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Eric McLean

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Dateline NBC profiled a case they titled A Deadly Triangle Saturday. Did you see it?

It is the case about married couple Eric and Erin McLean. Erin, a teacher, started dating a former student of hers, Sean Powell, and in the end Eric ended up killing Sean.

Eric always maintained it was an accident, but Erin resorted to calling Eric a psycho. She told police he threatened to kill her or himself, but she didn’t think he would really do it.

It was a true mystery indeed.

When I watched Eric talk, I believed him. I trusted what he said to be true. His grief was genuine, intense and real. His story was logical.

Eric was tried for first degree murder but the jury only convicted him with reckless homicide. His sentence, which will be given in November, could be as light as time-served (6 weeks) plus probation. I believe justice was served in this case.

At this time, Erin McLean is on the run with their children.

Request for Your Opinion: Poll

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I always struggle determining which cases I should put into the “Dishonesty caught to date before the truth was known” column on the right. With that, I would like your opinion.

Which of the following cases do you believe falls into this category? You can choose more than one option in the poll below, if desired. I have linked to my original posts so you can be the judge.

  1. Joran Van der Sloot (2 years prior to his confession)
  2. Matthew Gretz (10 months prior to his confession)
  3. Hans Reiser (no confession, 5 months prior to conviction for murder)

While I believe Joran Van der Sloot has confessed, can we say it is the truth now?

With Matthew Gretz, I give reasons why I had my doubts about him in my original post, but for some reason I didn’t out-and-out say that I didn’t trust him. I did, however, write enough that if Gretz was found to be innocent, I would have been told I missed it and I clearly would have, but I didn’t.

And with Hans Reiser, he was simply convicted of murder, but does that mean we know the truth?

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Update Added on July 8, 2008:

On July 7th, 2008, Hans Reiser led police to Nina Reiser’s body.

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