Alleged eye drop murder. A divorce attorney on trial. Plus, criminal investigations at sea.
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Alleged eye drop murder. A divorce attorney on trial. Plus, criminal investigations at sea.

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 17, 202634 min

In North Carolina, Joshua Hunsucker is accused of killing his wife, Stacy, by poisoning her with eye drops in 2019. He now faces new charges including witness intimidation. In Ohio, divorce attorney Gregory Moore heads to trial for allegedly murdering his client Aliza Sherman in 2013. Prosecutors say Moore fatally stabbed her because he was not prepared to take her case to trial. In Dateline Round Up, controversy continues in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who says she killed her three children while suffering from postpartum psychosis. Singer D4vd, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, faces...

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Hi, I'm Kate Snow, NBC News anchor and host of the NBC News podcast The Drink. This month I'm sitting down with actor-writer-producer Brendan Hunt. Most of you know him as Coach Beard from Ted Lasso, but there is so much more to his story. We sit down, we talk about all of it from his bumpy upbringing to his years in improv

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