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Sudiksha Konanki and five friends are staying at the Rio Republica in Punta Cana. The young woman doesn't return after a late night walk on the beach. 

Sean "Diddy" Combs appeared in court this week,  grey-haired and defiant, pleading not guilty to an expanded indictment.

The death of a Columbine High School survivor has been classified as a homicide

Remains of missing 16-year-old Miranda Corsette found in a dumpster. 

In Washington state, a man is shot during an argument over discarded chicken bones outside a grocery store 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Now, I'm Jackie Howard. The search continues for a University
of Pittsburgh's student who disappears while on spring break in
the Dominican Republic. The last person who saw Sudiksha Konankis
says he tried to save her from the water, and
as he vomits up ocean water, she took her things
and left. At least that's what he thinks. Konanki, twenty

(00:24):
was last seen nine days ago with a group of
friends heading to a beach in Punakana. When her friends left,
Konanki is believed to estate behind with the Minnesota University student.
He says the pair talked and kissed and were pulled
farther into the ocean together by a large wave. He
says he pulled Konanki back to the shore using a
swimming stroke he learned during his time as a pool lifeguard. Reportedly,

(00:48):
the man has given police multiple versions of what happened.
For more information on the search for Sudiksha Konankas, tune
into Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Monday and subscribe
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and Justice News after this crime al Art hourly update

(01:08):
breaking crime news Now.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm Jennifer Gould.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Sean Diddy. Combs appeared in Manhattan Federal Court for a
pre trial hearing pleading not guilty to a superseding indictment
in his sex trafficking and racketeering case held at the
Daniel Patrick moynihan United States Courthouse. Combs, now gray haired,
declined a full reading of the charges, asserting quote unquote,

(01:33):
I'm fine and maintaining his innocence. The updated indictment stretches
his alleged crimes from two thousand and four to twenty
twenty four, accusing him of forcing employees into grueling hours
with minimal rest, using threats for compliance, and engaging in
forced labor within a racketeering conspiracy. It also reinforces claims

(01:55):
of drug fueled so called freak offs and sex trafficking
by force, fraud, or coercion. Comb's legal saga ignited after
his September sixteen, twenty twenty four, arrest following a federal
indictment tying his empire including bad Boy Entertainment, to a
criminal enterprise exploiting women and others. A twenty sixteen video

(02:17):
of him assaulting ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura, aired in May
of twenty twenty four, spurred her settled twenty twenty three
lawsuit and over one hundred and fifty accusers to come forward.
Here's Diddy discussing that video in a previous post.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
A behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full
responsibility from my ashes in that video.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
I'm disgusted.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Attorney Tony Busby now represents one hundred and fifty two victims,
filing twenty five lawsuits by early March of twenty twenty five,
with plans for over one hundred more alleging rape, sexual assault,
and misconduct since nineteen ninety one. Comb's face three charges racketeering, conspiracy,
sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to

(03:08):
engage in prostitution, potentially yielding life imprisonment. Friday's hearing tackled
trial logistics, with jury selection discussions ongoing for the May
fifth start date, expected to conclude by late May or
early June, depending on testimony. Prosecutors anticipate a three week case.
The defense one Comb's team challenged the twenty sixteen videos

(03:31):
admissibility alleging tampering, which CNN refutes. Held without bail at
Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center after repeated denials, including a fifty
million dollars bond, Combs faces flight risk accusations. His February
nineteenth filing claimed racial bias and prosecution, citing uncharged white figures.

(03:54):
Despite the escalating allegations, Combs insists he is innocent, with
his attorney's dismissed the claims. The next pre trial conference
is set for April twenty fifth.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
I'm Sidney Sumner. Almost twenty six years after the Columbine
High School massacre, its victim count has increased. A survivor
of the massacre's recent death has been declared a homicide.
According to a coroner's report, Anne Marie hotch Halter was
found dead in her home in Westminster, Colorado, at age
forty three, on February sixteenth, twenty twenty five. Hotch Halter

(04:28):
was a seventeen year old junior at Columbine High School
on April twentieth, nineteen ninety nine, when seventeen year old
Dylan Claybold in eighteen year old Eric Harris opened fire
on their classmates and teachers. Killing thirteen people and injuring
twenty three before turning the weapons on themselves.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
One yes, I am a look at Columbune book. There
is a student pill of the gun.

