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Murder on Songbird Road is a production of

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iHeart Podcasts.

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I thought the new story about murder

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than a wool area in.

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Marion, And when I clicked on the article a

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bombird Road and my.

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Heart thank because I need it. Backs to the road

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that Julie led on.

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To have a murderers Christmas

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Jae Beasley doesn't happen

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very often down here.

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And Mary in Illinois, an eleven year old

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girl brutally stabbed to death her father's

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longtime living girlfriend, maintaining innocence

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but charged with her murder.

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I am confident that Julie Beverley

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is guilty with this case. The

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more I learned about it, the more

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I'm scratching my head, like man somethings

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thinks about it.

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Something's not right.

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Why would a thirty two year old woman

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with no history of violence murder

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and eleven year old she considered her

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own child.

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Sometimes people snap, That is

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what I believe happened in this case.

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She claims that as soon as she pulls the storm

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over and that she notices blood in the living room

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and somebody clad and all black

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comes charging at her, and that he's got

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a knife.

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They had told us at the press conference that

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she had told them a story about

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a suspect that left the home

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that was later proven to be false. But

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they never explained how

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I should have asked, Looking back at it now, in

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hindsight.

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If you stamped somebody, how many times

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you would have blood splatter, which the change closed.

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They've never found the weapon never

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made sense, still doesn't make sense.

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I'm Lauren Bright. Pacheco. Murder on Songbird

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Road dives into the conviction of a mother

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of four who remains behind

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bars and the investigation that

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put her there.

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She found out she was pregnant in jail,

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she wasn't treated like she was an innocent human being

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at all, which is just horrific.

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It is unhumane.

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I have not seen this level

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of corruption anywhere in my life.

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From the lying and the cover

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ups, it's unbelievable.

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And the victim impact statement darkness

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the light. Oh

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that's what I wrote down on the line,

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like darkness cannot drive out

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darkness.

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They're talking about witches.

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That kind of is frowned upon down.

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Here around here.

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They don't murders.

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Nice join

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me along with criminal defense attorney Bob

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Mada in investigating the murder that ripped

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a rural community in southern Illinois,

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part pitting families against one another

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in a storm of controversy, corruption,

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and continuing questions.

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The person who hit it is still out

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there. He had both hands on either side

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of the door, and he kept just talking and jibber

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jabbering, and I was too afraid to answer the door.

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He just kept knocking and knocking.

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So a shirtless guy, and he looked like he was under

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the influence of drugs.

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Yeah, there's no justice

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for Jade.

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There's no justice Julie.

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Nobody has gotten justice yet. And

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that's what I wish people would understand.

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Murder on Songbird Road launches January

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two. Get it on the iHeartRadio

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