Feb. 6, 2026

"SAVANNAH GUTHRIE'S MOTHER ABDUCTED, MANSION MURDERS AUTOPSY HORROR & SCAMMED GRANDPA SENTENCED FOR KILLING UBER DRIVER"

"SAVANNAH GUTHRIE'S MOTHER ABDUCTED, MANSION MURDERS AUTOPSY HORROR & SCAMMED GRANDPA SENTENCED FOR KILLING UBER DRIVER"
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Reid Carter opens with the disappearance gripping America - Nancy Guthrie, 84, mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, abducted from her Arizona home five days ago. Blood found inside. Pacemaker disconnected at 2 a.m. Ransom notes sent to media demanding millions in Bitcoin. Savannah's tearful plea: "We need to know she's alive." Trump directing federal resources. Then the Mansion Murders trial update - autopsy testimony reveals eight-year-old Sophia Caneiro suffered 17 stab wounds over her entire 45-pound body with defensive injuries. DNA from both children found on uncle's jeans. Plus, 83-year-old Ohio man sentenced to die in prison after scammers tricked him into fatally shooting innocent Uber driver.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter Friday, February sixth,

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twenty twenty six. We have to start with the story

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gripping the entire country. Nancy Guthrie, eighty four years old,

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mother of Today's Show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing

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for five days. Abducted from her home outside Tucson, Arizona.

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Blood found inside the house, pacemaker disconnected around two am.

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Ransom notes sent to at least three media outlets demanding

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millions in bitcoin. Savannah and her siblings released a tearful

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video pleading for their mother's return. President Trump called Savannah personally,

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directed all federal law enforcement to assist fb I on scene.

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Press conference scheduled for today. This is a developing story,

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with disturbing details emerging by the hour. In New Jersey,

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the mansion murder's trial of Paul Canaro is now in

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its fourth week. It's been a week since we brought

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you updates. What's happened since is horrific autopsy testimony. Eight

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year old Sophia Canio suffered seventeen stab wounds over her

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entire forty five pound body, defensive injuries. She fought back

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her brother Jesse eleven, was a mobile blood source, moving

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around the kitchen, leaving blood on surfaces, tracking toward the

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front door trying to escape. Both children had smoke inhalation

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as a contributing factor because the fire was set while

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they were still alive. DNA from both children found on

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jeans in their uncle Paul's basement. The prosecution's case is

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devastating and in Ohio, eighty three year old William Brock

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was sentenced to twenty one years to life for fatally

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shooting an Uber driver. Both were victims of a phone scam,

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but only one survived. The story is as tragic as

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it is infuriating. I'm reed Carter today. A desperate search,

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a devastating trial, and a sentencing that has no winners.

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This is celebrity trials. January thirty first, twenty twenty six,

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Saturday night, Catalina Foothills, Arizona, unincorporated community north of Tucson,

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desert landscape, saguaro cactus, secluded homes, set back from the road,

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the kind of place people moved to for peace and quiet.

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Nancy Guthrie, eighty four years old, was dropped off at

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her home by family members around nine thirty to nine

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forty five pm after dinner together, normal evening, normal routine,

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good night, see you tomorrow. She never made it to

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church the next morning, February first, Sunday, when Nancy didn't

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show up for services, a church member called her relatives.

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Family went to the house around eleven am. Found it empty,

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Nancy's personal belonging still inside, her phone, her medication, signs

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of forced entry, a rear door left open. Nancy Guthrie

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has limited mobility. Sheriff Chris Nanos said she couldn't walk

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fifty yards. This wasn't a woman who wandered off. She

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was taken. Family called nine one one around noon. Pima

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County Sheriff's Department responded, deployed search and rescue teams K

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nine units, drones, helicopter, airplane, US Customs and Border Protection assisting.

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Given the proximity to the Mexican border, volunteers full scale search.

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By February second, authorities called off the physical search transitioned

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from search operation to criminal investigation because what they found

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inside the house told a different story than a missing person.

