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Murder In America

EP 232: MAINE - THE LEGAL KIDNAPPING OF LOGAN MARR

2/6/20262 hr 2 min

In 1999, Logan Marr was kidnapped, and the state of Maine thought it was for the best. In their eyes, the toddler’s mother was too poor, too uneducated, too redneck to raise her baby girl. So, they gave her to someone who could. And then someone else. And then someone else. Until finally, in 2001, Christy Marr was finally given back her baby girl: in a casket. This isn’t our typical story. This is the story of a legal kidnapping, a desperate mother, a corrupt system, and a state employee who believed she was above the law until finally… she wa...

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  1. Speaker 00:00

    Warning. The following podcast is not suitable for all audiences. We go into great detail with every case that we cover and do our best to bring viewers even deeper into the stories by utilizing disturbing audio and sound effects.

  2. Courtney Brown· Host0:11

    Trigger warnings from the stories we cover may include violence, rape, murder, and offenses against children.

  3. Speaker 00:18

    This podcast is not for everyone. You have been warned.

  4. Courtney Brown· Host0:21

    Kristi Maher had been longing to see her daughter again. The Department of Human Services had taken five-year-old Logan away from her. But finally, after what felt like an eternity, Kristi had her back. She ran a brush through her daughter's soft, curly brown locks. Her hair smelled like apples. But the moment of peace, of being reunited, was shattered. The brush caught on something. Kristi tried to pull the brush away, only to discover it had caught on stitches lining the top of her daughter's head. She felt a hand on her back and heard the soft reassuring words, "It's okay. You can't hurt her." The funeral director was standing right beside her. It was easy to pretend for just a moment that it was just Kristi and her daughter against the world again, but that wasn't the case. Because the Department of Human Services had taken her baby girl, kicking, screaming, and begging for her mom, and they had returned her

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