Speaker 1: Orbit Media presents Death and Deceit in Alliance. I'm Maggie Freeling,
Speaker 1: a Pulitzer winning producer and reporter. But one of the
Speaker 1: worst things that could happen as a journalist happened to me,
Speaker 1: and it nearly broke me. And it's all told in
Speaker 1: my podcast, Death and Deceit in Alliance. This was a
Speaker 1: story from a few years ago, a real time investigation
Speaker 1: I did with private investigators in twenty twenty one. Back then,
Speaker 1: we were looking into the brutal murder of a young woman,
Speaker 1: the murder of a mother of five in her own
Speaker 1: home stunt the small town of Alliance, Ohio.
Speaker 2: Twenty six year old is von Lane, a beautiful, vivacious
Speaker 2: woman found in a pool of her own blood.
Speaker 3: Her case was solved quickly by a confession.
Speaker 4: They chained him to the wall and they told him
Speaker 4: that they wanted him to confess, And I.
Speaker 3: Was sure the police got the wrong people.
Speaker 2: This case has absolutely consumed just about everyone who has
Speaker 2: touched it. The case is haunting.
Speaker 3: It's haunting, but as I dug, I was not ready
Speaker 3: for what I found.
Speaker 2: If you slid her throat right here, there would be blood.
Speaker 2: More blood on.
Speaker 1: That, yeah, on that sofa.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just on the arm really, And that's
Speaker 3: what broke me. Were my instincts totally off? Like I'm
Speaker 3: just like, I don't know, I feel like I got
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 4: I feel like I got emotional. I don't know, I'd
Speaker 4: feel really confused.
Speaker 3: Or was there something actually wrong with this case?
Speaker 2: You guys have got them.
Speaker 4: I'm going to stay.
Speaker 2: What's I listened to me?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 2: My god? I had eight or nine names of officers
Speaker 2: who were potential sexual partners.
Speaker 3: She had so many secrets.
Speaker 1: This case has a cemetary sex tray. It seems like
Speaker 1: everyone in her life had a motive to kill Yvonne.
Speaker 2: Everyone in this town seems to have some kind of
Speaker 2: secret or interest in this victim, whether it be drugs,
Speaker 2: sex or both.
Speaker 1: Now, nearly five years later, I'm looking back at that
Speaker 1: time in my life and that case with a new lens.
Speaker 3: What really happened to Yvonne Lane and to me?
Speaker 1: The first four episodes of Death and Deceit in Alliance
Speaker 1: premiere December second, with a new episodes dropping every Tuesday
Speaker 1: and Friday. Listen on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts,
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