A young girl goes missing from her small town in June 2000. A few months later, her body is discovered. After the case goes cold for several years, a new chief of police reopens the case and sets his sights on Leah Freeman's boyfriend at the time - Nick McGuffin. Listen now to hear about this unsolved murder and wrongful conviction case out of Coquille, Oregon.

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Sources:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-convicted-high-school-girlfriends-killing-freed-decades/story?id=69053797

https://katu.com/news/local/man-whose-conviction-was-overturned-in-girlfriends-killing-files-civil-rights-lawsuit

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/07/man-whose-conviction-in-leah-freeman-killing-was-overturned-files-federal-civil-rights-lawsuit.html

https://thecinemaholic.com/leah-freeman-murder-how-did-she-who-killed-her/

https://www.opb.org/news/article/nicholas-mcguffin-wrongly-convicted-federal-civil-rights-lawsuit/

https://people.com/crime/nicholas-mcguffin-oregon-man-prison-murder-conviction-later-overturned/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/02/nicholas-mcguffin-manslaughter-charge-leah-freeman-potentially-set-free/

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