WEBVTT - Chapter 3 | Persons of Interest

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<v Speaker 1>Heads up, this series contains graphic descriptions of violence. So Quincy,

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<v Speaker 1>I have a couple questions that are going to be

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<v Speaker 1>difficult questions.

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<v Speaker 2>It basically comes down to that night.

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<v Speaker 3>Giv I giv.

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<v Speaker 1>In one of my calls with Quincy Cross, I brought

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<v Speaker 1>up the concerns you heard last episode about the gas,

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<v Speaker 1>the belt, and his demeanor the night Jessica went missing.

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<v Speaker 1>These three things made Citizen Investigator Susan Galbreath home in

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<v Speaker 1>on Quincy and make him suspect number one on her list.

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<v Speaker 1>Not only that prosecutors would use these details in their

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<v Speaker 1>case against Quincy as proof of his guilt.

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<v Speaker 4>He was pouring gas into the car with Debbie Perkins bandied,

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<v Speaker 4>and he didn't have a belt.

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<v Speaker 5>Or sure.

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<v Speaker 1>When I spoke to Quincy, his story remained relatively unchanged.

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<v Speaker 1>He went to a small party, borrowed a car, and

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<v Speaker 1>left around daybreak to go find something to eat. He

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<v Speaker 1>got lost and then the car broke down. Where did

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<v Speaker 1>you get the gas can?

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<v Speaker 3>Do? Yeah, I'm bailed. It was a pall on something else.

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<v Speaker 6>Goss just ship there.

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<v Speaker 1>He says he got the can and started filling the tank.

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<v Speaker 1>Then a deputy jailer stopped by to help and saw

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<v Speaker 1>him spilling gas on his pants. As far as wanting

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<v Speaker 1>to find girls that night, he says, yeah, he brought

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<v Speaker 1>that up at the party.

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<v Speaker 2>It was full of guys.

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<v Speaker 6>Like a whole bunch of boots I can find.

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<v Speaker 1>So maybe that's what people at the party remembered. And

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<v Speaker 1>the missing belt, he thinks maybe he left it at

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<v Speaker 1>the house when he dozed off on the couch.

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<v Speaker 3>That wanted to.

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<v Speaker 6>Get him off the edge of the couch and hill.

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<v Speaker 3>On the couch.

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<v Speaker 1>These answers are unsatisfying, and they don't look great if

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<v Speaker 1>I'm being honest, But they would concern me more if

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<v Speaker 1>the case against Quincy weren't so flimsy, Because when you

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<v Speaker 1>look deeper into the actual evidence presented at Quincy's trial

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<v Speaker 1>and the story the prosecution told about how Jessica was killed,

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<v Speaker 1>these two details lose their damning power, and I'd go

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<v Speaker 1>as far as saying they don't even matter at all.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Graves County, Chapter three, Persons of Interest. After

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<v Speaker 1>interviewing Quincy under false pretenses, Susan Golbreath was going to

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<v Speaker 1>get him for Jessica Curran's murder. She knew it was him.

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<v Speaker 1>The gas the belt. It made too much sense. They

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<v Speaker 1>just needed to figure out how, why, and with whom.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the things Susan did next was find the

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<v Speaker 1>names of exactly who all had been at the party

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<v Speaker 1>at Chris Drive, the same one Quincy was at the

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<v Speaker 1>night of the murder. It was a small gathering, but

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<v Speaker 1>it was one of many on that street that night,

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<v Speaker 1>so people came and went. Susan started by going over

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<v Speaker 1>original police interviews from the days after Jessica's body was

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<v Speaker 1>found on August first, two thousand.

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<v Speaker 7>I immediately started laying out the transcripts, and if I've

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<v Speaker 7>talked too much, I apologize.

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<v Speaker 6>I have a bad habit of it.

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<v Speaker 1>But during trial, Susan recalls that in the transcripts, partygoers

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<v Speaker 1>mentioned two guests whose names remained a mystery.

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<v Speaker 7>These two white boys doped by five Mine seven Chris Try,

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<v Speaker 7>So for some reason, I thought they were so they

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<v Speaker 7>were important because they kept asking about him.

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<v Speaker 1>One party goer told police that the two guys had

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<v Speaker 1>come from a nearby gathering, but they only stayed for

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<v Speaker 1>a minute or two. Through some digging, Susan says, she

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<v Speaker 1>managed to identify them. Then she called the Kentucky State Police.

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<v Speaker 7>I had called Sam Steeter and I said, look, I said,

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<v Speaker 7>I got the name of those two white boys with

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<v Speaker 7>Jeffrey Burton.

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff Burton, a scrawny guy from around town who was

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<v Speaker 1>close to his mom, grew up going to church and

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<v Speaker 1>playing baseball, though like many in Mayfield, he went through

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<v Speaker 1>a rough patch. He quit high school, got busted for drugs,

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<v Speaker 1>and got into fights. But by the time Susan found

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<v Speaker 1>his name, he was in his mid twenties with a

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<v Speaker 1>wife and three kids, getting his life together and mostly

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<v Speaker 1>keeping to himself. In a two thousand and seven email

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<v Speaker 1>to journalist Tom Mangold, Susan reveals what had interest.

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<v Speaker 2>At her about Jeff. A colleague will be reading Susan's emails.

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<v Speaker 8>I had found out earlier that Burton's house was near

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<v Speaker 8>the middle school. I quit focusing on what I already

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<v Speaker 8>knew and went after what I didn't know.

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff's house was close to the middle school where Jessica's

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<v Speaker 1>body was found. Susan writes that she went to Jeff's

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<v Speaker 1>house ready to knock on the door. She wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>know what he was up to the night of the murder.

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<v Speaker 8>Long story short, I finally found Burton's house I was

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<v Speaker 8>so excited.

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<v Speaker 1>I pulled my But when Susan arrived to the house,

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<v Speaker 1>there was no one living there. It was completely abandoned,

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<v Speaker 1>she writes Tom.

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<v Speaker 8>As I walked around the house, I saw a garage.

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<v Speaker 8>It was so eerie I could see inside the house.

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<v Speaker 2>She walks back to the garage.

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<v Speaker 8>The air was still. There were houses close by, but

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<v Speaker 8>it felt as though time stood still. The driveway and

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<v Speaker 8>garage were totally surrounded by brush and foliage.

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<v Speaker 2>She creeps closer.

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<v Speaker 8>I crept over to the door and was overwhelmed with

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<v Speaker 8>the feeling of dread. I didn't go in for fear

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<v Speaker 8>of changing the scene. I was so excited. I knew

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<v Speaker 8>I had finally found where they had Jessica. I knew

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<v Speaker 8>this house was connected to her. It's hard to explain

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<v Speaker 8>another spiritual moment.

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<v Speaker 1>Perhaps up until then, the police had maintained that Jessica

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<v Speaker 1>was attacked and killed at the middle school, according to

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<v Speaker 1>records I've reviewed. Susan also had it as the crime

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<v Speaker 1>scene in her murder theories, but in this email to Tom,

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<v Speaker 1>Susan expresses that once she got to Jeff's house, she

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<v Speaker 1>just knew it was connected to Jessica's death.

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<v Speaker 8>I told Lee Wise about everything, and he told me

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<v Speaker 8>he would check into it on his next trip into town.

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<v Speaker 1>Susan shared her new theory with law enforcement, and sure

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<v Speaker 1>enough that winter agents also visited Jeff's house.

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<v Speaker 9>We're in the city of Mayfield, Kentucky present and the

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<v Speaker 9>vehicle is myself, David James, Agent bible'neil, agent Lee Wise.

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<v Speaker 2>The agents recorded the visit, but by that time it

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<v Speaker 2>had been demolished.

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<v Speaker 10>This would be the house where Jeff Burton resided.

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<v Speaker 3>The house is now gone.

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<v Speaker 1>And what you hear in these tapes seven years after

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<v Speaker 1>Jessica's murder is a shift in the official murder theory.

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<v Speaker 1>The crime scene is no longer the middle school.

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<v Speaker 6>This is a house where they took Jessica to she

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<v Speaker 6>was allegedly killed.

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<v Speaker 1>Also, up until this point, the police didn't have a

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<v Speaker 1>reason to believe Jessica had been raped or sexually assaulted.

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<v Speaker 1>They hadn't found any physical evidence of it, like trauma

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<v Speaker 1>on her body that suggested assault or seamen. Because because

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<v Speaker 1>her underwear was found ripped laying next to her, it

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<v Speaker 1>was a possibility one that Susan and Tom jumped onto

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<v Speaker 1>and which you heard last episode.

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<v Speaker 2>We were pretty certain by now that Quincy Cross, together

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<v Speaker 2>with other accomplices, had murdered Jessica in a sex and

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<v Speaker 2>drugs frenzy, but they hadn't been able to corroborate their hunch.

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<v Speaker 1>So in two thousand and seven, when Victoria Caledwell responded

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<v Speaker 1>to Susan's friend request on MySpace, Susan was elated and

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<v Speaker 1>let Victoria.

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<v Speaker 2>Know, you just gave me goosebumps.

