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Speaker 1: Crime art. I mean see grace breaking crime these now

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Speaker 1: our Jennifer Gould standing by Jennifer Sean Diddy.

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Speaker 2: Combs won't be celebrating Independence Day as a freeman, as

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Speaker 2: US District Judge Aaron Subramanian denied his bail request on Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: changing the rap mogul to the grim confines of Brooklyn's

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Speaker 2: Metropolitan Detention Center. The stunning decision followed a split verdict

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Speaker 2: on Combe's explosive Manhattan federal trial, where the fifty five

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Speaker 2: year old was convicted of two prostitution related charges, but

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Speaker 2: cleared of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy counts that could

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Speaker 2: have locked him away for life. Did He's best friend,

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Speaker 2: Charlie Lucci, spoke to the media outside the courthouse.

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Speaker 3: J I was excited and still shot. You know when

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Speaker 3: every wife is happy that Jewish doney like man that's

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Speaker 3: des You still estate back into the system. Way, that

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Speaker 3: was good.

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Speaker 2: The seven week trial concluded with the jury of eight

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Speaker 2: men and four women delivering a partial vertic on July first,

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Speaker 2: Initially deadlocked on the racketeering charge until resolving it the

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Speaker 2: following day Wednesday, They ultimately found Combs guilty of two

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Speaker 2: counts of transportation to engage in prostitution tied to allegations

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Speaker 2: involving ex girlfriend Cassandra Cassie Ventura and another woman known

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Speaker 2: only as Jane. The prosecution called thirty four witnesses, including Ventura,

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Speaker 2: who testified for four grueling days about alleged coerced freak

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Speaker 2: off sex events, and male escort Cheray Hayes, notoriously known

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Speaker 2: as the Punisher. The defense summoned no witnesses, relying solely

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Speaker 2: on aggressive cross examinations to argue consent from the accusers.

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Speaker 2: Closing arguments had ignited fierce controversy. Prosecutor Emily Johnson branded

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Speaker 2: Comb's a manipulative king orchestrating widespread abuse, while defense attorney

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Speaker 2: Mark Agnifilo vehemently claimed the encounters were consensual, accusing witnesses

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Speaker 2: of fab vocating stories in pursuit of financial payouts. Jur

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Speaker 2: Number twenty five briefly sparked chaos, with the four persons

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Speaker 2: questioning their compliance, but Judge Supermanian pushed deliberations forward until

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Speaker 2: the final verdict was reached after over an hour of

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Speaker 2: deliberations on Wednesday. Before denying bail, Supermanian briefly pause proceedings,

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Speaker 2: requesting letters from both sides on Comb's bail request, citing

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Speaker 2: grave concerns over potential flight risk and witness tampering, ultimately

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Speaker 2: ruling to keep him detained. In a dramatic moment in court,

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Speaker 2: Combs dropped to his knees in prayer post verdict, joined

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Speaker 2: by his mother, Janis, and his kids outside a spectacle

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Speaker 2: unfolded as supporters cheered forward baby oil, a bizarre reference

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Speaker 2: to trial testimony, and strangely, one friend and a Comb's

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Speaker 2: son performed pushups. Each prostitution count carries a ten year

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Speaker 2: maximum sentence, with federal guidelines suggesting a range of fifteen

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Speaker 2: to twenty one months two fifty one to sixty three months.

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Speaker 2: Colmbs now faces his formal sentencing on October third at

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Speaker 2: ten am, while he narrowly dodged a life sentence over

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Speaker 2: fifty civil lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct, many filed since his

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Speaker 2: September twenty twenty four arrest, ensuring his arduous legal battles

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Speaker 2: will continue. For more on this case, watch Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: Nancy, Thanks Jennifer. More crime and justice news After this.

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Speaker 2: In a court room bombshell that sent shockwaves through the nation,

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Speaker 2: Ryan Coberger, the former criminology PhD student accused of savagely

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Speaker 2: stabbing four University of Idaho students, pleaded guilty to four

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Speaker 2: counts of first degree murder and on count of burglary

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: As to count two, murder in the first degree as

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Speaker 3: it relates to the murder of Madison Mogan, How do

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Speaker 3: you plead guilty or not guilty guilty as to count

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Speaker 3: three as it relates to murder in the first degree

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Speaker 3: for the murder of Kaylee Gonsalvez. How do you plead

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Speaker 3: guilty or not guilty guilty as to count four? The

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Speaker 3: first degree murder of Xana Kernodle, Pardon me, human being?

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Speaker 3: How do you plead guilty or not guilty guilty as

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Speaker 3: to count five the first degree murder of Ethan Chapin

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Speaker 3: Human being? How do you plead guilty or not guilty guilty?

