Donnah Winger /// Part 2 /// 560 | Forensic Files

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[Music] yesterday Captain we reviewed a horrific murder a double homicide two people
killed by two different people and what seemed to be an open and shut case but turns out not everyone was satisfied
with the resolution of Donna's case some were skeptical of Mark's story and this because they knew Donna and
saying that some stuff just didn't add up the main skeptic was Donna's father cash Brown
cash said from the start he didn't feel things were right for example he said he
observed on a walk with Mark after the funeral that Mark wasn't crying when they discussed what happened to Donna
another thing that was odd was that Donna was usually very cautious she would not have left the front door
unlocked he says and she certainly never would have let Roger Harrington who she
was afraid of into her home but still Maybe it was simple maybe she was distracted
we know she's a new mother maybe she's exhausted and had forgotten to lock the door maybe Mark forgot to lock the door
maybe it was just bad luck or like you said law enforcement thought maybe Harrington tried to force himself into
the home my issue with that problem is why wouldn't she start screaming at that point because she knew her husband was
in the house and as you so astutely pointed out yesterday the coffee cup and the cigarettes that belonged to Roger
Harrington are found inside the Winger's home yeah so it's what could you hold my
coffee cup while I pushed my way into your home well let me grab your Hammer while I'm at it so her father cash he
shares his feelings with Donna's sister and her friend these two decided hey we're gonna do a little test so one of
them went to the basement got on the treadmill at Donna's house and the other one fell loudly onto the floor in the
dining room upstairs the woman on the the treadmill says she could not hear anything over the sound of the treadmill
so either Mark has really good hearing you know he's got like dog hearing or maybe the thud was extra loud that Mark
heard and Donna's mom and stepdad we we need to point out Mark has plenty of support
some of this coming from Donna's mother and her stepfather who not only supported him as far as
they were concerned and publicly said so Mark was almost as much of a victim as Donna was but there was also someone
else who was a little suspicious of Mark Winger this is detective Doug Williamson
he didn't believe a word coming out of Mark's mouth he felt that there was some elements of
Roger Harrington's behavior that didn't quite mesh with the story being told by Mark now for one thing he had parked his
car right in front of the Winger home on the wrong side of the street facing oncoming traffic not exactly stealth
mode the beat up sedan stuck out like a sore thumb in the residential neighborhood right also a crowbar and a
knife were found in his car and we pointed out yesterday well he didn't exactly bring the murder weapon
to the home with him but he had some things that could be considered weapons in his vehicle well In fairness who's
carrying his car a cup of coffee and a pack of cigarettes a man's only got so many arms then there was the meeting
with Mark Winger that we kind of left off with in yesterday's episode this is what Roger Harrington's
roommates had mentioned that they were under the impression or Roger told them that Mark called and
asked him to come to the home right not that he was showing up there unannounced or unknown to the Wingers
the roommates were pretty convinced that Roger was convinced or at least told them a story that convinced them that he
was asked by Mark Winger to be at the home well we have Harrington's car as evidence like you said there's a knife
there's a crowbar but there's also a note with the Winger's address and a Time yeah if I was going to commit a murder
maybe you have the address but you wouldn't have you want to mark down the time to me the time determines that he
was supposed to have a meeting with them right in the front seat on the front seat of Roger Harrington's vehicle
written on a piece of paper in pen we had the Winger's name and address in the time 430 but also listening to that
9-1-1 call we've done so many cases where there's 9-1-1 calls where the person is so
frantic to me that's almost playing up yes it's a dramatic situation but this call sounds so frantic
and I never like it when the person disconnects the call even though Mark Winger is going to call back to 9-1-1
but he basically I have to get my kid you know well you don't need to hang up you can you can stay on the line I'm
going to put the phone down real quick I got to grab my kid Detective Williams said that Mark never told them about any
kind of meeting with Roger Harrington remember he was told that Roger Harrington was called that morning and
warned to stay away from the house and stay away from the Winger family so something's not right here Captain
something doesn't seem to be all together yeah again that 4 30 time on the Note doesn't go with Mark Winger's story so
initially detective Cox was not skeptical and it was in agreement with labeling it
as a Justified homicide and closing the case Roger Harrington's Sister Barbara Howell
later said that when she tried to talk to detective Cox to tell him her brother was not capable of murder and that
something didn't add up she said that the detective was dismissive eventually detective Cox he would come
around and this is because his partner Williamson wasn't having any of it in fact he petitioned his superiors to let
him and detective Cox continue to investigate and initially was told flat out no well again and and the
