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Suspect Convictions

01: 911- My daughter is dead, send a homicide detective

Suspect Convictions

Kast Media

Society & Culture, Government, News

4.2802 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Barton McNeil discovers his 3-year-old daughter's lifeless body in her bed the morning after breaking up with his girlfriend. McNeil insists that she was murdered by his former girlfriend after pointing to a cut screen in the bedroom window. Police agree a murder has been committed, but arrest him.   Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter.com/Suspect HelloFresh: HelloFresh.com, and promo code "suspect30"

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0:00.0

Your favorite podcast, Lost In, is back with all new episodes about people who disappear and go missing under the oddest of circumstances.

0:08.6

Our first story is about Ben Padilla, an American pilot, and a huge Boeing 727 airplane that disappeared from a runway in Africa just after 9-11.

0:19.2

Their disappearance sent governments around the world into a state of panic.

0:23.2

Was it terrorism, diamond smugglers, or was it something else?

0:27.0

We will also dig into the disappearance of three surfers in Mexico's ordinarily safe Baja region.

0:33.6

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0:38.5

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0:42.4

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0:45.6

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0:50.4

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0:53.3

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1:00.0

Nearly 20 years ago, the body of a three-year-old Bloomington Illinois girl was found in her father's apartment.

1:07.0

Christina McNeil's father Barton was ultimately convicted of murdering his daughter and has spent

1:11.7

19 years in prison. The day of his daughter's death, Barton McNeil detailed to detectives his theory

1:18.0

that his estranged girlfriend had murdered his daughter, breaking into his apartment to do so.

1:23.8

Any evidence pertaining to Bart McNeil's theory was not allowed at his trial, which was a bench trial.

1:29.9

More than a decade later, the ex-girlfriend was convicted for the 2011 murder of her mother-in-law.

1:35.8

Is Barton McNeil serving time for a crime he did not commit?

1:40.0

Investigative journalist Scott Reader is digging deep, reviewing court records and talking to those tied to the case, including Barton McNeil.

1:47.5

Untangling the web of Christina McNeil's murder.

1:50.8

I'm Willis Kern, your host for Season 2 of Suspect Convictions.

1:55.8

I cannot convey any better the traumatic words that you'd hear on this 911 tape.

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