WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:02.879 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf 2 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:05.400 I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:10.320 demand on the iHeartRadio app. The teenage carjacking gangs that 4 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:12.599 are trying to live out a real life grand theft 5 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:14.679 auto that will be part of our True Crime Tuesday. 6 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:19.559 And then a teenager, a high schooler, was murdered and 7 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:22.600 her image was used to create an AI chatbot that 8 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:25.600 was eventually found by her father. We'll talk about that 9 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.160 strange case coming up as part of True Crime Tuesday. 10 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:30.719 I love it. I love it. I love it. 11 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:33.320 I love when we do these wellness stories and people 12 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:35.439 call in and go absolutely yes. 13 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:36.600 Hey. 14 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:40.799 Gary used to work as a personal trainer starting about 15 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:45.880 twenty fourteen for a elderly community. The people that dance 16 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:49.159 always did a lot better than everyone else. And these 17 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:51.679 are people that have just been dancing on and off 18 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.600 their entire life and not professionally, just moving and shaking. 19 00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:00.280 Had better balance, better mental clarity, better strength, better endurance. Yeah, 20 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:02.159 just even look younger. 21 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:06.359 So keeping Yeah, absolutely, that's very very cool. And then 22 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:08.040 in terms of eating. 23 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:12.879 Late bake, Gary, No, Shannon, my diet is a deadly diet. 24 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:16.840 I don't have breakfast. I just have a monster in 25 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:21.319 the morning, maybe a banana. At lunch around one, I 26 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:23.439 usually have like four tacos. 27 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:24.079 Wow. 28 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:28.959 And then at night whatever my wife cooks, and then 29 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:33.040 well my wife goes to sleep. I have munchies between 30 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:34.079 nine and midnight. 31 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:38.120 Yeah, diety, None of that is approved by your doctor. 32 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.200 I can assure you, all right, What else is going on? 33 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:48.120 Time for what's happening? 34 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:52.799 The weather that caused so many problems in Kentucky over 35 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.799 the weekend is getting worse. Governor Andy Basher said the 36 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:58.879 two additional people, an adult man an adult woman, appear 37 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:01.760 to have been homeless, have died for hypothermia. That's on 38 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:04.159 top of the twelve others who died as a result 39 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:06.359 of flooding in the state, including a mother and her 40 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:11.360 seven year old whose car was swept away in Hart County, Kentucky, Kentucky. 41 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:15.319 They are applying for individual assistance from FEMA. The governor 42 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:18.039 of Kentucky did say that President Trump has declared an 43 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:22.120 emergency disaster area for the state of Kentucky, and on 44 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:25.479 top of that, snow and now freezing conditions. A total 45 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:28.520 of about two to six inches of snow possible throughout 46 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:33.919 western and central Kentucky tonight until tomorrow. The storm is 47 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:37.159 expected to create hazardous travel conditions because of slick roads, 48 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.479 poor visibility, and of course, disrupt the recovery efforts from 49 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.800 the floods. Still a few thousand people without power in 50 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:46.680 the state of Kentucky, but it is much better than 51 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:51.000 it was yesterday at this time. International news today is 52 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:56.759 that Hamas has confirmed it will release ten hostages, six 53 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:00.319 of them alive, this week. They said they'll at least 54 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:03.360 the dead bodies of four Israeli hostages, including the two 55 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:07.599 youngest held by the group, a nine month old and 56 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:12.599 a four year old and her there mother, among others. 57 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.159 The group also said they'll release six living hostages instead 58 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.719 of the three that had been expected. Israeli Prime Minister's 59 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:23.599 office confirmed that an agreement had been reached for four 60 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:26.919 slain hostages to be handed over on Thursday, six living 61 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:33.120 hostages to be released on Saturday. The bodies, like I said, 62 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:37.199 included the Beepst children, just nine months and four years old, 63 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.240 respectively when they were kidnapped back on October seventh, twenty 64 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:44.840 twenty three. Hamas claims that they were killed in an 65 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:49.159 Israeli air strike. Also today, historic in the LA Unified 66 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:51.479 School District. Cell phone ban is now in effect. That 67 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:56.039 includes smart watches and smart glasses. Because you're anyway, you 68 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:59.520 don't need them, and despite what everybody's been saying, the 69 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:03.680 chance insais of there being a safety issue are minuscule. 