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Full Rigor Florida True Crime

Veteran Florida Investigative Journalist Karen Curtis explores true-crime, life and death cases in her own back yard that influence the nation and the world. The podcasts include exclusive audio and ground-breaking true-crime investigations.

Latest Episodes

The Docket: Baby June’s Mom Arrested

It took four years after “Baby June” was found floating in the Boynton Beach inlet for PBSO to make an arrest. Courtney Clenney finds out her boyfriend is dead. Also, a Florida sheriff gives his community a big Christmas gift.
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Episode 190: Who Stole the Baby Jesus?

SWEET BABY JESUS! When Baby Jesus disappeared last year from a Nativity scene on the lawn of the Wellington community center, village officials didn’t follow a star to locate him. Find out how they found the ceramic Son of God and why poaching Baby Jesus continues to be a sad trend.
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The Docket: Random Face Puncher

A Florida man went on a rampage Monday randomly punching people in the face in Hernando county. Also, a Florida sheriff announces new classroom disciplinary policies to curb bad student behavior and put the adults back in charge. A Florida death row inmate inches closer to the spike after losing another appeal.
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Episode 189: Christmas Eve Blood Bath

Was Tommy Zeigler the fifth victim in a Christmas eve blood bath or was he a mass killer? Zeigler claims to this day that he was a victim of an armed robbery December 24, 1975. Thirty-year-old Tommy Zeigler was charged for the quadruple murder of his wife, her parents, and another man at his family-owned furniture store. 46-years later DNA may exonerate him.
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The Docket: HOA Homicide Hell

This week on The Docket, a dispute over an HOA laundry room door leads to a double murder. The Tampa police chief resigns after she flashes her badge to get out of a traffic ticket.
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Episode 188: Babies Born Behind Bars

Over the past few years, several incarcerated women in Florida were forced to give birth to a baby on the floor of their cell all by themselves. In one case a baby died, in another mother and baby died from complications. This despite new laws enacted to prevent a jail cell delivery.
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The Docket: Guilty but Insane

This week on The Docket, a plea deal is reached that finds double-murderer and cannibal Austin Harrouff “not guilty by reason of insanity,” prompting prosecutors to seek changes in Florida law to allow, “guilty but insane” verdicts. Also, Charles “Wide Neck” McDowell is back behind bars in Escambia County after his first mugshot went viral. Listen to his new rap song “Neckst Big Thing” on Full Rigor.
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Episode 187: Mean Girls 2.0, Bullied to Death

For nearly a year, as many as 15 girls ganged up on 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick of Polk County.
And then, on September 9th 2013, the Lakeland girl went to an abandoned concrete plant, climbed a tower and hurled herself to her death.
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The Docket: Publix Purse Snatcher Shot

This week on The Docket, a career criminal tries to steal an elderly woman’s purse in a Publix parking lot and gets shot by a cop. BSO believes a missing Fort Lauderdale woman was murdered by her estranged husband.
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Episode 186: Stand Your Ground, license to kill?

Was it a case of “stand your ground” or a case of murder? This episode of Full Rigor looks at a stand your ground case in Clearwater that sparked a nationwide debate over Florida’s controversial “stand your ground” law.
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