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Three days after her three children drowned, police returned Amanda Hamm’s car, a front-wheel drive Oldsmobile Cutlass, to Clinton Lake and the scene of the incident. It was to test how the car responded in different circumstances. In this prosecution video, police park the vehicle on the boat ramp, just short of the water’s edge, …
A person very familiar to those who’ve read Reasonable Doubt (or just followed the long-ago trials of David Hendricks in the murders of his wife and children) has surfaced in connection with the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein is the financier accused of trafficking girls for sex who was found dead in his jail cell, …
“Democracy,” it’s been said, “is not a spectator sport.” That sure held true for a fourth grade class that includes my granddaughter, Mariella. In rapid-fire words slowed only by her mother’s insistence that she take a breath, Mariella explained that 20 of the 24 students in her class decided to seek election to the classroom’s single …
In their interrogation of Amanda Hamm 14 days after her three young children drowned, police moved into new territory in their line of questioning. Hamm, now clearly under suspicion of wrong-doing, was asked to speculate about what her future might be if she were to implicate her boyfriend, Maurice LaGrone, in the deaths.
Edith Brady-Lunny, my The Unforgiven co-author, was interviewed on the Illinois-wide public radio program, “The 21st.” Program host Brian Mackey asked questions that elicited important insights from Edith. He also played audio from one of the police interrogations of Amanda Hamm and from the podcast “Criminal” which featured an interview with Hamm’s attorney, Steve Skelton. …
Three days after the seventh and final questioning of Amanda Hamm (this time in a psychiatric ward and again without the benefit of an attorney), police interrogated her boyfriend, Maurice LaGrone Jr. They sought a confession, believing LaGrone and Hamm had plotted the drowning deaths of her three children. The questioning lasted nearly an hour. …