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it is worth the risk. katie razzall, bbc news. to australia — where a woman who had spent 20 years in prison has been pardoned. kathleen folbigg was once branded the country's worst female serial killer for allegedly killing her four children. but scientists now believe the children may have died of natural causes. callum tulley has more. kathleen folbigg was convicted of killing her four infant children back in 2003. now she was accused of smothering them at various points between the years of 1989 and 1999, and we can see a picture of them here. now for patrick, here on the centreleft, for sarah, to his right, and for laura, to her right, kathleen was found guilty of murder. for caleb, on the very left here who died when he was just 19 days old, she was found guilty of manslaughter. so she ends up spending the best part of the next 20 years here in the high—security compound of the southwater prison, in sydney. now later on, much later,
points between the years of 1989 and 1999, and we can see a picture of them here. now for patrick, here on the centreleft, for sarah, to his right, and for laura, to her right, kathleen was found guilty of murder. for caleb, on the very left here who died when he was just 19 days old, she was found guilty of manslaughter. so she ends up spending the best part of the next 20 years here in the high—security compound of the southwater prison, in sydney. now later on, much later, she ends up coming here to the clarence correctional facility about six—and—a—half hours away. this is where she ends up being released from — and that's because in march 2021, after a hard—fought campaign by herfriends, a group of around 90 scientists signed a petition calling for her release, saying that new scientific evidence had come to light that showed that her children had died of natural causes. now in the case of her two daughters, it became apparent that they both shared a genetic
divorce? >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: and that was the theory. in order to get back at debra, he killed her best friend. >> you have these domestic homicides all the time but this had a twist to it because he didn't kill debra. >> reporter: then tony and debra's 23-year old son, caleb, was called to testify against his father. the usual blank stare on tony's courtroom face changed as his son recalled how his father blamed melissa for the divorce. >> did he tell you that it was melissa's fault? >> he -- he believed that she had a part in it. yes. >> did he tell you that he was mad at melissa about this? >> yeah. he was mad about the whole situation. >> reporter: oh, and there was one more thing. remember melissa's jacket, the one found in her suv? tests showed tony's dna on the jacket. prosecutors believe tony wiped his nose with it after being pepper sprayed. >> odds of finding an unrelated individual with that profile are rarer than one in 30 billion. >> reporter: you couldn't have
but he did go after the son, caleb, challenging him as to why he sat for so long on this story about his father badmouthing melissa. >> you didn't tell your mother about that when you first heard about that, did you? >> no. i didn't see any relevance. >> and when you spent time with him, things were good? >> yes. >> you love your dad? >> yes. >> reporter: would jurors notice the tear rolling down tony's cheek? so, onto the scientific evidence, the cellphone first. lawyer fleisher found a mistake in a chart the state's expert had used. was the expert analysis, in fact, sloppy? if you're such a hot shot expert -- >> right. and -- >> reporter: how does this error creep in? >> and he said, "well, it was a mistake." >> reporter: the same went for the dna evidence, attack the credibility of the analysis. the defense said the dna results, returned within a few days, were rushed through the police lab because of rothstein's connections. attorney fleisher also suggested there could have been cross
past criminal record and he would have never come across-the-board or. all it would've taken was somebody to take five seconds t look at his body and find a tattoo on his body and that precludes him from getting across-the-board or. they can't continue to play russian roulette with the lives of people and this country including caleb. >> what if she went after me orchestrate. >> she should. i would encourage tammy noble, the mother to sue him a pair each she has a civil rights claim because he acted in what' called deliberate indifference toward her daughter. so she arguably has a civil rights lawsuit because he did not follow proper protocol. he's not following u.s. immigration laws. and then deliberate disregard for kayla's life, he allowed this person in the country to kill her daughter. if that's what it takes. >> biden and me orchestrate a
negotiations playing out in washington. in the latest cnn pc survey, 70% of americans are feeling financially, stressed nearly six out of ten people are living paycheck to paycheck. while thousands of people are affected by mass, layoffs in rattles in the american dream, the cost of basic household expenses like rent, groceries, and utilities, continue to rise. what can we do during these turbulent times? here with me on set to get into all of, that caleb, sulfur editor-in-chief at investopedia. caleb, no pressure, going to solve all our economic woes in the span of about five minutes, let's get going. every was tuning. and janet yellin, telling a banking conference just last week, a situation where the u.s. runs out of cash angie fulton's debt would, quote, generate a financial and economic catastrophe. please translate that into layman's terms for the regular joe and jane american. how is this going to impact them if there is a default? >> if there is a default, the
what we say, and we will figure out a way to not have to default. >> with under two weeks to go until the debt ceiling deadline, the president painting a clear picture in japan earlier today, before heading back to washington. it remains part of negotiations with house speaker kevin mccarthy on a number of key economic issues. they had a productive call today, and agreed to meet tomorrow. still without any tangible progress made so far. the question of what it will look like if an agreement is not reached in time, it continues to loom very large. i want to bring in caleb silver, the editor in chief of investopedia to discuss more about this. caleb, as always, it's good to talk to you about this stuff. you're looking at what the president has said so far today. they had this productive call aboard air force one, as the president is making his way back to united states. cutting his trip short overseas to get the deal done.
through the first six months of life. >> that is called passive immunity. >> reporter: christina strickland says it is something she wishes had been available to her to protect both caleb and his twin brother, andrew. >> if there is any vaccination, i definite tli would hhly would it. >> and how are they doing now? >> they are wonderful. fat, juicy, moving around. very healthy. >> reporter: the faib pan nell voted unanimously that the efficacy of the vaccine supports its approval and 10 to 4 that the safety does. they are focused on whether there is a risk of pre-term birth associated with the vaccine, but it is not clear that there is. in terms of efficacy, in trials the vaccine showed it reduced the risk of severe symptoms by