker 3: John Lemley, a former employee of Photus Dulos, has now

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Speaker 3: spoken in court about unintentionally becoming involved in the case

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Speaker 3: of the twenty nineteen homicide of Jennifer Doulah, some mother

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Speaker 3: of five from Connecticut. The witness also told of his

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Speaker 3: boss forcing him to get rid of seats in his

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Speaker 3: pickup truck that would later be used as evidence in

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Speaker 3: the investigation. With the latest, here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Forty three year old Pavel Gumienni is a crucial witness

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Speaker 2: in the trial of Michelle Traconis. The defendant is charged

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Speaker 2: with aiding her boyfriend Dulos's husband in the subsequent cover

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Speaker 2: up of the death. Traconas disputes allegations of obstructing the prosecution,

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Speaker 2: tampering with evidence, and plotting to commit murder. Gumienni worked

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Speaker 2: for Fotus Dulos, who was facing a contentious divorce and

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Speaker 2: custody dispute with Jennifer Dulos when she disappeared from her

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Speaker 2: New Cannon, Connecticut home on May twenty fourth, twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 2: soon after being accused of killing his wife, an allegation

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Speaker 2: he refuted. Fotus Dulos committed suicide in January of twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: On the day of his wife's death, Fotus Dulos drove

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Speaker 2: Gumienni's pickup truck to New Cannon, then allegedly rode a

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Speaker 2: bicycle to Jennifer Dulos's home. He attacked his wife there

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Speaker 2: after she returned from dropping off their kids school. According

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Speaker 2: to police, Photusdulos then took off with her body in

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Speaker 2: her own suv. Although a probate judge ruled her dead

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Speaker 2: in October of last year, her body has never been located.

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Speaker 2: Goomi Anni testified on the eighteenth day of Traconis's Stamford,

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Speaker 2: Connecticut trial that Photus Dulos had the truck washed inside

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Speaker 2: and out at a car wash one week after his

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Speaker 2: wife vanished, and that he had put pressure on guomi

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Speaker 2: Anni to swap out the truck's front seats for new ones.

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Speaker 2: Guomi Anni stated that although he wasn't sure photos Dulos

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Speaker 2: was capable of killing Jennifer Dulos, he was becoming concerned

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Speaker 2: as she remained missing.

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Speaker 3: Prosecutors offered gumi Anni, a Polish immigrant who obtained a

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Speaker 3: US green card in two thousand, freedom from prosecution in

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Speaker 3: exchange for his testimony. Now to Illinois as actor Jesse

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Speaker 3: Smilett is requesting that the state's Supreme Court get involved

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Speaker 3: in his protracted legal dispute over accusations that he lied

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Speaker 3: to police after faking a homophobic and racist attack on

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Speaker 3: himself in twenty nineteen once again crime on the Sydney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: Two months after his conviction and sentencing for disorderly behavior

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Speaker 2: were upheld by an appeals court, Smollette submitted a petition

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Speaker 2: asking the state's top court to take up the matter.

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Speaker 2: The Empire actor was found guilty by a jury in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one of five felonies related to disorderly conduct

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Speaker 2: a charge that can be brought in Illinois when someone

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Speaker 2: is suspected alying to police. He was given a five

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Speaker 2: month prison sentence, but he was freed while he appealed

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Speaker 2: both his conviction and sentence. Smollette has continued to claim

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Speaker 2: he is innocent. Smollette, a gay black man, alleged to

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Speaker 2: the police that two individuals wearing ski masks had attacked

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Speaker 2: him in a racial and homophobic manner. Soon the hunt

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Speaker 2: for the assailants evolved into an inquiry into Smollette, which

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Speaker 2: resulted in his arrest on suspicion of masterminding the entire incident.

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Speaker 2: Attorneys for Smalllett restated his earlier appeals argument that their

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Speaker 2: client's Fifth Amendment rights against double jeopardy being punished twice

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Speaker 2: for the same crime were violated during his twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: one trial. The defense said Smalletat had already completed community

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Speaker 2: service and forfeited a ten thousand dollars bill as part

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Speaker 2: of a twenty nineteen agreement to have the first sixteen

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Speaker 2: charges of disorderly conduct dropped with the Cook County State's

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Speaker 2: Attorney's office.

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Speaker 3: The state Supreme Court could take the case or let

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Speaker 3: the lower court's decision stand Thanks.

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Speaker 1: John. Rachel Cook, just nineteen, comes home to Georgetown, Texas

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Speaker 1: after her first semester at San Diego Mason College. She's

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Speaker 1: pursuing a fashion degree. She brings her boyfriend home for

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Speaker 1: the holidays with her family, and he returns to San

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Speaker 1: Diego after New Year's Rachel stays behind for a wedding

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Speaker 1: across country runner. Rachel often takes a four mile run

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Speaker 1: around her parents neighborhood. People see her on the run

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Speaker 1: starting at nine thirty eight m January ten. A neighbor

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Speaker 1: just a few doors down remember seeing her cooling down

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Speaker 1: and walking back toward her home, but she never makes it.

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Speaker 1: After hours pass and Rachel still has not returned. Her

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Speaker 1: family reports are missing. Extensive searches ensue no sign of Rachel.

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Speaker 1: Rachel Cook will now be forty one. She's been missing

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Speaker 1: twenty two years. If you have info on Rachel Cook,

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Speaker 1: call Williamson County, Texas Sheriffs five one two nine four

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Speaker 1: three five two zero four. For the latest crime in

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Speaker 1: justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace