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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime needs now. Late

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Speaker 1: night Mary Outa, Georgia, a seventeen year old girl digs

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Speaker 1: a hole in her backyard. Concerned relatives called nine one

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Speaker 1: one officers find Letitia Rodriguez newborn baby dead on the ground.

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Speaker 1: The whole intended to be a grave. Rodriguez lives with

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Speaker 1: her family and had gone into labor delivered the baby

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Speaker 1: all alone. Now, just hours after birth, she needs immediate

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Speaker 1: medical attention. Police say they're investigating whether her family even

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Speaker 1: realized she was pregnant.

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Speaker 2: Nancy police are releasing new details about the gruesome crime scene,

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Speaker 2: now saying the newborn baby boy was found clearly injured

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Speaker 2: before his death. Rodriguez claim the umbilical cord was wrapped

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Speaker 2: around the baby's neck, so she used a knife to

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Speaker 2: cut it away, lacerating the baby's neck in the process.

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Speaker 2: Rodriguez also used a second knife to quote cut out

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Speaker 2: the baby's heart.

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Speaker 1: Rodriguez facing charges of concealing a death, abuse of a

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Speaker 1: dead body, and abandonment.

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Speaker 2: Rodriguez has been additionally charged with aggravated assault and felony murder.

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Speaker 1: A TikTok influencer in Florida arrested for shoplifting after posting

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Speaker 1: a video showcasing her stolen items. Merlena Velez twenty two,

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Speaker 1: allegedly uses a fake barcode at a target's self checkout

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Speaker 1: to steal five hundred dollars worth of stuff. After releasing

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Speaker 1: surveillance footage of Valz in the store, Cape Coral police

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Speaker 1: receive an anonymous tip from one of Velez's three hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand followers. The footage matches a TikTok she posted showing

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Speaker 1: her shopping at that target and the very same outfit.

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Speaker 1: Officer Riley Carter says she essentially incriminated herself showing off

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Speaker 1: her self checkout loot. Hey. Nobody said criminals were smart,

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Speaker 1: didn't they? More Crime and Justice news after this. Now

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Speaker 1: with the latest crimeing justice breaking these crime onlines John.

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Speaker 3: Limley, authorities are working to extradite Luigi Nicholas Mangioni, the

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Speaker 3: twenty six year old suspect in the killing of United

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Speaker 3: Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, back to New York to face

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Speaker 3: murder charges. Mangioni, an Ivy League graduate from a prominent

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Speaker 3: Maryland real estate family, was arrested Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 3: after a McDonald's customer recognized him and alerted police. Officers

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Speaker 3: found Mangioni seated with a laptop wearing a mask. When questioned,

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Speaker 3: he provided false identification but reportedly became visibly nervous when

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Speaker 3: asked about New York. He was carrying a firearm similar

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Speaker 3: to the one used in the crime, a fake ID

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Speaker 3: linked to the shooter's check in at a New York hostel,

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Speaker 3: and a document expressing hostility toward Corporate America. This according

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Speaker 3: to police. Fifty year old Thompson was fatally shot last

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Speaker 3: Wednesday in what investigators describe as a targeted attack. Surveillance

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Speaker 3: footage indicates the gunman fled Manhattan by bus by bus. Mangioni,

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Speaker 3: who remains jailed in Pennsylvania, was also charged with possession

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Speaker 3: of an unlicensed firearm and other offenses. New York prosecutors

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Speaker 3: have obtained an arrest warrant to expedite his extradition. Authorities

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Speaker 3: continue to piece together Mangioni's background, which includes a stellar

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Speaker 3: academic record and passed residency in Honolulu, where he reportedly

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Speaker 3: struggled with chronic back pain. Police say Mangioni had ten

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars in cash and a passport at the time

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Speaker 3: of his arrest. In Indiana, justice has finally been served

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Speaker 3: in a case that remained cold for nearly five decades.

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Speaker 3: For more, we turned to Sydney Sumner of Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Sixty nine year old Fred Bandy Junior of Goshen, Indiana,

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Speaker 2: was sentenced to life in prison for the nineteen seventy

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Speaker 2: five murder of seventeen rolled Laurel gen Mitchell. Mitchell vanished

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Speaker 2: after leaving her job at a local church camp, and

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Speaker 2: her body was discovered in the Elkhart River the following day.

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Speaker 2: The long awaited sentencing was handed down by a Noble

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Speaker 2: County judge. Bandy, convicted of first degree murder earlier this

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Speaker 2: month and a bench trial, while now faced life behind

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Speaker 2: bars with the possibility of parole. His attorney has yet

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Speaker 2: to comment on the ruling. This case dates back to

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Speaker 2: August nineteen seventy five, when Mitchell's disappearance shook the small

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Speaker 2: community of North Webster, located about one hundred and forty

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Speaker 2: miles northeast of Indianapolis. After years without answers, a major

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Speaker 2: breakthrough came last year when Bandy, along with sixty nine

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Speaker 2: year old John Wayne Lamam of Auburn, Indiana, was charged

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Speaker 2: in connection with her death. Lamam, who pleaded guilty to

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Speaker 2: conspiracy to commit murder, was sentenced to eight years in

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Speaker 2: prison earlier this month. In a deposition this passed August,

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Speaker 2: Laymam claimed that Bandy raped and drowned Mitchell. While he

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Speaker 2: denied taking part in the killing, he admitted his fear

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Speaker 2: of Bandy prevent him from intervening. The case was revived

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Speaker 2: through advancements in DNA technology. Investigators were able to test

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Speaker 2: evidence that had been preserved since nineteen seventy five, including

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Speaker 2: Mitchell's clothing. A DNA profile linked Bandy to the crime,

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Speaker 2: with testing determining it was thirteen billion times more likely

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Speaker 2: that his DNA was present on the clothing than that

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Speaker 2: of any other unknown person. Prosecutors were also armed with

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Speaker 2: witness testimony. Three individuals, teenagers at the time of the murder,

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Speaker 2: came forward decades later with information implicating both Bandy and Leimam.

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Speaker 3: Investigators say these witness statements, combined with the DNA evidence,

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Speaker 3: were key in solving this nearly fifty year old mystery.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John, a car accident sets off a mysterious chain

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Speaker 1: of events leading to the disappearance of twenty one year

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Speaker 1: old Stefan Chan. On April two, twenty eighteen, Chan involved

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Speaker 1: in a single car crash aace Templeton, Massachusetts. He calls

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Speaker 1: an uber to get to irving, where he vanes. Tracker

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Speaker 1: dogs briefly pick up a cent, then lose it. Chan's

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Speaker 1: family describes him as visibly stressed in the week's prior

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Speaker 1: Authorities conduct extensive searches, including ground teams drones, reviewing his

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Speaker 1: social media for clues, but no new info emerges. Stephen

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Speaker 1: chen Asian five eight five nine, one hundred and forty pounds,

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Speaker 1: black hair, brown eyes, glasses. Anyone with info please contact

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts State Police five zero eight eight two zero twenty

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Speaker 1: three hundred. For the latest crime and justice news, go

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, Crime Stories with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.