Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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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 …
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, …
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. …