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<v Speaker 3>Hun.

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<v Speaker 8>Of course I can help you, she replied to Victoria.

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<v Speaker 8>I'll do anything I can for you. I promise you.

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<v Speaker 8>I'm sitting here with tears rolling down my face. I

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<v Speaker 8>had no idea. I have friends in high places, Hun,

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<v Speaker 8>and I can probably help you a lot. In fact,

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<v Speaker 8>I know I can.

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<v Speaker 1>Susan was convinced Victoria was the key to cracking the

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<v Speaker 1>case against Quincy Cross US because Victoria had been tangentially

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<v Speaker 1>involved in this case from the beginning.

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<v Speaker 9>I'm at the math the high school in the conference

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<v Speaker 9>room outside of time for the robbers, president as myself,

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<v Speaker 9>Detective m Fortner, and also Victoria Caldwell.

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<v Speaker 1>Just days after Jessica's death, Victoria told police she heard

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<v Speaker 1>people talking about killing.

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<v Speaker 6>Jessica at the core because that'll it.

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<v Speaker 1>But then she moved to California and virtually disappeared from

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<v Speaker 1>the case until two thousand and six, when she emerged again. First,

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<v Speaker 1>she called the state police to say she'd overheard relevant

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<v Speaker 1>information about the Jessica Current murder. Then she made contact

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<v Speaker 1>with Susan, saying she knew things.

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<v Speaker 2>That could put her in danger.

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<v Speaker 1>By this time, a third investigative agency had taken over

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<v Speaker 1>the case, the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation, or KBI. Susan

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<v Speaker 1>built a rapport with them like she did with our predecessors,

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<v Speaker 1>and on Susan's tip, the KBI traveled to California to

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<v Speaker 1>interview Victoria Caldwell.

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<v Speaker 11>As day is more than twelve to tho thousand and

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<v Speaker 11>seven and it's.

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<v Speaker 2>You.

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<v Speaker 11>I'll visit to the side of Maria trying to flowing

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<v Speaker 11>adiators too in like this interview with was Victoria Budwell.

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<v Speaker 1>Victoria Caldwell sounds and looks like a young girl, even

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<v Speaker 1>though she was twenty two when the KBI first spoke

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<v Speaker 1>to her.

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<v Speaker 2>There's an innocence to her tone.

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<v Speaker 12>Oh normally start from beginning, Yeah, okay.

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<v Speaker 1>She has a bashful gaze and chubby cheeks that enhance

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<v Speaker 1>her childlike features. During the interview, Victoria says she felt

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<v Speaker 1>unsafe in Mayfield. She tells the KBI Quincy had threatened

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<v Speaker 1>her over the phone to stay quiet about anything she

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<v Speaker 1>may have over herd about Jessica's murder.

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<v Speaker 13>Yeah, you know, you know it was my bet around

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<v Speaker 13>her neck, you met it was And I was just

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<v Speaker 13>like no, no, no, I don't know anything. And he

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<v Speaker 13>just kept said, you know, you know, he said, you mad,

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<v Speaker 13>you make you disappear, And I was like, okay, like

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<v Speaker 13>that's a panic.

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<v Speaker 1>In this interview, Victoria told the KBI that he'd been

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<v Speaker 1>threatening her for over a year, and even though she

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<v Speaker 1>didn't have his threats on tape, there was a recording

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<v Speaker 1>of her sister Rosie, telling Victoria that Quincy was after

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<v Speaker 1>her in May two thousand and six. Rosie is saying,

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<v Speaker 1>Quincy is going to kill your motherfucking ass. The KBI

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<v Speaker 1>took these threats seriously, so the agents moved Victoria from

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<v Speaker 1>California to North Carolina and into state witness protection, and

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<v Speaker 1>soon after, authorities would blast Quincy's face and name in

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<v Speaker 1>the local news as an armed and dangerous suspect wanted

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<v Speaker 1>for the murder of Jessica Current.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello, mister Sumbo get to see you.

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<v Speaker 3>Hi, Maggie.

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<v Speaker 6>How are you.

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<v Speaker 1>I am well, so, like Rebecca said, my internet's kind

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<v Speaker 1>of slow over here, so I'm probably going to turn.

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<v Speaker 1>The reason these state agents got involved in the first

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<v Speaker 1>place was Greg Stumbo.

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<v Speaker 14>Mayfield's not known for having violent crimes, and it's a

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<v Speaker 14>little sleepy down in Kentucky or you know, everybody sort

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<v Speaker 14>of knows everybody. It's a farming community, and this type

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<v Speaker 14>of crime was obviously not something that happens very very often.

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<v Speaker 1>Stumbo served thirty six years in public office, including four

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<v Speaker 1>as the Attorney General of Kentucky from two thousand and

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<v Speaker 1>four to two thousand and eight, the years when Susan

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<v Speaker 1>started looking into the case and working with the state police.

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<v Speaker 1>While on the campaign trail, Stumbo met Jessica's dad, Joe Curran,

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<v Speaker 1>at a political event, and Joe.

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<v Speaker 14>Sought me out and told me about his daughter's tragic

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<v Speaker 14>death and it hadn't been solved.

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<v Speaker 2>Joe had been marching and demanding that law enforcement solve

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<v Speaker 2>his daughter's case.

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<v Speaker 9>We went to see the county attorney, we went to

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<v Speaker 9>see the police chief, we went to see the sheriff.

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<v Speaker 1>And now he had the ear of the potential state

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<v Speaker 1>Attorney General. Stumbo made a promise to Joe, and.

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<v Speaker 14>I told Joe current that day, I said, if I'm elected,

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<v Speaker 14>I will do my best to solve that case.

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<v Speaker 2>Stumbo won and he did exactly that.

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<v Speaker 9>This guy decided to do something on it, so we

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<v Speaker 9>would have regular meetings with my KBI Commissioner, David James.

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<v Speaker 1>Stumbo revamped the investigative unit the Attorney General's office had

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<v Speaker 1>at the time.

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<v Speaker 6>We changed the name.

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<v Speaker 14>I liked the name, the Kentucky Breau Investigation and make

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<v Speaker 14>them a more effective investigating unit.

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<v Speaker 1>They tackled major crimes like drug trafficking, fraud, and public corruption.

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<v Speaker 1>The KBI wasn't formed to solve homicides, but Stumbo had

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<v Speaker 1>made a promise to Joe Kurrn the KBI was on it.

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<v Speaker 1>The man Stumbo chose to lead the agency happened to

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<v Speaker 1>be black, and he thought it would be beneficial to

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<v Speaker 1>send black agents to Mayfield. He figured black agents would

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<v Speaker 1>have more success getting people to open up than the

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<v Speaker 1>previous white law enforcement officers.

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<v Speaker 6>But just so happened.

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<v Speaker 14>We had two very good African American agents and they

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<v Speaker 14>were big guys, you know, big impressive, fooking guys. We

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<v Speaker 14>sent them down there, and sure enough, the local people

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<v Speaker 14>in the African American community who had knowledge about that crime,

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<v Speaker 14>who were afraid to talk to the Mayfield police about

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<v Speaker 14>it or the Kentucky State officers, began spill into veins.

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<v Speaker 2>Like Victoria Caldwell.

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<v Speaker 14>They confronted her, she wrote down, tell the whole.

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<v Speaker 1>Story, the story that would end up implicating herself, Jeff Burton, Tammer, Caldwell,

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<v Speaker 1>Venetia's Doublefield, and Quincy Cross. But the agents had never

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<v Speaker 1>investigated a homicide. They were two former narcotics cops who

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<v Speaker 1>used a series of unorthodox tactics to elicit several confessions.

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<v Speaker 1>And these tactics start with the place they conducted some

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<v Speaker 1>of their key interviews and.

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<v Speaker 11>Presently located in the conference room of the Sweets located.

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<v Speaker 1>In Paducah, Kentucky, the Drury Inn and Suites in Paducah, Kentucky.

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<v Speaker 1>Not a police station, but a modest hotel about thirty

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<v Speaker 1>minutes from Mayfield, the kind of place with free hot breakfast,

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<v Speaker 1>seventy style looking conference rooms, and limited surveillance.

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<v Speaker 4>They never did bring me my rights or anything. They

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<v Speaker 4>just had me get in the car, and I was like, well,

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<v Speaker 4>where am I going. They would not tell me where

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<v Speaker 4>I was going at all until I got there. I

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<v Speaker 4>thought that I was going through the police station.

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<v Speaker 1>Tamer Caldwell was among their persons of interest. She's Victoria's cousin,

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<v Speaker 1>the homebody who never went anywhere without her babies and

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<v Speaker 1>who dated Quincy Cross. He was great with her kids.

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<v Speaker 1>Victoria had implicated both of them and her interviews with

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<v Speaker 1>the KBI, and now they were being questioned by law enforcement,

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<v Speaker 1>including two agents who made it clear that they already

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<v Speaker 1>knew the truth.

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<v Speaker 2>They just needed their suspects to confirm it.

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<v Speaker 3>Don't you know we already know.

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<v Speaker 15>I know, y'all know what.

