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Suspect Convictions

10: A Letter From Misook

Suspect Convictions

Kast Media

Society & Culture, Government, News

4.2802 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Scott Reeder shares a letter he received from Misook Nowlin Wang, who is serving a 55-year prison sentence for killing her mother in-law. She addresses Barton McNeil’s assertions that she killed his 3-year-old daughter Christina.  Reeder and co-host Willis Kern are joined by social psychologist and true-crime buff Amanda Vicary, a professor at Illinois Wesleyan University to discuss the twists and turns in the McNeil case to date.

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0:00.0

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0:08.6

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0:19.2

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0:23.2

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0:27.0

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0:33.6

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0:38.5

And be sure to tell a friend Lost In is returning this month.

0:42.8

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

0:49.6

And when I hear them today, my blood runs cold.

0:55.0

911, once you're a first in I need ambulance. My daughter is dying, I think.

0:59.6

Rescue is made a three-year-old female child. Unconscious, not breathing.

1:05.0

Katrina, the truth, Tina! It's true.

1:19.5

He is wasting away a life in a jail for a murder he didn't commit and worse for his own daughter with whom he loved.

1:26.5

There is a whole bunch of evidence now that links Masuk to the crime scene.

1:34.1

There is absolutely no evidence of any forced injury, any breaking in, and according to the defendant, the only people in that house with permission were himself and Christina.

1:41.8

This is Suspect Convictions, a co-production of WGLT Radio and Reader reporting.

1:47.1

I'm Willis Kern, along with Scott Reeder.

1:48.8

We've been investigating the mysterious death of three-year-old Christina McNeil, who was found

1:53.2

not breathing by her father in their Bloomington, Illinois apartment on June 16, 1998.

1:58.8

Barton McNeil was convicted in connection with his daughter's death,

2:02.3

though he has alleged since the day after the incident it was his girlfriend, Ms. Suk

2:06.1

Nolan, who was responsible for Christina's death. Years later, Ms. Sook was convicted herself

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