"48 Hours Suspicion": The Case Against Mary Katherine Higdon
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
A young woman says she accidentally shot her boyfriend. Police say she confessed to murder – but there’s no audio to prove it. What will the jury decide? CBS News correspondent David Begnaud reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to the 48 hours podcast, |
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| 0:09.3 | It's August 1st, 2018. |
| 0:20.5 | I get a call from one of my investigators. |
| 0:22.7 | So we had a shooting victim on Sunday Book Drive and it didn't look good. |
| 0:26.1 | Paul County, no, one, where's your murder scene? |
| 0:30.3 | Yes, ma'am, I actually, my gun was papered and I'm so, so, so, I just like to sell my |
| 0:37.7 | bulletin in the night. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm so sorry. |
| 0:39.7 | We actually had the perpetrator admitting to shooting the victim on the 911 call before |
| 0:50.4 | we even robbed its scene and it's taken totals she didn't. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm Lieutenant Chris Wilson. |
| 1:10.1 | I was the first investigator to rob a scene. |
| 1:21.1 | I was the first to bring it to our friend. |
| 1:23.3 | Basically we had a young man down, not responsive and also a young woman who was frantic, |
| 1:30.7 | very emotional. |
| 1:31.7 | She was just pleading for help. |
| 1:32.7 | I can't help it. |
| 1:33.7 | I can't help it. |
| 1:34.7 | I can't help it. |
| 1:35.7 | I can't help it. |
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