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<v Speaker 1>Lee Wise takes the lead, imposing and commanding.

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<v Speaker 11>You look so pathetic, faking those who is rocking in

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<v Speaker 11>that and telling them lie here.

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<v Speaker 2>Look, I don't know a fool agent.

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<v Speaker 1>Bab O'Neil is mild mannered and more reserved.

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<v Speaker 10>Okay, Quincy, you have the right to remain silent. Anything

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<v Speaker 10>you say Cannon will be held against you in the court.

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<v Speaker 10>With these rights in mind, do you wish to talk

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<v Speaker 10>with us now?

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<v Speaker 3>Sure? All right?

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<v Speaker 1>Quincy actually turned himself in after seeing his name and

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<v Speaker 1>face on the news, so you.

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<v Speaker 15>Know, and I ain't never been the type of wrong,

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<v Speaker 15>so I ain't dope, So I'll bet off try to

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<v Speaker 15>myself in you know what I mean, I'd rather come

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<v Speaker 15>to you instead.

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<v Speaker 1>Having looked at me, Quincy and everyone else who was

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<v Speaker 1>taken to the drury and in sweets went willingly. No

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<v Speaker 1>one was under arrest, and no one had an attorney present.

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<v Speaker 1>Tammer tells me she was questioned for hours.

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<v Speaker 2>On end forever. I'm talking about like nine dn't at words.

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<v Speaker 2>The interviews turned interrogations are confusing, chaotic and taxing.

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<v Speaker 3>You hear what I said, you cry, but your eyes.

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<v Speaker 11>You're sitting there knowing what you've done, done for your

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<v Speaker 11>entire life. If you're lying and you're not accustomed to

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<v Speaker 11>be hailed accountable for your actions.

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<v Speaker 1>In this clip, they're yelling at Tamera while she weeps.

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<v Speaker 1>She's wearing a colored blue and white pinstriped shirt, her

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<v Speaker 1>hair is in a side pony, and she looks like

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<v Speaker 1>a little girl. She's trapped alone in a hotel room

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<v Speaker 1>with law enforcement, thirty minutes from home and very few people.

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<v Speaker 2>If anyone knows she's there, oh, terrified.

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<v Speaker 4>That would tell me if you don't tell the truth,

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<v Speaker 4>you're gonna get shipped up the river. You're never gonna

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<v Speaker 4>get to see your kids graduate, You're never going to

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<v Speaker 4>maut to anything.

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<v Speaker 1>The KBI also brought in Rosie, Victoria's sister as a

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<v Speaker 1>corroborating witness against Jeff Quincy and Tamra. Rosie says they

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<v Speaker 1>interrogated her for two days.

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<v Speaker 4>They told me I was lying, he kept telling me

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<v Speaker 4>to shut up, and then they told me that they

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<v Speaker 4>could take my kids away from me.

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<v Speaker 1>And the line of questioning is also disturbingly focused on

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<v Speaker 1>the women's sex lives.

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<v Speaker 10>What type of sex did he like or was he

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<v Speaker 10>did he enjoy all sex or sex?

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<v Speaker 7>Yes?

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<v Speaker 3>What's your sexual preference? Are you by sex? Or you're lesbian?

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<v Speaker 2>Especially about the women being lesbians?

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<v Speaker 3>You considered yourself a lesbian?

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<v Speaker 4>No, you know, I think right after that, right after

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<v Speaker 4>he asked me if I was living, when he stuck

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<v Speaker 4>his hand up on the table and was rubbing on

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<v Speaker 4>my leg.

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff Burton was also brought in The White Kid, Susan

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<v Speaker 1>Golbroth had found I don't want to go to jail.

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<v Speaker 10>I don't want to go to jail, but I don't

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<v Speaker 10>want to sit here and listen to this lies. I

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<v Speaker 10>don't want to listen to these lies, man, I don't

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<v Speaker 10>want to.

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<v Speaker 2>And they squeezed him, all of them for confessions.

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<v Speaker 10>It's gonna be your word against five or six other people.

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<v Speaker 10>And you know what it takes. You know what it takes.

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<v Speaker 10>All it takes is for jury to either the jury

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<v Speaker 10>to believe what you say or what they say. That's

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<v Speaker 10>messed up.

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<v Speaker 3>That's messed up.

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<v Speaker 10>If that's the case, and that's how it goes down.

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<v Speaker 3>And that is messed up.

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<v Speaker 1>To me, it sounds like the agents learned how to

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<v Speaker 1>be detectives from watching Law and Order.

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<v Speaker 11>And I hope you a good surfer, baby. I'm giving

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<v Speaker 11>you one wave. You better ride this wave until you done,

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<v Speaker 11>because you're not gonna get another way from me. Okay, yes,

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<v Speaker 11>So if you can't surf, you better lay down on

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<v Speaker 11>that board and hope it.

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<v Speaker 1>In these KBI videos, only the interview he is visible.

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<v Speaker 1>All law enforcement are off camera. We don't know what

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<v Speaker 1>they were, or we're not doing out a frame or

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<v Speaker 1>who is in the hotel room. Think of videos you

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<v Speaker 1>see in police stations. The camera is usually above. You

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<v Speaker 1>can see the whole room, everyone in it. That didn't

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<v Speaker 1>happen here, plus video and tape recorders were turned on

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<v Speaker 1>and off frequently.

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<v Speaker 4>They would ask me questions and they would cut the

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<v Speaker 4>recorder off.

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<v Speaker 3>We're gonna go off record for about ten.

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<v Speaker 4>Minutes, and and he go in this room and he

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<v Speaker 4>come back in and unpiles the record or whatever and

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<v Speaker 4>start talking crazy to me, and we're back on record.

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<v Speaker 1>At one point during Jeff's interrogation, Rosie is brought into

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<v Speaker 1>the room to identify him.

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<v Speaker 10>Jeff Burton, Jeff Burton, if you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know anything about witness identification or lineups, this is absolutely

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<v Speaker 1>not how it's done.

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<v Speaker 2>Looking back, Jeff says, the whole thing was mind boggling.

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<v Speaker 5>I feel like they're telling me that you know, we

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<v Speaker 5>already got to prove, just tell us. And I'm like, man,

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<v Speaker 5>I didn't have anything to do with this stuff.

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<v Speaker 10>Now charge me with whatever you want to.

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<v Speaker 13>I did not know her, and I did not kill

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<v Speaker 13>her or rape or burn or any of that other

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<v Speaker 13>stuff that y'all said.

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<v Speaker 6>This can't be real life.

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<v Speaker 7>It can't be.

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<v Speaker 3>And I know that that right there was a crock

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<v Speaker 3>of shit.

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<v Speaker 10>But that makes me think that all this is freaking

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<v Speaker 10>fake as hell.

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<v Speaker 2>Man.

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<v Speaker 1>But the kbi's tactics worked After weeks of interrogations at

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<v Speaker 1>the hotel and elsewhere, they got the confessions they were

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<v Speaker 1>looking for, first from Victoria, who, over the course of

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<v Speaker 1>at least six interviews with the KBI, goes from having

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<v Speaker 1>only heard about the murder and possible suspects to actually

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<v Speaker 1>witnessing the kidnapping, rape and killing of Jessica and participating

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<v Speaker 1>in the abuse of her dead body then Venetia for

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<v Speaker 1>seven years. Venetia told police that she did not see

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<v Speaker 1>Jessica after they said goodbye that Saturday night in two thousand. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>after at least two separate days of KBI interrogations, her

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<v Speaker 1>story resembles Victoria's.

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<v Speaker 3>He has closely done anything just to just.

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<v Speaker 1>She says she actually went looking for Jessica that night,

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<v Speaker 1>then ran into Tamra Victoria, Jeff and Quincy and.

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<v Speaker 15>That he was rubbing honor and touching onner and stuff

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<v Speaker 15>and told her if she had co operated, he was

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<v Speaker 15>gonna put events away.

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<v Speaker 1>Venetia is slumped in her chair. She looks exhausted, shrunken,

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<v Speaker 1>and you can hear her trying to find the right words.

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<v Speaker 3>Nobody struca, nobody did anything hit her. You didn't say

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<v Speaker 3>that though I asked you, Oh, I asked you what

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<v Speaker 3>happened to just in that car?

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<v Speaker 1>Changing her answers according to the response from agents O'Neill

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<v Speaker 1>and wise.

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<v Speaker 3>You sure times Rockland, it's Quincystrican, Well, thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>She eventually says they did drugs and took Jessica to

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff's house. Then Quincy and the others raped her. But

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<v Speaker 1>the agents are not satisfied with just saying rape. They

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<v Speaker 1>need details, graphic details.

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<v Speaker 3>I want you to see it. What was he doing

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<v Speaker 3>to her?

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<v Speaker 2>And they keep asking about semen.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm a saying was on her body? Who put it there?

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<v Speaker 1>I want to point out that this line of questioning

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<v Speaker 1>might make sense in a rape case where a body

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<v Speaker 1>was covered in.

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<v Speaker 11>Fluidscident ejaculated all over our body, right, and y'all still

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<v Speaker 11>kissing on the rubbing on the ride.