70 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.840 Starting today as well, many writers need to tap their 71 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:10.240 transit cards in order to get off the La Union 72 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:11.960 station or get out of I should say. In the 73 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:15.039 latest effort by La Metro to curb crime crack down 74 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.079 on the fair evaders, writers need to tap their cards 75 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:20.839 at a turnstile when they exit the subway and head 76 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:23.759 upstairs to the main concourse. Those who paid ahead of 77 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:27.000 time will be able to exit seamlessly. If you didn't, 78 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:29.800 you could be stopped at the gates and face the 79 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:33.160 possibility of receiving a warning recitation or even you get 80 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.680 kicked out of the subway completely. If you didn't pay initially, 81 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:39.560 but you do have a valid tap card when you exit, 82 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:43.279 the fare would be deducted when you leave. Metro officials 83 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.720 said it's still a violation of the code of conduct. 84 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:50.319 Writers of Metrolink can already scan their ticket to enable 85 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:52.519 the free transfers on La Metro, but you also need 86 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:55.160 to scan again when you exit any station again that 87 00:04:55.240 --> 00:05:01.439 requires the exit. Jury deliberations are set to begin. Asap Rocky, 88 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:04.079 his real name is rakeem Myers accused of fire in 89 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:06.720 a couple of shots at his former friend Terrell Efron 90 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:11.759 asap Rally, everybody knows that. And their question between the 91 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.560 two attorneys is was the gun real or was it 92 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:20.120 a prop? Prosecutor said it was a real gun. The 93 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:23.279 defense claims it was a prop gun that shot out 94 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:28.639 blanks that sounded like a real gun. Asap Rally says 95 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.079 his knuckles were grazed by one of the shots, but 96 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.800 he wasn't seriously hurt. Rocky's attorney said that he picked 97 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:36.439 up the prop for security on a music video shoot. 98 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:39.920 And good news is remember that great concert that took 99 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.600 place at the Kia Forum and the into a dome 100 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:50.480 Stevie wonder they're playing with Sting late in that concert. 101 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:53.639 They raised about one hundred million dollars through the fire 102 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.240 Aid benefit concert concert. 103 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:58.399 I should say, well, the first. 104 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:04.040 Monies have been donated community based organizations. The selected organizations, 105 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:09.040 according to fire Aid, have received one hundred thousand dollars 106 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.439 or more in the first grants to go out they're 107 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:14.959 going to displace a support displaced residents, workers, small business owners, 108 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:18.800 the first responders, and services like food assistants, childcare support, 109 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:21.879 critical healthcare sources, housing support, all that sort of thing. 110 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:22.560 They said. 111 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:24.720 The first phase of funds will be sent out by 112 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:25.879 the end of February. 113 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:27.199 Phase two is going. 114 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.600 To focus more on the long term relief, remediation, rebuilding, 115 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.439 and environmental issues that come up. Fire eight has been established. 116 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.560 A program of issuance of smaller grants also available to 117 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:40.319 some smaller community based organizations. 118 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:42.120 Those will go out as well. 119 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:45.680 All right, we've told you about the Turpin case, right, 120 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.560 the Turpin family where the kids were all basically living 121 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.639 in Squalor. Mom and dad kept them there for so long. 122 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:57.560 There's been another story in this case in Pontiac, Michigan. 123 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:02.439 My name is Matt. I live in Thailand. I'm from LA. 124 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:04.639 How about little shout out or a wink or something. 125 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:10.000 I love KFI keep up the good work, pillows and gals. 126 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:11.680 Yeah and gals, Thank you. John. 127 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:14.920 A couple stories that we are following today. Russia and 128 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:17.279 the United States have agreed to start working toward ending 129 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:21.319 the war in Ukraine but also improving diplomatic and economic ties. 130 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:24.040 This came after talks between the top diplomats from Russia 131 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:26.959 and the United States, Sergei Lavrov for Russia Marco Rubio 132 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.920 for the US. They said they want to create a 133 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.240 high level team to support Ukraine peace talks to explore 134 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:37.680 closer relations and economic cooperation. Rubio stress that the talks 135 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:41.000 mark the beginning of the conversation. President