43: "Accused - Danita Tutt"

Shear Crime Podcast

On this week’s episode, Ame and Kenzie cover another installment in the series Accused: Guilty or Innocent. Danita Tutt was a wife and mother in Texas who spent many days and hours in the hospital caring for their son Colby, who had been born 3 months prematurely and had a laundry list of health issues because of that. As Colby grew up, numerous surgeries and interventions were done to help assist his GI tract with consuming food and eliminating waste properly. At one point, however, Danita and her family are told that there was no more that could be done for the 13 year old boy and that hospice was the best option for him. Stunned and heartbroken, the family tried their best to follow the instructions of hospice nurse Connie, who helped take care of the child in what was supposed to be his final days. But when Colby seems to get better, suddenly fingers are pointed at Danita and she is accused of deliberately starving her son and coercing surgeons into performing unnecessary operations on him. Could this mother have been silently planning the demise of her own child, or were the people in charge of his medical needs painting a picture of a mentally ill mother with evil in her veins?