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Sept. 3, 2026

Lindsay Clancy's Jury Deadlocks Again and the Judge Plays His Last Card, a Woman Arrested for Filming the Jurors, Tiger Woods Pleads

Lindsay Clancy's Jury Deadlocks Again and the Judge Plays His Last Card, a Woman Arrested for Filming the Jurors, Tiger Woods Pleads

For the second time in two days, jurors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial told Judge William Sullivan they could not agree: "After much deliberation, we are still unable to come to a unanimous decision." Sullivan responded Wednesday afternoon by reading the Tuey-Rodriguez charge — Massachusetts' version of the Allen or "dynamite" instruction, used as a last resort with a stuck jury. He told them there is no reason to suppose the case will ever go to twelve people more intelligent, impartial or competent, while reminding them the burden rests with the Commonwealth. Under state law he cannot give it again without the jury's consent. They deliberated into the evening and go into a sixth day, roughly 28 hours in. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Separately, Dawn Light, 56, of Sutton, pleaded not guilty to aggravated intimidation after allegedly filming jurors leaving the courthouse; Sullivan then questioned all eighteen jurors individually and found each remained fair and impartial. Also: Tiger Woods resolved a March DUI as reckless driving, a second offense. And in Georgia, a jury convicted Katelyn Goble of murdering Morgan Bauer in about thirty minutes.

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Calaroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Daily Crime and

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Justice from Calaroga Shark Media, powered by AI. I'm Garrett Fisher.

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It's Thursday, September 3rd, 2026. Judge William Sullivan has now

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played his last card. Yesterday afternoon, for the second time

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in two days, the jury in the Lindsay Clancy case

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told him they could not reach a unanimous verdict. and

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this time he read them the instruction he had been

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holding back. It dates to 1851. It is outlawed in

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a number of states as coercive. Lawyers call it the

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dynamite charge. And once a judge has given it in Massachusetts,

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there is almost nothing left but a mistrial. They went

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back in. They worked into the evening. They went home

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without a decision. That is roughly 28 hours across five days.

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And before any of that could happen yesterday morning, Sullivan

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had to swear in all 12 jurors and six alternates,

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one at a time, and question each of them privately.

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Because on Tuesday afternoon, as those jurors walked to their cars,

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a 56-year-old woman was arrested in the courthouse parking lot

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for filming them. We will get to Tiger Woods, who

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turned a second DUI into a second reckless driving plea yesterday,

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and to Georgia, where a jury needed 30 minutes. But

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we start in Plymouth, because that case is now inside

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the last few hours it has. On the evening of

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January 24th, 2023, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children with

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exercise bands in the basement of their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

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Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old.

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Clancy then cut herself and went out a second story window,

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severing her spine. She has pleaded not guilty by reason

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of lack of criminal responsibility. She has never denied killing them.

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Twelve people, nine women, and three men have been trying

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since last Thursday to decide whether the Commonwealth proved she

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could be held responsible. Here is where that stands, and

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it is close to the end. Tuesday morning, they sent

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a note saying they were at a standstill. Sullivan did

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not read it aloud. He took it to sidebar, brought

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the jury in, acknowledged the 80-plus witnesses and hundreds of exhibits,

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and sent them back without giving the formal deadlock instruction.

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That was a deliberate hold. Yesterday, around two in the afternoon,

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they told him again. Sullivan read their message out loud

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this time. He said it was more of a statement

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than a question, and it said that after much deliberation,

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they were still unable to come to a unanimous decision.

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And then he gave them the Tue Rodriguez charge. Let

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me tell you what that actually is, because this is

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the most important thing that has happened in that courtroom

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in a week, and most coverage will call it a technicality.

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It dates to 1851. Massachusetts rewrote it in 1973 in

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a case called Rodriguez, specifically to make it less coercive

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because a number of states have banned this kind of

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instruction outright over exactly that concern. Nationally, it is called

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an Allen charge. Everyone in a courthouse calls it the

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dynamite charge because it is meant to blow open a deadlock.