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<v Speaker 6>I'm a right.

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<v Speaker 1>But in the case of Jessica Curran, there was no

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<v Speaker 1>evidence of rape or a sexual assault on Jessica's body,

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<v Speaker 1>and especially no seamen. There are glaring inconsistencies in Victoria

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<v Speaker 1>and Venetia's statements, like Venetia cannot confidently say if Quincy,

0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:46.800
<v Speaker 1>Jeff or Tamra struck Jessica with any object, But Victoria

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<v Speaker 1>says Quincy hits Jessica in the head with a mini

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<v Speaker 1>baseball bat while in the car, and they buried the

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<v Speaker 1>bat in her sister Rosy's yard, But when the KBI

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<v Speaker 1>went to search Rosy's yard, they only found a wrench,

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<v Speaker 1>to which Victoria then changes her story to add that

0:27:03.680 --> 0:27:07.240
<v Speaker 1>Quincy also hit Jessica with a wrench in the house.

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<v Speaker 2>The bat was never recovered.

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<v Speaker 1>A note on this timeline of the crime, though Quincy

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<v Speaker 1>had to have committed the kidnapping, rape, and murder of

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<v Speaker 1>Jessica current in the time he left the party at

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<v Speaker 1>daybreak and when he was spotted by the deputy jailer

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<v Speaker 1>around seven forty a m possible, sure, but very tight

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<v Speaker 1>and there are big holes in the kbis theory that

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<v Speaker 1>all these people assaulted and killed Jessica. First, there were

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<v Speaker 1>no fingerprints or DNA linking any of them to the murder.

0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:49.920
<v Speaker 1>In fact, Quincy's DNA and clothing were tested shortly after

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<v Speaker 1>Jessica's death in two thousand and nothing from Quincy matches

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<v Speaker 1>the crime scene. On top of that, the only thing

0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:02.200
<v Speaker 1>that links Qui to the scene of the crime is

0:28:02.320 --> 0:28:06.040
<v Speaker 1>the fragment of a braided belt found near Jessica's neck,

0:28:06.760 --> 0:28:10.760
<v Speaker 1>yet we don't know for a fact that's Quincy's belt,

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<v Speaker 1>And investigators desperately tried to find evidence to prove their

0:28:15.480 --> 0:28:20.040
<v Speaker 1>theory of the crime, searching everywhere from vehicles to houses.

0:28:20.840 --> 0:28:26.080
<v Speaker 1>Law enforcement even exhumed Jessica's body to retest for evidence,

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<v Speaker 1>and nothing, none exists matching any of these people to

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<v Speaker 1>Jessica's death or crime scene.

0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:39.680
<v Speaker 2>And there's one other glaring red flag.

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<v Speaker 4>I didn't know Quincy into two thousand and two, so

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<v Speaker 4>how could I have something to do with it?

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<v Speaker 10>In this case?

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<v Speaker 1>Happened in two thousand Remember I told you Tamar and

0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:52.640
<v Speaker 1>Quincy met while she was visiting her brother in jail.

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<v Speaker 1>That was two years after Jessica's death. Quincy and Tamra

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<v Speaker 1>maintained and to this day they did not know each other.

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<v Speaker 1>In two thousand and I.

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<v Speaker 14>Feel I don't know Jeff Burton Quincy Cross.

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<v Speaker 5>I didn't know him, didn't hang around him.

0:29:10.600 --> 0:29:14.480
<v Speaker 1>Jeff says he had never even met Quincy and he

0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:22.160
<v Speaker 1>only knew Tamra from school. Despite there being no physical evidence,

0:29:22.520 --> 0:29:28.239
<v Speaker 1>flimsy stories, inconsistencies, suspects not even knowing each other at

0:29:28.280 --> 0:29:31.720
<v Speaker 1>the time, of the murder and adamant claims of innocence.

0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:36.320
<v Speaker 1>The KBI brought that case to the Attorney General's office,

0:29:37.040 --> 0:29:41.160
<v Speaker 1>and under Greg Stumbo's leadership, the state of Kentucky moved

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<v Speaker 1>forward to try Quincy Cross as a depraved, evil man.

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<v Speaker 14>There's no doubt in my mind that we called the

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<v Speaker 14>right person. There's no evidence that would lead to you

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<v Speaker 14>anywhere else. I mean, you have a direct eyewitness account

0:29:57.600 --> 0:29:58.600
<v Speaker 14>of what happened.

0:30:04.560 --> 0:30:10.440
<v Speaker 2>Seven years after Jessica Kurrn was killed. Venetia Stubblefield, Victoria Caldwell,

0:30:10.840 --> 0:30:15.880
<v Speaker 2>Tamra Caldwell, Jeff Burton, and Quincy Cross were arrested, charged

0:30:16.000 --> 0:30:20.160
<v Speaker 2>and indicted based largely on the accounts of two girls

0:30:20.480 --> 0:30:27.440
<v Speaker 2>and circumstantial evidence. That's it. That's all the prosecution had.

0:30:28.360 --> 0:30:32.600
<v Speaker 1>And at trial, cracks in those stories start to split,

0:30:33.280 --> 0:30:38.240
<v Speaker 1>until the entire prosecution's case is left with gate thing holes.

0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:40.880
<v Speaker 2>That's after the break.

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<v Speaker 6>All right, good morning, let me go through the rome.

0:31:05.480 --> 0:31:08.080
<v Speaker 6>Make sure we've got everyone here that's supposed.

0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:08.120
<v Speaker 3>To be here.

0:31:09.360 --> 0:31:11.840
<v Speaker 1>Quincy was the first to go to trial in spring

0:31:12.040 --> 0:31:15.640
<v Speaker 1>of two thousand and eight. By then, news of Jessica's

0:31:15.680 --> 0:31:19.240
<v Speaker 1>death and the salacious story behind it had spread through

0:31:19.280 --> 0:31:22.280
<v Speaker 1>Graves County, so the judge agreed to move the trial

0:31:22.400 --> 0:31:25.600
<v Speaker 1>to Hickman County to avoid any kind of bias. The

0:31:25.720 --> 0:31:27.320
<v Speaker 1>jury from Graves could.

0:31:27.200 --> 0:31:30.000
<v Speaker 6>Have all right, it is Commonwealth for ready to proceed.

0:31:31.360 --> 0:31:35.320
<v Speaker 1>The small courthouse was full and it was tense. On

0:31:35.440 --> 0:31:40.040
<v Speaker 1>one side, there was Quincy's relatives sitting in complete disbelief

0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:43.280
<v Speaker 1>that he was being accused of such crimes, and on

0:31:43.400 --> 0:31:48.000
<v Speaker 1>the other Jessica's loved ones with eight years of pent

0:31:48.160 --> 0:31:49.960
<v Speaker 1>up frustration and pain.

0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:52.680
<v Speaker 6>Commonwealth lacked to make an opening statement.

0:31:56.160 --> 0:32:00.480
<v Speaker 1>The lead prosecutor on Quincy's case was Assistant Attorney General

0:32:00.760 --> 0:32:03.360
<v Speaker 1>Barbara Mainz Whaley, but.

0:32:03.480 --> 0:32:06.400
<v Speaker 10>It took a long long time to get people to

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<v Speaker 10>talk about this.

0:32:08.440 --> 0:32:12.320
<v Speaker 2>Because of their fear Wayey is a career prosecutor.

0:32:12.680 --> 0:32:16.480
<v Speaker 1>She's been Assistant Attorney General since nineteen eighty two and

0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:19.760
<v Speaker 1>is said to be one of the most experienced prosecutors

0:32:19.960 --> 0:32:23.920
<v Speaker 1>in the Commonwealth. Some people may know her from being

0:32:24.000 --> 0:32:27.840
<v Speaker 1>one of the special prosecutors to investigate police officers in

0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:35.560
<v Speaker 1>the twenty twenty killing of Breonna Taylor. Wailey was seeking

0:32:35.680 --> 0:32:39.719
<v Speaker 1>the death penalty against Quincy. His defense attorneys only had

0:32:39.760 --> 0:32:43.680
<v Speaker 1>about a year to prepare and the prosecution didn't make

0:32:43.720 --> 0:32:47.880
<v Speaker 1>it easy. They dumped thousands of documents on the defense

0:32:48.200 --> 0:32:49.240
<v Speaker 1>in the run up to trial.

0:32:49.680 --> 0:32:52.280
<v Speaker 11>We're the dates of the items that there are given

0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:54.880
<v Speaker 11>us go back as much as seven years.

0:32:55.840 --> 0:32:59.160
<v Speaker 1>Quincy's attorney is complaining to the judge. He says, it's

0:32:59.200 --> 0:33:02.520
<v Speaker 1>been virtually impossible to get through all the files to

0:33:02.720 --> 0:33:05.360
<v Speaker 1>properly prepare for a death penalty case.

0:33:05.960 --> 0:33:08.520
<v Speaker 14>I don't know if it's Chinese war to torture or

0:33:08.600 --> 0:33:10.080
<v Speaker 14>death by ten thousand.

0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:11.160
<v Speaker 3>Cuts one or to two.

