Suitcase Killer Murder Trial
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S2024 E90: Elaborate Police Work
Upcoming • Original Air Date: Sep 6, 2024
The Defense gets its turn to question the investigator on the stand; he was among a dozen police officers who worked different aspects of the investigation into what happened to Bill McGuire.
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S2024 E44: Her Close Friend Testifies
Original Air Date: Aug 21, 2024
Close friend of Melanie McGuire's speaks to the jury in her murder trial; James Finn admits that when he was in nursing school with Melanie he fell madly in love with her and wanted to pursue a romantic relationship with her.
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S2024 E43: When Melanie McGuire's Friend Turned On Her
Original Air Date: Aug 21, 2024
The jury hears about a gun Melanie brought just days before Bill went missing; according to James Finn, Melanie purchased the firearm for protection of her and her two kids from her husband who allegedly was growing violent at home.
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S2024 E42: Tapping Phones to Seek a Confession
Original Air Date: Aug 21, 2024
Wiretapped phone conversations are played for the jury; Melanie McGuire's close friend, James Finn, allows police to secretly record the calls as they turn up their investigation into Bill which had apparently gone cold for months.
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S2024 E41: James Finn Under Cross Examination
Original Air Date: Aug 21, 2024
The defendant's close friend testifies under cross-examination about his secretly recorded phone calls; New Jersey State Police convinces James Finn to have his phone tapped in order to help them in their investigation.
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S2024 E40: Raising The Temperature On A Cold Case
Original Air Date: Aug 20, 2024
The jury listens to the defendant venting and ranting to her lover as the murder investigation heats up around her; detectives had tapped Melanie McGuire's phone for several weeks.
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S2024 E39: Incriminating Phone Conversations
Original Air Date: Aug 20, 2024
The Defense had more questions for the officer who specialized in wiretaps; Detective John Pizzuro had intercepted Melanie's phone calls that she made more than a year after Bill was killed; investigators were looking for clues.
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S2024 E38: More New Jersey and Virginia Officers Testify
Original Air Date: Aug 20, 2024
The detective in charge of wiretapping Melanie McGuire's phone had more to tell the jury as he testified for a second day in a row; jurors heard clips of the conversations she had with close friends, lawyers, and even her lover.
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S2024 E37: Divorce and Romance on the Job
Original Air Date: Aug 20, 2024
A month before Bill McGuire was killed, Melanie McGuire was stressed over her marriage; that's according to a co-worker who testified; Joyce Maloney claimed Melanie wanted to divorce her husband, Bill.
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S2024 E36: Murder Investigation Intensifies
Original Air Date: Aug 19, 2024
The murder investigation intensified against Melanie McGuire; police tapped her phones and she was put under surveillance; this covert operation soon uncovered a secret-a two-year affair which gave a possible motive for murder.
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S2024 E35: A Wiretap Investigation
Original Air Date: Aug 19, 2024
Melanie McGuire's co-worker claimed Melanie's upstairs bathroom smelled worse than a morgue; under cross-examination, Lori Thomas admitted that she did not bring up the horrible smell in Melanie's apartment before during a grand jury testimony.
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S2024 E34: Listening To Tapped Phone Recordings
Original Air Date: Aug 19, 2024
The police detective, who oversees the wiretaps on Melanie McGuire's phone, continues his testimony; the prosecution team plays audio clips of these recorded phone conversations she had.
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S2024 E33: Nothing Goes Easy For Me
Original Air Date: Aug 19, 2024
Prosecutors have more recorded phone calls to play for the jury; these calls were made about a year after Bill's murder; Melanie is heard on the phone saying "nothing comes easy to me"; hours and hours of phone calls were recorded.
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S2024 E32: Dr. George Jackson
Original Air Date: Aug 16, 2024
Another forensic toxicologist testified for the prosecution; Dr. George Jackson was the chief toxicologist for the state of New Jersey; he examined the remains of Bill McGuire which had been found in three suitcases.
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S2024 E31: Chief Toxicologist To The Lead Investigator
Original Air Date: Aug 16, 2024
Melanie McGuire's lawyer cross-examines the New Jersey's chief toxicologist; Dr. George Jackson tells the jury that he examined Bill McGuire's remains looking for a sedative; but in the end, he finds no traces of chloral hydrate.