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And here is what Sullivan told those 12 people. He

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told them there is no reason to suppose the case

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will ever be submitted to 12 persons more intelligent, more impartial,

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or more competent to decide it, or that clearer evidence

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will ever be produced. He told them that with that

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in mind, it was their duty to decide the case

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if they could do it conscientiously. And then, to his credit,

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he immediately gave them the other half. He reminded them

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the burden of proof is on the Commonwealth to establish

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every element beyond a reasonable doubt. and that if they

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are left in doubt of any element, the defendant is

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entitled to the benefit of that doubt and must be acquitted.

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That balance matters. Because the danger of this instruction is

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obvious the second you put yourself in the room. Imagine

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you are the holdout. You have sat through 21 days

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of testimony and 84 witnesses. You have a sincere position.

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And a judge in a robe tells you that nobody

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who comes after you will be smarter or fairer than

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you are, and that it is your duty to decide.

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That is enormous pressure applied to a person whose entire

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job is to not be pressured. That is why judges

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here are held tightly to the model language, and why

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they are specifically forbidden from mentioning the cost or inconvenience

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of a retrial. The line between encouraging a jury and

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leaning on one is thin, and Sullivan appears to have

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walked it carefully. As he read it, reporters in the

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room watched Lindsay Clancy look over at the jury repeatedly

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with her eyebrows furrowed, And one juror, a woman who

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has been visibly emotional throughout this trial, and who wept

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when Patrick Clancy's 911 call was played, winced and shook

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her head slightly when she was told to go back in.

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They went back in, they worked, they went home. So

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what happens now? Under Massachusetts practice, a judge may give

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this instruction no more than twice. Sullivan has used it once.

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If they report a deadlock again and he gives it

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a second time and it still fails, he declares a mistrial.

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And a mistrial is not an acquittal. It is not

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a finding of anything at all. The case stops and

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the Plymouth County District Attorney decides whether to do it again.

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Reddington has already said he would absolutely try this case

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a second time. In the meantime, Lindsay Clancy stays exactly

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where she has been for more than three years, committed

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to a state hospital. Everybody in Massachusetts is thinking about

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the same case right now, so let's just say it.

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In 2024, in Norfolk County, the jury in the first

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murder trial of Karen Reed deadlocked after about 20 hours.

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Judge Beverly Canone read them the Tui Rodriguez charge. It

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did not work. She declared a mistrial. Prosecutors retried the case,

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and in 2025, Reed was acquitted of murder and manslaughter.

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The same pattern ran in the first trial of Emanuel

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Lopez in 2023. Deadlock, dynamite charge, mistrial, retrial. So there

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is a very recent Massachusetts template for exactly where this

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jury is sitting this morning, and it did not end

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anywhere close to where people expected. And I want to

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say something about the shape of this deadlock, because it

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tells you something. These 12 have five options. First-degree murder,

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second-degree murder, manslaughter, not guilty, and not criminally responsible. Sullivan

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added manslaughter at the very end over the Commonwealth's objection,

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precisely so a split jury would have somewhere to land.

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They deadlocked anyway with the compromise sitting right there on

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the sheet. That suggests the division is not about degree.

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It suggests some of those people believe the Commonwealth proved

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Lindsay Clancy could stop herself, and some of them believe

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it did not, and there is no middle ground between

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those two positions. You cannot split the difference on whether

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a mine was working. Now, The other thing that happened,

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and it is genuinely unusual, on Tuesday afternoon, right after

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those jurors were dismissed for the day, Massachusetts State Police

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arrested a 56-year-old woman named Dawn Light of Sutton in

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the courthouse parking lot. Prosecutors say she parked in a

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restricted area and tried to photograph the jurors from inside

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her vehicle as they left. When troopers approached her, she

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told them she was waiting for Lindsay Clancy. She consented

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to a search of her phone, and prosecutors say troopers

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found video of jurors walking out of court. She was

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charged with intimidation of a witness, juror, or person furnishing

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information in a criminal proceeding, and arraigned Wednesday morning in

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Plymouth District Court. A not guilty plea was entered on

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her behalf. Prosecutors asked for $ 50, 000 bail. Assistant District Attorney

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Nicole Piacentini told the court that the sanctity of the

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judicial system is at risk because of her actions. Judge

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Shelby Smith released Light on personal recognizance instead, with orders

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to stay away from Plymouth Superior Court, have no contact

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with jurors or witnesses, and not distribute a single photograph

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or video she took. Her attorney, Jennifer White, called the

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whole thing a misunderstanding and said her client is a

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retired nurse. And Light herself, surrounded by reporters walking to

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her car, was asked why she filmed outside the courthouse.

