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A tragedy that's now forgotten and a mystery that may or may not have been political, that may have been about sex. Listen to "Worshack," murder at City Hall on the I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
In 2023, Bachelor Star Clayton Eckard was accused of fathering twins, but the pregnancy appeared to be a hoax.
“You doctor this particular test twice in silence, correct?”
I doctor the test once. It took an army of internet detectives to uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. Like a lesbian, I can't imagine it.
My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trap. Laura. Scott still police.
As the season continues, Laura Owens
finally faces consequences.
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Now, on the I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Stephanie. In this bonus episode, I wanted to share some parts of the June 10th trial.
We didn't get to an episode seven.
Ultimately, you know how this trial ends.
Judge Mata, Rold and Clayton's favor, and referred the matter to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for review of Laura Owens' actions. This family court trial was jam-packed because there was a two-hour time limit.
So in this bonus episode, I wanted to go back to the experts' testimonies. Laura Owens' team brought in Dr. Michael Medchill, a retired OBGYN, who said he had delivered over 20,000 babies.
Before the trial, Dr. Medchill reviewed medical records provided by David Jingris, and reached a notable conclusion. Dr. Medchill, based on your review of Laura's medical records that you've identified in your report, did you form any opinions at all regarding whether or not
she was pregnant in 2023 at any time?
“Absolutely, I believe she was pregnant with over 99% probability.”
- But the validity of the medical records, Dr. Medchill reviewed were a point of contention. - You understand, Laura has admitted to taking medical records in this case. - Yes.
- This became a central point of dispute during cross-examination, especially because Laura had already admitted under oath, both at her deposition and again on June 10th, to doctoring medical records.
But there was something even more stunning about Dr. Medchill's testimony, a moment that became infamous and coverage of the case. Here's David Jingris during the trial. - Mr. Eckert has said that he doesn't believe
that a pregnancy was possible here because there was no intercourse. Do you have an opinion about that? Regarding general, not regarding him or her, but in general.
- Well, it's said that men are like basketball players. They dribble before they shoot. They also dribble afterwards. And if you are rubbing genitalia together, it is possible to get pregnant.
- After this moment that later became etched into the lore of this trial, Jingris asked Dr. Medchill to address the elephant in the room head-on. And he doubled down.
- How much weight would you assign to the fact that Mr. Eckert denied sexual intercourse? Is that significant to the question of whether she was pregnant or is it a minor point?
- It has nothing to do with whether she was pregnant. - This testimony gave me pause.
I always understood penetrative sex
to be a near universal precursor to conception. So I called my own expert. - My name is Dr. Marissa Weiss. I'm a board certified OBGYN.
I currently am practicing in the space
and infertility of pretended as a specialty fellowship. Dr. Weiss specializes in infertility,
“which means she works with the science of conception every day.”
Probably the most common comment I get from my patients, again, who are patients who are actively trying to conceive, is how surprised people are at the likelihood of conception on any given one. You know, when we are given kind of sex at in middle school,
we're led to believe that if you have
on drugged intercourse, there's basically
a hundred percent chance you're getting pregnant. But in reality, even with intentional, well-timed intercourse, around the time of evaluation, your odds of pregnancy on any given mother 20%. Contrary to kind of what we're told in middle school
and high school on any given month, it's more likely that you won't get pregnant. - Importantly, what Dr. Weiss is talking about here is vaginal intercourse, not oral sex. And there is a huge caveat that penetrative sex
also has to occur at the time of ovulation, which means there's a small window on any given month that a person can conceive. Another part of trial that was stuck in my head was the detail about Laura running to the bathroom
after the blow job. - Where did you complete our mouth both times? What happened the second time? She ran straight to the bathroom.
- Wouldn't it told me he always found it
to be a suspicious detail in the chain of events?
“Wouldn't it said he never ruled out a kind of spit maneuver?”
But I wondered if it was even possible for someone to impregnate themselves this way. So I asked Dr. Weiss if sperm could even survive that long. Spear motility decreases within minutes in the saliva. And most sperm are kind of immobilized or dead
within 15 to 30 minutes. So in some extent, it kind of depends on how long is, you know, elapsing between the ejaculation and then the collection in theory, if you did it within seconds or minutes,
even I guess there's a slight chance. But again, then you also run into all the other things has to be around the time population and everything else. It's kind of a Swiss cheese model.