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Blood inside Nancy's home, whose blood and where exactly hasn't

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been disclosed publicly. Her security cameras had been disabled, and

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her pacemaker, which sends regular signals to a monitoring app

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on her iPhone, stopped transmitting around two ADAS on February first.

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Her phone was left in the house, so between nine

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forty five pm Saturday, when family dropped her off and

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two am Sunday, when her pacemaker went dark, someone entered

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Nancy Guthrie's home, disabled the cameras and took her. Then

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the ransom notes arrived. At least three media outlets TMZ

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and two CNN twoson affiliates KOLD and kg u N

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reported receiving ransom notes demanding millions of dollars in bitcoin

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for Nancy's safe return. The notes reportedly contained specific details

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about evidence found in Guthrie's home and what she was

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wearing the night she disappeared. A cryptocurrency address was included,

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a deadline was set. Sheriff Nanos has declined to confirm

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whether the details in the notes matched the crime scene,

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but he told CBS News investigators shared the notes with

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Savannah Guthrie, and he said he was absolutely not dismissing them.

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Wednesday night, February fourth, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings Annie

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and Cameron released a video on Instagram. The Today Show

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host was tearful, direct desperate. She described her mother as

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a kind, faithful, loyal, fiercely loving woman, then addressed her

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mother's medical needs. Nancy requires medication to manage serious health conditions.

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Her heart is fragile, she lives in constant pain. Without

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her medication, she cannot survive. Then Savannah addressed the kidnapper

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directly reference the ransom notes, said the family is ready

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to talk, but they need proof of life first. We

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need to know without a doubt that she is alive

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and that you have her. We want to hear from you,

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and we are ready to listen. Please reach out to us.

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Hours later, President Trump posted on truth Social said he'd

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spoken with Savannah personally. I am directing all federal law

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enforcement to be at the families and local law enforcements

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complete disposal immediately. We are deploying all resources to get

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her mother home safely. Yesterday, FBI agents returned to Nancy's

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home with canine units for a renewed search, notable because

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the sheriff had previously said police completed their search of

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the property. Crime scene tape went up across the entire

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length of the property. A dozen law enforcement officers on

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scene for about two hours, evidence bags carried in and out.

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The FBI's Special Agent in charge from the Phoenix office

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was at the Guthrie family home where the video was recorded.

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This is being treated as a major case federal resources

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full investigative weight, but five days in no suspects have

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been identified, no persons of interest named. The Sheriff's department

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pushed back on Wednesday against rumors circulating about who might

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be responsible, saying they are speaking with anyone who may

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have had contact with Missus Guthrie and asking the public

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not to spread unverified accusations or false information. Journalist Ashley

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investigators were examining the possible involvement of Nancy's son in law,

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but that information is described as preliminary and subject to change.

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Hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil Wednesday night, praying for

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Nancy's return. Savannah's Today's Show colleagues honored her faith On air,

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Jenna bush Hager said all of Savannah's friends are rallying

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around her. Savannah Guthrie has stepped away from her NBC

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duties She was supposed to co host the opening ceremonies

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of the twenty twenty six Winter Olympics. Instead, she's searching

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for her mother. Here's what we know. An eighty four

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year old woman with limited mobility and serious health conditions

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was taken from her home in the middle of the night.

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Blood was found inside, Cameras were disabled, her pacemaker went

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dark at two a m. Ransom notes were sent to

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media outlets, and five days later nobody knows where she

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is or if she's alive. Nancy Guthrie is eighty four

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years old, five foot five, one hundred and fifty pounds,

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brown hair, blue eyes. She cannot survive without her medication.

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Every hour that passes makes this more desperate. If you

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have any information, contact the Pima County Sheriff's Department or

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the FBI. This is a story we'll be following closely.

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Press conference scheduled for this afternoon will bring you any developments.