detective's defense you also have a few things already that are showing you some
red flags and that maybe there needs to be a further investigation and like you stated yesterday the investigation was
only three days long well and some of this stuff almost seems like Mark is calling the investigation
into question himself because later what we have is at some point mark asked the
detectives if he can have his gun back and even though the case was closed and the files were put away the
investigators are working other cases Mark he shows up at the police department and he's asking about the
progress of the investigation which is a little bizarre right he wanted to know how the case was going
and at the time the case was closed they had already publicly closed the case so
detective Cox is saying as far as I was concerned he would have just accepted it that the
case was closed so this seems to be like a major mistake on Mark's behalf here we have a closed case but he's asking
how the investigation is going oh yes how bizarre how bizarre yeah that's Stranger Than a dress on a donkey four
months after Donna's death Mark filed a lawsuit against Bart Transportation the company that employed Roger Harrington
he alleged that Bart was negligent in the hiring process in the hiring of the driver that the company should have
known he was dangerous and unfit for the job Mark was seeking damages from the company for the wrongful death of his
wife right the result of this lawsuit was effectively what would reopen the case yeah because
what happens here is you're suing that company but if that company has an insurance company then the insurance
company is going to do a thorough investigation because they don't want to pay out the money Mark was hoping that
the police evidence of Harrington's guilt would help his case for the damages that he
was seeking and that's not what happened at all so we have the transportation company they hire attorneys and they
start to prepare to defend this lawsuit and as a matter of course requested and received the police documents in the
case the incident report the crime scene analysis reports the interviews all of it and they began to notice that this
case was not as open and shut as everyone had assumed Bart's lawyers dug in and started
sifting through all of the information asking questions the detectives worked with them eager to
have the opportunity to revisit this case but because by this point Williamson was skeptical he's now got
Cox to turn and be skeptical as well these detectives are going yeah we don't think that this was right that we got
this right in the beginning they're happy that someone else is agreeing that Mark might be Shady so
Roger Harrington's family they got themselves a lawyer as well oh yeah and like we were talking about before
Harrington yes has some mental issues and might have some outbursts of uh violence but
that's a big difference between trying to go somewhere and grabbing a hammer and bludging somebody to death in
February of 1999 so remember she was killed in 95. a woman named Deanne Schultz was deposed by the BART Transportation
attorneys in the civil case she was someone that was previously interviewed by police this is because
she was Donna's best friend there is even video footage available of her holding baby Bailey and sitting next to
Donna on a couch she was one of the people who told investigators about Mark and Donna's marriage and it being a
great marriage but this time under oath in the deposition four years later she's
telling a very different story about Mark and Donna's relationship Deanne said that in 1995 her and Mark were
having an affair and he had talked to her about killing his wife Deanne told the detectives that Mark
said things to her like we could be together if Donna just died and saying theoretically it would be great if he
were to go out of town and maybe Deanne found Donna's body on the night before I'm sorry on the day
before the murder Mark said he was working to get the van driver in his house so even referring to Roger Harrington by
name then on the day of the shooting and Donna's murder Mark asked her will you love me no matter what my
answer is no all of this of course is super suspicious obviously yeah but not exactly evidence of a Murder
Mark said to her I think they believe me I did it for us she didn't want to ask what he meant like he's dropping all
these hints to her she doesn't want to ask him what he meant he warned her to tell no one of their
Affair or that their gooses would be cooked that they both would be in trouble well look on top of that you
have a man now you're suspicious of him murdering his wife and murdering this innocent bystander
and using him as a pawn you have to be fearful of your safety that he what what's going to stop him
from doing it to you exactly and she says you know I didn't know exactly what all of this meant at the time part of me
wanted to think that he was just talking crazy but what the police do they end up
finding a paper trail to back up Deanne Schultz story to confirm the affair well
yeah because so it goes a little bit deeper I mean she for the last few years was having a
lot of mental issues and having severe depression because this is a lot to hold in
and on top of that you had a relationship with this man he's saying to you hey well if my wife is dead then
we'll be together well now he doesn't want to be with you and she ended up telling the doctor all
this stuff beforehand so to and once she started telling people the truth it really started kind of setting her
free from the depression and all that stuff the police they tracked down phone records and hotel records again this is
four years later after after the death they tracked down phone records and hotel records this backing up her side
