In November 2001, beloved medical resident Andrew Bagby was found brutally murdered in a Pennsylvania park. The prime suspect, his former girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, immediately fled to St. John’s, Newfoundland, where she revealed she was pregnant with Andrew’s child. What followed was a complex, years-long international legal battle that pitted Andrew’s grieving parents against a foreign justice system in a remote, windswept province. The case ultimately centered on controversial bail decisions and the struggle to protect a child amidst a high-stakes extradition process, eventually sparking landmark legislative changes in Canadian law.

Today's snack: Walnut kiffles (Thanks Jody!)

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Sources:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5CPymqg4kI
• Bagby, David. (2007) Dance with the Devil: A Murder of Memoir and Loss. Diversion Books (ebook). 
• ​​www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/40-3/just/meeting-2/evidence
• https://archive.org/details/WBAL_20100724_010000_Dateline_NBC/start/7140/end/7200 Dateline 
• https://www.childandyouthadvocate.nl.ca/files/turner-v1.pdf
• https://dearzachary.com/PDF/turner-v1.pdf
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/496421855/?match=1&terms=Shirley%20Jane%20Turner
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/1223729029/?match=1&terms=%22Shirley%20Jane%20Turner%22
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=bR2o8-0bMlc&list=FLI1etmqmsqvUsDHcuE5cQ2Q&index=3 UPDATE
• https://dearzachary.com/press/PDFs/News/The%20Telegram%20-%20Scarred%20by%20Murder.pdf
• https://www.documentary.org/online-feature/meet-filmmakers-kurt-kuenne-dear-zachary-letter-son-about-his-father