Episode Summary
When a young mom is killed by her boyfriend’s service weapon local law enforcement treats her death as a terrible tragedy and rules it a suicide. But her family believes the truth is much more sinister.
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Episode Info
Michelle O'Connell
Michelle O'Connell
Michelle O'Connell
Jeremy Banks
Jeremy Banks & Michelle O'Connell
Rusty Rodgers
Crime scene photo with the gun next to Michelle's hand
Dr. Bulic's demonstration with the gun upside down
Eli Washtock
Episode Source Material
- Behind The Blue Wall – It’s that simple? Anonymous deputy says his anonymous girlfriend killed herself and the anonymous investigators believe him.
- Two Gunshots On a Summer Night
- Jeremy Banks 911 Call from The New York Times
- PBS Frontline – A Death In St. Augustine
- Deputy Jeremy Banks 911 Call Analyzed
- Michelle O’Connell death investigation timeline
- Review of Michelle O’Connell’s Death Investigation
- Rusty Rodgers Internal Investigation Report – FL Department of Law Enforcement
- After 3-year-investigation, FDLE agent back on job
- Murder or Suicide? The Exhumation of Michelle O’Connell
- PBS Frontline – Lawsuit Dismissed Against Florida Agent in Michelle O’Connell Investigation
- Jeremy Banks on Death of Michelle O’Connell
- A family’s battle against a sheriff to try to prove relative was killed
- Self-styled investigator in Michelle O’Connell case found shot dead
- FDLE sits out death investigation linked to O’Connell case
- Michelle O’Connell: 7 things to know about suspicious death of person looking into case
- Michelle O’Connell’s mom: World Golf Village father killed days after ‘bombshell’ records request
- O’Connell case researcher found dead in January was killed, ME says
- Investigating One Fatal Shooting, a Florida Sleuth Dies in Another
- A Florida woman is found dead, authorities ruled it a suicide, but her family believes she was killed
- Killing of Michelle O’Connell case researcher shrouded in mystery nearly a year later
- New Witness Emerges in Florida Woman’s 2010 Death
- Amateur Sleuth Investigates Shooting of Young Mom—and Winds Up Dead
- Probe finds no homicide likely in Florida mom’s 2010 fatal shooting