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Following his being sentenced to life in prison for the deaths of Amanda Hamm’s three children, Maurice LaGrone asked a state appellate court to overturn his conviction on murder charges. His attorneys raised several legal issues, chief among them that the judge in the case should have given jurors the option of finding LaGrone guilty …

Amanda Hamm agreed to talk to police a total of seven times — all without the benefit of an attorney present — about the drowning deaths of her three children in Clinton Lake. In the sixth interview that occurred more than two weeks after the incident, Hamm tried to explain how she, along with her …

Three years after she was charged with murder in the drowning deaths of her three children, Amanda Hamm was sentenced to prison.  But just before the 10-year sentence was imposed by Judge Stephen Peters, she read from a two-page statement she had prepared. Here’s what she said: Your Honor, since September second, 2003, I have …

Two days after three children drowned at Clinton Lake, the driver of the vehicle voluntarily returned to the scene with police to describe how the incident occurred. (Elsewhere in this “Clippings” section we posted part of the video recorded by police.) Here’s a transcript of that entire discussion:   http://secureservercdn.net/72.167.25.126/199.016.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Maurice-Lake-Transcript-63-95.pdf

After serving prison time on a child endangerment conviction, Amanda Hamm married Leo Ware. During her 2014 hospital stay for the birth of their third child, a doctor recognized Amanda as the mother in the Clinton Lake drowning case. State child welfare workers immediately removed the two older children from the Ware home and took …

Like prosecutors in the Hamm-LaGrone murder cases, the defendants’ attorneys were interested in learning how Amanda Hamm’s vehicle would respond in various circumstances. One of the more intriguing discoveries, as illustrated in this video, was that if the Oldsmobile Cutlass’ steering-column gear shift was momentarily placed in drive, and then into reverse, the car would …