WEBVTT - Chapter 1 | Something Stinks 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:07.720 Heads up. This series contains graphic descriptions of violence. There's 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.800 a saying I heard on a recent trip to the South, 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.239 A half truth is a whole lie. And if there's 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.840 a place that breathes life into that proverb, it's the 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:25.360 town of Mayfield in Graves County, Kentucky. A horrific murder 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.080 went unsolved for six years in Mayfield, Kentucky, a town 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.760 of ten thousand people. Then one local resident decided to 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.280 take matters into her own hands. On August first, two thousand, 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.000 the body of Jessica Current was found outside of the 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.560 Mayfield Middle School. It appeared as though she'd been beaten 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:48.400 and set on fire. Jessica was just eighteen years old, 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.240 a new mom, and the daughter of a lieutenant with 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:55.480 the Mayfield Fire Department, and her case would go unsolved 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:56.440 for years. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:01.040 When police in Mayfield, Kentucky found a body, Susan Galbreth 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:05.640 found a purpose. She had to know who murdered Jessica Current. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.399 Until a local homemaker and a handful of girls came 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.560 forward with a story, a story that police would use 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:19.480 to convict six people, lending Susan Galbreath in the newspapers 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:21.880 and the radio and on national TV. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.760 Galbreath was a housewife, married three times and drifting. She 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.119 had no law enforcement training and she'd never even met 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.880 Jessica Current. But whatever grabbed her wouldn't let go. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.160 Somebody had to do something, and if somebody was me, 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:38.840 so be it. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.400 Years later, the Kentucky Attorney General would even honor Susan 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.600 with an Outstanding Citizen Award for finding the key witness 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:52.120 in the Jessica Current case. It's a made for TV story. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:57.360 Ordinary woman, help solve murder, brings justice to a small town. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.120 Susan Galbreth was named Citizen of the Year, but a 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.440 Kentucky Bureau of Investigation and to know. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.080 That I had just the slightest part and it just 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:09.360 I feel like I was meant to. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.919 Susan Gallabreath has done more than just proved one person 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.880 really can make a difference through sheer, persistence and nerve. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.280 This Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:30.519 Cur Catnip for the press, and who could blame them? 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:36.920 It's a good one, maybe too good to be true, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.839 because this story will go beyond one woman. It's about 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.600 the lengths our legal system, our communities, and the press 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.920 will go in order to find someone to blame. And 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.240 it's about the tales we tell and choose to believe 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:56.040 in pursuit of justice, the repercussions of which have uprooted lives, 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:01.480 shattered families, and exposed a deep rought in Kentucky's halls 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:45.720 of power. This is Graves County, Chapter one, Something Stinks. 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.560 My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer winning journalist 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.800 and producer who has spent years reporting on the criminal 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.360 legal system. That's how I first heard about this case 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.120 and about Susan Galbreath. I didn't get a chance to 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.480 meet Susan in person. She died in twenty eighteen at 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.920 the age of fifty eight. A lot of what I've 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.679 learned about Susan comes from her interviews with the press 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.200 and her own writings emails I've had the chance to review, 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.240 and from her testimony in the trial for the murder 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:24.320 of Jessica Curran. 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:26.640 When I was a child, I either wanted to be 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.920 a comedian or a police officer. So I don't neither, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:35.520 of course, but I've just always had a fascination with 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:36.640 the law and things like that. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.719 Susan Gallbreath was born in Chicago, and moved to Mayfield, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.400 Kentucky in her early thirties. She liked living in a 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.200 small town with a tight knit community, and she had 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.800 a son she loved. But by the time her fortieth 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.640 birthday hit, Susan was in a rut. A self described 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.279 cigarette smoking, busybody. She was on her third marriage to 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.960 a man who drank too much, and she'd lost her 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.840 job from an injury. She was aimless. On top of that, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.800 she had a string of deaths in her family. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.880 In nineteen ninety nine. I had the death of my brother, father, 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.599 and mother, so it was a real rough year for me. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.719 Here, she is talking to a local public radio station 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.640 WKMS in twenty thirteen. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.520 And I think that I've always felt that I was 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.200 meant to be there today that they've found Justica's body, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.919 and I often refer to it as through her, I 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.719 somehow got my purpose back, because it was a real 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:35.920 rough year in ninety nine. