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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 09.01.23

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Woman fakes her murder. Students suspect their teacher is drunk!

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0:00.0

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now, Margaret Sweeney calls a friend

0:04.7

and says someone's trying to kill her.

0:06.9

The call drops.

0:07.9

Sweeney's friend calls North Carolina police, reporting Sweeney is in trouble or may already

0:12.6

be dead.

0:13.6

Police launch a search for Sweeney and find her the next day alive and well and in no

0:18.2

danger.

0:19.2

Sweeney made the whole thing up, even going so far as to report her murder to social

0:24.2

services.

0:25.2

Nancy, the reasons behind Sweeney's farce are still unclear.

0:28.4

Sweeney made several odd comments on Facebook posts from the Franklin police department

0:32.3

providing an update on her case.

0:34.5

Sweeney wrote, social media has us believing we're entitled to know about people or situations

0:39.4

that have nothing to do with us.

0:41.2

In place of support, we ridicule those that do not answer questions that make them uncomfortable.

0:46.0

I decide when, what, and with whom I can fight in, no one for a long time.

0:50.6

Sweeney, 37 now charged with false report and obstruction.

0:54.8

On their first day back to school, Oklahoma third grade students noticed the teacher,

0:58.1

Kimberly Coates, has red eyes, slurred speech, and can't seem to finish sentences so they

1:02.8

ask another teacher for help.

1:05.0

She gets the school's resource officer who performs a breath test.

1:09.0

The Coates fails with a whopping three times the legal limit for alcohol.

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