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143: Delayed Justice: Darryl Hunt, Part 1 Oct 26, 2020

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Debbie Sykes, a 26 year old woman, doesn't show up for work as usual. Later that day, her body is found in a field. A 911 call under a fake name leads to an investigation that was botched from the start. Bullied witnesses, members of the KKK, and shoddy lineup pictures were just some of the reasons why Darryl Hunt was convicted of the murder, just to have the conviction overturned, and be tried again... and convicted again. And this is only part 1.
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Sources:
http://www.journalnow.com/app/specialreports/hunt/frontStories.html
https://law.justia.com/cases/north-carolina/supreme-court/1995/17a91-0.html
https://nccadp.org/darryl-hunt/
https://journalnow.com/news/crime/winston-salem-man-confessed-to-role-in-two-separate-homicides-now-his-guilt-in-one/article_22599d28-40d8-5264-b05e-49aaffbc8380.html
https://greensboro.com/news/crime/three-killings-put-a-winston-salem-man-in-prison-in-one-another-man-has-now/article_b099a318-0453-5526-b98c-7e4d6a58fed2.html
https://www.cityofws.org/DocumentCenter/View/7252/Appendix-6-Arthur-Wilson-Case-File-PDF
https://greensboro.com/jury-acquits-darryl-hunt/article_60709f87-597d-5168-8c0a-93fba3422a0b.html
https://journalnow.com/news/local/sexton-a-notorious-life-comes-to-an-end/article_ecdd6606-b84a-11e2-a6e6-001a4bcf6878.html

142: Delayed Justice: Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer Oct 19, 2020

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In a small Mississippi town, a three year old girl is taken from her bed at night only to be found raped and murdered. The victim's mother's ex-boyfriend is convicted based on bite mark evidence. Then, another three year old girl is found raped and murdered. This time, a different man is convicted, also based on bite mark evidence. How could two cases so similar have two different perpetrators?
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"Daemones"
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"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/levon-brooks/
Netflix - the Innocence Files
https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/kennedy-brewer
https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/innocence-files-what-happened-to-levon-brooks-kennedy-brewer-47396314
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3058
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/02/15/wrongfully-convicted-levon-brooks-extraordinary-man/336210002/
https://www.thecinemaholic.com/levon-brooks-kennedy-brewer/
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141: Delayed Justice: The Dixmoor 5 Oct 12, 2020

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Today we kick off the new series on wrongful convictions, Delayed Justice. The first story is that of the Dixmoor 5, who were just teenagers when they signed confessions admitting to the rape and murder of 14 year old Cateresa Matthews. From the very beginning, there were problems with the confessions, but it would be many years before an answer was found.
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Sources:
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/05/12/mother-breaks-silence-after-daughters-murder-case-reopened/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/241174545/?terms=cateresa%2Bmatthews
https://www.newspapers.com/image/240370097/?terms=cateresa%2Bmatthews
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dixmoor-5-case-convict-charged-in-cataresa-matthews-1991-rape-killing-after-dna-cleared-5/
https://search.proquest.com/openview/85b9125adef36854bead9234699fca78/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=25766
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18485/90610/20190304180147852_Amicus%20Brief%20pdfa.pdf
http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/convenientscapegoats.pdf
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/08/26/dixmoor-5-swindling/

140: Dark Water 2: Muriel Collins Barnett Oct 06, 2020

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This week, we bring you the last episode in the Dark Water 2 series. Muriel Barnett was a widowed socialite who was killed on a cruise ship. Her personal assistant was in the room at the time, but was passed out drunk and can't recall what happened. After several months, a motive was finally uncovered in a series of events that news outlets claim are "worthy of an Agatha Christie novel".
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Music by:
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"Daemones"
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"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
https://apnews.com/9937503585b115d7af44385e8534f665
https://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/1989/08/19/muriel-collins-barnett-passenger-cruise-ship-death-murder-aboard-royal-viking-star/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-01-12-mn-3101-story.html
https://cruise-bruise.com/blog/2018/04/25/passenger-released-from-prison-after-alleged-cruise-ship-murder/
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/12/us/san-franciscan-59-is-guilty-in-death-of-employer-on-ship.html
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/08/24/Murdered-socialite-left-250000-to-her-accused-killer/2896493704000/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/472821918
https://www.newspapers.com/image/501972818
https://www.newspapers.com/image/508855188/?terms=muriel%2Bbarnett
https://www.newspapers.com/image/495164334/?terms=muriel%2Bbarnett
https://www.newspapers.com/image/495163324/?terms=muriel%2Bbarnett