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.920 In her telling, Susan was sitting at a restaurant on 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.840 a summer day when she overheard a waitress saying that 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:52.120 police had found a body. What happened after that can 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:57.359 only be described as spiritual, an epiphany of sorts. She 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.320 just had to go to the scene of the crime 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.839 and see it for herself, and what she found horrified 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.520 and captivated her. She would spend every waking hour wondering 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.839 what kind of monster could have done such a thing. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.000 But time passed and the case went unsolved, and after 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.200 four years, the police had little to show for their 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.280 work except for some failed leads and a string of 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:29.240 rumors about what had happened to Jessica Curran. That's when 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:33.200 Susan says her curiosity turned into an obsession. If the 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.920 cops weren't going to crack the case, she would she'd 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:41.400 play detective and string tidbits of information together chase leads 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:46.920 find the truth. But this amateur sleuth needed help, so 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:52.000 she started emailing people important, people like Oprah and Julia Roberts, 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.960 anyone who could connect her to resources or give this 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.680 case much needed attention, but she heard nothing. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.320 A federal investigation in Brooklyn, and. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.479 Then on TV one day she saw a British investigative 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.480 journalist by the name of Tom mingled. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.200 Bobby revealing how they'd blind to see the manipulated the 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:14.240 truth of forty years. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:15.920 So she wrote him as well. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:21.400 Date four four, two thousand and four from Susan g 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:22.600 it chartered that net. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.080 This is Susan reading part of that email for a 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.680 radio piece Tom produced for the BBC in twenty twelve. 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.200 It was a retrospective on the work Susan ended up 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:33.200 doing for the case. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.720 Hello, mister Mangold, I am writing concerning a murder in 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.960 a small town in the state of Kentucky here in 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.960 the US. The victim a beautiful eighteen year old black girl. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.040 Tom flew to Kentucky about a month after getting that 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.080 email in two thousand and four. It was the beginning 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.680 of a year's long partnership with Susan and the launch 0:07:52.920 --> 0:08:02.360 of their investigation. They were an duo. Here are segments 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.000 on how they describe each other in Tom's radio piece. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.679 When I first met Tom, I thought he was prim 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.360 and proper, like he had to stick up his ass. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.840 I mean, he was just really formal, you know. 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.720 When I first met Susan, I liked her on site. 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.920 She's chubby, lively, great sense of humor, sexy, deep voice, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.560 and passionate about the one thing she needed to be 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.080 passionate about the murder of Jessica current. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.840 Tom, then in his late sixties, said he brought his 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.000 experience as a seasoned investigative reporter and taught Susan how 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.840 to parse gossip from truth. They drank bottles of Sauvignon 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:43.640 blanc together, Chase Leeds discuss theories, and eventually they pinpointed 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.080 a local girl who turned out to be key to 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.480 solving the case. Victoria Caldwell. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.000 Doris Victoria Conwell and what did people call you? 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:56.000 Victoria? 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.960 She came forward saying she was an accomplice to the crimes, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.080 and she ended up being the state's key witness. 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.880 So in July two thousand, hour were here. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.360 Fifteen years old. Victoria's account about what happened to Jessica 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.880 Curran would be the driving force in the conviction of 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:18.480 her accused killers. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.720 Cavalovel Kersh's Quinsey Omar Crouch. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:28.040 This was the story Victoria told. We've edited her statements 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:32.520 for length and warning it contains descriptions of physical and 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:33.559 sexual violence. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.840 Vanda Victoria love Will. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.040 On a summer night in two thousand, Victoria says she 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.360 was hanging out with a few kids from around town, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:48.960 including Jessica Curran and Venetia Stubblefield, all of them teenagers 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:53.000 at the time. According to Victoria. They eventually ended up 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.480 in a car with some older kids, all in the 0:09:55.559 --> 0:10:00.360 early twenties, including Victoria's cousin Tamra, Tamra's boyfriend Quincy Cross, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.400 and a guy they need from school named Jeff Burton, 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.160 the only white person in the group. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.040 Wuency started passing out the drugs. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:10.960 Coke. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.400 She says. They did cocaine and other drugs in. 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.839 The car, yes ecstasy. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.000 Tamra and Quincy were driving in the front with Jessica 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:22.640 and they started touching her. