Wealthy South Carolina family's double-murder mystery; Sarah Lawrence College sex cult case
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🗓️ 25 June 2021
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This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A mother and son from a prominent South Carolina family were shot and killed on their property while the son was awaiting trial in connection to a 2019 boat crash that left a 19-year-old woman dead. And an update to the Sarah Lawrence College sex cult case in New York, where a student's father allegedly preyed on her friends and may have prompted some victims to attempt suicide, according to a new criminal filing. Former prosecutor and current TV host Loni Coombs joins host Ana Garcia.
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| 0:00.0 | Award of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong language. |
| 0:06.4 | It, therefore, may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it disturbing. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily, the podcast covering high profile and under the radar |
| 0:20.5 | cases from across the country every week on your host, Anna Garcia. We're recording this on June 23, |
| 0:26.1 | 2021. Today, we are joined by former prosecutor and TV host Lonnie Coombs, a regular and a friend of |
| 0:33.7 | this program. Lonnie, welcome back. Thank you. It's so nice to be back. It feels like it's been a while. |
| 0:39.9 | It has. We're so excited that you're back. Everybody's so busy. I know you're working on a lot of |
| 0:44.3 | projects. I know we're going to talk about that at the end of the program, but Lonnie, I have an |
| 0:49.1 | update on a case that I know you care about. We're going to talk about our cases in a second, |
| 0:54.2 | but this is something that we covered two weeks ago and so many of you listeners and viewers |
| 1:00.5 | were like outraged by what happened and we actually have an amazing update, which we don't |
| 1:06.4 | usually get a little bit of justice, right? That is the elusive thing we're always trying to get. |
| 1:11.6 | So 13-year-old Charlie Funez is a girl who says that she was attacked in PE class from behind |
| 1:18.6 | and when she fell, she couldn't brace herself because the girl who allegedly pushed her and |
| 1:24.8 | tripped her is someone who's been bullying her for months. So Charlie lost her front teeth. |
| 1:30.6 | She had bruises and scrapes on her face and on her body. The other girl was given two days |
| 1:37.3 | suspension for her alleged crime and Charlie and her parents were outraged that nobody was doing |
| 1:44.5 | anything because she had to get an MRI and a CT scan and all of this stuff. It could have been |
| 1:49.0 | really serious. So we had them on the program Lonnie two weeks ago. We had Charlie and her mom |
| 1:54.8 | talking about what it took to get attention and their fight for justice that they were really |
| 1:59.4 | frustrated. All right, here is the update. The Grundy County State Attorney, who is the |
| 2:06.6 | prosecutor in this case in Illinois, has opened a criminal investigation in juvenile court. |
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