Trump is signing 136 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:44.800 some new executive orders, while his first joint television interview 137 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:48.199 with Elon Musk will air tonight in prime time. Trump 138 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:52.120 is down at mar A Lago in Florida, setting for 139 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:57.040 an awards program tonight, apparently by a program, an awards program, 140 00:07:57.079 --> 00:07:59.399 I should say by a group led by Mike Flynn, 141 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.160 who was at one time National Security Advisor. The White 142 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:05.560 House hasn't commented on these new executive orders that he's 143 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:08.639 going to sign, but he's used previous executive orders for 144 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:13.480 about seven thousand different topics. Delta Airlines jet came down fast, 145 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.000 It landed hard, it lost its right wing, burst into 146 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:19.079 flames in a runway in Toronto, and then flipped over, 147 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:23.639 flipped over, and amazingly in the news conference this morning, 148 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:26.079 they said all eighty people on board that flight from 149 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:29.839 Minneapolis to Toronto survived the crash. The airport's CEO said, 150 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.320 all but twenty. I'm sorry. All but two of the 151 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:36.120 twenty one people injured on the flight have been released 152 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:42.000 from the hospital. The case of the Turpins out in 153 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:47.919 the ie was hard to look at group of kids, 154 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:54.200 a lot of kids raised by a family with severe 155 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.799 mental illness, in that the kids were never allowed to 156 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:03.639 go outside rarely, that they were not fed properly, they 157 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:07.399 were not instructed on how to live life properly. And 158 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:09.519 every time we see a story like this, we think 159 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:14.600 to ourselves, how many of these kind of situations exist today, 160 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:18.559 like right now? And unfortunately we found another one in 161 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:24.759 this case. A woman in Pontiac, Michigan, arrested Friday. She 162 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:28.279 abandoned her young children in their home for several years, 163 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:32.080 according to police. The Oakland County Sheriff's Office said, thirty 164 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:34.360 four year old woman her identity is not released to 165 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:38.000 protect the identity of her kids, left her kids in 166 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:43.279 that home to live in absolute squalor. They were surviving 167 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:46.360 on weekly drop offs of prepared food. 168 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:48.840 You had three kids. 169 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:52.960 You had a fifteen year old boy and thirteen and 170 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:56.559 twelve year old girls. They all were taken to the hospital, 171 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:00.320 placed in the custody of a relative by CPS, and 172 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:06.120 the sheriff, Michael Bouchard, said in a press release that 173 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:08.720 the conditions in which the kids were forced to survive 174 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:15.399 were unconscionable and as we've seen in cases like this, 175 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.639 when law enforcement officer takes to the podium to describe 176 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:22.320 what goes on, they say something like this. Throughout my 177 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:25.960 extensive career in this field, I have never encountered a 178 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:31.600 scenario as dire and prolonged as this one, involving abandonment, neglect, 179 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.480 and abuse of the highest order. And he said the 180 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:40.240 situation would be deemed deplorable and intolerable for animals, let 181 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:45.000 alone children. They've been deprived of any interaction with their mother, 182 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:48.000 they have not received an education, and the far reaching 183 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.240 consequences of this abuse. 184 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:51.000 Must be acknowledged. 185 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.879 And as we've seen in the case of the Turpen kids, 186 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:58.080 this could potentially be a lifelong problem. 187 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:00.720 I don't know how it's not. 188 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.639 The sheriff said that the kids were found in soiled clothing, 189 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.440 their hair was matted, their toenails were several inches long, 190 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:11.480 which made it very hard for them to walk. The 191 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:14.279 children did not know how to use personal hygiene items 192 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:19.240 and did not know how to flush a toilet. They 193 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:23.559 were called by the landlord. The Sheriff's department was called 194 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:26.159 by the landlord of the home to perform a welfare 195 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:28.720 check because he said he hadn't heard from the mom 196 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:32.600 since December, ren hadn't been paid since October, and he 197 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:36.120 was concerned about the well being. They searched the home, 198 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:38.919 they found the three kids. The girls had locked their 199 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:41.440 themselves in the bathroom but opened the door when they 200 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.799 were asked, and the pictures of the inside of this 201 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:50.799 home are unbelievable. Piles of debris. Police said the scene 202 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.080 was indeplorable shape. Garbage piled as high as four feet 203 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:58.120 in some rooms. Mold, human waste found throughout the house. 