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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Gray's Breaking Crime News Now. Eric Quinn,

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Speaker 1: a do gooder mother of two from California, attacked in

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Speaker 1: Winchester after responding to an unsolicited text. The message, climbing

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Speaker 1: to be from an elderly woman named Connie, offers items

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Speaker 1: for a children's toy drive. Erin's organizing Aaron's drive to

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Speaker 1: the address knocks.

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Speaker 2: Then another text.

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Speaker 1: Orders her to wait in her car, but before she can,

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Speaker 1: an assailant opens the unlocked car door and slips into

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Speaker 1: the back seat Nancy.

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Speaker 3: The attacker puts a taser to Aaron's head and pulls

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Speaker 3: the trigger several times. She then instructs Erin to drive,

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Speaker 3: threatening her family if she does not cooperate. Aaron blares

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Speaker 3: her horn and she passes several construction workers, and the

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Speaker 3: attacker tases her again, causing Aaron to crash into two

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Speaker 3: parked cars. Erin takes the chance to fight back and

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Speaker 3: pulls a wig off the attacker, revealing her former housekeeper,

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Speaker 3: Olga Mendez. Erin has no idea why Mendez would attack her,

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Speaker 3: their relationship ended on good terms. Mendez escapes a scene,

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Speaker 3: but is arrested ten days later.

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Speaker 1: Forty four year old Mendez jailed accused of kidnap and

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Speaker 1: assault with a deadly weapon. A four hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: Rolls Royce ghost speeding on a California highway reveals a

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Speaker 1: bizarre passenger. The driver clutching a baby spider monkey wrapped

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Speaker 1: in his jacket. California Highway patrol stops Ali Muhammad, twenty

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Speaker 1: seven and bust him for dui in cannabis possession for

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Speaker 1: sale in his jacket. The month's old monkey, dressed in

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Speaker 1: a pink polka dot Onesie primates are illegal as pets

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Speaker 1: in California, leading to a third criminal charge. The monkey,

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Speaker 1: named Marcel, spends the night eating mashed bananas before being

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Speaker 1: checked out at the Oakland Zoo. Mohammed watches as his

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Speaker 1: supercar towed away. Monkey and Rolls Royce All Gone. More

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Speaker 1: Prime and Justice news after this, Now with the latest

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Speaker 1: I'm in Justice breaking these crime onlines John Limley.

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Speaker 2: Prosecutors in Kentucky are pushing for a metal evaluation of

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Speaker 2: a former sheriff accused of killing a judge inside a

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Speaker 2: courthouse last autumn. Shawn Mickey Steins, the former sheriff of

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Speaker 2: Lecher County, is charged with the September nineteenth shooting of

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Speaker 2: district Judge Kevin Mullins in Whitesburg, a small Appalachian town

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Speaker 2: where both men were well known. Prosecutors have presented video

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Speaker 2: and court showing a man identified as Stein's pulling a

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Speaker 2: handgun and opening fire at Mullin's desk. Investigators have not

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Speaker 2: revealed a motive, but just hours before the attack, Stein

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Speaker 2: and Mullins both had lunch together with others near the courthouse. Now.

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Speaker 2: Stein's attorneys say he was emotionally disturbed at the time

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Speaker 2: of the shooting and planned to argue he suffered from

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Speaker 2: insanity and quote extreme emotional disturbance. Prosecutors want a state

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Speaker 2: doctor to evaluate those claims. Stein's remains in failed without bond.

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Speaker 2: He has pleaded not guilty to murder and resigned from

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Speaker 2: office days after the killing. A judge has not yet

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Speaker 2: ruled on whether he will be granted bond. A former

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Speaker 2: Texas megachurch pastor has been indicted on child sexual abuse

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Speaker 2: charges in Oklahoma. As Crime Online Sidney Sumner tells US

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Speaker 2: Robert Morris, founder of Gateway Church, faces multiple felony counts.

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Speaker 3: Sixty three year old Robert Morris is charged with five

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Speaker 3: counts of loot axe with a child. Prosecutors say the

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Speaker 3: abuse began in nineteen eighty two, when Cindy Klemischhier was twelve. Morris,

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Speaker 3: then a twenty one year old traveling evangelist, was staying

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Speaker 3: with her family in Hominy, Oklahoma, where he regularly preached

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Speaker 3: at their church. The abuse allegedly continued for four years. Clemenshire,

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Speaker 3: now fifty five, expressed gratitude to authorities, saying, quote, after

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Speaker 3: almost forty three years, the law has finally caught up

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Speaker 3: with Robert Morris. She hopes the legal system will hold

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Speaker 3: him accountable. Oklahoma Attorney General ginn Or Drummond condemned Morris, stating, quote,

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Speaker 3: there can be no tolerance for those who prey on children,

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Speaker 3: calling the case especially egregious because Morris allegedly used his

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Speaker 3: postoral role to gain trust. Morris went on to found

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Speaker 3: a Gateway Church in two thousand, which grew into one

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Speaker 3: of the country's largest megachurches. He resigned last year after

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Speaker 3: these allegations surfaced. The church and a statement acknowledged the

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Speaker 3: legal process and express support for Chlemenshire and others affected.

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Speaker 2: If convicted, Morris could face up to twenty years for

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Speaker 2: each charge.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Terrell bankhad attends his great grandfather's funeral Saint Louis.

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Speaker 1: The nineteen year old spends the day at Life Center

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Speaker 1: International Church with family and friends. After the service, witnesses

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Speaker 1: see him leave. He gets into a black four door

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Speaker 1: car with tinted windows and black rims with friends. That

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Speaker 1: day as the last day anyone sees him. Not long after,

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Speaker 1: his mom gets an alarming anonymous phone call. The voice

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Speaker 1: on the line claims Brandon's being held an e vacant

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Speaker 1: Walnut Park home trapped in a closet. Despite the disturbing tip,

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Speaker 1: searches reveal nothing, he never surfaces. Brandon African American five

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Speaker 1: to two, one hundred and thirty pounds, last wearing a

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Speaker 1: red hoodie, a multi colored burbery shirt, black pants, and

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Speaker 1: blue and white shoes. He has a mohawks style fade haircut,

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Speaker 1: both ears pierced. Anyone with info please contacts Saint Louis

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