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Her answer was that she wanted to see Lindsay. and

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that she did see her, getting picked up by the van. Look,

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I'm going to be honest with you about this one

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because there are two ways to read it and I

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do not think either one is comfortable. The generous reading

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is that a retired nurse got swept up in a

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case that has become a movement, drove to Plymouth to

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catch a glimpse of a woman she feels something for,

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and had her phone out like everyone has their phone out.

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She has pleaded not guilty. She is entitled to that presumption,

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and she has not been convicted of anything. The other

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reading is what the Commonwealth is arguing, and it is

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why this is a felony-grade allegation rather than a citation.

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Twelve people are locked in a room deciding whether a

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woman spends her life in prison. They are not sequestered.

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They drive home every night. And a stranger sat in

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the parking lot pointing a camera at their faces. It

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does not matter what she meant. Those jurors now know

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that somebody was filming them. And that is why Sullivan

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had to spend Wednesday morning calling all 12 jurors and

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all six alternates to the bench one by one, swearing

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each of them in and asking them a question with

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the lawyers present and out of public earshot. Think about

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what he was doing there. He was checking individually whether

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any of those people had been shaken badly enough that

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they could no longer decide this case fairly. If even

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one had said yes, this trial could have ended right there.

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That's not a mistake. That's a choice. Nobody made anybody

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drive to that parking lot with a phone. And there's

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a playbook for this, and it is the oldest one

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in American courts. You do not touch the jury. Not

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a photograph, not a word, not a look in a

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parking lot. That rule is not bureaucratic fussiness. It is

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the only thing standing between a verdict and a mob.

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And speaking of which, there was also a man outside

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that courthouse yesterday carrying a two-sided sign. One side named Cora, Dawson,

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and Callen. The other side called for repealing the 19th Amendment,

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which is the one that gave American women the right

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to vote. I am not going to say his name

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because that is the entire transaction he is offering and

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I decline it. But I want you to sit with

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the fact that the one person out there saying those

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three children's names was using them to argue that women

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should not be allowed near a ballot box. That is

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what this case has become outside that building. 400 women

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in pink on one side, that on the other. And

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in the middle, 12 exhausted people who are not allowed

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to read any of it being asked one more time

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to agree. Cora Clancy was five and in kindergarten. Dawson

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Clancy was three. Callan Clancy was eight months old. They

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are not a slogan for anybody. Someone has to say

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their names. On March 27th of this year, at about

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two in the afternoon, Tiger Woods was driving at a

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high rate of speed on a two-lane beachside road on

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Jupiter Island, Florida. His SUV clipped the trailer of a

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yard maintenance truck and rolled onto its side. He climbed

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out without an injury. Nobody else was hurt. There was

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roughly $ 5, 000 in damage to the other vehicle. An officer

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at the scene wrote that Woods exemplified signs of impairment.

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Officers described him as lethargic and ran roadside tests. A

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breathalyzer showed no alcohol in his system. He was taken

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to the Martin County Jail where he refused a urine test.

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He was charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence with

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property damage and with refusing to submit to a lawful test.

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He posted bond and went home that night. He told

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deputies he had been looking down at his phone and

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changing the radio station. Yesterday morning, he resolved all of it. Woods,

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who is 50, walked into the Martin County Courthouse in

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Stewart with his attorney and his girlfriend, said almost nothing

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during the hearing and accepted a plea agreement. The DUI

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with property damage was reduced to reckless driving charged as

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a second offense. There was a careless driving citation. The

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refusal charge was resolved as well. The result? A $ 1, 000

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fine on the reckless driving count, $ 500 on the refusal,

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a five-year driver's license suspension, and no jail. Judge Darren

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Steele made one thing very clear to him. He told

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Woods that if he drove for any reason at all,

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he would go immediately back to jail. Now. Here is

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why this is on our show, and it is not

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because he is famous. In May of 2017, Tiger Woods

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was found by police in Jupiter, Florida, asleep at the

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wheel of a Mercedes parked awkwardly on the roadside at

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3 in the morning. There was no alcohol in his

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system then either. Toxicology later found the active ingredient in marijuana,

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two painkillers, a sleep drug, and an anti-anxiety medication. He

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was charged with DUI, and he pleaded guilty to reckless driving.