0:33:12.120 --> 0:33:15.080
<v Speaker 1>But the judge denied a motion for more time and

0:33:15.200 --> 0:33:19.640
<v Speaker 1>the trial continued on schedule. And despite the advantage over

0:33:19.720 --> 0:33:23.080
<v Speaker 1>the defense, Waley knew this would be a hard case

0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:26.120
<v Speaker 1>because of how many players and stories there were.

0:33:27.040 --> 0:33:30.280
<v Speaker 2>In her opening statement, she prepares the jury for.

0:33:30.360 --> 0:33:40.200
<v Speaker 10>This Rumors build on rumors, and war rimers and talks

0:33:40.360 --> 0:33:42.640
<v Speaker 10>read like wildfire in Bayfield.

0:33:44.600 --> 0:33:48.400
<v Speaker 1>But the agents with the KBI were allegedly able to

0:33:48.520 --> 0:33:51.920
<v Speaker 1>find the truth that on the early hours of Sunday,

0:33:52.040 --> 0:33:57.880
<v Speaker 1>July thirtieth, two thousand, Tamer Caldwell, Victoria Caldwell, Venetia Stubblefield,

0:33:58.200 --> 0:34:02.360
<v Speaker 1>Jeff Burton, and Quincy Cross picked up Jessica Curran and

0:34:02.520 --> 0:34:05.600
<v Speaker 1>took her to Jeff Burton's house, where they raped and

0:34:05.760 --> 0:34:10.640
<v Speaker 1>killed her in a drug fueled haze. Quincy then forced

0:34:10.680 --> 0:34:13.560
<v Speaker 1>the girls to have sex with Jessica's dead body. Then

0:34:13.600 --> 0:34:16.960
<v Speaker 1>they stored her body in Jeff's garage until she was

0:34:17.080 --> 0:34:18.280
<v Speaker 1>moved and set.

0:34:18.160 --> 0:34:22.000
<v Speaker 2>On fire with gas lane and set on fire.

0:34:22.280 --> 0:34:25.800
<v Speaker 1>Outside the middle school a day later on Monday following

0:34:26.600 --> 0:34:30.440
<v Speaker 1>She was found the following day on Tuesday. One of

0:34:30.520 --> 0:34:33.960
<v Speaker 1>the first witnesses, Barbara Willie Calls, is the state medical

0:34:34.000 --> 0:34:35.879
<v Speaker 1>examiner at the time of Jessica's death.

0:34:36.360 --> 0:34:39.319
<v Speaker 2>He says, besides being burned and there.

0:34:39.239 --> 0:34:42.960
<v Speaker 9>Were traumatic injuries on the head and face, and there

0:34:42.960 --> 0:34:44.640
<v Speaker 9>were lacerations on.

0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:45.480
<v Speaker 3>The back of the head.

0:34:46.600 --> 0:34:50.080
<v Speaker 1>He says Jessica also had injuries similar to that of

0:34:50.160 --> 0:34:53.719
<v Speaker 1>a stab wound, but he ruled her likely manner of

0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:58.440
<v Speaker 1>death was blunt injury and strangulation. He admits there's no

0:34:58.800 --> 0:35:02.880
<v Speaker 1>actual evidence of strength, but he says the other injuries

0:35:02.920 --> 0:35:06.640
<v Speaker 1>on Jessica were not significant enough to cause death alone,

0:35:07.600 --> 0:35:12.160
<v Speaker 1>plus the piece of belt found near her neck suggested strangulation.

0:35:12.840 --> 0:35:17.640
<v Speaker 9>Basically, when everything was completed and looked at, that I

0:35:17.719 --> 0:35:20.919
<v Speaker 9>thought was very significant in her cause of death.

0:35:22.719 --> 0:35:26.040
<v Speaker 6>Get coding next waitness, Please, Venia, so you.

0:35:29.120 --> 0:35:34.080
<v Speaker 1>Jessica's friends and family are called school personnel, investigators and

0:35:34.239 --> 0:35:38.560
<v Speaker 1>locals from around town. They have partygoers from Chris Drive

0:35:38.800 --> 0:35:42.839
<v Speaker 1>testify about seeing Quincy wave his belt around and talk

0:35:43.000 --> 0:35:44.680
<v Speaker 1>about wanting to go find girls.

0:35:45.880 --> 0:35:48.920
<v Speaker 2>The Victoria and Venetia are Whaley's star.

0:35:49.000 --> 0:35:54.200
<v Speaker 1>Witnesses, and much like in their interrogations, their testimonies differ

0:35:54.440 --> 0:35:56.840
<v Speaker 1>in key aspects at trial.

0:35:57.719 --> 0:35:59.560
<v Speaker 2>After that we all got out the corn when I

0:35:59.640 --> 0:35:59.960
<v Speaker 2>said that.

0:36:01.880 --> 0:36:06.160
<v Speaker 1>In Venetia's story, Jessica walks in Jeff Burton's house.

0:36:06.719 --> 0:36:09.600
<v Speaker 10>How did you get in the house? Ay?

0:36:09.680 --> 0:36:10.640
<v Speaker 3>By it, I'll walk in there.

0:36:11.920 --> 0:36:16.120
<v Speaker 1>Victoria, on the other hand, testifies that Jessica was knocked

0:36:16.160 --> 0:36:19.000
<v Speaker 1>out and then carried inside the house.

0:36:19.640 --> 0:36:24.920
<v Speaker 12>Quincy and Jeff carrie Jessica's body through the side at

0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:25.759
<v Speaker 12>the side door.

0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:34.120
<v Speaker 1>Discrepancies are to be expected when a case is eight

0:36:34.239 --> 0:36:37.960
<v Speaker 1>years old and the women testifying routines at the time

0:36:38.040 --> 0:36:42.160
<v Speaker 1>of the crime. But I will say messing up details

0:36:42.440 --> 0:36:46.040
<v Speaker 1>like whether or not you carried an unconscious body inside

0:36:46.080 --> 0:36:51.160
<v Speaker 1>the house is kind of major. But the prosecution had

0:36:51.280 --> 0:36:55.239
<v Speaker 1>back up. They called Rosie to confirm what Victoria told

0:36:55.320 --> 0:37:01.040
<v Speaker 1>the KBI that Quincy threatened Victoria to stay quiet. You

0:37:01.160 --> 0:37:02.400
<v Speaker 1>heard the call earlier.

0:37:03.080 --> 0:37:05.040
<v Speaker 2>I remember that he said he was gonna kill my sister.

0:37:05.040 --> 0:37:11.399
<v Speaker 2>I remember that Victoria and the prosecution had another key

0:37:11.480 --> 0:37:16.279
<v Speaker 2>piece of evidence, a diary that Victoria allegedly kept, where

0:37:16.320 --> 0:37:19.400
<v Speaker 2>she detailed her life and the crime.

0:37:20.239 --> 0:37:21.800
<v Speaker 6>I read August first.

0:37:23.239 --> 0:37:23.920
<v Speaker 3>What does it say?

0:37:26.080 --> 0:37:30.600
<v Speaker 12>It says Dann they found the body. I'm not sure

0:37:30.640 --> 0:37:33.320
<v Speaker 12>what the other word says. I hope they don't find

0:37:33.400 --> 0:37:41.320
<v Speaker 12>out it was us. Fuck man, It says Q is

0:37:41.440 --> 0:37:44.759
<v Speaker 12>nowhere to be found. Jeff don't want to talk to me.

0:37:45.360 --> 0:37:48.839
<v Speaker 12>This is bullshit, says fuck.

0:37:49.400 --> 0:37:49.919
<v Speaker 6>I am out.

0:37:52.719 --> 0:37:57.480
<v Speaker 1>The defense strategy was to question the validity of everything,

0:37:57.840 --> 0:38:01.719
<v Speaker 1>from the diary to the prosecution sir, substantial evidence, to

0:38:01.840 --> 0:38:06.759
<v Speaker 1>witness testimonies, and they were successful in some areas, like

0:38:06.960 --> 0:38:10.200
<v Speaker 1>poking holes in Victoria's numerous stories.

0:38:11.200 --> 0:38:15.960
<v Speaker 12>On some parts, yes, some parts now.

0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:21.040
<v Speaker 1>The defense also called their own expert, the former Kentucky

0:38:21.239 --> 0:38:25.759
<v Speaker 1>Chief Medical Examiner, to refute the questionable findings of strangulation.

0:38:27.000 --> 0:38:30.840
<v Speaker 10>Are you able to provide in the jury a cause.

0:38:30.600 --> 0:38:31.680
<v Speaker 3>Of death in this case?

0:38:32.360 --> 0:38:33.480
<v Speaker 6>No, sir, I am not.

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<v Speaker 16>There's no anatomic cause of death determined in this case.

0:38:37.000 --> 0:38:40.840
<v Speaker 16>I can tell you that she could have been strangled,

0:38:40.880 --> 0:38:43.920
<v Speaker 16>but there is no evidence that she was strangling.

