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🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Minute. Today the disappearance of Tara Calico, but first your true crime headlines. |
0:20.7 | A North Carolina man is facing felony charges for falsely claiming that he had the coronavirus. |
0:22.4 | 31-year-old Justin M Rhodes walked through a |
0:26.0 | Walmart telling people that he quote definitely tested positive for COVID-19 and |
0:31.9 | stated that quote if I got it you all got it while touching |
0:37.2 | items around the store police were able to determine that Rhodes did not |
0:42.3 | have the virus and he is now facing charges of felony |
0:46.2 | perpetrating a hoax in a public building and disorderly conduct. |
0:52.2 | Rhodes recorded the prank on Facebook live, |
0:54.9 | and the video has been viewed more than 3 million times. |
1:02.0 | In Central Virginia, a trial is underway for 53-year-old Michael Wayne Stevens, who faces |
1:08.2 | multiple charges, a forcible sodomy, and indecent liberties with a child. |
1:14.0 | Stevens, who was accused of molesting four different children between 1998 and 2008, |
1:20.0 | was tried for the same charges last month, but a mistrial was declared |
1:25.0 | after the jurors heard information that they were not supposed to hear. |
1:29.0 | Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which has stalled activity in courthouses around the country, |
1:35.2 | Commonwealth attorney, Carrie Guzman, decided to move on with the retrial, citing the defendant's |
1:41.6 | right to a speedy trial and a jury trial. |
1:45.0 | Judge Michael McKinney has ordered some precautions be taken to attempt to adhere to social distancing guidelines. |
1:51.0 | Each potential juror had their temperature taken before entering the courtroom. |
1:56.7 | And three were sent home because of higher than normal temperature readings. |
2:00.9 | He spread the jurors out, seating some in the jury box and others in regular courtroom seating, |
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