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Same charge, same reduction, nine years apart. And that is

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on top of a 2021 rollover in California where a

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sheriff's department said he was driving around 80 miles an hour,

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nearly double the limit, and no charges were filed at all.

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And a 2009 crash into a fire hydrant and a

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tree outside his house, which produced a careless driving ticket.

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Four significant driving incidents across 17 years. Not one of

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them ever produced a conviction on the charge that was

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originally filed. And I want to be fair about one

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of those. In 2009 and in 2021, nobody alleged impairment.

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The 2021 crash in California was investigated and the sheriff's

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department said he was going roughly 80 in a 45,

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but they did not charge him with anything and did

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not claim he was under the influence. So that is

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a speed case, not this. And there is one more

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number in this that deserves attention. The reckless driving count

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yesterday was charged as a second offense, not a first.

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Florida knew exactly what it was looking at, because it

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had done this with him before. So the obvious question

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is whether a person who is not Tiger Woods gets

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that deal. And I am going to give you the

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honest answer, which is more complicated than the outrage version. Yes, actually,

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quite often. In Florida, a first or second DUI with

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no injuries, no accident victim, and no measured blood alcohol

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level gets pleaded down to reckless driving all the time

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for people nobody has ever heard of. It happens because

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a refusal case without a chemical test is genuinely harder

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for the state to prove. Prosecutors here subpoenaed his hospital

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records in June and his pharmacy records back in May,

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which tells you they were trying to build something, and

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they settled anyway. That is not favoritism. That is a

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prosecutor looking at what they can actually prove. So no,

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I am not going to stand here and tell you

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a rich man bought his way out. The evidence for

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that is not there. What I'm going to say is this.

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This is the second time the system has looked at

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Tiger Woods after a driving incident involving suspected impairment and

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handed him a reduced charge, a fine, and a piece

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of paper. In 2017, he got probation, a $ 250 fine,

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and 50 hours of community service. He then completed a

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private program for dependency on pain medication, which he was

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open about and which took real courage to say out loud.

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And nine years later, he was upside down in an

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SUV on a two-lane road at two in the afternoon.

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I am not mocking this man. He has had seven

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back surgeries and a torn Achilles and has been managing

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serious chronic pain for most of his adult life. And

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after this crash, he went to Switzerland for treatment. That

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is not a punchline. Millions of Americans are somewhere on

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that same road right now, and most of them do

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not have his resources. But that is the point. He

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has every resource there is, and he still ended up

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here twice. If a fine and a suspended license were

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an intervention, it would have worked the first time. That's

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not a mistake. That's a choice. And it is a

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choice this system makes over and over with impaired driving cases.

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Process it, price it, move it off the docket. Nobody

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at that courthouse yesterday was in a position to do

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anything about the actual problem, and everybody there knew it.

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And there is a specific reason this case was always

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going to end in a plea, which is worth understanding

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because it is the same reason a lot of impaired

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driving cases end this way. There was no chemical test.

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He blew clean on alcohol and refused the urinalysis, which

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is his right. And the penalty for refusing is administrative

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rather than a conviction. So the state's proof of impairment

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came down to an officer's observations, a rollover, and whatever

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prosecutors could pull out of hospital and pharmacy records they

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had to subpoena. Refusing the test is legal, and it works.

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That is not a loophole somebody found. It is how

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the statute is built. The only thing I will say

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in the system's favor is that a five-year suspension is

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not nothing. Judge Steele took the car away for half

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a decade and told him what happens if he touches

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a steering wheel. That is the most protective thing anybody

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in that room could actually do. On March 27th, A

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man driving a yard maintenance truck went to work and

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had a Land Rover come into his trailer at high speed.

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He was not hurt. It could have gone the other way,

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and if it had, we would be having a completely

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different conversation, and Tiger Woods would not have been home

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by dinner. When we come back, a jury in Georgia

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needed half an hour. First a correction, and it is mine.

