Bonnie Foreshaw went to prison on a long sentence after a fight with an abusive partner led to her shooting an innocent victim instead — a pregnant woman who was trying to intervene. It was a tragedy. But was it premeditated murder? Was Foreshaw’s sentence too long?
“Usually you write about injustice and nothing happens. This time something happened,” said veteran Connecticut journalist Andy Thibault. He meant the investigative reporting he did that ended with an extraordinary hearing granting Foreshaw clemency and a lesser sentence.
“She should have been out maybe 17 years ago,” he said. But he’s proud of the work he did. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime thing for me.”
On this installment of “LoveBabz LoveTalk,” Thibault, pictured at left abovewith show host Babz Rawl-Ivy, talked about the Foreshaw case, his start in journalism as a sports reporter, and his assignments that led to his investigating organized crime and government corruption cases. His covering the Boston Marathon bombing trial left him with a lot of nagging questions about whether we got all the story. “The judge … did everything he could to keep the public out of the trial,” he said.
He and host Rawls-Ivy discussed the way his glimpse into seeing how the government worked could feel a bit like the Wizard of Oz. “There are men behind the curtain,” he said.
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