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Welcome the Monday's Morbid Minute.

This is your quick rundown of the week's most fascinating stories involving death, disease,

medicine, and injury, making headlines and rippling through the pop culture.

We'll tease the cases here, then do a deep dive

into the pathology, forensics, and medical mysteries later in our normal mother-nose-death

episodes, in articles over in the grocery room, and during our weekly YouTube live bonus

episode exclusively for grocery members. If it's dark, disturbing, medically

bizarre, or just too good not to dissect, you'll hear it first on Monday's morbid minute.

In true crime and court cases, a federal jury has ordered Texas TikTok creator Ashley Gillard

to pay $10 million to University of Idaho professor Rebecca Schofield after falsely accusing her online

of orchestrating the 2002 Idaho student murders.

Gillard posted more than 100 TikTok videos claiming, based on tarot readings, that Schofield was involved. Jurors deliberated less than two

hours before awarding the professor damages, including 7.5 million impunitive damages meant to punish and deter similar conduct.

Schofield testified the false accusations caused severe anxiety, PTSD symptoms, and professional

harm. Texas has enacted a law requiring convicted drunk drivers to pay child support if their actions kill

a child's parent or guardian. The payments continue until the child turns 18 or graduates high

school and they are intended to offset the long-term financial impact on victims' families.

Robert Bobby Edwards, co-creator of the Squatty Potty brand, has been indicted on federal charges

alleging he received child sexual abuse material. Investigators say the case began with an undercover

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