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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 01.07.25 | Therapist Drowns Infant Daughter, Part of Plan "To End It All"

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Child and family therapist plans to kill her daughter, husband, and herself, but backs out after drowning her baby. 'Googly-eye bandit' continues to strike in Oregon. 

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0:00.0

Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Mackenzie Rose Colgan wakes up with a plan to, quote, end everything. The 37-year-old Marilyn

0:08.8

mom allegedly intends to kill her husband, her two children, and herself. 11.40 a.m., she takes her three-month-old

0:16.1

daughter upstairs to the bathroom, puts the infant in a small tub inside the bathtub, and holds the baby's head

0:22.1

underwater until she stops breathing. After the drowning, Colgan climbs onto the ledge of a second-story

0:28.0

window. Nancy, Colgan, a licensed family and child therapist, tells police she considered jumping,

0:33.9

but stepped off the ledge and told her husband what she had done. The father tried to revive

0:38.4

their girl while Colgan dials 911, but she's pronounced dead at a local hospital. Reportedly,

0:44.3

officers were called to the home twice in recent months. A friend called for a welfare check,

0:49.3

and Colgan called, reporting her daughter wasn't breathing. On both occasions, when police arrived, Colgan told them everything was fine.

0:56.3

Somehow Colgan managed to live, but she's charged with murder one.

1:00.8

Bend, Oregon, someone's having a little too much fun, sticking googly eyes on the public art fixtures.

1:06.6

Dubbed the googly eye bandit, the prankster hits eight pieces of art in the roundabout art route,

1:11.4

including a family of deer and a six-foot sphere. While residents enjoy the humor,

1:17.1

officials have problems removing the adhesive without damaging the art. The cleanup costs $1,500,

1:24.7

with some sculptures needing repainting.

1:31.9

Officials emphasize they appreciate creativity but must protect art.

1:37.5

No word yet on the Google D.I. Bandit's secret identity.

1:38.6

Shhh.

1:40.6

More crime and justice news after this.

1:48.3

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online is John Limley.

1:53.3

Justice is closer this hour for one of Ohio's most shocking crimes.

1:58.4

Two more members of the Wagner family have been sentenced for the 2016 murders of eight members of the Rodin family in Pike County, a massacre stemming from

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