Claim: Crime anchor Nancy Grace has been arrested for murder.
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Example: [Collected via e-mail, October 2014]
i'm just wondering if this story is true or not: was nancy grace
arrested for murder
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According to the article, Grace was immediately deemed to be as guilty as sin after an eyewitness to a
"We don't really have any physical evidence or anything like that, but our witness is pretty reliable. Plus, Nancy Grace just seems like a murderer, doesn't she? That was a big part of our calculation. Sometimes you just have to go with your gut."
"We were approached by an old homeless gentleman last week," explains Addison County prosecutor Jim
The article painted Grace as having been hoisted by her own petard, guilty of trying and convicting suspects on her TV show:
In her own case, the evidence appears to be quite shaky. Although described in the indictment as Walker's roommate, there is no record of Grace ever attending Middlebury. She graduated from Mercer University, thousands of miles away in Georgia.
Grace is a former prosecutor who since 2005 has hosted an eponymous prime-time current affairs show that features prominent true crime cases. Although a ratings success, the show has attracted withering criticism for Grace's tendency to ignore the presumption of innocence and pronounce defendants guilty without knowing all the evidence
It then gave Grace the same treatment she'd handed out to others across the years:
"This bitch should fry like bacon in the electric chair," says "I heard that Nancy Grace and the victim were lesbian lovers and her murder was a crime of passion," said CNN's Piers Morgan on his show today. "Apparently they were performing oral sex upon one another and right after they climaxed Nancy strangled her. That's just speculation of course. But it makes a lot of sense."
Inconvenient facts, however, haven't stopped several of Grace's peers in the media from proclaiming that she's guilty and demanding quick justice.
However, this article was just a
Last updated: 24 October 2014