of the story her version of the story and what they found was that the affair apparently began about a month before
Donna's death and continued for several months after until Mark Winger broke it off broke off the relationship well
right because when she comes forward and starts talking with the police the police run this by Mark Winger and he's
going ah she's you know she's not telling you the truth I don't think he denied that they had a
relationship but I think he was denying many parts of it so what the police do now that they have their Inn they decide
let's bring in a seasoned famous crime scene analyst this person's name is Thomas bevel to
retroactively investigate the crime scene and the evidence and later he concludes that Donna's
death was most likely a staged domestic homicide in which Mark Winger Lord Roger
Harrington to the home to kill him and frame him for Donna's murder so let's go through how bevel came to
this conclusion and the evidence that backs up this conclusion he says that none of Donna's blood was found on Roger
Harrington if he had really been beating her to death on the head with seven lethal blows
from a hammer there would have been blood spatter all over Roger Harrington yeah instead there was
a long blood spatter cast off stain on Mark Winger's sleeve the initial gunshot to Roger's head was
inconsistent with Mark's story about the shooting him in the face there was no blood trail from Roger Harrington's head
wound to where Donna lay which there would have been if Roger Harrington had really been beating Donna
when Mark shot him blood spatter showed that Donna was attacked in a location in
the home different than where Mark described her being attacked by Harrington this was the um
the hallway she was running toward the door and the Clincher was the positions of
Roger and Donna's bodies this completely undercut the story that Mark told the detectives at the time the three
Polaroids remember they were taken by an officer at the scene they were looked at and showed the
bodies in place at the crime scene this before EMTs removed them to take them to
the hospital to try to save their lives these Polaroids showed that the body placement did not line up again with
Mark's tail Roger Harrington's head and feet were lying opposite to what Mark said happened if Market shot him as he
stood up from Donna he would have fallen backwards off of Donna which is what marks it happen well the
other problem too is there was two separate pulls of blood coming from Harrington's head
which would make sense with the eyewitness saying that there was a shot and then a five minute Gap in another
shot yeah I'm I'm getting to that there Captain but the point here of the body positions was that Roger was found lying
facing oh sorry Roger was found lying face up 180 degrees in the other direction with his feet facing the same
way as Donna's so he would have had to have flipped in the air to end up like that if Mark was telling the truth and
you're exactly right there was those two distinct blood poles that showed that Roger had been turned over before he was
shot a second time something never mentioned by Mark yeah the biggest piece of evidence and you haven't got to it
yet so I don't want to step on your toes but he yes you were talking about Mark having blood spatter on his arm okay but
you could also maybe argue that away a little bit because at some point he's holding his wife as she's dying you
would expect to see blood smears from someone holding a a bloody person you would not see Blood cast off spatter
cast off right but I'm saying one maybe a a a good defense attorney might be able to argue that on some level
or say well maybe Mark was a little bit closer to her during closer to his wife than he thought he was during the attack
but my biggest issue my biggest red flag is you're holding your wife you would lay her down gently
but look at those crime scene photos she was laying face down who would do that oh I'm holding you oh uh now the the
paramedics are here let me just dump you down on your face well with all of this
information and the new information coming from the the new crime scene expert retroactively reinvestigating the case
now we have the detectives who are going to continue to work the case in conjunction with the state attorney's
office and by this point the BART attorneys the transportation company their attorneys were also working with
police and so we got everybody kind of now working against this one time considered
hero yeah we call that a double whammy and everybody's now saying look this guy we believe murdered his own wife and
then tried to set this Roger Harrington guy up and killed him in the process to cover everything up So eventually
we have uh we already have Roger Harrington's family who was involved in in trying to
clear his name but Mark is going to drop the lawsuit against Bart but it's too late at this point the
damage is done he's already kind of opened everyone's eyes as to what probably happened here well yeah and in
law enforcement we'll tell you this is a misstep he was he was getting greedy with
trying to get money for his wife's death and that again you can drop the lawsuit
but if I was the head of that Transportation Company okay you dropped the lawsuit I'm going
to have my team that I've already paid a bunch of money to finish their investigation
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even save yourself that's right well Captain all of this leads up to eventually the grand jury is going to indict Mark
Winger on charges of first-degree murder but this doesn't take place until August
of 2001 and remember Donna was killed in 95 Roger Harrington killed in 95 and so
