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In Texas, a Department of Justice worker is arrested for
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allegedly slipping an abortion drug into his pregnant girlfriend's drink.
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In Louisiana, a father faces murder charges after leaving his
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one year old daughter in a hot car for nine
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hours after a drinking binge. And in Kentucky, a man
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is arrested for releasing a raccoon inside of a bar
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after he was banned entry. These crime stories dominated the
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headlines this week, and we have our comments on those
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stories and more today on Crime Wire Weekly. I'm Jim Chapman.
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And I'm Kelly Jenny.
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And it is Father's Day weekend, So before we get started,
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I want to wish all of my fellow dads a
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very happy Father's.
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Day, absolutely, and I want to wish my sweet husband
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happy Father's Day. Thank you for being my boo boo duddy.
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Oh lord, We're going to start off with not a
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good father here in Louisiana. First, a Louisiana father was
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charged with second degree murder after allegedly leaving his twenty
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one month old daughter inside a hot car for more
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than nine hours. Joseph Boatman, who is thirty two, of Hammon,
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was arrested this past Sunday after the child died outside
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a home. This was in Madisonville. Detect Us with the
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Saint Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit learned that
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Boatman had strapped the toddler into her car seat inside
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the vehicle after picking her up from a family member's residence.
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This was shortly after two thirty a m. Sunday, which
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was the first thing that kind of stood out to me.
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That's a heck of a time to pick up your daughter.
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After stripping the toddler into the car seat, Boatman goes
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back inside the residents and he never returned to the vehicle.
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It was also learned that prior to that, Boatman had
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consumed multiple alcoholic beverages. Police said they responded to this
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home shortly before noon on Sunday after a family member
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located the girl unresponsive inside that vehicle. Temperatures in the
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area around that time were above ninety degrees. The Saint
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Tammany Pair of Sheriff for Randy Smith said, quote, this
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is a devastating loss and no family ever wants to
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face when a child is left in a vehicle, especially
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on a day when the heat and index climbs to
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over one hundred degrees, the outcome can turn deadly in
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just a matter of minutes. This case involved compromised judgment
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and the result was heartbreaking. Now, the website no Heatstroke
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dot com actually tracks the deaths of children inside hot
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cars in the United States, and it said this was
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the fifth instance this year already, and we're early in
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to summer. There's been in a case in New Mexico, California, Maryland,
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and New Jersey. And the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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set on its website a child's body temperature rises three
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to five times faster than an adults. When a child
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is left in a vehicle, that child's temperature can quickly
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rise and the situation can quickly become very dangerous. What
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I would term a horrific statistic. In twenty twenty four,
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thirty nine children died of heat strokes in vehicles. That
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was up thirty five percent from twenty twenty three, So
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one the wrong direction.
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Yeah, that's terrible. I am not that animals anyway are
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in comparison to human lives, but just yesterday, I'll let
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my pups outside do use bathroom. They were outside, maybe
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maybe twenty minutes. And when I came back, when my
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little Frenchies was panting really hard and kind of struggling.
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I mean, it was that hot, and that was not enclosed,
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and that was on a patio with fans on, and
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I brought her in and I had to lay her down,
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and I got ice packs even to kind of cool
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her down, which they're known, you know, for that type
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of situation. But to think of how that child suffered
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in that car, could not get out, that's something that
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that's torturous. That's absolutely torturous. All right, Well, let's go
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on to Texas Gym and the Justice Department worker was
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charged with capital murder for allegedly slipping an abortion drug
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into his pregnant girlfriend's drink without her consent, forcing her
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to lose her baby. Justin Banta, which is a thirty
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eight year old information technology staffer, was taken into custody
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Friday following an incident that unfolded at a coffee shop
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and I guess that's Terrant County. The victim reported that
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her boyfriend intentionally added plan C, commonly known as the
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abortion drug, to her drink in order to force her
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to have an a abortion without her knowledge or consent.
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Police said, and look, guys, I wasn't familiar with Plan C.