0:38:47.000 --> 0:38:51.200
<v Speaker 1>The defense's medical expert explains that a telltale sign of

0:38:51.280 --> 0:38:55.560
<v Speaker 1>strangulation is bruising and a broken hyoid bone in the neck,

0:38:55.880 --> 0:38:57.000
<v Speaker 1>which there was not.

0:38:57.440 --> 0:39:01.040
<v Speaker 16>That there's no external documentation of any injury on the

0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:05.640
<v Speaker 16>skin or the suputaneous tissues deep to the skin that

0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:09.280
<v Speaker 16>shows any evidence that trauma was applied to the area.

0:39:09.520 --> 0:39:12.520
<v Speaker 16>Now you can get strangulation injuries.

0:39:12.680 --> 0:39:15.720
<v Speaker 2>The defense wanted to make four main points.

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<v Speaker 1>First, the only thing tying Quincy to Jessica's death in

0:39:22.080 --> 0:39:26.240
<v Speaker 1>any physical manner is a belt. Yet there's no evidence

0:39:26.360 --> 0:39:31.360
<v Speaker 1>it's Quincy's. It was an extremely common two thousands belts.

0:39:31.960 --> 0:39:35.040
<v Speaker 1>Even a witness at trial is wearing a similar belt

0:39:35.480 --> 0:39:36.239
<v Speaker 1>and he points to.

0:39:36.360 --> 0:39:39.120
<v Speaker 3>It a bright yes, certain sluck his rider.

0:39:40.280 --> 0:39:44.840
<v Speaker 1>Second, if there's no certainty Jessica was strangled, then the

0:39:45.000 --> 0:39:50.800
<v Speaker 1>jury cannot convict Quincy on the prosecution's theory of the case. Third,

0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:55.640
<v Speaker 1>according to Victoria and Venetia, Jessica was killed early Sunday morning,

0:39:55.920 --> 0:39:59.360
<v Speaker 1>and they put her body in Jeff's garage before driving

0:39:59.400 --> 0:40:01.799
<v Speaker 1>her to the middle school and lighting her on fire

0:40:02.120 --> 0:40:07.759
<v Speaker 1>Monday night. By the prosecution's own timeline, Quincy was in

0:40:08.000 --> 0:40:11.720
<v Speaker 1>jail by the time they disposed and burned Jessica's body.

0:40:12.480 --> 0:40:16.040
<v Speaker 1>He'd been arrested that Sunday morning on drug charges and

0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:20.520
<v Speaker 1>stayed in jail for over a year. So their entire

0:40:20.719 --> 0:40:25.040
<v Speaker 1>theory that Quincy smelling like gas linked him to Jessica

0:40:25.840 --> 0:40:31.480
<v Speaker 1>makes no sense. In this timeline, him smelling like gas

0:40:32.280 --> 0:40:40.880
<v Speaker 1>is meaningless. And fourth, law enforcement coerced witnesses into lying

0:40:41.080 --> 0:40:41.720
<v Speaker 1>on Quincy.

0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:47.319
<v Speaker 2>To prove that point. They called Rosie.

0:40:47.080 --> 0:40:51.800
<v Speaker 1>Christ's Victoria's sister, and the prosecution's witness back on the

0:40:51.880 --> 0:40:57.640
<v Speaker 1>stand was correct. The defense knew something important about Rosie

0:40:58.160 --> 0:40:59.800
<v Speaker 1>that they wanted the jury to know.

0:41:00.719 --> 0:41:02.400
<v Speaker 4>I was trying to tell them that I didn't have

0:41:02.560 --> 0:41:05.320
<v Speaker 4>nothing to do and I didn't know nothing about this

0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:06.440
<v Speaker 4>case or nothing like that.

0:41:06.560 --> 0:41:10.839
<v Speaker 1>They told me I was lying before trial, Rosie says,

0:41:10.920 --> 0:41:13.440
<v Speaker 1>she tried to recant to law enforcement, and.

0:41:13.560 --> 0:41:15.120
<v Speaker 3>You kept trying to tell them the truth, and they

0:41:15.120 --> 0:41:15.800
<v Speaker 3>wouldn't have said it.

0:41:16.000 --> 0:41:20.160
<v Speaker 1>Yes, she testifies that they made her a lie, implicating

0:41:20.239 --> 0:41:24.120
<v Speaker 1>Jeff Burton, her own cousin, Tamra Caldwell, and Quincy Cross.

0:41:24.840 --> 0:41:32.080
<v Speaker 15>Quincy Cross every threatened year no, okay, digreat Victorian, did

0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:32.400
<v Speaker 15>you know?

0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:35.319
<v Speaker 3>No, that's all I had.

0:41:36.400 --> 0:41:40.799
<v Speaker 2>When Prosecutor Scott Sutherland counters, Rosie is defiant.

0:41:41.719 --> 0:41:42.920
<v Speaker 6>Oh miss christ.

0:41:44.640 --> 0:41:47.080
<v Speaker 2>Today, I really don't carery about going to jail, Scott,

0:41:47.200 --> 0:41:49.439
<v Speaker 2>so you can ask me what you wanted to up Jack.

0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:50.600
<v Speaker 10>But we approach you.

0:41:51.520 --> 0:41:55.120
<v Speaker 1>Rosie shifts in her chair, shakes her head and scrunches

0:41:55.160 --> 0:41:56.000
<v Speaker 1>her face in anger.

0:41:56.800 --> 0:41:58.360
<v Speaker 2>But she stands her ground.

0:41:59.480 --> 0:42:00.080
<v Speaker 10>So I'm gonna I.

0:42:00.120 --> 0:42:03.839
<v Speaker 3>Ask you again. Are you lying today? Are you lying

0:42:03.880 --> 0:42:05.200
<v Speaker 3>the other day about.

0:42:04.880 --> 0:42:05.440
<v Speaker 6>The other day?

0:42:05.920 --> 0:42:06.000
<v Speaker 3>Now?

0:42:06.040 --> 0:42:06.960
<v Speaker 6>I'm not lying today.

0:42:07.239 --> 0:42:08.839
<v Speaker 5>And I wanted to touch you with all the time

0:42:09.160 --> 0:42:10.279
<v Speaker 5>you guys have to stop me.

0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:18.320
<v Speaker 1>But in such a long trial, with so many facts

0:42:18.480 --> 0:42:23.320
<v Speaker 1>and discrepancies, it becomes nearly impossible to follow what is

0:42:23.440 --> 0:42:29.399
<v Speaker 1>going on, especially with so many objections, redirects and sidebars.

0:42:29.120 --> 0:42:31.840
<v Speaker 10>Objection, objection, objection, objection, objection.

0:42:34.480 --> 0:42:39.160
<v Speaker 1>With so much confusion, the prosecution new to always direct

0:42:39.320 --> 0:42:42.120
<v Speaker 1>the attention back to the belt.

0:42:42.680 --> 0:42:46.360
<v Speaker 14>A distinctive felt not a unique belt by any means,

0:42:47.000 --> 0:42:49.480
<v Speaker 14>and the gas Metalie.

0:42:49.160 --> 0:42:54.120
<v Speaker 2>Strongly, and ye, don't look at the distractions, the different stories,

0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:58.920
<v Speaker 2>the half truths, the recantation. Look here, look at the

0:42:59.040 --> 0:43:02.880
<v Speaker 2>guy who was talking about finding girls, waving his belt around,

0:43:03.120 --> 0:43:14.680
<v Speaker 2>smelling like gas. And so, after deliberating for only three

0:43:14.920 --> 0:43:19.440
<v Speaker 2>hours and forty five minutes, eleven white jurors and one

0:43:19.520 --> 0:43:23.920
<v Speaker 2>black juror found beyond a reasonable doubt that Quincy Cross

0:43:24.360 --> 0:43:26.120
<v Speaker 2>murdered Jessica currn.

0:43:32.560 --> 0:43:38.120
<v Speaker 15>Well. I cried, man, I cried with my dad.

0:43:38.920 --> 0:43:39.880
<v Speaker 7>They let my dad in.

0:43:42.480 --> 0:43:45.160
<v Speaker 15>In a room in the back, and I cried with

0:43:45.280 --> 0:43:45.680
<v Speaker 15>my dad.

0:43:46.920 --> 0:43:51.960
<v Speaker 1>At Quincy's sentencing, assistant prosecutor Scott Sutherland asked the jury

0:43:52.280 --> 0:43:56.359
<v Speaker 1>to show Quincy no mercy. He said, I would ask

0:43:56.440 --> 0:43:59.480
<v Speaker 1>you to look at this heinous crime and ask yourselves,

0:44:00.160 --> 0:44:04.799
<v Speaker 1>if not now, then when. If not Quincy Cross, then

0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:09.360
<v Speaker 1>who He deserves nothing less than the ultimate punishment in

0:44:09.480 --> 0:44:12.200
<v Speaker 1>this case, a sentence of death.

0:44:13.200 --> 0:44:15.520
<v Speaker 9>I don't believe in the death penalty, but.

0:44:15.960 --> 0:44:19.560
<v Speaker 2>That's not what Joe Kurrn, Jessica's father wanted.

