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Welcome to Postmortem. I'm your host Anne Marie Green, and today we are discussing the case of 28-year-old Caitlin Lyon Montgomery, who was found unresponsive by her roommate in October of 2022.

When she later died of her injuries to her head and her neck at the hospital,

the case evolved into a homicide investigation,

and it sparked a social media fight for justice from her family.

So joining me today's 48 hours correspondent Aaron Mor Moriarty, to talk about this case.

Thank you, Erin. It's another tough one, Anne-Marie, because Caitlin's mother described her as glitter.

She was such a loss. So it's a tough case to discuss. Remember, everyone, if you haven't listened to the 48 hours episode yet, head on over to your

podcast feed for the full audio version of it. You're going to find it just below this podcast. Go listen

and then come on back. All right. So let's get into this case. In the early morning hours of October 7th, 2022,

Caitlin Montgomery was rushed to the hospital after her roommate, Jacob Piercy called 911.

Now, and this is a heartbreaking part of this, it was her four-year-old daughter who first alerted

Jacob that her mom would not wake up. But Caitlin's home wasn't initially treated as a crime scene,

and that's because first responders thought that Caitlin probably overdosed on drugs.

At the hospital, doctors discovered the bruises around her neck.

So my question to you is, how did first responders

miss this? How did they miss that there was a possible strangulation here? Amory, this was a new one for me,

because as it turns out, she had been so recently attacked that those bruises didn't come out and they didn't see anything. And because

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