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:28.360 Quincy and Tamra were rubbing on Jessica's legs. She was 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:33.040 telling him to stop and no you did they stop? No, 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.560 he didn't want that. Then when we got to the 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:46.800 driveway of Jeff's house, Quincy he walked under the seat 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.840 and he had a bat and he hit her in 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:57.640 her head like a small, like little bat. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:02.000 She says. Quincy reached under this and then hit Jessica 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.120 in the head with a souvenir bat. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:05.920 I'm not really, you're not to explain it. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.560 After that, they drove to Jeff's house and they carried 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:15.200 Jessica's unconscious body inside. According to Victoria, Quincy and Jeff 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.640 raped and beat Jessica with the help of Tamera, and. 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:23.120 That's when Jessica started to wake up. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.199 Jessica was in and out of consciousness. 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.440 Actually woke up. She was saying like she wanted to 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.440 go home. She just wanted to go home to her son. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.000 She's getting her son, Zion's name. 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.880 She was pleading for her life and calling out the 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.280 name of her seven month old son. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.000 Quincy. He hit her. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:52.120 He hit her with a ratchet, and she just knocked 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:56.880 back out. Victoria says. Quincy then started strangling Jessica with 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:57.880 his leather belt. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:03.240 He was just choking her each other. She just kept pulling, pulling, 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:08.000 pulling on it. What she was to like Carol, like 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:08.920 gasping for air? 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:11.680 Did she gasp? 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.920 Yes, yes, yes. 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:22.240 But it didn't end there. Victoria says that after Quincy 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.880 killed Jessica, he ordered the girls to have sex with 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:30.079 her ravaged, lifeless body. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.040 That they had to do something. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:38.080 She describes the sexual acts in lurid detail, but I'm 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.480 not going to share those specifics here. It's gruesome perform 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:48.359 sexual acts on Jessica Current's body. Yes, according to the prosecution, 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.360 this would implicate them all in the murder and ensure 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:59.199 their silence. After it was all done, Victoria says they 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.240 wrapped Jessica his body in a blanket and hid her 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.240 in Jeff's garage for a few days until she started 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.440 to smell. Then, she says, a few of them drove 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.360 Jessica's body to the middle school, where they dumped her 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:17.600 and set her on fire. Victoria says she took the blanket, 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.199 Jeff poured the gas, and Venetia lit the match and 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:22.880 then let. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.280 As the jury reached a birdie if he had handed 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:33.480 to the by the place. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.960 On April eighth, two thousand and eight, after only three 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:42.000 hours and forty five minutes of deliberating, a Kentucky jury 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:46.080 convicted Quincy Cross on all charges we The. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.280 Jury found the defendant guilty of kidnapping, guilty of mark 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.559 guilty of ripe, and the first guilty of abuse of 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.840 the guilty of tampering with physical evidence of her instruction 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:55.720 number fifteen. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.440 He was later sentenced to life in prison without the 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:04.920 possibility of parole. Tamra and Jeff took please and were 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:10.800 sentenced to ten and fifteen years, respectively. Venetia and Victoria 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:16.520 got lighter sentences for cooperating with the prosecution. Remember, Victoria 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:23.520 was the state's key witness. The case would make headlines 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.480 because it took eight years to find and punish the 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:32.120 accused killers, and because of Susan and Tom. Susan stayed 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.640 on the case and Tom stayed on the story long 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.960 after the convictions. In an email a few months after 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.280 the trial, Tom informed Susan he was writing an article 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.360 on her for the Times of London. He writes, quote, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.400 I'll make you famous yet, to which Susan responds quote, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.560 I couldn't be happier about this. I can only hope 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.960 I don't let you down. Tom and Susan would appear 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.360 in interviews like the one you heard earlier from a 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:05.000 public radio station, celebrating their feet. Tom told wkm AS 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.480 that he had received about fifteen film offers from movie 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.120 studios interested in their story. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:15.640 And they were all interested in the relationship between an 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:20.640 aging British hack and this lovely young lady originally from Chicago. 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.160 He and Susan ended up signing a contract with BBC Films. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:30.040 Don't ask me who's going to play me? Because I 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:31.880 wanted Brad Pitt to play That's. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.640 What I was thinking. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.480 He's far too old for me. I know the talk 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:41.280 is of Susan sound and type actress to play Susan. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.640 It's an interesting story and we have had a remarkable 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.280 relationship and one that has given me intense pleasure. