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Hannah Overton’s Case Will be Examined Again
In January, executive editor Pamela Colloff wrote about the Hannah Overton case. Here’s an update to her story. For anyone who has followed the bewildering path that Hannah Overton’s case has taken...
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Hannah and Andrew
What little is known about Andrew Burd’s early life is contained in a slim Child Protective Services case file that chronicles the boy’s descent into the child welfare system. His mother was just...
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The Hannah Overton Hearing: Day One
The Nueces County courtroom where Hannah Overton was convicted in 2007 and sentenced to life in prison was filled Monday with an overflow crowd of spectators and reporters. Flanked by a new team of...
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Hannah Overton Hearing: Day Two
The second day of Hannah Overton’s evidentiary hearing began with compelling testimony from Dr. Michael Moritz, one of the world’s leading authorities on salt poisoning. As I explained in my January...
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Hannah Overton Hearing: Day Three
Things took a dramatic turn in Hannah Overton’s evidentiary hearing on Wednesday when ex-prosecutor Sandra Eastwood (pictured above) reluctantly took the stand to be questioned about whether or not she...
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Hannah Overton Hearing: Day Four
Day four of Hannah Overton’s evidentiary hearing got off to an emotional start when attorney David Jones, who was on Hannah’s defense team during her 2007 capital murder trial, broke down and wept on...
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Hannah Overton’s Day in Court
Hannah Overton, a Corpus Christi homemaker and mother of five, was arrested in 2006 after Andrew Burd—a four-year-old foster child whom she and her husband were in the process of adopting—mysteriously...
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Hannah Overton’s Capital Murder Conviction Is Overturned
Today marked a turning point in the case of Hannah Overton, the Corpus Christi mother of five who has fought for eight years to prove her innocence. This morning, in a decisive 7-2 ruling, the Texas...
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The Guilty and the Innocent
On September 17, in a decisive 7–2 ruling, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the capital murder conviction of a Corpus Christi woman named Hannah Overton. Readers of Texas Monthly may...
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Hannah Overton Will Be Home For Christmas
Tonight, Hannah Overton—whose case has been chronicled extensively in Texas Monthly—walked free after serving seven years of the life sentence that she was handed by a Corpus Christi jury in 2007....
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Capital Murder Case Against Hannah Overton Dismissed
Nine years after Hannah Overton’s nightmarish journey through the criminal justice system began, it ended just as abruptly, yesterday afternoon, when Nueces County District Attorney Mark Skurka called...
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