a lot of time has passed and in that time Mark gets remarried he goes on to have three more children he's married to
his child's Nanny and he's living a normal life other than this case being reopened and
reinvestigated and you know he's seemingly this this good family man I just don't understand how
these [ __ ] bags get so many women I mean this guy looks like a penis wearing glasses needless to say even though he's
charged we have Mark who decides to plea not guilty the bond was set at 10 million dollars
in his case at the trial the prosecution presented all of the evidence that tended to suggest Roger Harrington's
innocence and Mark's guilt they showed the Polaroids and the note in the car crime scene experts testified about the
positioning of the bodies detectives testified about the lack of forced entry Deanne
testified about the affair and the suggestive things Mark was saying to her and Roger Harrington's family testified
that he was not known to be violent they didn't believe him to uh be capable of murder now Mark's defense will point out
that the evidence was the same now as it was back then back when you said this was a justifiable homicide nothing's
changed and they tried to paint Roger Harrington as an unstable mental case whose Behavior like parking outside and
stalking Donna was erratic and unpredictable so you can't really make logical assumptions based off of his
movements or his actions I mean this is a very difficult case for law enforcement because at the time of the
9-1-1 call you have Mark Winger saying I shot and killed a man so he's not denying that he
didn't kill that person so to me the the Crux of all this is to prove that Mark actually killed his wife
well and you have the defense who's going to of course try to undermine deanne's testimony which I think is some
of the the biggest and worst testimony against Mark in this game yeah not so much for
the affair but the comments that he was making like you said uh if my wife was dead we could be together
or if I could just get this van driver into the house yeah I think when you see it and you have this woman testifying to
both the affair and these actions it gets really difficult to explain that that away or look past any of that yeah
it's almost an indirect confession but the the defense of course is going to say hey This Woman's unstable we can't
believe what she's saying but what we will find out of course the jury did in fact believe her especially when you
compound that with all of the other evidence in this case the crime scene evidence well yeah again you you have
this person that's basically telling you he indirectly confessed the forensic evidence doesn't lie
so that is just confirming her story really doesn't lie but it seemed to have been ignored the first time the it only
took the jury 13 hours of deliberation to find Mark Winger guilty on both counts of murder
on August 1st 2002 Mark Winger was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for the murder of Donna and Roger
Harrington right his appeal was rejected he has never acknowledged his guilt or showed any sign of remorse in fact five
months into his sentence he gave an interview with 48 hours in which he maintained his innocence but if you tell
yourself a lie over and over then maybe you start believing it yeah he did admit
to the affair but uh did not admit to the the murder he says that he was a good husband to Donna he made a mistake
he's human it was a stupid thing and it was wrong as for Roger Harrington the picture the police had initially gotten
of him turned out to have been somewhat exaggerated his former wife once accused
him of domestic battery it appears that um his friends and family said that he was a sweet and kind
individual he was helpful he was someone who rounded up baby clothes for for a friend
who didn't have much money he was in fact diagnosed as depressed and delusional and sometimes suicidal and he
did spend time in a psychiatric ward it appears to be maybe even twice treated at a local mental health
facility but none of these doctors ever deemed him to be a threat to anyone else but
himself right in any case if anyone had any doubts that remained about Mark's guilt even after his conviction well
that's going to be completely eradicated in uh 2005 he tried to hire a fellow Pontiac Correctional Center
prisoner to carry out some murders for him yeah again huh how bizarre how bizarre and
they know this because the prisoner went and approached investigators and had plenty of information to back it up so
the general story here Captain is that Mark tried to hire this guy this is 44 year old convicted murderer Terry Hubble
to hire a hitman to kill some people for him so it's you know the middleman we need
to get a middleman let's get let's get one bad dude here to find some other bad dude to who did he want dead oh he
wanted a bunch of people dead so Mark was willing to hire through Terry Hubble Hitman to take out Mark's childhood
friend this is Jeffrey Gelman Jeffrey was a wealthy successful real estate developer from Florida Mark was upset
with him because Mark asked him to pay his one million dollar bail to which Jeffrey gellman refused although the
problem with pain is bail is this guy is a Flight Risk if he's willing to try to
murder two individuals and then try to Stage IT where he is the hero you can't this guy can't be trusted yeah
you're not putting up a million dollars of your own money to get some guy out that likely killed two people I mean
Mark is a real [ __ ] bag so what what Mark wanted done was he he wanted a Hitman to
kidnap his childhood friend this Jeffrey Gilman who was very wealthy and he wanted him to to hold
Jeffrey for ransom what they were going to do is have the kidnapper threaten to harm Jeffrey's family unless Jeffrey