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I'm not even gonna lie. So I had to look
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this one up. And there is a difference between Plan
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B and Plan C. Plan B is an emergency contraceptive
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that prevents pregnancy, while Plan C is the one that's
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used to terminate and exist in pregnancy. So I wanted
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to explain that if you weren't familiar either. In addition
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to a capital murder charge from the Texas Rangers, Banta
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was booked on one count of tampering with physical evidence.
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The victim told investigators that she and Banta were in
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a romantic relationship in September of twenty twenty four when
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she discovered that she was pregnant. Now this is a
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police quote. The victim informed Banta of the pregnancy, who
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proposed to cover the cost of an abortion and suggested
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they order the Plan C online. The victim informed Banta
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of her desire to keep the baby. Police added on
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October seventeenth, twenty twenty four, when the victim was approximately
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six weeks pregnant, she went for a sonogram, where she
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learned that the baby had a strong heartbeat, displayed good
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vital signs and was said to be healthy by her doctor.
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The woman said that she then met with Banta at
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a coffee shop later that day, and Banta gave her
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a drink he purchased prior to her arrival. Security camera
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footage showed she consumed the entire beverage. The next day,
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the victims stated she began to suffer from extreme fatigue
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and heavy bleeding, prompting her to visit the emergency room.
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The victim reported she lost her baby on October the nineteenth,
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which she believed was a result of the drugs Banta
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had previously placed in her drink at the coffee shop
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without her permission, and that was from the Parker County
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Sheriff's Office. Police said they interviewed Banta and collected his
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cell phone as evidence. During the interview, Bana admitted to
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buying the abortion pills on his phone and said he
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knew investigators wanted to talk to him about the woman's miscarriage.
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Sheriff's investigators believed Banta, who works at the IT department
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of the US Department of Justice, later accessed the phone
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remotely and performed a reset. Thereby deleting crucial evidence related
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to the case. Banta was released from Parker County Jail
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on Friday after posting a five hundred thousand dollars bond
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with a capital murder charge and a twenty thousand dollars
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bond for the evidence tampering charge.
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I'll tell you what, one of the most horrific stories
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that I've ever come across is that one right there
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as you're read it. That is absolutely disgusting. He basically
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killed he did, he committed feet aside. This lady apparently
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wanted to have this child and he slips her a
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pill to kill the child. Absolutely disgusting.
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But you know there's a case of this. There's a
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famous forensic files if anybody here watches them, and I
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really I should do an episode on this one. But
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I believe it was in Canada that there was a doctor,
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his name was Maynard something, and he had a wife
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and was messing around with this other woman who got pregnant,
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and then they caught she the same thing happened. He
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slipped her the pill. Okay, he's a doctor. Well, she
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told police. Police didn't believe her, and so she ended
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up setting up her own camera in a little firefighter
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like figurine, and he came over again and caught him
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on camera slipping another pill. It's called cidatech which is
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used to soften the cervix, and that he did the
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exact same thing. So not unheard of, but definitely devious
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and completely and totally uncalled for. All.
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Right, now, last week we told you about a breaking
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news story. It was regarding the man hunt for a
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father in Washington State. He was wanted from the murder
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of his three children, and we're going to give you
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an update on that manhunt. So, as of this recording,
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Travis Decker is still evating capture, but his days may
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be numbered. The US Marshall Service is activated its Elite
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Rapidly Advanced Manhunt program. Its acronym is RAM, and this
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program is in an urgent search for Travis Decker. The
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RAM program is designed to expedite the capture of violent
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fugitives through real time intelligence, coordination and rapid deployment of
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specialized teams. So at this point, more than one hundred
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officers from federal, state, and local agencies are actively involved
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in this man hunt. And these tactics include aerial surveillance.