204 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:02.080 I mentioned, I mentioned they didn't know how to use 205 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.240 the toilet. They didn't know how to flush it. I 206 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:08.440 should say so the toilet was overflowing. Feces was found 207 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.360 in the bathtub. The fifteen year old brother said he 208 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:13.840 and his sisters have been living alone in the home 209 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:18.480 since probably twenty twenty or twenty twenty one. They survived 210 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:22.799 on the prepared food that their mother or a stranger 211 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:26.120 would leave on the front porch each week, so there 212 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.360 was someone besides the mom who knew the condition of 213 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:36.320 these kids. Mom never left any personal hygiene items, never 214 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:40.799 left any toilet paper. While she maintained contact with the boy, 215 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:44.840 it appears that she had not seen the girls in years. 216 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:48.279 To give you an idea of how disgusting it was, 217 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:51.399 the crews that went in and cleaned up all had 218 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:58.480 to wear hazmat suits. Neighbors told deputies they didn't even 219 00:12:58.480 --> 00:12:59.919 know that there were kids inside. 220 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:01.639 This is exactly like the Turpins. 221 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.639 The neighbors said they never saw the kids outside, and 222 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:08.120 they said they saw the mother drop things off at 223 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:14.320 home each month, but didn't know why. Emma Gross lives 224 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:17.399 a couple streets away. She said she scrambled to learn more. 225 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:20.399 When she learned about the kids found unattended, she said, 226 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.840 I'm told that the facilities the toilet wasn't working in 227 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:25.440 the home. They had to use an alternative solution in 228 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:28.440 a home where you're living at using the tub. That's 229 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:32.360 pretty heartbreaking and the kids had to live under those conditions. 230 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:40.159 An HOA board member, Nosey said she received text messages 231 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:42.679 from neighbors when the news broke. Some of the people 232 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:45.360 tend to keep to themselves in that neighborhood, They said, 233 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:48.039 only to interact with neighbors through post on the association's 234 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:53.120 Facebook page. Children have not attended school in the time 235 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:55.679 since twenty twenty or twenty twenty one. They passed time 236 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:58.480 watching television or playing games. It appears the girls had 237 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:03.080 not physically left the home in several years. The boy 238 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:06.519 slept on a mattress on the floor. The girls the 239 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:10.960 girls slept on pizza boxes. I'm going to repeat that 240 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.519 the boy slept on a mattress on the floor, the 241 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:20.840 girls slept on pizza boxes. Mom was found at a 242 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:25.159 different location obviously has been arrested. She said Dad doesn't 243 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:32.360 have a doesn't have any connection to the kids. The 244 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:35.600 sheriff has given a few more details today about all 245 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:39.320 of this. Said dad had been in jail at the 246 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:41.519 time that their mom abandoned them. After he got out, 247 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:43.519 he got approval from a court to visit the kids, 248 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:49.360 but mom never allowed access. The sheriff also blamed some 249 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:53.080 gaps in the school enrollment enrollment process that allowed the 250 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:55.960 kids to slip through the cracks, adding that the pandemic 251 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.080 probably played a role. Since they were probably living alone 252 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.159 since this bring or summer of twenty twenty, when nobody 253 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:06.039 was in school. The department, they said, was overwhelmed by 254 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:08.240 the support from the community and said they didn't need 255 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:11.720 any more donations. They want to find a law firm, 256 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:13.639 set up a trust fund for the kids to pay 257 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:15.320 for their health and education bills. 258 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:17.039 Which will be humongous. 259 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:20.679 And they said food deliveries to the home were made 260 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:23.720 by companies like Instacart and door Dash, and that nobody 261 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:28.600 actually ever went inside. But still no reason as to 262 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:33.879 why she abandoned the kids in the first place. It's 263 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:38.080 and again we'll ask this one's been discovered, but how 264 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:39.799 many more exist out there? 265 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:41.960 Right now, it's time for True Crime Tuesday. 266 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:46.360 The story is true, sounds true? 267 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:51.399 No, it sounds made up. I don't know. Garry and 268 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:57.039 Shannon present True Crime, all right. I've had my car stolen. 