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The Unforgiven

“True Crime Brewery” explores The Unforgiven case

July 8, 2021

Two things make the “True Crime Brewery” podcast a bit unusual: The co-host reviews beer; and he’s a pediatrician. The latter fact perhaps gives a bit more authority to his observations concerning how long Amanda Hamm’s three children were under water before rescuers pulled them from her car. There are also dozens of listener comments …

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New TV reports on Clinton Lake drownings

February 24, 2020

Decatur, Ill. TV station WAND has just produced a two-part report on the Clinton Lake drownings–subject of The Unforgiven.  https://www.wandtv.com/news/tragedy-in-clinton-lake-remembered/article_2e66d71a-5461-11ea-8ed9-6315982cf787.html https://www.wandtv.com/news/videos/tragedy-in-clinton-lake-remembered/video_3064301f-3e8a-5429-a9b4-340b7fa63bfc.html

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Ruling on Maurice LaGrone’s appeal

October 4, 2019

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 …

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Amanda Hamm’s explanation

September 27, 2019

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 …

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Amanda Hamm’s statement before sentencing

September 14, 2019

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 …

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Transcript of LaGrone’s Clinton Lake interview

September 7, 2019

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

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