This episode of Sword and Scale recounts the brutal 2015 murder of 94-year-old Marie Belcastro, a beloved Niles, Ohio, grandmother, at the hands of 15-year-old neighbor Jacob LaRosa. The story explores how a seemingly random attack unraveled into a harrowing tale of deception, violen
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