269 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:58.840 I know a lot of people have had their car. 270 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:01.480 In fact, I've had two cars stolen in the course 271 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:06.919 of my career. I suppose there is a whole new 272 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:10.399 world of car thievery that is going on, and it 273 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:14.480 is concentrated along the West Coast and more specifically right 274 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:19.559 in Washington, DC. Think think of the violent carjackings that 275 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:23.000 we've heard of in DC in just the last couple 276 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:23.519 of years. 277 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:23.960 Right. 278 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:28.320 For example, the attempted robbery of a vehicle used to 279 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:33.399 transport oh, I don't know, the President's granddaughter, Joe Biden's 280 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:36.600 granddaughter Naomi. Secret Service agents had to shoot a guy. 281 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.080 Another Washington shootout involved US marshalls who are working security 282 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:45.120 for Justice Sonya Sotomayor. There was an FBI agent who 283 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:48.440 was carjacked by a seventeen year old Congressman Henry Quaar 284 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:50.360 of Texas had a gun stuck in his face and 285 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:54.000 his car was stolen. A guy who was arrested after 286 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:56.879 crashing in a stolen vehicle e aded police custody at 287 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.320 the hospital, then stole an ambulance to escape. He was 288 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:03.279 seen in surveillance footage driving away while wearing an hospital 289 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:09.920 gown with the IV needle still in his arm. The 290 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:14.720 thriving used car market of West Africa, it's what's driving 291 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:18.240 the stolen car market on the East coast of the 292 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.759 United States. There have been I think it's about what 293 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:26.519 is it a million, roughly a million cars. In twenty 294 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:31.319 twenty three, car theft had been falling steadily since nineteen 295 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:35.599 ninety one, and then we saw at least most of 296 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:37.440 that I should say most of it, not at least 297 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:41.079 most of that was because of simple security systems that 298 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:44.960 became very very popular in cars and then became installed. 299 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:47.920 They came installed on cars that you would buy. But 300 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:51.359 early twenty twenty auto thefts have increased by about thirty percent. 301 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:54.599 And the statistics for last year are incomplete, but right 302 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:59.000 now they already suggest that we could see a record 303 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:03.519 number of car thefts and violent car thefts like carjackings 304 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:06.599 in the year twenty twenty four. About ten percent of 305 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:08.759 those cars that are stolen in the United States today 306 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:13.319 are smuggled overseas. And what's amazing is those used car 307 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:17.200 brokers in West Africa. They are very specific about what 308 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:21.599 kind of cars they want. You saw this in Gone 309 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:25.119 in sixty seconds. There's a market out there for high 310 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:28.720 end cars, and all it takes is a buyer to 311 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:31.519 say something like I want a twenty twenty four Mercedes 312 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:34.880 SL three fifty with leather interior, and you go get 313 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:37.400 your henchmen to go out and find that car. The 314 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:40.759 majority of times, the most common way to steal a 315 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:44.240 vehicle is the most basic find one with the engine 316 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:49.039 still running and the keys inside. That is a crime 317 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:53.200 of opportunity, and according to law enforcement, that's about forty 318 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:57.839 percent of car thefts are again just the most basic. 319 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:01.000 You left your car running and your left your keys inside. 320 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:05.200 Think about times of extreme heat or cold, when it's 321 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:08.160 one hundred and fifteen in the valley you leave your 322 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:10.880 car on to keep the air conditioning running. Or extreme 323 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:14.039 cold that's probably even more likely where you don't want 324 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:17.359 the car to freeze up. So at fifteen below, I'm 325 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:21.680 looking at you, Minnesota. You leave the car running, you 326 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:24.359 leave the ignition fob and the center console, maybe not 327 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:27.480 the key with the ignition anymore. You are trying to 328 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:30.519 carry a bag of groceries into the house and they 329 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.519 slip in while you're in the house and take your 330 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:37.960 car and they're gone. If you figure that each I'm 331 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.160 gonna say punk kid, because I'm gonna make a generalization, 332 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:44.680 gets about five hundred to one thousand, maybe fifteen hundred 333 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:47.920 dollars a car, especially for the higher end ones. Then 334 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:49.880 the next guy is going to get about two thousand 335 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:51.039 and four it, and the next guy's going to get 336 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:53.920 twenty five or three thousand for it and the price 337 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:58.920 goes up, so that, for example, in West Africa, the 338 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:02.200 most sought after vehicle is probably a Range drover or 339 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:05.960 a Toyota pickup or a BMW Sedan. And if you 340 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:11.680 get a BMW seven series to your pickup point, you're 341 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:13.799 gonna get fifteen hundred bucks for it. But as it 342 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:17.079 goes along the supply chain, you've got the fence, you've 343 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:20.000 got the shipping company, you've got the customs broker. 