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.400 In a perfect world where good guys win and the 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.320 bad guys are punished, this is where the story would end. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:02.040 Role credits. To accept this pre call press one. To 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.200 refuse this pre call Press two. Thank you for using securists. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.040 You may start the conversation now. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:11.800 Hello. 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.560 Okay, hey, Quincy, Hey, how you doing. I'm well, how 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:16.320 are you doing today? 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:17.880 Uh? 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.720 I'm just you know, still doing time as well. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.920 But then again, I wouldn't be here if things worked 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.880 the way they should. Quincy, what is that like for 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.200 the world to think here somebody as terrible as a 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:33.000 as a murderer. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:40.280 It's painful. Yeah, it's very painful, and it's something it's 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.240 and it's something that I've never adjusted to living back. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.640 To understand this story, you need to know the people 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.760 accused and convicted of Jessica Current's murder. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.400 My story is not just about me, but it's about 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.040 Jessica the victim, and it's about Camera and Jeff Burton too. 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.440 All our story we was portrayed to be something that 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.240 we not. So you know, the whole world looked at 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:05.800 us different. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:06.639 We still do. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.199 So you know, my story is to, you know, to 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:11.240 have clear all that up. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.800 I've gotten to know two of them well, Quincy and Tamera, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.959 and from the very beginning they have maintained that the 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.280 story Victoria told at trial was a lie. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.760 People still talk about me to this day, but I 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.080 don't care because I know I feel greated, like I 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.520 know I didn't do anything. I know I didn't do 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:31.920 a thing. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.840 Other people ensnared in this story have told me the 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:43.440 same thing. They did not kill Jessica Current. That's after 0:17:43.480 --> 0:18:11.399 the break. Mayfield, Kentucky, is in the dead center of 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:15.760 Graves County, tucked away in the southwestern corner of the Commonwealth. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:20.360 There's more crops than people. Corn, soy and tobacco fields 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.879 stretch as far as the eye can see, legacy of 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.800 a time when African people were bought and sold like 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:31.800 chattel to cultivate these same crops. Alcohol laws in Graves 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.360 County date back to the Dry Crusade or Prohibition era, 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.280 so there's not many places to gather and grab a 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:42.480 drink on a Friday folks in Mayfield are damn proud 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.040 of their winning high school football team, the Cardinals, But 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.440 other than game night, locals tell me there's not much 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.720 to do. Just under ten thousand people live in Mayfield. 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:58.880 The population hasn't grown in decades, and like in many 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:03.159 small towns across the country, lack of activity or opportunity 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.280 often leads to mischief and petty crime. A lot of 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.560 it in the county is drug related, people selling or 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:14.120 possessing drugs, and a lot of people have kids young 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.159 in their teens and twenties. That was the case for 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:22.400 Tamra called, well, so you were seventeen, you got pregnant, 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.040 and was there any question about keeping the baby or 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:28.280 were you Oh yeah, I'm keeping it. Tamar always knew 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.280 she wanted to be a mom, so when she got 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.000 pregnant as a teen with her first child, a boy, 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.280 Tamora was happy. You're like, I'm ready to I'm read. 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.480 Yep, I'm ready. I'm not getting rid of it. I'm ready. 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.520 And when another baby, a daughter, came just two years later, 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:48.520 and another one a few years after that, she knew 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.480 she'd adore those little girls just as much. There was 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:53.560 love to spare. 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:58.040 I enjoyed being with my kids because they weren't my life. 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.680 Tamarra also knew that she would didn't need a man 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.800 to raise the kids, just like her mom and grandmother 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:05.800 before her. Who is your dad? 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.800 My mother is my dad. She's always been my dad 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.159 and will always be like it. 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.480 Men would come and go, but Tamer's family would stay together. 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.280 That's not to say that some men didn't stay a 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:24.760 little while. One of them was Quincy Cross. Before they 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.760 were both accused of murder, their names tied to a 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.040 brutal crime. There were just two kids in their early 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:37.600 twenties who fell in love. Quincy was from a town 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.960 just across the border in Tennessee, about a forty minute 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:45.400 drive southwest of Mayfield. Quincy had the kind of swagger 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.720 that comes from being a young man without a care 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.440 in the world. Unlike Tamra, who says she's always been 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:55.600 more of a homebody, content on the couch with her kids, 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:00.840 watching soap operas or Jeopardy. Quincy was a boy getting 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:01.320 in trouble. 