Ep 86: New Years Eve 2014 - The Trials of Colleen McKernan

Court Junkie

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Government, True Crime, News

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🗓️ 29 September 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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29-year-old Rob McKernan and his wife, 26-year-old Colleen McKernan, spent New Years Eve together in 2014. But by the end of the night, Colleen would call 911, telling the dispatcher that she had just killed her husband. Prosecutors say she killed him in a fit of drunken anger, but her attorneys claim it was self-defense after being in an abusive relationship for years. This case doesn’t come down to what the jury thinks, but whether the justice system worked. This episode was researched and written by Kathleen McWilliams. Sponsors in this episode: - Stamps.com: Get a 4-week trial PLUS free postage and a digital scale without any long-term commitment. Go to Stamps.com, click on the Microphone at the top of the homepage and type in COURT. Please consider supporting Court Junkie with as little as $3 a month via Patreon.com/CourtJunkie to receive ad-free episodes. Help support Court Junkie with $6 a month and get access to bonus monthly episodes. Follow me on Twitter @CourtJunkiePod or Instagram at CourtJunkie. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	New Year's Eve 2014, 29-year-old Rob McCurnen and 26-year-old Colleen McCurnen were getting
0:09.2	ready to ring in the New Year for the first time as husband and wife in Maseline, Ohio.
0:15.2	Though they had both graduated from the same high school three years apart, Colleen and
0:19.5	Rob didn't actually meet each other until 2013.
0:23.9	A mutual friend, Kelly, had introduced them, and within six months, Rob and Colleen were
0:30.0	engaged, house hunting, and eventually married.
0:35.0	Colleen graduated from Perry High School in Maseline in 2006 and wasn't ready to go to
0:40.5	college because she wasn't sure what she wanted to pursue career-wise.
0:45.2	She enlisted in the U.S. Air Force where she served in the security forces, the military's
0:50.2	police, in Turkey and Afghanistan.
0:53.8	While she was deployed in Turkey, she got engaged to a fellow serviceman, but later broke
0:58.8	off the engagement when she was transferred to Afghanistan.
1:03.3	When she was discharged, Colleen moved to New York to start college, graduating in 2013
1:09.4	with a bachelor's degree in business management and leadership.
1:13.9	After graduation, Colleen moved back to Maseline to start working at a financial services company.
1:20.4	A few months later, she was introduced to Rob by her high school friend Kelly Bonafonte.
1:26.5	Rob was a 2003 graduate of Perry High School, and he had also served in the U.S. Air Force,
1:32.8	working in missile maintenance for three years.
1:35.9	When they met, Rob was working at his father's business, specializing in engineering and
1:40.6	manufacturing oil rig machinery.
1:44.2	Colleen said she and Rob became Facebook friends shortly after meeting at Colleen's
1:48.5	house.
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