Speaker 7 (04:51):
He had caught out a way give little bit of
an injury.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
And I'm in the library had gun under the I'm looking.

Speaker 7 (05:08):
Please God, they don't want.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
To pop up.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
You were hearing one of the many nine one one
calls made from Columbine High School that day. Anne Marie
Honchholter had just stepped outside for fresh air when she
heard a popping noise and suddenly felt something strike her back.
She describes her experience to US News ten years after
the attack.

Speaker 8 (05:30):
I thought that it was a senior prank. I didn't
think that it was real or anything, and I thought
they were using paintball. Eric Harrison Dylan Cleibold were up
a concrete fight of stairs and they were shooting down
at everybody. I felt a stingy in my back.

Speaker 6 (05:44):
As a friend helped her, she was struck again by
a second bullet, which this time hit a vein.

Speaker 8 (05:48):
When I thought that this was the end, you know,
I saw a red thing move out of the corner
of my vision and it was an ambulance. They were
able to get me to Swedish hospital and they did.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
Four hours of surgery.

Speaker 8 (06:00):
It was still very very touch and go for a
couple weeks. They weren't really sure if I was gonna
make a full recovery. And you know, barring the spottle
cord injury, I did make a full recovery.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
Hotch Alter says, though she was left paralyzed by the
attack and used a wheelchair for the rest of her life,
she considered herself one of the lucky ones. Now, almost
a month after her death, an autopsy report released by
the Jefferson County Coroner's Office declared that her manner of
death is best classified as a homicide. The autopsy report
noted that she had died due to sepsis, which is

(06:34):
described as a serious condition in which the body responds
improperly to an infection, which can lead to organ failure,
tissue damage, and death. The two gunshot wounds that left
hotch Halter paralyzed and wheelchair bound were also a significant
contributing factor in her death. With hotch Halter's death, the
number of victims of the Columbine High School massacre has

(06:55):
risen to fourteen. The count does not include shooters Claibold
and Harris, who killed themselves before being arrested. The autopsy
confirmed the suspicions of hotch Alter's loved ones, including Sue Townsend,
the stepmother of Columbine victim Lauren Townsend, who told the
Denver Post shortly after hotch Alter's death that it appeared
to be related to complications from medical issues stemming from

(07:17):
injury sustained in the shooting.

Speaker 7 (07:19):
She told me once, I am not a victim. I'm
a survivor. She said. I can do anything you can do,
it just takes me longer. She was fiercely independent, and
she wanted what had happened to her to benefit an

(07:40):
somebody else. She had so much adversity, and she fought
really hard against letting that define her.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
Sue and her husband Rick Townsend, became close with hotch
Alter after losing their daughter Lauren in the massacre, and
Anne Marie lost her mother just six months after the shooting,
and trying.

Speaker 7 (07:57):
To process my grief, I thought that if I help
somebody else, that it would kind of help me. What
happens I think when you reach out to help somebody
is she learned that you get so much more out
of it.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Than you give.

Speaker 7 (08:14):
We got to watch her go from a shy seventeen
year old high school girl and blossom into this incredibly
independent and confident and fun young woman.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
Hotch Alter was a multi instrumentalist who played the clarinet, piano, guitar,
and harp. She also had a big love for dogs
throughout her life, fostering and owning many over the years.
In one of her final Facebook posts on the twenty
fifth anniversary of the shooting, Hotchlter wrote that while she
had previously avoided memorial services due to PTSD, she had

(08:50):
attended the anniversary vigil and found the occasion most healing.
She wrote, I've truly been able to heal my soul
since that awful day in nineteen ninety nine, noting that
she felt the presence of the thirteen victims sitting there
with smiles on their faces, wanting us to remember the
good times.

Speaker 9 (09:08):
I'm Nicole Parton, a sixteen year old girl who went
missing last month has been found murdered, dismembered, and discarded
in a dumpster by a couple in Florida. Authorities say
she was abducted after being lured through a social media application.
Detectives from the Saint Petersburg Police Department reported that the
remains of Miranda Corsette were discovered in a dumpster following

(09:31):
her missings persons report that was filed on February twenty four.
The primary suspect, thirty five year old Stephen Gress, allegedly
enticed Corset through an online dating app before their in
person meeting on February fourteen. Quote After their initial meeting,
the girl returned home, but the following day she went

(09:53):
back to his residence, police stated in a social media update.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
According to the police, it is believed.

