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By Dave Andrusko Besides being immensely tragic, there was always something that didn’t sound right in the case of John Andrew Welden, who as you may recall, slipped an abortifacient to Remee Jo Lee, his pregnant girlfriend, in 2013. Facing a murder charge made...
By Dave Andrusko There were always broad hints that the conviction of John Andrew Welden for tricking his girlfriend Remee Jo Lee into taking Cytotec which caused her to miscarriage their baby, was not the final word in the case. A story Friday in the Tampa Bay...
By Dave Andrusko NRL News Today has covered the case of John Andrew Welden, its many twists and turns, all the way back to last May when he was indicted on a federal charge that he murdered his own unborn child. As our readers know, last September Welden cut a...
By Dave Andrusko After one false start, the man convicted of tricking his pregnant girlfriend into taking a drug that caused her to abort her baby, will be sentenced today. Last September attorneys for John Andrew Welden worked a plea bargain where Welden plead...
By Dave Andrusko U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara ruled late Friday afternoon that the drug John Andrew Welden tricked his pregnant girlfriend into taking caused the abortion of Remee Jo Lee’s 6-7-week-old unborn baby. “There is not a shred of evidence to...
By Dave Andrusko After hearing two days of testimony, U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara may rule as early as today on the length of sentence for John Andrew Welden, who has admitted tricking his then-girlfriend into taking a drug (Cytotec) to induce an...
By Dave Andrusko During the first of what is expected to be two days of competing testimony, one expert said Wednesday that a sonogram had shown that Remy Jo Lee was not at risk of losing her unborn baby while another explained how the drug Cytotec (misoprostol) can...
By Dave Andrusko It seemingly came out of the blue. John Andrew Welden admitted tricking his then-girlfriend Remee Jo Lee into taking misoprostol (Cytotec)last March with the intention of causing Ms. Lee to miscarry her 6-7-week-old unborn baby. His lawyers had...
By Dave Andrusko As was implicit in comments made over the weekend, U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara said today that both sides could call expert witnesses next month to test the defense contention that a powerful drug John Andrew Welden tricked his...
By Dave Andrusko All the steps had been taken, most important a plea bargain, and John Andrew Welden was scheduled to be sentenced today for tricking his then-girl friend into taking Cytotec (misoprostol) to cause the death of Remee Jo Lee’s unborn baby. In...