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Speaker 2: This stunning eleventh hour confession, just weeks before his highly

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Speaker 2: anticipated trial, spares Coburger the death penalty in exchange for

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Speaker 2: consecutive life sentences without parole. The thirty year old was emotionless,

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Speaker 2: barely uttering yes or guilty as Judge Stephen Hitler read

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Speaker 2: the charges admitting to the brutal killings of Kailee Gonsalves,

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Speaker 2: Madison Mogan, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin in their off

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Speaker 2: campus Moscow home on November thirteenth, twenty twenty two. The

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Speaker 2: Plea deal brings an abrupt end to a nearly three

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Speaker 2: year saga that has riveted the country, but it has

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Speaker 2: simultaneously ignited a firestorm among the victim's families. The Gonsalves

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Speaker 2: family in particular expressed their profound fury at the State

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Speaker 2: of Idaho, asserting they were blindsided by an email announcing

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Speaker 2: the deal. On Facebook, they blasted the quote unquote secretive

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Speaker 2: deal and the rushed hearing that gave them only one

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Speaker 2: day to travel to Boise. Steve Gonsalves, Cayley's father passionately

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Speaker 2: called the plea a quote ridiculous joke end quote, insisting

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Speaker 2: it denied true justice. He spoke to NBC News, I.

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Speaker 3: Hosts failed, they failed me, They failed my whole family.

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Speaker 2: In stark contrast, Ethan Chapin's family publicly supported the deal,

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Speaker 2: attending the hearing to back a resolution that avoids a

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Speaker 2: grit ruling and emotionally draining trial. Prosecutors, led by Bill Thompson,

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Speaker 2: defended the plea as a strategic move to secure convictions

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Speaker 2: and spare the victim's families the agonizing toll of a

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Speaker 2: prolonged trial and decades of appeals. They had built a

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Speaker 2: robust case, including critical evidence such as Coburger's DNA found

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Speaker 2: on a k bar knife sheath near Madison Mogan's body. Further,

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Speaker 2: cell phone data placed Coburger's phone near the crime scene

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Speaker 2: a chilling twenty three times in the months leading up

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Speaker 2: to the murders. Surveillance footage also captured his distinctive white

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Speaker 2: Hyundai Elantra speeding away from the vicinity of the house.

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Speaker 2: Key witnesses, including a door dash driver who made a

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Speaker 2: delivery to the house that faithful night, and a surviving

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Speaker 2: roommate who encountered a masked figure with bushy eyebrows, were

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Speaker 2: prepared to testify. Coburger's defense had faced significant setbacks prior

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Speaker 2: to the plea. Judge Hipler had previously rejected crucial motions

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Speaker 2: to suppress DNA evidence, dismiss the death penalty as a

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Speaker 2: sentencing option, and allow the defense to present alternate perpetrators,

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Speaker 2: defeats likely put immense pressure on Coburger's team, who initiated

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Speaker 2: the plea negotiations just last week. Sentencing is set for

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Speaker 2: July twenty third, where victims' families will have the opportunity

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Speaker 2: to deliver powerful impact statements, confronting Coburger directly as the

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Speaker 2: justice system closes one chapter the ultimate terror Lingers. A

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Speaker 2: plea deal may spare a courtroom battle, but it leaves

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Speaker 2: behind the haunting unanswered questions of why these four innocent

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Speaker 2: lives were brutally taken, what chilling motive drove such monstrous acts,

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Speaker 2: and how these specific individuals became the targets of such

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Speaker 2: an unfathomable crime, And finally, talk about a toxic romance.

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Speaker 2: A former prison nurse in Missouri just got served a

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Speaker 2: twelve year sentence for offing her husband with anti freeze.

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Speaker 2: Amy Murray, forty seven, took an Alfred plea for second

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Speaker 2: degree murder in the death of her husband, Joshua Murray.

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Speaker 2: Turns out Amy had a secret admirer an inmate. Investigators

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Speaker 2: unfroze the chilling motive. She was hooking up with convicted

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Speaker 2: murderer Eugene Claypool, serving life behind bars. Recorded prison calls

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Speaker 2: revealed her deadly plan to divorce Joshua, and walked down

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Speaker 2: the aisle with her jail house Romeo, even talking about

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Speaker 2: his early release. After Joshua's mysterious death and a suspicious fire,

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Speaker 2: she coldheartedly told Claypool her husband was quote out of

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Speaker 2: the picture. Now Amy gets to trade her nurse scrubs

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Speaker 2: for a prison uniform, proving love can really be a killer.

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