I’ve written a few times over the last year about Leah Freeman. It boils down to the fact that a 15-year-old girl disappeared ten years ago and was later found murdered. Law enforcement dropped the ball and a murderer got away with it. Sure, there are a lot of other details which you can look up at the link above as well as some of the other web sites linked from there but that’s about the gist of it.
The thing is that Cory Courtright, Leah’s mother, wasn’t satisfied with that answer (which was no answer at all). She started what originated as a one-woman crusade to get the case reopened. It took several years but as I mentioned earlier this year, the case was reopened with a fresh look at old evidence.
After reviewing the evidence and calling many witnesses a Grand Jury in Coos County, Oregon has indicted 28-year-old Nicholas James McGuffin with Murder. Nick was Leah’s boyfriend at the time of her disappearance and subsequent murder.
McGuffin was arrested yesterday afternoon and has been lodged in the Coos County Jail on $2,000,000 bond. He is due to be arraigned this morning.
I’ll try and keep this updated as time permits.