paid up the money and then after Jeffrey pays up the money he wanted the Hitman to kill Jeffrey and his family anyway
the other thing he was willing to pay for was that he wanted his the the number one witness against him Deanne
Schultz the woman that he had the affair with he wanted her to be killed as well but
he wanted her to you know you you find her and you force her to write a letter saying that she lied right you force her
to record make a recording of a statement of her saying that she lied that Mark Winger
had nothing to do with Donna's death and that she had made the whole thing up and
then make it look like a suicide so Mark is not only trying to hire someone to kill a bunch of people he's also trying
to make it so that he will get a new trial and possibly get out of prison that if Deanna Schultz story changes
maybe everybody looks at this evidence a little bit different yeah maybe so maybe
if you get an appeal that you could argue well she recanted her story so she's recanting the indirect confession
but what I said before what backs up that indirect confession is the forensic evidence Mark also wanted the Hitman to
take care of his ex-father-in-law as well and apparently this was just because he did not like him so what we
have here as evidence from Terry Hubble to back up this statement is that Mark wrote out 19 pages of
instructions right it's written out for hire a a murder For Hire document there's a great article that you you can
look up I'm not going to go into the the whole thing here but there's a great article if you want to look further uh
by Chris ditro from June 2007 from the Benton news but basically Captain what this is is it's 19 Pages detailing how
he wanted everything to play out it's a very long version like this kind of reminds me of of a movie moment here and
red dragon you have the the communication between Hannibal the cannibal Lecter and the
Tooth Fairy Francis Dollarhide where the police where the FBI discover communication between the two
and we have Lecter telling Francis Dollarhide Graham home Marathon Florida save yourself Kill Them All I mean this
is 19 pages of this guy saying I want this person this person this person and their family
killed and I'm willing to pay you for it I guess a big chunk of that money would
be from The Ransom that they would collect from taking this Jeffrey Gelman hostage in threatening his family and
then killing him anyway yeah and all I have to say about Mark is hey Mark use a piece of [ __ ] a gigantic flaming
pile of [ __ ] real quick here Captain this uh convicted killer Terry Hubble he's so he's kind of an interesting
story himself because he was already in prison some for some other charges when in 1991 he was indicted by a grand jury
for the murder of a 14 year old this is Angel Greenwood she died from head injuries all the way back in July of
1983 they were able to indict him and charge and convict him all of those years later so now you have here a guy
that's murdered a child another guy who's been convicted of murdering Roger Harrington and murdering his own wife
Donna Winger you got both of them telling two very different stories to investigators one
killer telling on the other Killer Hey this guy's trying to hire me to find somebody to kill all these other people
for him and here's some paperwork to back it up what you have here though is you have Mark Winger the the flip side
of that the reverse of that is Mark Winger saying look I'm locked up I'm locked up for the rest of my life I
these are just simply fantasies that I wrote down these are fantasies that I was writing that I was you know
journaling and this guy got a hold of them somehow and now he's trying to benefit from it
so this thing goes to court and there is a battle and we said how quickly the jury deliberated in his his murder trial
against Roger Harrington and his wife Donna Winger it was even shorter deliberation for this trial I think they
were only they only took a break to discuss this for about three hours and I think in the
course of that they had lunch as well and so they end up finding Mark guilty of trying to hire someone to kill all of
these people and when you think about it well you said what 19 Pages yeah that's
a that's a lot of evidence to try to argue away his defense will argue that Terry Hubble did in fact benefit
from throwing mark under the bus which he did I mean he got sent off to a different
prison which was a much more relaxed environment the state even paid him three thousand dollars three thousand
and some odd dollars uh for his assistance in this conviction but to me it just I mean I was really
Blown Away by just how evil and cold this Mark Winger is I mean to to think about think about the
situation he basically gets handed he basically gets handed on a silver platter a situation that he was
looking for he was looking for a way to take out his wife and then all of a sudden Roger
Harrington comes along and they have this crazy drive back to her home these phone calls start coming into the home
and this guy's getting all happy he's getting excited he's like not only did this fall right into my lap yeah but I
have there's documentation in my wife Donna has gone out of her way and spoke to her family and her friends about her
being afraid of this guy and this guy calling our house and he's harassing us if I can just get him back to the house
I can Hammer my wife to death and then turn the gun on this guy and put him over by the body and boom open and shut
case my wife is dead this guy killed her and I'm the hero everybody feels sad for
me that I mean that is completely diabolical and then you have just a handful of years later
