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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Florida hostage standoff claims lives of 4 children, new bizarre twist in murder of bride-to-be, Rachel DelTondo

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

A 21-hour-long standoff between police and a man ended with 5 dead -- including 4 children -- and a police officer critically wounded in Orlando, Florida. Police say Gary Wayne Lindsey Jr barricaded himself in an apartment after his girlfriend reported him for domestic violence. Nancy Grace looks at the tragic case with private investigator Vincent Hill, psychologist Caryn Stark, and reporter John Lemley. The murder of a beautiful young teacher is a mystery with many twists, some involving police officials in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. BeaverCountian.com reporter John Paul Vranesevich and CrimeOnline reporter Ellen Killoran join Nancy to update the probe of the fatal ambush of Rachael DelTondo.

Transcript

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MUSIC

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CRIME STORIES WITH NATSY GRACE ON SERIOUS XM TRY-UP

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CHANNEL 132

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Suspect is barricaded in his apartment. He has four

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hostages, all children.

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When you're dealing with children in a hostage situation,

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it can be a long process. The right words are crucial.

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We've talked to him several times.

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The hostage negotiators have had roughly half a dozen

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conversations by cell phone with this suspect.

0:32.0

Investigators say he barricaded himself inside an apartment

0:36.0

Sunday following a domestic dispute with his girlfriend.

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There was a woman who had met her officers off site

0:42.0

and relate to her officers that her boyfriend had battered her.

0:46.0

And at some point there was a change of gunfire.

0:49.0

We saw from the window. It was a blood on his face.

0:52.0

I think he was shot somewhere in the face or something here.

0:56.0

It was horrible.

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It all started off with an argument between the boyfriend

1:03.0

and girlfriend. By the end of it, five people are dead.

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An officer is wounded. Why did it end this way?

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We all went to bed last night, praying that these four

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