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:03.520 We was drinking and drugging, hear me. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.440 Quincy says he and his friends would run the streets. 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:10.600 It was selling drugs. It was hanging out laid you know, 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.879 it was you know, of hanging out with female, a 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.639 whole bunch of female, different females all the time. It 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:19.320 was it was, you know, kids, the whole bunch of kids. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.720 Things going on, you know what I'm saying. Like I said, 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.760 drinking and drugging. Man lose most of the time doing 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:26.760 it all man, doing what kids. 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:30.520 Do, and those things usually landed Quincy in and out 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:34.359 of jail. That's actually how Tamar and Quincy met. He 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.720 was locked up in the same jail as Tammer's brother 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:39.680 in Graves County, and in one of her visits, Tamer 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:43.399 says she saw Quincy looking at her. He was cute, 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.440 a little short. He's five to four, with big cheeks 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:50.840 and a warm, dimpled smile, and she remembers thinking maybe 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:54.639 to him. So she did, and he turned out to 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:59.360 be nice as well. He was friendly, cute, friendly, and funny. 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:03.000 Quincy was a comedy. Quincy was just a fun person. 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.800 I enjoyed talking though him and Quincy enjoyed Tamra. 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:10.680 Timber had a nice heart. Cama had a nice heart. 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:14.040 Man Tampa was a friend before she was anything else. 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:16.040 Man tim was. We was good to hang out with 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:16.480 each other. 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:16.760 Man. 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:19.120 She was a good person, man for real. 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:22.840 Tamra was already pregnant when she got serious with Quincy. 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:26.920 She didn't party, so they liked watching movies together, eating pizza. 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:30.040 Quincy even moved in with Tamara and her mom for 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:32.280 a bit. He was there when Tamara had to have 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:36.399 an emergency c section and her youngest girl, Shade, was born. 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:42.480 Before she did. Oh, man, I cried, I crad. I 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:45.800 was soft man, I ain't on trip. I crad. I 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:49.960 shed some teriars right there. That was a beautiful thing. Yeah, 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:52.000 that was a beautiful thing. That would bring back some good. 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:57.679 Memories right there, Tamra says Quincy. It was good with 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:01.320 the kids. She even gave Shade his last name, even 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:03.560 though he wasn't the biological dad. 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:08.040 Even though he didn't have no kids, My kids were 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:08.920 his kids. 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:12.160 He didn't seem to mind the mess that comes with children. 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:16.200 Literally before he got in the door, before he opened 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:19.879 the door, he would change shirts because he knew that 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:21.159 Beebe was gonna throw up. 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:24.679 Yes Bvbe is Shade's nickname. 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:28.480 With Yes, he was the best. 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:32.600 Tamrosa's Quincy loved Bebe and her whole family He was 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:36.560 even a pallbearer at her Grandma Doris's funeral. He was 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:38.000 fully in her life. 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:40.520 We were like best friends. 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:44.560 But after a few years their relationship faded the way 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:45.760 relationships do. 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:49.800 I just had to go back home. 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:52.200 Back home to Tennessee. 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:55.680 I just want to go back home. Man, Makefield was 0:23:55.920 --> 0:24:01.400 Makefield is you have one minute left? Its corrupt down 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:05.200 there as corrupt things long down now, and I figured 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:06.679 it would time for me to come back home. 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:10.600 Tamar and Quincy broke up around two thousand and five 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:14.159 and lost contact for a bit, but he wasn't able 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:17.120 to shake Mayfield off for long. A few years after 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:20.960 the breakup, in two thousand and seven, he'd return to Kentucky, 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:26.639 and even though he'd never get back together with Tamra, 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:30.439 their names would be forever linked to each other and 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.359 to Mayfield's most infamous murder. 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:37.520 I got a pritty two that toil. Yeah, I was 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:40.480 in there five years, late months. It's two days, five years, 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:41.320 eight months and two days. 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:41.560 Yeah. 0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:46.960 I'm sitting with Tamra at her mom's house in Mayfield. 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:51.960 She's bold and bright, with shimmery makeup and colorful braided hair. 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:55.640 Tamra says, since she was a kid. She's always had 0:24:55.680 --> 0:25:01.640 colorful hair. Today it's blue, her favorite. But inside, Tamera 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:05.800 is guarded, scarred by prison and the events that led 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:06.280 her there. 0:25:07.040 --> 0:25:07.920 I used to be. 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:10.639 Outgoing. 0:25:12.160 --> 0:25:13.720 I was always a positive one. 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:19.119 Not no more, not like I used to. 0:25:24.880 --> 0:25:25.960 Not like it used to be. 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:30.880