DEAD ON VACATION: Beloved public defender strangled at exclusive resort, body discarded in bushes.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Marie Kuhnla, a beloved New York public defender, goes on the vacation of a lifetime with friends and co-workers. After a day at the pool, Kuhnla goes back to her room to rest. She misses dinner, but her friends are not worried, thinking she probably just fell asleep. When she misses breakfast the next morning, Kuhnla is reported missing. Marie Kuhnla's body is found the next day. She had been strangled and left in the bushes along an access road on the exclusive resort where she was staying. Joining Nancy Grace today:Abe George - NYC Attorney, www.abegeorge.lawyer, Kuhnla Family Attorney in Wrongful Death Lawsuit Dr. Jorey Krawczyn [KRAW-ZIN] - Police Psychologist, Adjunct Faculty with Saint Leo University; Research Consultant with Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S. - Practical Recommendations to Help “Stop Officer Suicide” (July 2021) bw-institute.com Dr. Todd M. Barr, M.D. - Deputy Medical Examiner/Forensic Pathologist at Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office (Cleveland OH) Chris Byers - Former Police Chief Johns Creek Georgia, 25 years as Police Officer, now Private Investigator and Polygraph Examiner, www.chrisbyersinvestigationsandpolygraph.com Sarah Wallace - Reporter, News4 New York's I-Team

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together.
0:22.4	Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your
0:28.4	favorite podcast.
0:35.6	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:42.7	An American Mother
0:44.8	goes on a dream vacation to Turks and K-Cos at a club med and ends up dead.
0:52.4	As everyone takes off for summer holidays, this is certainly a cautionary tale,
0:58.0	a tale to which there have been no real answers.
1:09.3	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
1:16.8	It began as a week away in paradise for three hardworking Suffolk County legal aid attorneys.
1:22.4	It was just like a bad dream. It was like it wasn't real.
1:25.5	The pain still so fresh for Marie Kuhnis closest friends.
1:29.5	A year after the Long Island wife and mother disappeared at the popular club,
1:33.7	Betterx and Kekos Resort. A few days into the trip, Marie decided to take a break from the pool
1:39.6	and come here to her room to take a nap. She never showed up for dinner.
1:44.2	A dream vacation at Turks and Kekos turns to murder. How did that happen?
1:49.2	Another thing, when you think of club med, I think high end, exclusive, fancy,
1:58.1	gated community, gotta be right on the beach in Turks and Kekos as beautiful beaches.
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