139: Dark Water 2: Shirley McGill Sep 21, 2020

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Bob and Shirley McGill were high school sweethearts who lost touch over the years, and later in life reconnected and rekindled their relationship. To celebrate both of their birthdays as well as Shirley's retirement, the couple took a cruise... but Shirley wouldn't make it back alive.
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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
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Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-cruise-ship-killer-gets-life-sentence-2011dec08-story.html
https://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/2009/07/31/shirley-mcgill-passenger-cruise-ship-death-birthday-murder-carnival-elation-mexico/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cruise-ship-killer-murdered-wife-with-bare-hands-say-feds/
https://www.dailynews.com/2011/07/15/husband-confessed-to-killing-wife-on-cruise-ship/
https://www.cruiselawnews.com/tags/shirley-mcgill/

138: Dark Water 2: Julie Scully Sep 06, 2020

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Julie Scully was a beautiful and talented woman who made her career as a model. While on a cruise with her husband, they became friends with a worker on board. But soon, the friendship turned into something else, and the result was a vicious loss of life.
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Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/28/nyregion/body-of-a-new-jersey-model-is-found-in-a-swamp-in-greece.html
https://apnews.com/21069849394551c0884b158e7527e1e2
https://apnews.com/4d9972211604883d7a8cf883b8f29ea6
https://www.trentonian.com/news/timeline-in-the-life-tragic-death-of-julie-scully/article_f4139482-908a-5002-a8e1-2d10a34109c2.html
https://tulsaworld.com/archive/elusive-love-story-turns-into-greek-tragedy/article_b67953c1-b4d6-560f-a286-838f7adfcd97.html

137: Dark Water 2: Karen Roston Aug 25, 2020

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Scott and Karen Roston had a whirlwind romance leading to engagement and marriage. But on the last night of their honeymoon, Karen went overboard and was found dead 10 hours later. Scott gave three different stories for what happened, one of which was almost too extreme to believe...
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Sources:
"No Secret Agent, Israeli Named in Death Case Says" - by Kim Murphy, The Los Angeles Times - March 17, 1989
"Man Found Guilty of Killing Wife on Cruise Ship" - The Miami Herald, March 23, 1989
"Israeli Says He Didn't Throw Woman Overboard" - by Linda Deutsch, The Times-Advocate, March 17, 1989
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1079084.html
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/83/430/586565/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-02-21-8804010093-story.html
https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/roston-scott-robin.htm
https://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/1988/02/13/karen-roston-passenger-cruise-ship-death-aboard-honeymoon-murded-stardancer/
https://www.cruisebruise.com/Book_Reviews/Nightmare_in_Israel_By_Scott_Roston.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-17-me-29244-story.html
https://www.lifedaily.com/story/newly-wedded-husband-claims-bride-fell-overboard-on-cruise-in-stiff-wind/

136: Dark Water 2: John Halford Aug 12, 2020

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John Halford, a married man of 25 years with 3 kids, goes on an expensive Egyptian cruise all by himself. When the ship docked at the port, John never came off the boat. Extensive searches couldn't locate him anywhere, but evidence shows he did return to his room late that night/early in the morning. So what would have made him leave again? And where did he go?
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Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-44416338
https://www.cruiselawnews.com/tags/john-halford/
https://www.stowefamilylaw.co.uk/blog/2018/11/13/missing-husband-presumed-dead-in-egypt/
https://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/2011/04/06/john-halford-passenger-cruise-ship-death-overboard-thomson-spirit-egypt/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2040248/Why-165-people-gone-missing-cruise-ships-recent-years.html

135: Listener's Choice: The Duperrault Family Aug 05, 2020

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In 1961, the Duperrault family sets sail on their dream getaway aboard a boat named Bluebelle, testing out their hopes of living at sea for a year later on. Everything was perfect. The weather was warm, and they were kept themselves busy with snorkeling and collecting shells. But on the day they were due to return home, tragedy struck when a man was found in a dinghy in the middle of the ocean, detailing how the Bluebelle had sunk.
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Music by:
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"Daemones"
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"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
"Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean" by Richard D. Logan and Tere Duperault Fassbender - 2010 - TitleTown Publishing
https://www.rd.com/article/orphaned-on-the-ocean-the-unbelievable-story-of-terry-jo-duperrault/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/book-em-alone-orphaned-on-the-ocean/
https://www.today.com/popculture/orphaned-sea-tere-now-tells-story-wbna36964672
https://historydaily.org/the-story-of-terry-jo-duperrault
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38588489/rene-j-duperrault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebelle_(ship)

134: Cults: The Finale, featuring Javier Leiva and Aja Romano Jul 13, 2020

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Join us as we wrap up the cults series by chatting with two people who have both had run ins with cults.
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"Coal Miners"
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
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