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They have tracking dogs and backcountry patrols, and Marshall Services
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actually offering a twenty thousand dollars reward for information directly
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related to Deckers arrest. Now. The US Marshall's continued involvement
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comes as the Sheriff's office confirmed that they have assumed
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the role of the lead investigative agency in these girls' killings,
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and a clarification issued Wednesday, the department shared that the
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when that chat this is a tough one to say,
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when a chatty, let me see the police department, when
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natchi Police Department is no longer the lead agency in
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the killings. And if y'all want to crucify me on Facebook,
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have at it, baby, I've got big shoulders. The shift
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in jurisdiction comes as the investigation continues to focus on
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rugged wilderness areas within the county where Decker was last seen.
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And that's a lot of the problem with locating this
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guy is the terrain is just treacherous. This is Washington State,
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very mountainous type area, and so there's a lot of
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hiding spots. Quite frankly, on Tuesday, June tenth, authorities announced
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they were zeroing in on the Army veteran, so apparently Monday,
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June ninth, the agency received a tip from a group
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of hikers and they said they saw a man who
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appeared kind of evasive when they saw him, look like
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he didn't want to be seen. He looked very unprepared
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for hiking, if you will, and he was near what's
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known as Ingles Creek in the Valley High areas, and
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it was very late at night. As you can imagine
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a lot of these escapes, they move at night because
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of obvious reasons. I'm going to quote here the Sheriff's office.
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They said they recently received a tip from a hiking
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party who stated they spotted a loane hiker who appeared
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to be ill prepared for trail in weather conditions and
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appeared to be avoiding others. Authorities subsequently acted on that
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tip and they did spot a lone off trail hiker
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from a helicopter. He was near lake and he ran
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from that site when the helicopter passed. Search teams were
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able to establish a trail and they deployed canines, several
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canines throughout the area that led them to Ingles Creek,
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which he probably jumped in the creek and got the
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scent off of him right. The wooded area is located
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approximately thirty miles from what's known as Rock Island Campground,
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and that is the boy where the bodies of Decker's
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three daughters, Peyton nine, Evelyn eight, and Olivia five were
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found on June second. So, as we reported to you
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on last Friday's episodes, these bodies were found three days
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after they did not return to their mother following a
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court approved visit with Decker, and authorities have noted that
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Decker is a former Army infantryman and he has survival skills.
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He may have used his rugged survival skilled tactics to
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evade capture. Authorities previously described him as dangerous, warning residents
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not to approach him and describing him as armed. Quote,
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this is someone with military training who's lived off the
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grid before. We're dealing with a highly capable survivalist who
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may be using the terrain to his advantage. That from
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the Sheriff Mike Morrison. So kJ with all this technology
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these days, how does anyone stay on the run this long?
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Well? Hell ask New Orleans because they still looking for
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those two cut out of the jail. You know, I
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this is not like the movies. This is not where
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you know, you just go up in a helicopter or
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shoot some heat flear and oh look there's somebody moving.
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It's way more complicated than that. And also where do
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you even start to search in that area? Lots of manpower,
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lots of time. The dogs can get a scent, and
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then that scent like you know, he hits the waterway, well,
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then the scent is cut. So even if he picks
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up on the other side, that again is another whole
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you know, bag of worms when they get over there
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and then they have to pick up on a scent
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and try to go. And dogs aren't infalluable. There is
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a valuability rate where they're not always going to be perfect.
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People aren't perfect, and so this is really going to
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have to come down to sightings, I think, and locating
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that area, making it smaller, trying to, let you know,
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making it smaller and smaller until they finally can get him.
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But if he's been living in that area off the grid,
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then he knows it well yeah, and that's probably one
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of the issues, the bigger issues, i'd say.
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And it complicates things a lot that you know, as
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I said, the terrain is not. I mean, this guy
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ain't hiding in the middle of a bat room. You know,
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an urban area where you know all your side streets
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and it's really easy to spot somebody. I mean, he's
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picture being in the middle of just nothingness, and that's
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where he's at. So you're right. I mean, it's gonna
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come down to someone actually spotting. And the frustrating thing
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