0:44:20.320 --> 0:44:23.560
<v Speaker 9>I don't feel like a person should die killing another

0:44:23.640 --> 0:44:26.640
<v Speaker 9>person because another person died, don't bring back the person

0:44:26.760 --> 0:44:29.600
<v Speaker 9>that died. If I killed somebody else and that brang

0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:32.160
<v Speaker 9>my daughter back, I killed the first person I see

0:44:32.200 --> 0:44:35.000
<v Speaker 9>because I want her back that bad. But he's not

0:44:35.080 --> 0:44:35.839
<v Speaker 9>going to bring her back.

0:44:37.320 --> 0:44:41.880
<v Speaker 1>Ultimately, Quincy was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

0:44:42.880 --> 0:44:46.800
<v Speaker 1>Quincy says, before trial, prosecutors offered him a deal of

0:44:46.920 --> 0:44:47.839
<v Speaker 1>twenty five years.

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<v Speaker 2>What did they want you to say?

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<v Speaker 15>To tell Alow on Camra and Jeffrey.

0:44:52.920 --> 0:44:54.879
<v Speaker 14>I didn't even ask him what they wanted me to say,

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<v Speaker 14>none of that.

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<v Speaker 6>So we didn't even get that far because I ain't

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<v Speaker 6>that type of person.

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<v Speaker 1>And after trial, Quincy's attorney asked him if you wanted

0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:06.040
<v Speaker 1>to see if the deal was still good, but he

0:45:06.200 --> 0:45:06.840
<v Speaker 1>said no.

0:45:08.000 --> 0:45:10.320
<v Speaker 2>So you were like, I will take a life sentence.

0:45:10.360 --> 0:45:12.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna lie about.

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<v Speaker 15>These people, right, You're exactly right, I will, and.

0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:16.120
<v Speaker 3>That's what I did.

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<v Speaker 1>Tamra and jeff were set to go to trial after Quincy,

0:45:24.640 --> 0:45:27.200
<v Speaker 1>and they were scared, you know, well, first.

0:45:28.040 --> 0:45:30.839
<v Speaker 2>As gung hole, like yeah, you know, let's stay lying

0:45:30.880 --> 0:45:31.160
<v Speaker 2>on me.

0:45:31.440 --> 0:45:31.960
<v Speaker 6>All this stuff.

0:45:31.960 --> 0:45:35.200
<v Speaker 5>I'm ready to face whatever. And then after that, I

0:45:35.320 --> 0:45:36.960
<v Speaker 5>just broke my spirit. I'm like, oh my god, they're

0:45:36.960 --> 0:45:38.160
<v Speaker 5>gonna do the same thing to me. I ain't never

0:45:38.160 --> 0:45:39.680
<v Speaker 5>gonna get out of here. And if it's my kids,

0:45:39.680 --> 0:45:41.400
<v Speaker 5>ain't all this different shit, you know what I mean?

0:45:41.480 --> 0:45:44.120
<v Speaker 5>So now I'm like starting a question, man, even though

0:45:44.120 --> 0:45:45.680
<v Speaker 5>you didn't say you are going to prison.

0:45:45.760 --> 0:45:46.560
<v Speaker 9>They don't fucking matter.

0:45:48.600 --> 0:45:51.400
<v Speaker 5>So they kind of broke my spirit a lot, Like

0:45:51.520 --> 0:45:52.280
<v Speaker 5>it really took.

0:45:52.160 --> 0:45:52.880
<v Speaker 6>A lot out of me.

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff and Tamra decided to take plea deals to avoid

0:45:59.280 --> 0:46:03.480
<v Speaker 1>a life sentence and possibly the death penalty. Jeff was

0:46:03.560 --> 0:46:09.480
<v Speaker 1>sentenced to fifteen years and Tamera ten. Victoria and Venetia

0:46:09.719 --> 0:46:13.600
<v Speaker 1>pled guilty. Victoria was sentenced to a total of five

0:46:13.719 --> 0:46:15.600
<v Speaker 1>years and Venetia seven.

0:46:16.440 --> 0:46:24.160
<v Speaker 2>They only served a few months. After years of fighting,

0:46:24.800 --> 0:46:30.120
<v Speaker 2>Jessica Kurrn's family finally saw her accused killers punished, but

0:46:30.280 --> 0:46:34.880
<v Speaker 2>instead of feeling a sense of relief, Joe Kurran felt uneasy.

0:46:36.000 --> 0:46:38.799
<v Speaker 9>I felt in my gut that something wasn't right.

0:46:40.800 --> 0:47:10.759
<v Speaker 2>That's because something wasn't that's after the break. Do you

0:47:10.840 --> 0:47:14.239
<v Speaker 2>ever have moments where you forget that this is part

0:47:14.280 --> 0:47:14.840
<v Speaker 2>of your life?

0:47:15.200 --> 0:47:17.680
<v Speaker 3>No, Malwell Neilwell.

0:47:18.560 --> 0:47:22.360
<v Speaker 1>After the trial and conviction, Quincy's family was left to

0:47:22.560 --> 0:47:24.120
<v Speaker 1>reckon with their own loss.

0:47:24.719 --> 0:47:27.279
<v Speaker 15>It's just like toting the two thousand pound weight on

0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:28.399
<v Speaker 15>your back every day.

0:47:28.719 --> 0:47:32.240
<v Speaker 6>No, never forget it, never off my mind.

0:47:34.280 --> 0:47:37.240
<v Speaker 1>On any given date, you can find Quincy's dad sitting

0:47:37.280 --> 0:47:40.759
<v Speaker 1>on his porch. Posted behind where he sits is a

0:47:40.840 --> 0:47:44.919
<v Speaker 1>sign that reads private property owner is too old to fight,

0:47:45.640 --> 0:47:49.800
<v Speaker 1>too fat to run, too lazy to argue. The image

0:47:50.040 --> 0:47:54.960
<v Speaker 1>is of two handguns. David Cross isn't fat or lazy,

0:47:55.360 --> 0:47:58.759
<v Speaker 1>though old is fair. He's in his early seventies now,

0:47:59.239 --> 0:48:02.959
<v Speaker 1>but his hair, styled in a flat top, is still

0:48:03.200 --> 0:48:07.800
<v Speaker 1>perfectly jet black. David grew up here right on Cross Street,

0:48:08.320 --> 0:48:11.640
<v Speaker 1>forty minutes outside of Mayfield, just over the border, in

0:48:11.719 --> 0:48:13.400
<v Speaker 1>a small town in Tennessee.

0:48:14.360 --> 0:48:17.279
<v Speaker 15>My grandparents just lived down there at the end of the.

0:48:17.320 --> 0:48:21.440
<v Speaker 1>Street, David says. Cross Street is named after his family.

0:48:22.080 --> 0:48:24.080
<v Speaker 1>They've been here for generations.

0:48:24.960 --> 0:48:27.440
<v Speaker 15>That was our school house right around the corner.

0:48:28.080 --> 0:48:31.399
<v Speaker 2>He points to an abandoned cottage down the little dirt road.

0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:32.840
<v Speaker 3>This was it.

0:48:33.239 --> 0:48:35.920
<v Speaker 6>See, he was segregation back then, you know.

0:48:37.040 --> 0:48:38.320
<v Speaker 15>This was the black school.

0:48:38.600 --> 0:48:41.080
<v Speaker 3>This is where I went to.

0:48:41.120 --> 0:48:42.120
<v Speaker 15>School for eight years.

0:48:44.239 --> 0:48:46.000
<v Speaker 2>David raised his kids here.

0:48:46.719 --> 0:48:50.520
<v Speaker 1>Quincy grew up roaming the fields, playing with tadpoles and

0:48:50.640 --> 0:48:55.919
<v Speaker 1>snapping turtles. David Cross's boy, who he hasn't seen since

0:48:56.000 --> 0:49:01.080
<v Speaker 1>before the pandemic. Quincy's imprison four hundred and fifty miles

0:49:01.160 --> 0:49:04.440
<v Speaker 1>away on the other side of Kentucky bordering Virginia.

0:49:05.040 --> 0:49:06.920
<v Speaker 2>So getting there is difficult.

0:49:08.360 --> 0:49:11.759
<v Speaker 15>You can't imagine, you know, you just want to break

0:49:11.840 --> 0:49:14.200
<v Speaker 15>down and cry, but it would do no good.

0:49:16.000 --> 0:49:23.359
<v Speaker 1>Instead, like Joe Curran, David Cross decided to fight. He's

0:49:23.560 --> 0:49:27.759
<v Speaker 1>spent thousands of dollars defending Quincy. He's hired lawyers and

0:49:27.840 --> 0:49:32.000
<v Speaker 1>private investigators to try and prove his son is innocent.

0:49:33.239 --> 0:49:36.760
<v Speaker 1>Darro Woman, my trusted source, is one of the people

0:49:36.920 --> 0:49:40.879
<v Speaker 1>David worked with to help clear Quincy's name. When Dara

0:49:40.960 --> 0:49:45.000
<v Speaker 1>found Quincy's case, it came with his whole family, with

0:49:45.120 --> 0:49:47.839
<v Speaker 1>loved ones who stood by him through the years, which

0:49:48.000 --> 0:49:50.480
<v Speaker 1>I can tell you from my experience in this line of.

