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An arrest Wednesday in which a former police officer was alleged to have killed a woman who was pregnant with his child was foreshadowed in a true crime podcast. Kirk Minihane hosted a podcast called “The Case” on Barstool Sports. In the second season of the podcast, which aired in 2022, Minihane focused on the 2021 death of Sandra Birchmore, a pregnant woman whose death was initially labeled a suicide, according to Awful Announcing. The site said Minihane’s podcast “undoubtedly helped debunk the initial police narrative alleging Birchmore committed suicide.” The report also noted that in the …

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