01: Three suitcases, containing human remains, surfaced in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay in May 2004. Police identified the man in the suitcases as 39-year-old William McGuire, from Woodbridge New Jersey, and they quickly focused their attention on Bill’s wife, Melanie McGuire, who did not report him missing. Convicted three years later of murdering and dismembering her husband, Melanie McGuire has been in prison since then but did the state get it right? Is Melanie McGuire the femme fatale that the prosecution painted her to be or is she an entirely different person, prosecuted and convicted because she was the most obvious suspect in this crime? In episode 1, meet Melanie McGuire.
Credits: 

Hosted by: Meghan Sacks and Amy Shlosberg. 

Produced by James Varga. 

Written by Meghan Sacks. 

Recorded, mixed, and edited by Justin Kral at JC Studios. 

Music and underscore by Nick Bassett of Dessert Media. 

Legal Counsel provided by Barry Janay. 

Special thanks to Alan Tockerman. 

Producer-At-Large, Adam Curry


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