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48 Hours

48Hours Interview: The Bugs Bunny Defense

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:09.5

I'm Candace DeLong, and on my new podcast, Killer Psychie Daily, I share a quick 10-minute

0:14.8

rundown every weekday on the motivations and behaviors of the cold-butter killers you

0:20.1

read about in the news.

0:21.8

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0:28.4

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0:29.4

I'm Richard Slesinger.

0:36.7

In this week's 48 hours interview podcast, a case unlike anything I've ever covered before.

0:44.2

Prosecutors and police believe Linda Duffy murdered her husband Patrick in cold blood after

0:50.8

he was found shot to death in their LA area living room.

0:55.4

The mother of two admits to the shooting, but she claims it was a horrible accident.

1:01.2

And here's the amazing part.

1:03.8

She explains what she did in part by using a cartoon, a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

1:13.4

It's a case where death may imitate art, truth may be stranger than fiction, and where

1:19.0

one veteran homicide investigator concluded, Linda Duffy's story was so bizarre, it might

1:26.3

just be true.

1:30.3

Veteran LA homicide detective Sean McCarthy interviewed Linda Duffy on April 26, 2007,

1:37.8

just hours after her husband's death.

1:40.4

He told me he knew right away this case would not involve the usual cast of characters.

1:48.4

Well what story did she tell you that first time?

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