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Speaker 1: The following podcast contains explicit descriptions of violence, including sexual violence,

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Speaker 1: that some listeners may find upsetting. Continue at your own risk.

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Speaker 1: It was in August nineteen ninety six, writing between the

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Speaker 1: bombing of Centennial Park during the Atlanta Olympics in July

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Speaker 1: and the September shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 1: when Connord Langford went on trial for murder. My name

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Speaker 1: is Courtney Barnes, and I'm an author and a journalist

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Speaker 1: who was living in Domino Beach, California during the nineteen

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Speaker 1: nineties when a serial killer was preying on our quiet

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Speaker 1: little beach communities, residents and visitors. In September nineteen ninety two,

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Speaker 1: I wrote the very first article about the killer's very

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Speaker 1: first victim, nineteen year old Via Kendrick, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: was my very first professionally published article. Lots of firsts there.

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Speaker 1: A little over two years later, in November of nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety I interviewed and wrote the story of Angela Bowers,

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Speaker 1: as far as we know, the first and only person

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Speaker 1: to ever escape from the killer with her life. Not

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Speaker 1: long after that, I received two letters from someone claiming

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Speaker 1: to be the killer and In both he threatened to

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Speaker 1: turn me into one of his victims, and in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety six, Connor Langford went on trial charged with the

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Speaker 1: murders of Vera Kendrick, twenty eight year old singer songwriter

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Speaker 1: Trudy Masterson, and eighteen year old Juan Costas, three of

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Speaker 1: the seven people who had been murdered in Domino Beach

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Speaker 1: over the past four years. It seemed that finally, finally,

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Speaker 1: our year's long nightmare was coming to an end. This

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Speaker 1: is the Murder Years, Episode seven. Who will Save your soul?

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Speaker 2: So you want to talk about the trial? Now?

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Speaker 1: That's Connor Langford, the man now known as the Domino Beachkiller.

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Speaker 1: In August nineteen ninety six, Connor was twenty eight years old.

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Speaker 1: Just a few short years earlier, he had been Domino

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Speaker 1: Beach's favorite son, a handsome, laid back surfer and musician,

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Speaker 1: son to the rich and powerful city councilman Greg Langford.

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Speaker 1: Everyone in town loved him, but by the beginning of

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, his Golden Boys status had decidedly tarnished.

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Speaker 1: He had become a washed up drug addict who was

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Speaker 1: sitting in jail charged with three murders and suspected of

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Speaker 1: four others, as well as the attempted kidnapping of Angela Bowers.

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Speaker 2: What's the point. The trial was a goddamn farce.

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Speaker 3: I was pretty much convicted before I even set foot

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Speaker 4: You don't think you got a fair trial.

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Speaker 3: How could it have been fair? I'm here rotting in

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Speaker 3: prison for some shit I didn't do.

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Speaker 1: It's been twenty eight years since Connor Langford was sentenced.

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Speaker 1: He's been in prison for half his life. Let's back

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Speaker 1: up a bit and talk about how he got there.

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Speaker 1: Here's retired Delsoul County Sheriff Damon Stokes.

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Speaker 2: As I remember, it went down more or less like this.

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Speaker 5: California Highway Patrol located the van belonging to Connor Langford

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Speaker 5: just off the Pacific Coast Highway, roughly one hundred and

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Speaker 5: fifty miles north of Domino Beach. This is about thirty

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Speaker 5: hours after the body of Trudy Masterson was seen by

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Speaker 5: Henrietta Jones. The homeless woman being pulled out of the

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Speaker 5: van by an adult white male. Some of Trudy's hair

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Speaker 5: and blood were found in the back of the vehicle,

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Speaker 5: and Henrietta confirmed that the van they found was indeed

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Speaker 5: the van she saw the night in question.

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Speaker 1: What about Langford? Was she able to identify him?

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Speaker 4: She was not.

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Speaker 5: It was dark, he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt or

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Speaker 5: something similar, and she really only saw him from the back,

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Speaker 5: but she did see the way he lifted Trudy's body

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Speaker 5: out of the van and said that, you know, he

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Speaker 5: moved like someone who was very fit, reasonably young.

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Speaker 2: The fuck does that even mean?

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Speaker 3: How the hell would some ancient homeless woman even though

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Speaker 3: how someone who was very fit and reasonably young move Besides,

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Speaker 3: I was far from what you'd call fit, and I

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Speaker 3: arguably wasn't reasonably young either.

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Speaker 4: Connor, you were twenty eight, and I.

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Speaker 3: Always looked on heroin, I looked and moved like I

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Speaker 3: was older than I am now, for Christ's sake.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I remember. That was part of your lawyer's argument that.

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Speaker 2: Guy was a goddamn moron.

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Speaker 6: My fucking father hired him, should have taken the public defender.

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Speaker 5: At that point, we had no choice but to arrest Connor,

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Speaker 5: and I went to his father first before I did anything,

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Speaker 5: really any public statement.

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Speaker 1: And how did that go? Better than I thought it would?