344 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:21.880 Everybody has to get paid. 345 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:25.079 And even after expenses, there's plenty of profit because you 346 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:28.839 could sell that same BMW seven series for about fifty 347 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:33.799 thousand dollars in the capital of Ghana. And like I said, Washington, 348 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:35.960 DC was sort of the ground zero for a lot 349 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:38.920 of this. In one specific place, there was a parking 350 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:43.039 garage on Florida Avenue in Washington, DC that was an 351 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:47.480 ideal place to stash the Mercedes or the BMW or 352 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:51.559 the Dodge Challenger. The stolen car business was so robust 353 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:55.440 in Washington in twenty twenty three that that parking garage 354 00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:00.319 became a de facto showroom for these stolen cars. The 355 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:04.599 buyers and the sellers would meet there every night. They 356 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:09.039 would inspect the cars, the deal was sealed. Cars not 357 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:12.160 sold within hours were listed on Instagram. They were shown 358 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:15.759 by appointment, and it was dependable. It was a business. 359 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:19.359 It was a marketplace that opened up text messages that 360 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:22.480 were intercepted by law enforcement captured the buyers that were 361 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:27.279 placing orders for very specific cars, very specific makes and models. 362 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:32.039 One eighteen year old delivering stolen vehicles had six carjackings 363 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:35.759 in a week. There was a twelve year old who 364 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:38.359 made headlines throughout all of twenty twenty two and into 365 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:42.000 last year after he stole a BMW, a Jaguar, an Audi, 366 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:44.720 a Tesla, a cargo van, and at one point he 367 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:47.440 hit a half a dozen dealerships in Maryland in less 368 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:50.400 than a month. He had been arrested twenty two times 369 00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:53.119 by the middle of last year, but because the Maryland 370 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:55.960 judicial reform stipulated that kids under the age of thirteen 371 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:00.720 couldn't be charged with property crimes, turned back to the 372 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:05.039 property to the custody of his parents. Kids like that 373 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:08.519 being manipulated by older gang members come in as pseudo 374 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:14.079 father figures and the kids, a lot of them. Teenagers 375 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:19.240 brag about their recent heightsts. They text each other. Gtarl 376 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:25.759 Grand theft auto real life. You can train on social media. 377 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:28.079 You could see the Kiya challenge on how to pick 378 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:30.920 up a key or a Hyundai using a screwdriver in 379 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:38.200 a USB cable. But the GPS tracker that you have 380 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:39.839 in your car, that's not gonna help. They know where 381 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:44.319 those are, they'll just pull them out. And most of them, 382 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:49.319 like I said, some of the high end cars end 383 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:52.599 up in West Africa for the burgeoning stolen used car 384 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.279 market there for those high end the Mercedes, the Range 385 00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:58.559 Rovers and things like that. About some of those weird 386 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:01.839 and unbelievable store in the world of crime. And this 387 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:06.119 is a kind of a combination of crime and artificial intelligence, 388 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:09.240 and this is a this is something that should be 389 00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:16.240 a crime. Drew Crecente a couple of months ago got 390 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:19.759 a Google alert that flagged what appeared to be a 391 00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:25.559 new profile of his daughter online, the daughter that had 392 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:30.759 been murdered eighteen years earlier. It had Jennifer's full name, 393 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:34.240 It had an old high school yearbook photo of her. 394 00:23:35.240 --> 00:23:39.720 It had a biography of Jennifer. It said she was 395 00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:42.240 a video game journalist. It said she was an expert 396 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:48.680 in technology, pop culture, and journalism. The website where this 397 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:58.640 new profile popped up was character dot Ai, and Jennifer's 398 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:05.480 image and likeness were used to create a chatbot that 399 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:06.440 people could talk to. 400 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:09.799 Now. The company. 401 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:16.000