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#334 - The Missing Blood Mystery - Grayson, Kentucky

Small Town Murder

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The Death Penalty: A Tough One to Defend

In 2000, the Kentucky Supreme Court strikes down the conviction saying that the court ruled that the jurors should have been allowed to hear the audio portions of the police officer's video at the crime scene. So they overturn it retrial. His defense theory, obviously she was dead before I got there. That's what it is. As a tough one to defend. They said, come on. We don't need to set to kill Sam Fields because the death penalty is on the table. He didn't choose his childhood. He didn’t ask for it. Well, I'm sure that Mrs. Horton didn't ask to get a knife in her brain either.

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