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Speaker 5: Sure, he made a stink, but it felt pretty obligatory

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Speaker 5: to me, like he was just going through the motions

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Speaker 5: on it. Remember, Connor had been making the councilman's life

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Speaker 5: hell for at least the past six or seven months,

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Speaker 5: probably going back.

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Speaker 2: Even before that.

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Speaker 5: I think on some level the councilman was happy to

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Speaker 5: have his son quieted down and out of the way,

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Speaker 5: which I know sounds crazy, But.

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Speaker 1: Do you think the councilman thought Connor was guilty?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Look, I have kids of my own, and it would

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Speaker 5: be pretty hard to believe them capable of such terrible

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Speaker 5: things unless I saw it with my own eyes, and

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Speaker 5: maybe not even then. Greg and Connor Langford, they had

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Speaker 5: their differences, I mean, lord knows, but as long as

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Speaker 5: Connor maintained his innocence, his father did the same thing.

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Speaker 3: My dad knew I wasn't guilty. I mean, he wasn't

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Speaker 3: my biggest van, but he knew I wasn't a killer.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, with all the influence he had

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Speaker 3: or the press or whoever to do whatever the fuck

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Speaker 3: he wanted, he could have gotten the sheriff to release

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Speaker 3: me into his custody while I waited for my trial.

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Speaker 3: I know he could have, but he didn't let me

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Speaker 3: sit in a goddamn jail cell for months, fucking months.

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Speaker 4: Man, are you sure about that? That your father could

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Speaker 4: have had you released? The evidence against you was pretty damning,

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Speaker 4: wasn't it.

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Speaker 6: Your van was stolen?

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Speaker 2: You know this.

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Speaker 6: It had been missing for like, I don't know, two

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Speaker 4: Yet you never reported it stolen.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about a time when I was so messed

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Speaker 3: And I sure as hell wasn't trying to invite the

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Speaker 3: every day, multiple times every day. Why would I ask

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Speaker 3: the cops to come sniffing around. Besides, it wasn't like

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Speaker 3: that van was my primary mode transportation. You know, I

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Speaker 3: used it a lot when Brodie and I were still playing,

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Speaker 3: you know, to houl my guitar and Brodie's drum kid

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Speaker 3: back and forth from gigs, and I carried our surfboards

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Speaker 3: wasn't playing music or surfing by fall of ninety five,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I get it. Those are the true things

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Speaker 3: I was known for. But at that time, the only

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Speaker 3: thing I cared about was scoring drugs. I couldn't have

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Speaker 3: given two shits about that van.

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Speaker 4: But you understand how it looked, right, Your van was

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Speaker 4: used to commit a murder, and your excuse is that

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Speaker 4: you forgot to report it stolen.

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Speaker 6: I didn't forget. I just didn't care.

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Speaker 3: Anyone who knew me back then would tell you, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I didn't give a fuck about anything.

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Speaker 8: No, that's not true at all. He cared about a

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Speaker 8: lot even then.

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Speaker 1: That's Maya Morales Connor Langford's former girlfriend.

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Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, he was going through a rough time

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Speaker 8: even before he was accused of murder. But I know

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Speaker 8: he cared about me one thing. No matter what he

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Speaker 8: and I have been through, no matter what he did

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Speaker 8: to me, or why we broke up or anything, We've

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Speaker 8: never stopped caring for each other.

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Speaker 6: Never.

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Speaker 8: No, Connor cared, not about that van, but not about

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Speaker 8: nothing either.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 5: I remember his excuse about the van. It was awfully convenient.

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Speaker 5: But even if anyone believed him, and I don't think

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Speaker 5: anybody did. I mean, not the judge, the jury, not me,

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Speaker 5: not you. Right, Am I wrong about that?

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Speaker 1: No? You're not wrong. I didn't believe him either.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it wasn't like that was the only

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Speaker 5: evidence we had against him.

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Speaker 1: The trial took place at the Del Soul County Courthouse,

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Speaker 1: about five miles inland from downtown Domino Beach, right next

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Speaker 1: door to city Hall, where Connor's father, the councilman, had

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Speaker 1: an office. It lasted five days. The prosecution began by

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Speaker 1: focusing on Vera Kendrick Garrick.

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Speaker 8: Hendrick was a pretty lovable free spirit.

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Speaker 1: The Domino Beach Killer's first victim back in September nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety two. She was painted as a fun, pretty lovable

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Speaker 1: free spirit, which she was, and it was refreshing to

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Speaker 1: her unconventional lifestyle. As counselman, Langford preferred, the fact that

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Speaker 1: Connor had had a sexual relationship with her and the

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Speaker 1: fact that Connor found her body was called too coincidental

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Speaker 8: Connor having a sexual relationship with Vera and finding her

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Speaker 8: body is just too coincidental to be coincidence.

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Speaker 1: And you could tell the jury agreed even that early

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Speaker 1: on in the trial. It seemed Connor's defense attorney had

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Speaker 1: was partying at the girl's house the night they were murdered.

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Speaker 4: I did see Connor Langford at the party that night.