he's looking to hire somebody to take out a whole family of people from some guy that just he grew up with that he
knew that's not willing to put up Fork over a million dollars to let him out of jail while he waits for his trial and he
wants to kill his father-in-law step his wife's stepfather just because he doesn't like him and then kill the woman
that he once had an affair with I mean that's a long list of people ironically and I say it ironically
because he's not this monster looking dude that is out praying for victims he does look like a
penis with glasses though out trolling the streets looking for victims but he is every bit as evil as some of those
guys that we've talked about BTK Ted Bundy this guy is is one of the most evil individuals that we have discussed
on the show and I don't know if it's a huge red flag because again it's a 9-1-1 call so if you take it at face value he
is calling about this horrific scene that's playing out in front of him but when he says
there's a bullet in him and Harrington and then they find two as much as investigators got this right
in the end and forensic science got this right in the end it's a shame that they
didn't wave those red flags sooner and that they didn't dive deeper into the evidence to collect
that and because look they could have said look there's a bunch of red flags here but we still kind of
you know if we have to lean one way we still think that he's possibly innocent and then
when another piece of evidence comes out and you dive back into the case or you have to reopen that case
you could see all the red flags staring right at you but it's a it's almost like
they were just too quick to solve the case and move on well I I can agree with some of that I don't know
if it was too quick I think maybe some of it it looked like what they were being told and what they thought they
were seeing one thing that we haven't touched on yet and it's a little interesting tidbit here in regard to the
neighbor the ear witness who says I heard a gunshot and then it was minutes and minutes later until I heard a second
gunshot and you're exactly right Captain we have Mark Winger on the phone to 9-1-1 and says a bullet in his head
and then they show up and this guy's shot twice well what investigators believe went down is that we know both
the victims Deborah Winger and Roger Harrington were still barely clinging to life when EMTs arrive on the scene
but what they believe happen now is that when Mark says to the 9-1-1 operator I've got to go my baby screaming my
baby's crying is that he actually heard Roger Harrington who was was again we know he was still alive but he
was a little too alive right at that point that he hears Roger Harrington either trying to get up or making noise
and he knows I've already alerted the police and EMT to get here pronto I need to make sure that he's dead that
everybody's dead before they show up because these two are going to have a much different story to tell when police
are here right and you can actually hear on the 9-1-1 call you can hear Harrington moaning so they believed that
he got off the phone and didn't go 10 to the baby right away or go over to his wife right away that he went over and
that's when the second shot was fired into Roger Harrington here's one weird thing here too Captain
uh to kind of close this out a bit the the judge ends up giving Mark Winger an additional 35 years on
top of his already life sentence that for the murder For Hire plot right because he he got a life sentence with
no possibility of parole correct correct and then what we have is the you know this guy he won't go away this wasn't
the last time that we would hear from Mark because in 2009 he ended up suing the prison that he was housed in and he
was suing some of the administration there alleging that they were not allowing him to exercise
outside of his cell saying that this was cruel and unusual punishment this is a guy that's murdered two people and was
happy and hoping to murder a bunch more uh he had been restricted to his cell for a year after this murder For Hire
plot and he said that being confined in a small space was not enough room for any
type of physical activity which was giving him panic attacks and anxiety so you know I don't think anybody's feeling
bad for Mark Winger eventually though we'll all be happy to know that that case was very quickly dismissed
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August 1995, the quiet, safe, suburban town of Springfield, Illinois was rocked by a shocking and horrific double homicide. An Intruder attacked a woman in her home. The woman’s husband discovers the attack in progress. Minutes later two people were dead. Join us in the Garage for another fascinating case with plenty of bumps along the way. Oh yeah, and a couple of cold ones too.

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Brief Summary

Mark Winger was convicted of murdering his wife and staging the crime scene to frame another man.

Key points

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Skepticism Surrounds Mark Winger. Detective Doug Williamson doubts Mark's story, raising questions about the case.
Reinvestigation of the Case. New evidence suggests Donna's murder may have been staged by Mark Winger.
Mark's Suspicious Behavior. Mark's actions after the murder raise red flags for investigators.
Mark Winger's Plea. Mark Winger pleads not guilty despite overwhelming evidence against him.
Trial Evidence Presented. The prosecution presents compelling evidence suggesting Mark's guilt and Roger's innocence.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

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Tension

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