Speaker 1: Murder on Songbird Road is a production of iHeart Podcasts.
Speaker 2: I thought the new story about murder than a wool
Speaker 2: area in.
Speaker 3: Marion, And when I clicked on the article a bombird
Speaker 3: Road and my.
Speaker 4: Heart thank because I need it. Backs to the road
Speaker 4: that Julie led on.
Speaker 2: To have a murderers Christmas Jae Beasley doesn't happen very
Speaker 2: often down here.
Speaker 1: And Mary in Illinois, an eleven year old girl brutally
Speaker 1: stabbed to death her father's longtime living girlfriend, maintaining innocence
Speaker 1: but charged with her murder.
Speaker 3: I am confident that Julie Beverley is guilty with this case.
Speaker 3: The more I learned about it, the more I'm scratching
Speaker 3: my head, like man somethings thinks about it.
Speaker 2: Something's not right.
Speaker 1: Why would a thirty two year old woman with no
Speaker 1: history of violence murder and eleven year old she considered
Speaker 1: her own child.
Speaker 2: Sometimes people snap, That is what I believe happened in
Speaker 2: this case.
Speaker 3: She claims that as soon as she pulls the storm
Speaker 3: over and that she notices blood in the living room
Speaker 3: and somebody clad and all black comes charging at her,
Speaker 3: and that he's got a knife.
Speaker 2: They had told us at the press conference that she
Speaker 2: had told them a story about a suspect that left
Speaker 2: the home that was later proven to be false. But
Speaker 2: they never explained how I should have asked, Looking back
Speaker 2: at it now, in hindsight.
Speaker 4: If you stamped somebody, how many times you would have
Speaker 4: blood splatter, which the change closed. They've never found the
Speaker 4: weapon never made sense, still doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: I'm Lauren Bright. Pacheco. Murder on Songbird Road dives into
Speaker 1: the conviction of a mother of four who remains behind
Speaker 1: bars and the investigation that put her there.
Speaker 4: She found out she was pregnant in jail, she wasn't
Speaker 4: treated like she was an innocent human being at all,
Speaker 4: which is just horrific.
Speaker 1: It is unhumane.
Speaker 4: I have not seen this level of corruption anywhere in
Speaker 4: my life. From the lying and the cover ups, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And the victim impact statement darkness the light. Oh that's
Speaker 1: what I wrote down on the line, like darkness cannot
Speaker 1: drive out darkness.
Speaker 2: They're talking about witches.
Speaker 1: That kind of is frowned upon down.
Speaker 2: Here around here.
Speaker 4: They don't murders.
Speaker 1: Nice join me along with criminal defense attorney Bob Mada
Speaker 1: in investigating the murder that ripped a rural community in
Speaker 1: southern Illinois, part pitting families against one another in a
Speaker 1: storm of controversy, corruption, and continuing questions.
Speaker 4: The person who hit it is still out there. He
Speaker 4: had both hands on either side of the door, and
Speaker 4: he kept just talking and jibber jabbering, and I was
Speaker 4: too afraid to answer the door.
Speaker 3: He just kept knocking and knocking.
Speaker 1: So a shirtless guy, and he looked like he was
Speaker 1: under the influence of drugs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no justice for Jade.
Speaker 3: There's no justice Julie.
Speaker 2: Nobody has gotten justice yet. And that's what I wish
Speaker 2: people would understand.
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