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We'll be right back with the Mansion murders trial update,

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autopsy testimony you won't forget, and an eleven year old

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boy who tried to escape his killer. Welcome back to

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celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter Monmouth County, New Jersey. The

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Mansion Murders trie Le State versus Paul Kniro, now in

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its fourth week of testimony. Quick recap for anyone just

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joining us. November twentieth, twenty eighteen, Paul Canaro, now fifty nine,

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is accused of murdering his brother Keith fifty, sister in

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law Jennifer forty five, and their children Jesse eleven and

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Sophia eight, shot and stabbed to death in their Colt's

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neck mansion house set on fire. Paul's own home and

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Ocean township also set ablaze the same morning. Prosecution says

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Paul did it all. Defense says police ignored other suspects,

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including a third Canaro brother. We covered the opening weeks,

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the financial motive, Keith's angry phone calls demanding to know

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where missing money went, the altered bank statements, the fire

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marshal's testimony about Paul's burned hands that he claimed weren't burns,

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surveillance footage showing Paul in his garage moments before his

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home camera system went dark, and a neighbor hearing gunshots

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and thinking someone just go he got whacked. Since our

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last update, the testimony has been devastating. Let me walk

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you through it. Blood pattern evidence. Detective Joseph Cordoma testified

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about what he found inside Keith's kitchen. Blood Stained patterns

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indicated eleven year old Jesse Kaniro was what investigators call

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a mobile blood source, moving around the kitchen island, leaving

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blood on surfaces, tracking blood toward the foyer, toward the

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front door. Jesse was trying to escape. An eleven year

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old boy stabbed bleeding, was trying to get to the

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front door. His body was found at the base of

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the kitchen island. He didn't make it. Jennifer Kanniro's family

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left the courtroom before the detective finished explaining his conclusions.

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They couldn't listen to what happened to that child. Cordoma

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also testified the mansion fire was intentionally set in a

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basement storage closet around three am. The Verizon line was

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cut to prevent the alarm from transmitting. The fire was

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designed to burn slowly for hours. By the time firefighters

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arrived after noon, the evidence was supposed to be destroyed.

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Keith's computer server went offline at three eighteen am. The

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killer was methodical. Then came the weapons evidence, A State

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Police ballistics expert testified about bullets recovered from the colt's

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neck home. Bullet fragments pulled from both Keith and Jennifer's

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heads and bodies were too small for traditional comparison, could

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only be weighed and described, but other bullets and casings

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found at the scene were tested and found to have

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been fired from the same barrel of a nine millimeter

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semi automatic handgun. Here's the connection. A silencer barrel was

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recovered from Paul Kanero's Porscha macn a sig sour handgun

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found in his home's basement. When experts fired ammunition also

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taken from the Ocean Township home through that gun, the

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results matched the patterns of the recovered bullets, same caliber,

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same weapon characteristics. The bullets that killed Keith and Jennifer

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matched the gun and silencer found in Paul's possession. DNA

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evidence followed. Four members of the State Police Office of

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Forensic Sciences testified about results from a pair of bloodstained

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genes salvaged from a frozen pile of clothing in Paul

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Kannaro's basement. DNA from Sophia and Jesse Canaro was found

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on those genes. The children's DNA on their uncle's pants

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hidden in his basement. The defense has been fighting the

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DNA methodology. The state used str mixed software to interpret

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the profiles. Defense attorneys have repeatedly pointed out that investigators

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never collected a DNA sample from Corey Kannaro, the third brother.

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If you can exclude someone, the defense argues, you can't

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be certain about your results. But prosecutors countered that str

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mix was able to exclude Keith Kniero, the victim's father,

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as a DNA contributor to the samples on those genes.

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If the software can exclude one brother, it can identify

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contributors reliably. Lead investigator Lieutenant Patrick Petruzziello took the stand

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and rejected the defense theory outright. When asked about Corey

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Kaneiro as a potential suspect, the lieutenant didn't hesitate. Corey

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Kaneiro was never a suspect in this investigation. We followed

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the evidence, the evidence. It always led us to Paul Kniro.

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Then this week, the autopsy testimony, the most gut wrenching

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evidence in this trial. Acting Chief Medical Examiner Alex Jeong

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described Keith Caniro's injuries first five gunshot wounds, three to

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the right side of his head, one to his neck,

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one to his lower back, shot at close range. Prosecutors

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say Keith was lured outside after three am because the

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killer had cut the power to the house and switched

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off the backup generator. Keith went outside to investigate, was

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shot and killed in his own front yard. Jennifer Caniro

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was found on the stairs leading from the basement to

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the first floor, shot in the head, stabbed multiple times,

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extensive charring from the fire that was set in the

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basement closet just feet from where she fell. Her cause

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of death blood loss from the gunshot and stab wounds.

