Judge allows parents to take woman's body home after dispute with husband
Caitlin Tracey's parents had been fighting to prevent her husband from taking control of her body, because of domestic violence allegations.
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De Mar won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award in 2015 for her investigative reporting on a woman who was severely burned when her car's fuel tank caught fire. De Mar also won a Regional Emmy Award in 2017 for her reporting on a now-convicted serial killer who confessed his crimes to De Mar in a series of letters from prison.
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