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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, authorities are searching for a toddler in Alabama who was reported missing after her mother told police she could not find the child in her bed.

Neighbors told reporters they had not seen the girl in weeks raising serious concern about the timeline of her disappearance.

Investigators are working to verify the mother's account and determine when the child was

last independently seen. A Texas judge has formally declared four men innocent in the infamous

1991 Austin Yogurt Shop murders, one of the state's most notorious cold cases. The crime involved

the rape and execution style shooting of four teenage girls before the shop was set on fire.

The men had long maintained their innocence. Their cases unraveled after courts determined that

the original prosecutions relied heavily on coerced confessions

and lacked supporting physical evidence. The major turning point came when advanced DNA testing

linked the murders to a different suspect who was a violent offender who died in 1999. The judge's

formal ruling clears the men after decades of suspicion and imprisonment,

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