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Then the children. Doctor Lauren Toma, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner,

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described eleven year old Jesse's injuries stab wounds to his

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torso and left arm, an injury to his chin that

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bore similarity to a gunshot wound, though she wasn't comfortable

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documenting it definitively as one. Visible soot in his airway.

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Carbon monoxide screening confirmed smoke inhalation as a contributing factor

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in his death. The main cause stab wounds. Jesse was

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stabbed left bleeding in the kitchen the fire was set,

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and while the fire burned slowly through the basement and

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up through the house, Jesse Caniro, eleven years old, already wounded,

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was trying to crawl to the front door. The blood

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trail proves it. He died at the base of the

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kitchen island. The fire eventually reached him and finally eight

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year old Sophia junk Ti testified that Sophia's entire forty

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five pound body suffered injuries seventeen stab wounds, including to

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her face. Her right leg showed wounds consistent with defensive injuries.

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An eight year old girl was fighting back against her killer,

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trying to protect herself, using her legs and arms to

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ward off a knife. A blood stained purple shirt the

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child had been wearing was briefly shown to the jury

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between photos of the actual stab wounds. Paul Canaro was

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seen wiping his eyes a box of tissues next to him.

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At the defense table. Sophia's carbon monoxide screening showed forty

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nine percent. Jong testified that forty percent is enough to

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die from smoke inhalation alone. Her official cause of death

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sharp force injuries and smoke inhalation. She was stabbed seventeen times,

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then left in a burning house. The fire was a

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contributing factor because she was still alive when it was set.

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Both children were alive when the fire started. The killer

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stabbed them and left them to burn. The prosecution's case

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is building methodically. Financial motive. Paul was stealing from the business. Accounts, opportunity,

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surveillance and phone data place him at the scene. Physical evidence,

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the gun, the silencer, the DNA on the genes, the

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blood stained clothing in his basement, and now the autopsy

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evidence painting a picture of calculated brutality. The defense continues

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to challenge the investigation's focus. Why didn't police get Corey's DNA?

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Why didn't they investigate other suspects? But the lead detective's

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testimony was unequivocal. The evidence points to Paul. Trial is

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expected to continue into March. Testimony resumes next week. Keith

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Canaro was fifty years old, Jennifer was forty five, Jesse

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was eleven, Sophia was eight, A family destroyed in the

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early morning hours. Because prosecutors say money mattered more to

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Paul Canaro than his brother's children, someone has to say

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their names coming up. An eighty three year old, Ohio

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man tricked by scammers into fatally shooting a defenseless Uber driver.

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Both victims of the same crime. Only one survived. He'll

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die in prison. Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm reed, Carter,

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March twenty twenty four, South Charleston, Ohio suburb of Columbus.

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William Brock, eighty three years old, has been on the

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phone for hours. A man on the other end claims

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to have a nephew in jail needs bond money twelve

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thousand dollars, threatening to kill Brock and his family if

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he doesn't pay. He was telling me he was going

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to kill me, my family, and everybody else. Brock later

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told a nine to one to one operator this is

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a classic phone scam. Elderly victim threatening caller urgency, fear confusion.

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The scammer told Brock someone was coming to his house,

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coming to take his money. Then an Uber pulled up.

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Low Leath of Toland Hall, sixty one years old, mother

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of one Uber driver, dispatched through the app to Brock's

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home to pick up a package. She had no idea

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what she was walking into, didn't know about the scam,

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didn't know about the threats. Just doing her job, pick

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up a package, drive it somewhere, earn a fair. Dashcam

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footage from her vehicle captured what happened next. When toland

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Hall arrived, Brock was standing outside with a point two

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two caliber revolver pointed it at her. He demanded to

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know who sent her. She didn't understand the question. She

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was there for a package. What package? The uber app

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told her to come here pick something up. That's all

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she knew. Brock took her phone, prevented her from leaving.