A lot of things have to line up in order for it to happen. But theoretically, if within a couple minutes of ejaculation into someone's mouth, they were to collect the sperm and put it in the vagina either, you know, via some kind of vaginal insemination or elsewise.
And they happen to be around the time of ovulation.
“They're still a small chance of pregnancy.”
But again, the odds are, I would say, probably less than one percent. So it seems unlikely that a spit maneuver would have resulted in a pregnancy at all.
But hang on for a second.
She came over to your house. She gave you oral sex twice. The next day, you told her you weren't interested in her. That's correct. I rejected her yes.
And then four days later, what happened? Four days later, she started making claims that she could possibly be pregnant. And then 11 days after they hooked up, Laura claimed she'd taken a positive pregnancy test.
She was taking one of those at home tests where you pee on the stick. Laura's was positive. And as we know, Laura later went to an urgent care and had another test, which confirmed she had an elevated HCG level.
I asked Dr. Weiss to explain more about how HCG works. And why it's often used as an early pregnancy test. HCG levels rise exponentially in early pregnancy. And then generally half every 48 hours once a pregnancy has ended.
So a urine pregnancy test detects the pregnancy hormone, which is HCG, depending on what type of test you have. There's somewhat of a range of detection. The early response tests can detect a lower level of HCG, which lets you detect kind of earlier in pregnancy
or put another way sooner after ovulation, but they're detecting HCG in the urine. So the HCG level has to achieve a certain amount in the bloodstream before reaching the urine. If you're testing with a urine pregnancy test,
for most people, it's kind of most reliable within 12 to 14 days after ovulation. Obviously, after a miscarriage, which is generally 14 days plus after ovulation is even more accurate. Dr. Weiss explained that HCG is a hormone you can inject.
And if someone did inject it, they could test positive for pregnancy on a urine test, even if they weren't pregnant. There's medications, specifically that we use in fertility treatment in which we give patients synthetic HCG. So if they were to take that injection
as prescribed by their fertility after and then do a urine pregnancy test, it would come back positive. Dr. Weiss sometimes sees false positives with her patients who take at home tests. Some other medications that have been known to raise HCG levels
can produce a false positive. And then there are anomalies. Weiss and at home tests can fail. There's something called evaporation lines, which if you kind of the instructions on a urine pregnancy test
Tell you exactly how long to wait before interpreting the result.
If you wait longer than that period of time,
“you can get something called an evaporation line,”
which is a faint line. Back in, oftentimes, full people look initially on the battered counter, see it's negative, and then leave it there and then come back and be falsely, either positively or negatively.
Dr. Weiss stressed that conception is more difficult, than we were led to believe in high school sex ed, and that the most reliable way to test for pregnancy is having an ultrasound in person with the doctor. You'd ask me the hot tub question, I was ready for that one.
(laughs)
Thank you so much for listening.
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♪ Could this have happened in City Hall ♪ Somebody tell me that. - A shocking public murder. - This is one of the most dramatic events that really ever happened in New York City politics.
(dramatic music) - A screen, good-down, good-down, those are shots. - A tragedy that's now forgotten, and a mystery, that may or may not have been political, that may have been about sex.
- Listen to Rochette, Murder and City Hall, on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. - In 2023, Bachelor Star Clayton Eckard was accused of fathering twins,
but the pregnancy appeared to be a hoax.
“- You doctor this particular test twice in silence, right?”
- I doctor the test once. - It took an army of internet detectives to uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. - Regular lesbian, I could imagine it.
- My mind was blown. - I'm Stephanie Young, this is LoveTrap. - Laura, Scott State Police. - As the season continues,
Laura Owens finally faces consequences.
Listen to LoveTrap podcast on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. - You know the famous author, Rochette. He thought I'd really want her, and the BFG. But did you know he was a spy?
Now they did I. You can hear all about his wildlife story
“in the podcast, the secret world of Rochette doll.”
All episodes are out now. - Was this before he wrote his stories? I must have been. - What? - Okay, I don't think that's true.
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