Marian Fraser, the former Waco day care owner who is serving a fifty-year sentence for allegedly killing a four-month-old with a fatal dose of Benadryl, may get a third trial. On Wednesday, Texas’s Seventh Court of Appeals, in Amarillo, reversed Fraser’s 2023 felony-murder conviction. The court ruled that Fraser was found guilty based in part on evidence obtained through an illegal search warrant.This is the second time the 62-year-old Fraser has had her conviction overturned. She was originally tried for Clara Felton’s death in 2015. A Waco jury found her guilty and sentenced her to fifty years in prison. Two years later, an appellate court reversed that conviction after finding that the judge’s instructions to the jury had been slanted in favor of the prosecution.…The post Waco’s “Baby Whisperer” Has Her Murder Conviction Reversed Again appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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