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The scammers had told him someone was coming to take

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his money, and here she was. In his mind, this

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was the threat. This was the person the caller warned about.

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A struggle broke out. Brock shot toland Hall. First shot

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hit her upper left torso she tried to flee back

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to her vehicle. Brock kept shooting, hit her in the

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left thigh, inside her left knee, center of her sternum,

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at least three shots total. The dash cam audio captured

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her screams. Brock threatened to shoot the other leg. Brock

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claimed toland Hall attacked him after the first shot, said

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she slammed his head into her car door, said he

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shot her again. Because he believed she was going to

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retrieve a weapon of her own. But here's the reality.

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Low Letha toland Hall was defenseless, made no demands, only

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asked about the package she was supposed to pick up.

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She was an unwitting victim of the same scam that

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was targeting Brock. She was rushed to the hospital died

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during surgery. Brock told deputies, without being asked, that toland

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Hall was there to take his money and that he

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didn't want to shoot her, but he thought she was

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going to kill him. A jury convicted Brock on all

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charges felony murder, felonious assault, kidnapping. His self defense claim

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fell apart because the evidence showed toland Hall presented no

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harm or immediate danger. Clark County Assistant Prosecutor Cadanni Scott

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told the court objectively, a reasonable person would not shoot

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a defenseless woman multiple times to protect themselves from words

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of a scammer. Monday, Clark County Common Please Judge Douglas

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Rastadter sentenced Brock fifteen years to life for murder, six

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additional years for firearms specifications served consecutively, twenty one years

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to life total. William Brock is eighty three years old.

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He will die in prison. Clark County Prosecutor Daniel Driscoll

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said what everyone was thinking, there are no winners here,

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because here's what makes this case so devastating. William Brock

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was a victim too. He was being terrorized by scammers,

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hours of threatening phone calls, told his family would be killed. Elderly, frightened, confused,

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his mind was manipulated into believing a sixty one year

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old Uber driver was an assassin coming to murder him.

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But being a victim of a scam doesn't give you

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the right to kill an innocent woman. Toland Hall made

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no threats, showed no weapons, asked about a package, and

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Brocks shot her multiple times as she tried to escape,

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shot her in the legs, in the chest, threatened to

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shoot her again. The scammers who orchestrated this have never

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been caught, the prosecutor said it plainly. The really sad

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part about this is that we know that the scammers,

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the folks who started this, haven't been brought to justice.

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And hopefully one day the FBI will bring those folks

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and will be able to prosecute them right here in

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Clark County for what they did. Somewhere, the people who

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made those calls are still free, still scamming, still targeting

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elderly victims, still potentially setting up scenarios where innocent people die.

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And an eighty three year old man will spend his

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remaining years in prison because words scared him into pulling

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a trigger on a woman who was just doing her job.

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Loalitha Toland Hall was sixty one years old, mother of

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one Uber driver, dispatched to a stranger's house to pick

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up a package. Should be driving today, should be earning

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her fare. Should be alive, Rest in peace, Lolitha. Someone

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has to say your name. That's Celebrity trials for Friday,

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February sixth, twenty twenty six. Nancy Guthrie, eighty four, missing

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for five days from her Arizona home, blood found, cameras, disabled,

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pacemaker went dark at two am. Ransom notes demanding bitcoin.

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Savannah Guthrie's tearful PLEA press conference scheduled for this afternoon.

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Paul Knero's mansion murder trial enters its fourth week. Autopsy

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testimony reveals Sophia eight suffered seventeen stab wounds with defensive injuries.

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Jesse eleven, tried to crawl to the front door. Both

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children alive when the fire was set. DNA from both

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found on uncle's jeans. And William Brock eighty three sentenced

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to twenty one years to life for fatally shooting Uber

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driver Loletha Toland Hall, both victims of a phone scam.

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Only one survived. The scammers are still free. I'm read Carter,

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have a safe weekend. Lock your doors and if someone

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calls demanding money, hang up. This is Celebrity Trials.