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The Great Sheedy Murder Trial 

Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

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William McFarland's Confession of Killing John Shidi

William McFarland says Mary Shidi offered him $20,000 to kill her husband. He struggled during his first two attempts and finally figured out that the only sure far way to do this was with the cane. But he says that's not what killed John Shidi because Mary poisoned his coffee that night with morphine. You have two defendants who should be standing trial for murder in this case.

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