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On Tuesday, I told you that prosecutors had rested their

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case against Caitlin Goebel and that the defense case was beginning.

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That was wrong. What actually happened is that the case

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went to the jury Monday, and the jury convicted her Monday.

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I was reporting a schedule that had already been overtaken

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by a verdict, and you deserve better than that. Here

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is what actually happened. Morgan Bauer was 19 years old.

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She was from Aberdeen, South Dakota, and she moved to

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the Atlanta area on February 12th of 2016. She was

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there for about two weeks. She disappeared at the end

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of that month. The last confirmed traces of her are

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a sighting at work on February 25th and a social

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media video posted the next day from a park in

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Porterdale with a man walking behind her. The two people

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last seen with her, Caitlin Goebel and Goebel's boyfriend, Jonathan Warren,

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told everyone, including Morgan's mother, that they had dropped her

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off and never saw her again. That held for seven years.

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In July of 2023, investigators searched a property on Broad

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Street near the Yellow River in Porterdale and found her remains.

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On Monday, after a trial that began the previous Tuesday,

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a Newton County jury convicted Caitlin Goble of malice murder,

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felony murder, aggravated assault, tampering with evidence, and concealing the

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death of another. They deliberated for about 30 minutes. Judge

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Joe Bishop polled every juror individually. Each one confirmed the

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verdict was freely and voluntarily reached. Now, the state's theory,

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and I want to handle one piece of this carefully.

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Prosecutors told that jury that Goebel and Warren were obsessed

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with death, with serial killers, and with dismemberment. They said

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Goebel lured Morgan to the house in Porterdale, that the

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two of them strangled her there, and that over the

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following days, they mutilated and burned her remains. Assistant District

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Attorney Bailey Wilkinson said Goebel was just as guilty as Warren,

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and prosecutors called both of them psychopaths in closing. And

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they told the jury why they believe Morgan Bauer specifically

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was chosen. She was 19. She had been in the

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state for two weeks. She was working at a club

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and had almost no one around her. Prosecutors said the

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two of them targeted her because they believed nobody would

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miss her. I want to be precise about that because

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it would be easy to hear it as a fact

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about Morgan and it is not. It is a fact

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about them. Her situation was not a flaw in her life.

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It was the reason they picked her. Two people looked

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at a teenager who had just arrived somewhere alone and

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did the math on who would come looking. And they

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were nearly right. It took seven years and a federal

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search team. The evidence at trial came from people Caitlin

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Goebel told. A filmmaker making a documentary about Morgan's disappearance

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testified she admitted to him she knew Morgan was dead

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and had a role in what happened to her body.

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Her own ex-husband testified she called him one night and

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confessed and said she thought they had gotten away with it.

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And a former Porterdale police lieutenant testified that when she

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came forward in 2023, she pointed at Warren and kept

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herself out of it. Investigators said the story changed once

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they caught the contradictions. That is the answer to a

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question people ask about cold cases all the time. This

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one did not break because of DNA or a database

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or a camera. It broke because a woman talked over

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and over for years to people who eventually got subpoenaed.

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The defense did not dispute everything. Their position was that

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Goebel was in the room when Morgan was killed, but

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that Warren did the killing. and that Goebel helped afterward

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and stayed silent for years because she was terrified of him.

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Her lawyer also argued the material about serial killers and

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the occult was cosplay, not motive. The jury took 30 minutes,

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and then Tuesday afternoon they came back for sentencing, and

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it was one of the harder hearings you will read

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about this year. Goebel's attorney asked for mercy and a

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chance at parole. He told Judge Bishop that right now

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the world sees his client as a devil, but that

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there are people who know her as someone genuine and kind,

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a loving mother who takes care of her grandmother. Her

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fiancé testified that she is too fragile a person to

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have done this. Prosecutors asked for life without parole and

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pointed to the brutality of it. They also had jail

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calls from the night before that hearing, in which Goebel

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joked that the prosecution had unleashed a monster. And then

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Morgan Bower's mother stood up. Sherry Keenan asked the judge

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for the maximum. And what she said was this. May

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she reside in a personal hell that she created so

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she cannot harm another living soul. Ten years. That woman

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waited ten years to be able to say that in

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a courtroom. And seven of those years she spent being

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told her daughter had walked away from a gas station.

