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The Case of Annette Cahill
📻 Episode #494
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Nov 18, 2024
About This Episode
On the evening of October 13, 1992, in the small town of West Liberty, Iowa, Corey Wieneke’s body was found in his bedroom by his fiancee. Annette Cahill, formerly Annette Hazen, was having an affair with him at the time and fully cooperated with the police investigation. But the case went cold for decades until…
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The Case
On the evening of October 13, 1992, in the small town of West Liberty, Iowa, Corey Wieneke’s body was found in his bedroom by his fiancee. Annette Cahill, formerly Annette Hazen, was having an affair with him at the time and fully cooperated with the police investigation. But the case went cold for decades until 2017, when investigators got a tip from a woman saying that when she was nine years old, she’d overheard Annette confess to killing Corey while at a sleepover. Based mostly on this testimony, Annette was convicted of murder in 2019 and sentenced to 50 years in prison.
If you’re interested in contacting public officials about Annette’s case, you can reach out to the Muscatine County prosecutor’s office: https://www.muscatinecountyiowa.gov/Directory.aspx?did=6
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00:05:16“Speaker 1: there's not much to do to help you stay out Speaker 2: We drank very early. We found, you know, found people Speaker 2: that would buy us beer, being young girls, and we Speaker 2: drank early, and we smoked. And I think the very Speaker 2: first time I got drunk, I seriously drunk. I was thirteen.”
00:20:32“Speaker 2: We absolutely agreed how to raise the kids. Speaker 1: Three kids, and Nett got her life straight, and Bill Speaker 1: took in Leanne and her brother as his own. They Speaker 1: even had another child. Speaker 3: My mom did a total one eighty totally grew up”
00:35:42“Speaker 4: and adore at the bottom of it. It's not possible. Speaker 1: Do we know who the other child was she said Speaker 1: she was with. Did anyone corroborate this? Speaker 4: So we've learned that there were well we believe to Speaker 4: be three girls at the sleepover, Kayla, another friend, Lindsay,”
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