snatch and nominees from the acapella group just say they ve not been able to say no come 610 of the cars back there singing through it anyway. hello i m christine one it s good to have your company the nigerian schoolgirls released by kidnappers this week have now been reunited with their families and all back home the girls have been in government k. in the northern some far a state receiving medical checks following their captivity now while news of the goals of death and grabbed international headlines many more kidnappings happen very often in northern and central parts of nigeria gangs take people hostage and demand money for their release date of a correspondent for when you was in some far reporting on the kidnapping and subsequent release of the schoolgirls then in neighboring so-called a state he came across the story of a painful family tragedy. and fred joins me now to tell us more about that story back in lagos hi fred it s good to see you tell us about the famil
some believe she was wrongfully convicted. melanie maguire was accused of killing her husband, chopping up his body and putting it in the chesapeake bay. melanie maguire, convicted of murdering her husband, but now, years later, a podcast raising new questions. you believe an innocent woman is behind bars right now? absolutely. i believe this is a case of a wrongful conviction. this whole saga begins on may 5, 2004, with an odd discovery in virginia beach. that morning, a couple fishermen and their kids are out on their boat in the chesapeake bay when they spot something in the water. they found a dark green, kenneth cole suitcase in pretty good condition that was apparently part of a luggage set of three. they put it on board, and there s a pair of male legs, from the knee down. we kind of figured there had to be other suitcases with other parts in it. six days later, the student was on fisherman s island in the middle of the chesapeake bay, which is a na
were you ever angry enough a the see him dead? there were times i wanted him gone, but gone doesn t mean dead. mel just said, well i m a single mom now, and now i ve just got to get along with my life. i said, well, no, the next thing is we ve got figure out who did this to him. after i got off the phone i said, she did it. they couldn t find any forensic evidence whatsoever to establish this was a crime scene. do you still insist you are innocent? absolutely. i still think, how could somebody think i did that? i do not think she did actually commit the crime. it turns out it isn t the end of the story. my name is meghan sacks. i m a criminologist at fairleigh dickinson university. in simplest terms, criminology is the scientific study of what causes crime and how the criminal justice system responds to crime. i ve written about 25 true-crime books over the years. and i think melanie mcguire s is perhaps one of the most interesting ones, and baffling. th
peeling back the trash bags, it revealed a torso of a white male. the torso contained the arms, hands, and head of the white male. narrator: as with the body parts in the first suitcase, there was no way to identify the remains, but the contents of the second suitcase at least provided some clues to the victim s identity. the description white male between 25 and 35, about 180, 160 pounds, a short-cropped military haircut, but no other scars, marks, or tattoos. narrator: in addition to the plastic bags that wrapped the body, there was a hospital blanket around his head. an autopsy on the remains indicated the likely cause of death. we x-rayed the torso and found that there was an entrance exit through his head and then two bullet wounds to his chest cavity. prezioso: the second suitcase, the largest suitcase that probably had the most amount of evidence in it. recovered in there were two projectiles, .38 caliber. narrator: where was the rest of the body? the answer came f
the state police swat team scrambles into place after a 45-year-old woman identified has deborah did long champs armed with a hand gun fires two shots after police were called to the house. whenever you have a discharge of a weapon, in a situation, such as this, it s obviously heightened. reporter: also inside the house the woman s 12-year-old daughter. at one point the 12-year-old female was able to step out of the side door second a second gunshot was heard. perimeter officers were able to have her run to their location to a safe location. reporter: this picture is from the command post of the crisis team negotiating by cell phone with the woman for nearly three hours before she walked out of the house peacefully sur sur rinderring,. niece and her sister in law. i want her to get the help. reporter: the woman who is being evaluated at the hospital is facing multiple criminal charges including reckless conduct here. in candia, new hampshire, steve cooper, 7 new