Speaker 9 (09:59):
That course Set spent time with Gress and his partner,
thirty seven year old Michelle Brandis at their home. Her
grandmother reported her missing after she failed to return home
on February twenty four. Guildford Police noted that they had
been previously interacting with Corset, who had a previous history
of running away once before she lived with her grandmother.

(10:22):
Her grandmother, who is her main caregiver, mentioned that Corset
usually comes right back home, so she doesn't report her
missing every time she goes out the door. The grandmother,
said Commander Mary Farrand acting police chief of Gulfport explained
during a press conference, quote this time she didn't return
in a reasonable time frame. Her grandmother knew something was wrong.

(10:46):
On February twenty an argument erupted between the girl, Corset
and Brandis, the man's girlfriend, concerning a lost piece of jewelry,
during which the teenager was reportedly assaulted. According to police
Here's Saint Petersburg Chief of Police Anthony Holloway, So.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
From the twentieth to the twenty fourth, she was beaten
and tortured because they could not find this piece of jewelry.
She was then killed. Mister Gress placed her body in
his car along with his domestic partner, Michelle Brandis, and
they drove her to Largo. Miranda was dismembered at that location.

(11:25):
They didn't placed her in the car, and they drove
her down the Ruskin where they dumped her into a dumpster,
and her body is somewhere, possibly in a landfill, somewhere
in that county. Michelle, if you're out there, we're trying
to tell you to turn yourself in because we will
find you sooner or later. And if anybody out there
is trying to help Michelle, if we can we will
charge you.

Speaker 9 (11:45):
Investigators believe the girl was killed between February twenty and
February twenty four. They alleged that Gress transported her body
to a residence in Largo, Florida, owned by Brandi's mother,
where evidence indicates the dismemberment of the body took place.
Gress then reportedly drove the remains to Hillsborough County and

(12:06):
disposed of them in a dumpster.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Quote detectives have located.

Speaker 9 (12:10):
The dumpster and are actively working to recover all pieces
of the body, the police department said in their statement.
Authorities received a tip regarding Corsett's disappearance and murder on
March seven. Brandis, the girlfriend, turned herself into law enforcement
on Saturday morning and now faces a charge of first
degree murder. Gress, who was arrested on unrelated charges on

(12:32):
March five, has been charged with first degree murder and kidnapping.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
This is an appalling crime. State at Holloway.

Speaker 9 (12:40):
We are committed to ensuring justice for Miranda.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
I'm Drew Nelson. In Washington State, a man is shot
during an argument over discarded chicken booms outside a grocery store.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
I was in the military.

Speaker 10 (12:53):
An reshap, but a shot safely over some chicken.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Jesse Grant, a father of three, was out in the
thigh at the Safeway store in Seattle. He had been
eating fried chicken in a parked car before the shooting
thanks to Safeway's Monday cheap Chicken deal. He spoke to
KCPQ from his hospital bed.

Speaker 10 (13:11):
I was throwing my chicken onto the ground outside my
window so I didn't get a mess in my coworker's car.
She opens up the car and steps onto some chicken.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Grant says. A woman nearby accused him of throwing chicken
bones at her car, and.

Speaker 10 (13:27):
She's like, one of the why is the chicken on
the ground. And she looks over at me and it
is like, are you serious, man? You're throwing chicken onto
the ground. And I'm like, who cares? Leave me alone?

Speaker 4 (13:39):
Grant says the argument started after the woman tried to
slash his tires with scissors. Video shows Grant holding the
woman in a headlock. She says, quote, you're throwing chicken
at my working car. The video shows scissors on the
ground next to a scratched wheel of the car. The
woman pulled a handgun from her waistband and pointed it
at Grant's head. She then shot Grant in the thigh,

(14:00):
causing him to fall to the ground, and said quote,
I'm going to shoot you again, bro. Police have not
released the identity of the shooter or another woman thought
to be with her. Grant started to go fund me
campaign to cover medical costs. The goal is twelve thousand dollars,
but so far it hasn't raised a dime. The investigation continues.
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(14:20):
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