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New evidence in Leah Freeman case leads to high school boyfriend’s arrest
Nick McGuffin said he asked Kristen Steinhoff to help look for Freeman the night she vanished. Nearly 10 years later, the story she had told police increased their suspicion of McGuffin.
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"The night she went missing, a mechanic found and picked up one of her gym shoes by a cemetery near the high school. He believed it may have belonged to one of his kids – but days later, realized it may be connected to the missing girl and turned it into police. Her other shoe was found about a week later, outside of town – with blood on it."
What an idiotic reasoning and explanation!
Does ABC 20/20 makes part 6 when justice is by Nick’s side? Of course not. That why ABC 20/20 is sooooo discredit. Is that news? Not, is it all sensational to get attention.
If there is no evidence, solid evidence then how can you say he did?
Did they not do an autopsy??
She either was or wasn’t. There are tests for pregnancy.
Just another example of a flawed criminal justice system being run by under educated morons.
Did they look into whether that Mitchell girl had anything to do with this? Her testimony was strangely contradicting fact. And she seemed overly upset at the police station. The police were using her testimony to back everything against, yet if what she said was false, that would blow their whole case apart…which means they had no case to begin with.
Also want to comment that the comments here are all talking about Nick's innocence. But that's only after the fact. How many other cases are there where all these people are saying all these horrendous things about people who are proclaiming their innocence but they think are guilty? In fact, many people will jump down my throat because I'm not convinced of a person's guilt, based on the fact, and these people curse me out, saying I must be dumb. It's a mob mentality in all these cases.
It’s incredibly annoying that you don’t just post the full thing here.
5:42 Nick’s face in the back of that police car broke my heart. That’s a damn shame going down for something that you know you didn’t do. It happens too often.
Poor guy! Tell the truth & go to hell & back. And Leah, they killed her all over again by not properly investigating her disappearance in the first place & her killing afterwards!
I would left that town. He shouldn't have stayed. Bottomline just the fact he was walking amongst them pissed those chicks off!
The Police Chief sounds like a complete idiot, That trailer trash methhead is your "star witness" !? The newspape journalist speaking about him as if he were a grown man, when he was an 18 year old high school kid. 110 "witnesses" with no physical evidence. They know they were wrong and if they were real adults they would be ashamed of ruining a man's life.
The fact that they said they had no evidence, and then the new chief said everything pointed to Nick. What pointed to him? There was NO EVIDENCE. NONE. ZERO. Why do jury's convict with no evidence???? I would sue every single one of those mfs who had a hand in his arrest and conviction.
unbelievably stupid police work!! they made an arrest not even with an ounce of evidence.. this make me wanna say f*** y***!!! truth won't come out when you stupid authorities decided to pin it all down on Nick, and not let evidence find its way to the real suspects..
Watching it one there website is simply impossible! You get through ten mins and then ads come up and starts you at the beginning and doesn’t let you scroll back to where you were
What a travesty this case is. Too many lazy incompetent men hitching their careers to a conviction. None of them, including the sheriff & prosecutor, cared about justice. They only cared about convincing the public that justice had been done, even if that meant destroying the life of an innocent man & allowing the actual murderer to commit his crime & continue to walk the streets a free man. Will justice ever be done for Leah Freeman?
As being from Oregon, the police here are all losers who will do anything with the power they have. They all abuse it. Most of them beat their wives and have domestic abuse on their own records.
why don't you bring closure to the story? where is the next part?
Very poor police work from the moment Leah went missing. Nobody ever believes one witness testimony without corroboration. Yet these tunnel visionaries continue with this view without any evidence. They even ignore real evidence and blatantly pursue Nick. Real detectives do not operate like this. Very sad for this town.
Liar!!!!!! She was
Oh stop! He thought she was with another guy so he went picked up another girl to have sex… he's a teen boy!!! Where else would his mind be at! He's a kid.. if he killed her he wouldn't be thinking about picking up another chick to screw. ??? Idk.. so sad.
Good thing is that Nick files a lawsuit against them. I hope he will win!
I searched it. He is innocent! He cares more than Leah's mom.
https://kcby.com/news/local/nicholas-mcguffin-files-civil-rights-suit-after-having-9-year-prison-sentence-overturned
I knew he was innocent when he was talking to the cops originally. A lot of killers used past tense but Nick was talking about Leah like she was coming home at any minute. The two men probably did hit her with a car and then disposed of her body.
Nick needs to sue the pants off this sheriff and this town! He was not only wrongly accused but harassed and slandered as well. And I’m sorry but Leah’s mom is trash for going to sleep instead of looking for her daughter!
Summer 2020 – he files a lawsuit against sheriffs office and few others for human rights violations and for lying, defamation, wrongful imprisonments and claims police railroaded him and set him up. Fingers crossed he wins!!!
Police chief is idiot hope nick sue him and other poolish officer
This girls mother don’t want the truth she hates the boyfriend
The police want to be famous they want to be movie stars
This is the third story I have tried to watch for 20/20 where the last episodes are missing from YouTube and I can’t finish the story. Very frustrating. Done with 20/20 on YouTube.
If you all would read before positing your comments about not being able to finish the story lol. There's a link in the bio for the full episode FOR FREE
I love how they paint Coquille as a nice, quiet town. A bunch a pedophiles abusing kids- real nice
Doesn’t tell what happened in the end. Waste of over an hour of my life!
I really feel like the mother could have had Nick's back a bit more. She obviously didn't feel he was guilty when they went to file a missing person's report together. & he was cooperative the whole time with everything. That's not how a guilty person acts.
Eye witnesses are not as concrete as the law enforcement would like us to believe it is. People lie, their reality is different from what might have actually happened. Their responses are subjective.
American cops are so disgusting!!