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S2024 E30: The Detective Sergeant Breaks It Down
Original Air Date: Aug 16, 2024
The State hopes testimony would show that Melanie McGuire tried to misdirect the police; on the stand is the New Jersey State Police Detective Sergeant David Dalrymple, who led the investigation into how and why Bill was killed.
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S2024 E29: How Police Nailed Their Target
Original Air Date: Aug 16, 2024
Jurors hears about an alleged fight Melanie McGuire said she had with her husband, Bill; a tape recording played in the courtroom; she tries to get a temporary restraining order against him after the violent encounter.
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S2024 E28: Online Search Results
Original Air Date: Aug 15, 2024
Eight computers and eight cell phones, that's what a forensic computer analyst examined during the murder investigation of Bill McGuire; Jennifer Seymour documented the Internet use and computer activities in Bill.
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S2024 E27: Detailed Computer Analysis
Original Air Date: Aug 15, 2024
The jury learns of more Internet searches done on the family computer before Bill McGuire died; they include barbiturates, chloral hydrate (a powerful sedative), and Walgreens.
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S2024 E26: Processing Bill Mcguire's Car
Original Air Date: Aug 15, 2024
During the murder investigation, detectives find Bill McGuire's car sitting in the parking lot of an Atlantic City motel; he was known to go there to gamble; a crime scene technician who processed Bill's car testifies to the jury.
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S2024 E25: Details to Human Dismemberment
Original Air Date: Aug 15, 2024
Prosecutors introduced a forensic anthropologist to testify about Bill McGuire's remains; Dr. Steven Syms displayed the bones collected and concluded that Bill was dismembered with a thin-blade knife and a power saw.
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S2024 E24: His Blackberry
Original Air Date: Aug 14, 2024
The cross-examination wraps up on Bill McGuire's boss; Thomas Terry confirms that in the days Bill went missing, Melanie called him to ask about life insurance.
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S2024 E23: Moving Out
Original Air Date: Aug 14, 2024
The jury learned about a prescription for a sedative the defendant had filled before her husband, Bill McGuire, went missing; on the stand, under cross examination, was the pharmacist who sold her the drug.
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S2024 E22: Looking For Chloral Hydrate
Original Air Date: Aug 14, 2024
A forensic toxicologist speaks to jurors about the sedative, chloral hydrate; the State alleges that the defendant, Melanie McGuire, used the drug on her husband, Bill, before shooting, killing, and then dismembering him.
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S2024 E21: Daycare To Internet Searches
Original Air Date: Aug 14, 2024
Jurors next hears from the director of the day care where Bill and Melanie McGuire's sons attended; when Melanie is arrested for first-degree murder over a year after Bill died it was after she dropped her kids off at daycare.
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S2024 E20: A Different Side of Bill Mcguire
Original Air Date: Aug 13, 2024
A forensic ballistics expert on the stand explains the bullets found inside Bill's remains; a close friend of Bill's tells the jury more about his character and behavior.
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S2024 E19: Co-Worker And Close Friend Remembers
Original Air Date: Aug 13, 2024
A close friend of Bill McGuire testifies about Bill's final days; the State tries to prove that Bill's wife, Melanie, had killed him and then dismembered him; the cross-examination of Jay Tandava heats up.
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S2024 E18: Bill's Abandoned Car In Atlantic City
Original Air Date: Aug 13, 2024
The jury listen to details about Bill McGuire's car that was found in a motel parking lot in Atlantic City days after he went missing; in her first interview with police, Melanie claimed Bill may have been in Atlantic City.
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S2024 E17: Hearing From The Boss
Original Air Date: Aug 13, 2024
Prosecutors call Bill McGuire's boss to the stand; Thomas Terry tells the jury that Bill was an excellent worker and was well-respected among his co-workers; according to Terry, Bill's job performance was excellent and was well-respected at work.
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S2024 E14: The House Bill Brought
Original Air Date: Aug 12, 2024
Prosecutors shift the jury's attention to the fertility clinic where she worked; investigators say they found a number of products and supplies linked to the murder of Bill McGuire that could have come from someone in the medical field.
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S2024 E13: New Jersey Detectives Take Over
Original Air Date: Aug 12, 2024
The second detective who interviewed Melanie McGuire days after her husband's remains were identified testifies; this time, the investigator is from New Jersey and not Virginia.
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