DATEL TRASH TALKER TRIAL

Miller was adamant that he had nothing to do with any crime, and he didn’t know anything about this. When investigators discovered the affair, they approached Miller.

They recorded her calls with family and friends, including Miller, with whom she was having the affair. Once police honed in on Melanie McGuire as the prime suspect, they began wiretapping her phones. It was the timing of that purchase, though, that really caught the eye of investigators: It happened just two days before Bill McGuire went missing. Melanie McGuire said that Bill McGuire had asked her to buy the gun for him since he had a felony conviction from a bad driving record, which barred him from purchasing one on his own. 'It turned out that when the record check was done with Pennsylvania, a record came back that Melanie McGuire had purchased a gun,' said Patti Prezioso, the lead investigator and prosecutor at Melanie McGuire's trial. “They knew that Pennsylvania was close and a lot of people will go to Pennsylvania for firearms because … gun laws are more lax,” Sacks said. They searched gun records in the state but found nothing. A top priority for New Jersey investigators was determining if Melanie McGuire had ever owned a gun. The investigation into who killed Bill McGuire began in Virginia but eventually moved to New Jersey. She said her husband left and that she never saw him again. He said he was leaving and he wasn’t coming back and I could tell my children they didn’t have a father.” I just wanted to get away from him at that point. I grabbed the baby and went to the bathroom right behind me and shut the door. “I looked down and there’s my 2-year-old. “He probably would have broken my cheek if had been a closed fist,” Melanie McGuire said. In the early morning hours of April 29, 2004, the day her husband disappeared, Melanie McGuire said that they had a violent fight and claimed that he choked her with a dryer sheet and hit her before leaving the house. She said her marriage to Bill McGuire was not going well and claimed that he was violent. Melanie McGuire admitted to having an affair with Miller. Bradley Miller, a partner at the medical practice RMA Associates, where she worked as a nurse. Prosecutors believed that Melanie McGuire’s motive to kill her husband came from her desire to start a new life with her lover, Dr.

DATEL TRASH TALKER TRIAL

Her 2007 trial became a nationally televised event. Melanie McGuire’s story made national headlines in the mid-2000s, when she was charged with first-degree murder and dubbed the “Suitcase Killer” by some in the media. Like, how could somebody think that I did that?” Melanie McGuire told ABC News’ Amy Robach in a rare interview from prison for '20/20.” “After all these years, I still feel hurt. The podcast, hosted by Fairleigh Dickinson University criminology professors Meghan Sacks and Amy Schlosberg questions Melanie McGuire's guilt and suggests that there is evidence in the case that never received the legal scrutiny it deserved. For the first time in years, she says she has hope that an explosive new podcast, 'Direct Appeal,' could help exonerate her.

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