Talk Radio 49

Clear and Convincing: State of Texas vs. Swearingen


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On December 8, 1996, Melissa Trotter disappeared from the campus of Montgomery College in Conroe, Texas. Several witnesses saw her Swearingen prior to her disappearance and a professor saw her leaving the campus with a man at 1:30 p.m. Melissa'a car was found in the parking lot early on the morning of December 9, 1998, indicating that she hadn't returned to campus. On January 2, 1999, her body was found in the forest of Sam Houston National Park. After Swearingen was charged with murder, he did little to help himself by having a cellmate copy a letter written in poorly worded Spanish that gave details of the crime. Join Michael Carnahan and Lisa O'Brien on Tuesday May 8, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. CST, for a discussion of the evidence against Swearingen, informationnot included in the media reports about the case and the strange twist taken in his case days before he was scheduled to be executed in 2017.
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