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Speaker 1: This was met with an objection by the defense and

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Speaker 1: an admonishment by the judge. But the jury heard what

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Speaker 1: they heard, and to be honest, by that point, I

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Speaker 1: think they already decided he was the killer, and not

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Speaker 1: the jury and probably anyone else following the trial, believed

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Speaker 1: he was the killer of all seven victims, and they

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Speaker 1: were just waiting for the opportunity to go back into

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Speaker 1: come back and deliver a guilty verdict. Connor's lawyer tried

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Speaker 1: strong enough grounds to warrant an appeal.

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Speaker 2: That was when I knew for sure the deck was

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Speaker 2: stacked against me.

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Speaker 3: Anytime I called the jury looking at me, I felt

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Speaker 3: like I was something they scraped off their shoes, you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean. I hadn't give it up, I hope yet.

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Speaker 1: But the prosecution was a little more elegant when they

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Speaker 1: tried to tie the murder of Billy Boy Reeves to Connor,

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Speaker 1: mainly by focusing on his drug problem. They managed to

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Speaker 1: get Connor's dealer to take the stand in exchange, of course,

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Speaker 1: for all sorts of immunity. During the dealer's let's call

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Speaker 1: it colorful testimony.

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Speaker 6: He sold all sorts of drugs to Connor.

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Speaker 1: The prosecutor asked him if he had ever seen Connor

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Speaker 1: and Billy boyd together. It was very slick and definitely

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Speaker 1: it down before the witness could answer.

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Speaker 2: And how the fuck was that guy?

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Speaker 3: A credible source of information Oliver had was skunk weed

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Speaker 3: and heroin that had been stepped on so many times

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Speaker 3: you had a double or triple dose to get off.

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Speaker 2: They had enough on him to put him away for years.

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Speaker 6: He would have said anything they wanted him to say.

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Speaker 1: They went pretty hard trying to pin the murder of

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Speaker 1: Juan Costas on Connor, but that was the weakest of

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Speaker 1: So the reason I wasn't given the assignment of covering

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Speaker 1: Later, when I was promoting my book and making the

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Speaker 1: one year. One year feeling like I could be attacked

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Speaker 1: because there was always that chance that I was wrong

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I just I needed to get that off

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Speaker 5: So the faulty watermark.

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Speaker 1: There was a misspelling of the paper company's name, and

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Speaker 8: So after your testimony, the prosecution introduced a new piece

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Speaker 1: As it turned out. Back in happier times, when Connor

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Speaker 8: I one of the greatest artists in the world, but

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Speaker 8: I remember buying that paper too, because it was half price.

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Speaker 1: So this paper you bought, where did you keep it?

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Speaker 8: I guess there were maybe three or four bands practicing

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Speaker 6: Look.

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Speaker 8: I know it looked bad. Okay, I'm not stupid and

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Speaker 8: Connor Langford guilty for the murders of Vera Kendrick and

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Speaker 1: He wasn't tried for the murders of Billy boy Rieves

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Speaker 5: Look, we felt like justice had been served. I closed

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Speaker 1: Likely because of Councilman Langford's urging the state was not

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Speaker 3: So before sentencing, they brought me into this little room

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Speaker 6: Like, who is save your soul?

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Speaker 3: I kind of laughed at myself and thought, no one,

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Speaker 3: No one's going to save my soul if I even

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Speaker 3: had one left to save.

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Speaker 1: Minutes later, Connor was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences

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Speaker 1: without the possibility of rule.

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Speaker 2: And I've been here ever since.

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Speaker 4: So, for the record, do you still.

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Speaker 3: Maintain my innocence one hundred percent? If you're serious about

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Speaker 3: re examining this whole thing, and if you really think

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Speaker 3: there's even the slightest chance I might be innocent, please

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Speaker 3: do something, because I've already done everything I can.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to hear that. I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: think Connor might be innocent. All I do know is

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Speaker 1: that something happened very recently that inspired me to do

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Speaker 1: this podcast and revisit this time in my life. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so here it is. I received a third letter from

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Speaker 1: someone claiming to be the Domino Beach Killer, and it

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Speaker 1: sounds exactly like the person who wrote the first two

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Speaker 1: nearly thirty years ago.

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Speaker 7: Maybe my did court me, We're not done after all.

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Speaker 1: The Murder Years is a production of AYR Media and iHeartMedia.

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Speaker 1: Executive producer Elisa Rosen for AYR Media. Written by Tim Huddleston,

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Speaker 1: directed by Alisa Rosen, Editing and sound designed by Tristan Bankston,

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Speaker 1: Consulting producer Jean Chandil coordinator Olive Goldberg. Audio engineering and

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Speaker 1: mastering by Justin Longerbeing studio engineer Josh Hook. Original concept

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Speaker 1: developed in partnership with Anne Margaret Johns and Greg Spring,

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Speaker 1: Executive producer for iHeartMedia. Maya Howard. Performances for this episode

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Speaker 1: by Erica Leniac as Courtney Barnes, Tom Virtue as Sheriff,

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Speaker 1: Damon Stokes, Alex Salem as Connor Langford, Melon Faxus as

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Speaker 1: Maya Morales