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In 1954, Melvin Clark was murdered and his body dumped into the depths of the Merrimack River. His wife, Lorraine Clark, would ultimately plead guilty—and for decades, that plea has stood as the official ending to the case.

But the record tells a more complicated story.

In this episode, we take a closer look at the murder of Melvin Clark, the investigation that followed, and the media narrative that quickly hardened into “fact.” We examine the unanswered questions that were never resolved in court: the missing motive, the car mysteriously abandoned in Everett, and the physical realities that never quite lined up with a lone perpetrator.

We also explore how sensational newspaper coverage distorted public understanding of the case, and how those manufactured stories have persisted as "truth" to this very day.

Two years after her guilty plea, Lorraine Clark would repudiate her confession and implicate a man who had hovered around the case from the beginning. By then, the legal system had already decided it was finished listening.

This is the story of Lorraine Clark and the murder of Melvin—not as it was printed, but as it truly unfolded: fragmented, unresolved, and still asking questions no one ever fully answered.

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In the final episode, Isabella J. Martin finally faces trial in a courtroom she cannot control. As the case unfolds, testimony forces the legal system to confront a difficult truth: Baby John was not a criminal mastermind, but a child shaped by coercion and fear.

This episode follows Isabella from conviction, to imprisonment, to retrial, to re-conviction, and back to imprisonment. Then we take a look at the San Quentin prison records that reveal the extent of her unraveling behind bars, which brings a lot of clarity to her entire criminal history.

This episode also traces what became of Baby John after the trial—showing that survival does not always mean healing, and that escaping control is only the beginning of a far more complicated story.

Sorry for the length—but I didn't want to spill over into 4 episodes!

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A burning barn in the snow finally breaks Isabella J. Martin’s control over her son.

In Episode 2, Baby John is arrested—and for the first time in his life, separated from the woman who shaped every moment of his childhood. What follows is chaos inside the courtroom: Isabella acting as her son’s attorney, arguing with the judge, confessing to arson in open court, and then vanishing on the final day of the hearing.

As Baby John remains silent under her command, authorities begin to see the truth—this was not a criminal partnership, but a child forced into crime. And when Isabella disappears, the focus of the case finally begins to shift. The barn fire was only the beginning.