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Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime is now. A

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Speaker 1: North Carolina woman on her way to work see something

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Speaker 1: move in her back seat and uncovers a shocking discovery.

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Speaker 1: Seventy five year old Maurice Steinberg finds twenty three year

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Speaker 1: old Charles Babb hiding in her car one morning just

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Speaker 1: before work. Bab, twenty three, recently escaped from the Chowan

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Speaker 1: County Detention Center. Good Morning Jennifer Gould has the details.

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Speaker 2: Nancy talk about a backseat driver. Maurice Steinberg got the

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Speaker 2: ultimate jump scare in Edington, North Carolina, when she went

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Speaker 2: to unlock her car around seven thirty in the morning.

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Speaker 2: She was expecting a routine drive to work, but instead

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Speaker 2: found a literal jailbird nesting in her back seat. The

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Speaker 2: uninvited passenger was twenty three year old Charles Edward Bab,

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Speaker 2: who had pulled a disappearing act from the Chowan County

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Speaker 2: Detention Center just the night before, and of all the

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Speaker 2: houses in Eddington to end up at, he picked the

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Speaker 2: home of former State Senator Bob Steinberg, who had pushed

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Speaker 2: for prison reform during his ten years in politics. Bab

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Speaker 2: was not exactly blending in either. He was still rocking

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Speaker 2: his prison issued orange jumpsuit and was cozied up under

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Speaker 2: a blanket he swiped from the Steinberg's garage loft. This

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Speaker 2: hitchhiker had escaped custody using a handheld edged weapon to

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Speaker 2: slice his way to freedom. Instead, though, of a high

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Speaker 2: speed getaway, he decided to play hide and seek in

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Speaker 2: Marie's unlocked car. Rather than losing her cool, Marie used

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Speaker 2: what she called her quote unquote mother act to keep

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Speaker 2: the fugitive calm chatting him up while he repeatedly apologized

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Speaker 2: for being freezing and famished. Marie spoke to Wavy ten News.

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Speaker 1: I figured if I was nice to him, he'd be

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Speaker 1: nice to me, And I said, well, Hi, let me

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Speaker 1: go in.

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Speaker 2: And get you a coat. The desperate colin actually asked

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Speaker 2: the seventy five year old if she had a phone,

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Speaker 2: and where's the nearest McDonald's. Where's it located? Apparently freedom

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Speaker 2: tastes like a mcdouble. The standoff ended when bab bolted

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Speaker 2: from the vehicle and fled down the driveway, but he

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Speaker 2: did not get too far because Marie alerted her husband,

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Speaker 2: dialed nine one one, and Edington police nabbed him just

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Speaker 2: a few houses away. Bab is now facing a laundry

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Speaker 2: list of new charges, including felony, escape, breaking and entering,

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Speaker 2: and larceny. He tried to catch a ride to freedom,

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Speaker 2: but instead he got driven straight back to his concrete suite.

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Speaker 2: After this, a high profile international manhunt reached its conclusion

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Speaker 2: when Hosi mar Cabrera, thirty six, was extradited from Peru

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Speaker 2: to Los Angeles to face charges for the murder of

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Speaker 2: his wife. Cabrera arrived at Los Angeles International Airport under

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Speaker 2: heavy guard, marking the end of a complex diplomatic effort

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Speaker 2: to return him to the United States. The defendant had

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Speaker 2: been in the custody of authorities in Lima since late August,

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Speaker 2: following his decision to surrender to the Peruvian National Police

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Speaker 2: after fleeing his Lancaster, California home. Neighbor Sylvia Perez spoke

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Speaker 2: to ABC seven Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: We haven't got justice for her, you know, so I'm

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Speaker 1: happy that you know they're gonna get justice for this lady.

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Speaker 2: The criminal investigation began on August twelfth, when thirty three

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Speaker 2: year old Sila Cabrera, a mother of three, was reported

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Speaker 2: missing by her family. The search ended in tragedy four

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Speaker 2: days later, when her remains were located at the base

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Speaker 2: of a steep embankment within the Angelus National Forest south

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Speaker 2: of Lancaster. Search and rescue personnel discovered the victim's body

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Speaker 2: tightly bound in industrial material, a detail that would later

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Speaker 2: prove pivotal to the prosecution's case. Detectives from the Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide Bureau quickly identified Hosimar Cabrera

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Speaker 2: as the primary suspect after obtaining surveillance footage from the

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Speaker 2: couple's apartment complex. The video allegedly captures Cabrera in the

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Speaker 2: early morning hours dragging a heavy, bulky object shrouded in

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Speaker 2: material matching that found in the forest out of the

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Speaker 2: residential building. Prosecutors contend the object was the bagged body

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Speaker 2: of his wife. Following the alleged disposal of the remains,

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Speaker 2: Cabrera fled to his native Peru, taking the couple's three

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Speaker 2: young sons with him. The children were later located by

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Speaker 2: Peruvian authorities and safely returned to California to be reunited

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Speaker 2: with their maternal relatives. While the Los Angeles County Medical

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Speaker 2: Examiner's Office has not yet released the formal cause of death,

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Speaker 2: the DA's office has filed murder charges accompanied by a

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Speaker 2: special circumstance allegation involving the use of a knife. Cabrera

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Speaker 2: is currently held without bail and is awaiting his formal

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Speaker 2: arraignment in Los Angeles Superior Court and finally talk about

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Speaker 2: a big time heist. Kramer's Tree Lots, a family staple

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Speaker 2: for twenty five years, is feeling deflated after a crew

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Speaker 2: of holiday hoodlums snatched their iconic forty foot tall inflatable

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Speaker 2: sanna that would leave me tremendously upset. The festive fiends

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Speaker 2: cut through a fence and literally drag the joy out

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Speaker 2: of the lot, leaving Marx in the gravel where the

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Speaker 2: towering Saint Nick was just hauled away. Owner Kyle Kramer

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Speaker 2: is stumped on how the thieves even pulled it off,

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Speaker 2: because it took four grown men just to hoist the

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Speaker 2: massive mascot. Neighbors are reviewing security footage to help police

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Speaker 2: wrap up this case before the holiday spirit is lost

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Speaker 2: in the woods. Phoenix police are investigating, hoping to find

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Speaker 2: the Naughty crew before they can inflate their ego any further. Nancy.

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