1 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: Murder on Songbird Road is a production of iHeart Podcasts. 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 2: I thought the new story about murder than a wool 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 2: area in. 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 3: Marion, And when I clicked on the article a bombird 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 3: Road and my. 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 4: Heart thank because I need it. Backs to the road 7 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 4: that Julie led on. 8 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 2: To have a murderers Christmas Jae Beasley doesn't happen very 9 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 2: often down here. 10 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: And Mary in Illinois, an eleven year old girl brutally 11 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: stabbed to death her father's longtime living girlfriend, maintaining innocence 12 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: but charged with her murder. 13 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 3: I am confident that Julie Beverley is guilty with this case. 14 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 3: The more I learned about it, the more I'm scratching 15 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 3: my head, like man somethings thinks about it. 16 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 2: Something's not right. 17 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: Why would a thirty two year old woman with no 18 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: history of violence murder and eleven year old she considered 19 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: her own child. 20 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 2: Sometimes people snap, That is what I believe happened in 21 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 2: this case. 22 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 3: She claims that as soon as she pulls the storm 23 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 3: over and that she notices blood in the living room 24 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 3: and somebody clad and all black comes charging at her, 25 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 3: and that he's got a knife. 26 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: They had told us at the press conference that she 27 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 2: had told them a story about a suspect that left 28 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 2: the home that was later proven to be false. But 29 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: they never explained how I should have asked, Looking back 30 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 2: at it now, in hindsight. 31 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 4: If you stamped somebody, how many times you would have 32 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 4: blood splatter, which the change closed. They've never found the 33 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 4: weapon never made sense, still doesn't make sense. 34 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,199 Speaker 1: I'm Lauren Bright. Pacheco. Murder on Songbird Road dives into 35 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: the conviction of a mother of four who remains behind 36 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,559 Speaker 1: bars and the investigation that put her there. 37 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 4: She found out she was pregnant in jail, she wasn't 38 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 4: treated like she was an innocent human being at all, 39 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 4: which is just horrific. 40 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: It is unhumane. 41 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 4: I have not seen this level of corruption anywhere in 42 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 4: my life. From the lying and the cover ups, it's unbelievable. 43 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: And the victim impact statement darkness the light. Oh that's 44 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: what I wrote down on the line, like darkness cannot 45 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: drive out darkness. 46 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 2: They're talking about witches. 47 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: That kind of is frowned upon down. 48 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:12,119 Speaker 2: Here around here. 49 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 4: They don't murders. 50 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: Nice join me along with criminal defense attorney Bob Mada 51 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: in investigating the murder that ripped a rural community in 52 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: southern Illinois, part pitting families against one another in a 53 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 1: storm of controversy, corruption, and continuing questions. 54 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 4: The person who hit it is still out there. He 55 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 4: had both hands on either side of the door, and 56 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 4: he kept just talking and jibber jabbering, and I was 57 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 4: too afraid to answer the door. 58 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 3: He just kept knocking and knocking. 59 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:43,519 Speaker 1: So a shirtless guy, and he looked like he was 60 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: under the influence of drugs. 61 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no justice for Jade. 62 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 3: There's no justice Julie. 63 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 2: Nobody has gotten justice yet. And that's what I wish 64 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 2: people would understand. 65 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: Murder on Songbird Road launches January two. 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