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A newlywed mother-to-be, still working seven days a week. Enjoying some time off with her new husband. Suddenly, she comes across a slippery, poorly-lit staircase. And then, just like that, tragedy.

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A sloppy package, wrapped in tape, found in a college mailroom. The bomb squad called in to Eastern Illinois University out of fear that this was a deadly delivery. After closing off the street around the building, X-raying the package, et cetera, the package was found to be nothing more than a Illinois student’s admission application.

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A beautiful young woman, crowned Miss New Jersey. Suddenly thrown into the public eye, after an anonymous pervert, trolling the internet on Face Book Dot Com for scandalous pictures, threatens her with blackmail. It is a case that has captivated America, and thrown our justice system and — YES — even our FRAGILE DEMOCRACY into chaos.

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I came to a decision to leave Court TV, the network at which I got my start in broadcasting, for a number of reasons.