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Judge Bishop gave the state what it asked for. life

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in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 10 years

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each on the tampering and concealment counts. Jonathan Warren pleaded

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guilty in January of 2024 and is already serving life

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without parole at Macon State Prison. Both of them are done.

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This case is closed. And I want to note what

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that means because it is rarer than it should be.

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Two people killed a 19-year-old and hid it for seven years,

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and both of them will die in prison. Not a

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plea to a lesser charge. Not a sentence with a

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parole date somewhere in the distance. Both of them. Life without.

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That does not happen often in cases where a body

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is not found for seven years. Where evidence degrades. Where

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witnesses scatter across three states. A prosecutor's office in a

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county most people have never heard of built two convictions

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out of a cold case and a woman who could

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not stop talking about it. Morgan Bauer was 19 years old.

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She graduated from Central High School in Aberdeen. She moved

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across the country to start something and she got 13 days.

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Nobody was paying attention to her. That was the entire plan.

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And it worked for seven years. And it stopped working

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because a mother in South Dakota would not stop pushing.

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Morgan Bauer. Someone has to say her name. That's the

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show for Thursday, September 3rd. If this was useful, send

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it to one person. That is the whole engine on

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a show like this. And if you're listening on Spotify,

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drop a comment. That Plymouth jury has now been told

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twice to go back and try again, and the judge

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is nearly out of moves. Tell me whether you think

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a dynamite charge is a fair nudge or a thumb

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on the scale because I go back and forth on it.

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When that case breaks, and it is going to break soon,

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we will be here. I'm Garrett Fisher. Do better. A

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few notes on sourcing and timing. This episode was recorded

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before court opened Thursday morning. The Lindsay Clancy jury reported

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a deadlock for a second time Wednesday afternoon, received the

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Tui Rodriguez instruction, deliberated further, and was sent home without

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a verdict. If a verdict or a mistrial came after

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we recorded, this episode does not reflect it. Reported deliberation

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totals have varied between roughly 23 and 30 hours depending

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on how outlets count. So we have described it as

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about 28 hours across five days. A correction carried in

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this episode. On Tuesday, we reported that prosecutors had rested

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their case against Caitlin Goebel and that the defense case

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was beginning. That was incorrect. The case had already gone

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to the jury and she was convicted that same day.

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We regret the error. On the arrest outside the courthouse,

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Dawn Light has been charged and has not been convicted

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of anything. A not guilty plea was entered on her

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behalf and she is presumed innocent. The account of what

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she is alleged to have done comes from prosecutors and

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state police at her arraignment. Her attorney has described it

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as a misunderstanding. Our description of a juror's reaction in

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the courtroom comes from reporters present in the room rather

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than from any transcripts. On the Florida case, outlets have

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differed on whether Tiger Woods entered a plea of guilty

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or no contest to the reckless driving count, so we

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have described it as a resolution by plea agreement. Reported

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fine totals have also varied slightly. Some accounts of items

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recovered at the scene appear in tabloid reporting we could

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not verify against wire services, and we have not repeated them.

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The officer's description of impairment comes from the arrest report.

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No chemical test result establishing impairment exists in this case

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because the test was refused. On the Georgia case, Kaitlyn

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Goebel has been convicted and sentenced, and Jonathan Warren pleaded

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guilty and was sentenced in 2024. The characterizations of the

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defendants as obsessed with serial killers and the account of

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how Morgan Bauer was selected are the prosecution's arguments to

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the jury. Reporting has varied on the spelling of Morgan

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Bauer's mother's first name and on the exact length of deliberations.

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described in different outlets is about 30 minutes or less

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than an hour. We have described Morgan's work and circumstances

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only because the state made them central to its theory

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of why she was chosen, and for no other reason.

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This episode discusses child deaths, suicide, postpartum mental illness, addiction,

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and violence against a young woman. If you are struggling,

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you can call or text 988 in the United States

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to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifelines. For postpartum mental

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health specifically, the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline is available

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by call or text at 1-833-TLC-MAMA. If you or someone

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you love is dealing with substance dependence, the SAMHSA National

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Helpline is free, confidential, and available around the clock at 1-800-662-4357.