0:49:50.480 --> 0:49:52.200
<v Speaker 2>Work, it's actually rare.

0:49:53.000 --> 0:49:58.680
<v Speaker 1>Incarcerated people are usually forgotten, but instead Quincy has gained

0:49:58.800 --> 0:49:59.400
<v Speaker 1>new family.

0:50:01.520 --> 0:50:04.799
<v Speaker 15>She's really something special. I gotta say that, she's really

0:50:04.880 --> 0:50:05.600
<v Speaker 15>something special.

0:50:06.200 --> 0:50:10.640
<v Speaker 17>For over three years now, we've spoken literally almost every day.

0:50:11.280 --> 0:50:12.680
<v Speaker 15>I won't say every day, but.

0:50:14.239 --> 0:50:15.120
<v Speaker 2>She's persistent.

0:50:18.280 --> 0:50:20.239
<v Speaker 6>I got a question we ask out.

0:50:21.360 --> 0:50:24.719
<v Speaker 1>If you're noticing it sounds like there's an audience, it's

0:50:24.840 --> 0:50:28.880
<v Speaker 1>because there is. On one of these visits, I didn't

0:50:29.120 --> 0:50:32.120
<v Speaker 1>just meet with David alone on my first trip. He

0:50:32.280 --> 0:50:36.600
<v Speaker 1>brought the whole gang, his wife Mary, Quincy's biological mom,

0:50:37.239 --> 0:50:40.279
<v Speaker 1>Quincy's sister. I think an aunt and a cousin were

0:50:40.320 --> 0:50:43.960
<v Speaker 1>there too. There were also at least two private investigators

0:50:44.680 --> 0:50:48.920
<v Speaker 1>and Dara on the floor sitting cross leg filming like

0:50:49.040 --> 0:50:56.040
<v Speaker 1>a proud mom. And there was another person there.

0:50:56.440 --> 0:50:59.799
<v Speaker 2>All right, So Joe, we're going to be over here joke.

0:51:01.120 --> 0:51:03.200
<v Speaker 9>I like to think we got the right person because

0:51:03.200 --> 0:51:05.800
<v Speaker 9>he's been in a lot of time in prison, but

0:51:06.239 --> 0:51:08.360
<v Speaker 9>evidence don't show he's the right person.

0:51:09.000 --> 0:51:12.600
<v Speaker 15>Mister Karen, I knew he knew something was wrong, him

0:51:12.640 --> 0:51:14.720
<v Speaker 15>and his family knew something was wrong.

0:51:16.680 --> 0:51:20.359
<v Speaker 1>After trial, Joe Curran should have felt like a weight

0:51:20.640 --> 0:51:25.200
<v Speaker 1>was lifted off his shoulders his daughter's murderer convicted, But

0:51:25.360 --> 0:51:27.520
<v Speaker 1>the nagging feeling wouldn't leave him.

0:51:28.600 --> 0:51:31.600
<v Speaker 9>Then when you start looking to the case, Quincy's from

0:51:31.600 --> 0:51:33.959
<v Speaker 9>another town, he didn't know my daughter.

0:51:34.360 --> 0:51:36.480
<v Speaker 6>You got to have a motive, You.

0:51:36.560 --> 0:51:40.200
<v Speaker 9>Got to have an opportunity, you got to have I

0:51:40.360 --> 0:51:45.480
<v Speaker 9>like his five things or the case is not a case. Well,

0:51:45.520 --> 0:51:47.680
<v Speaker 9>I just couldn't figure out five things on him that

0:51:47.760 --> 0:51:51.520
<v Speaker 9>would make him from another town, hadn't been involved with her,

0:51:51.680 --> 0:51:54.000
<v Speaker 9>didn't know her, but he's supposed to come up here

0:51:54.080 --> 0:51:54.560
<v Speaker 9>and killed her.

0:51:55.719 --> 0:51:58.399
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so early on, you realate this doesn't make sense.

0:51:58.520 --> 0:51:59.319
<v Speaker 9>It didn't make sense.

0:52:03.880 --> 0:52:07.000
<v Speaker 1>A few years after the conviction, David hired a private

0:52:07.040 --> 0:52:10.640
<v Speaker 1>investigator and had him reach out to Joe. He wanted

0:52:10.760 --> 0:52:13.880
<v Speaker 1>the investigator to show Joe some of the concerns he

0:52:14.000 --> 0:52:17.160
<v Speaker 1>had about his son killing Joe's daughter.

0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:21.680
<v Speaker 15>So when we started sharing information and really looking at

0:52:22.520 --> 0:52:28.640
<v Speaker 15>what the evidence really was, then I think we started talking.

0:52:28.840 --> 0:52:32.520
<v Speaker 1>You know, they would get together and go over everything,

0:52:33.200 --> 0:52:34.200
<v Speaker 1>would you say, your friends?

0:52:35.239 --> 0:52:38.080
<v Speaker 15>Yes, And a lot of people think that me and

0:52:38.360 --> 0:52:45.680
<v Speaker 15>mister Karen are an odd couple. But here's the way

0:52:45.880 --> 0:52:50.360
<v Speaker 15>I see it. Here's my definition of it. Me and

0:52:50.560 --> 0:52:56.560
<v Speaker 15>mister Karen want the same thing. Mister Karen won't justice

0:52:57.239 --> 0:53:02.120
<v Speaker 15>for his daughter Jessica, and I want justice for my son,

0:53:02.280 --> 0:53:03.120
<v Speaker 15>Quincy Cross.

0:53:03.800 --> 0:53:06.359
<v Speaker 9>If Quincy Cross didn't do this, he's the last person

0:53:06.440 --> 0:53:08.760
<v Speaker 9>I want in there. And I don't want the others

0:53:09.160 --> 0:53:11.520
<v Speaker 9>to have went through what they went through if they innocent.

0:53:12.600 --> 0:53:13.879
<v Speaker 9>So if he didn't do it, who did.

0:53:18.320 --> 0:53:22.000
<v Speaker 1>Over the years, Joe, David and their team of pis

0:53:22.320 --> 0:53:27.319
<v Speaker 1>including Dara, went back to the beginning, to the original investigation,

0:53:28.160 --> 0:53:31.440
<v Speaker 1>and they think they pinpointed where things derailed.

0:53:32.480 --> 0:53:35.160
<v Speaker 15>I'm sure you done read a whole lot about Susan Gallbert,

0:53:37.160 --> 0:53:41.200
<v Speaker 15>oh lady with a big mouth that spewed nothing but lie.

0:53:43.239 --> 0:53:47.879
<v Speaker 1>They discovered Susan wasn't just a busy body housewife looking

0:53:48.040 --> 0:53:51.080
<v Speaker 1>for something to do. I told you that in the

0:53:51.200 --> 0:53:55.920
<v Speaker 1>immediate aftermath of Jessica's death, Victoria came forward with a

0:53:56.160 --> 0:53:59.240
<v Speaker 1>story different than the one she told at trial.

0:54:00.120 --> 0:54:04.080
<v Speaker 2>But it wasn't just a different version of the trial story.

0:54:04.800 --> 0:54:12.440
<v Speaker 1>She actually implicated two completely different people. I've been told

0:54:12.520 --> 0:54:15.200
<v Speaker 1>that the answers in this case are somewhere in the

0:54:15.280 --> 0:54:19.399
<v Speaker 1>beginning in the first cops to look into Jessica's death

0:54:19.920 --> 0:54:24.239
<v Speaker 1>and the very first people arrested for this crime. But

0:54:24.320 --> 0:54:28.960
<v Speaker 1>the investigation into those people ended when Susan Goalbreath homed

0:54:29.040 --> 0:54:30.600
<v Speaker 1>in on Quincy Cross.

0:54:31.000 --> 0:54:33.640
<v Speaker 15>She just kept writing scenarios till they thought it fit

0:54:35.080 --> 0:54:38.080
<v Speaker 15>the scenario how this thing played.

0:54:37.800 --> 0:54:42.280
<v Speaker 2>Out, and the KBI and prosecution ran with her stories.

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<v Speaker 17>What bothers me is it comes back to the fact

0:54:46.200 --> 0:54:52.759
<v Speaker 17>that the police, the Commonwealth, the state of Kentucky, they

0:54:52.920 --> 0:54:56.680
<v Speaker 17>let her have all of this power. As far as

0:54:56.719 --> 0:54:59.719
<v Speaker 17>I'm concerned, Susan Galvar thank got a goddamn thing to

0:54:59.760 --> 0:55:03.759
<v Speaker 17>do with fucking shit with this case, rather than being

0:55:03.800 --> 0:55:09.040
<v Speaker 17>a roadblock for there to be actual justice.

0:55:10.360 --> 0:55:14.160
<v Speaker 2>Susan Golbreeth also knew there were two people arrested in

0:55:14.280 --> 0:55:18.520
<v Speaker 2>the initial Mayfield Police investigation, and one of those people

0:55:19.880 --> 0:55:24.920
<v Speaker 2>she had close ties to. That's next time.

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