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The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

101. The Trial of Coley McCraney

The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

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True Crime, Talk Radio

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In 1999, two teenagers, Tracie Hawlett and J.B. Beasley, were brutally murdered just outside the town of Ozark, AL. For decades, the mystery remained unsolved. Then, genetic genealogy came along. In an unusual twist, the Attorney General of Alabama, Steve Marshall, was called upon to prosecute the case. He joins us to explain how this case was solved and tried, and how the families of two murdered 17 year olds finally found justice. Sponsors: Progressive Insurance

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0:00.0

I'm Alice and I'm Alice and I'm Brett and this is the prosecutor's legal proof. Yes. Welcome back to the prosecutor's legal briefs. I'm your host Alice and I'm

0:37.1

joined as always by my general co-host Brett. Ah yes, general me. That's what I am Alice leading the charge today I'm planning

0:47.3

on being sort of the general of the couch because we have as we often do someone

0:52.2

far more interesting than me to talk to our

0:55.2

It's true Brett. I was actually just gonna cut you off and say please stop talking because

0:58.6

the real reason we are here today is we have the Attorney General of Alabama, Steve Marshall here with us,

1:06.7

but not to talk about politics. Instead, we are here to talk about one of the most mind-boggling cold cases of our generation that was

1:16.7

cracked by his office and he actually led the charge and trial that led to a

1:20.5

conviction just in the last year of J.B.

1:23.2

Biesley and Tracy Hollitt, who were murdered back in 1999.

1:26.6

General Marshall, thank you so much for being here with us today.

1:30.4

No, thank you for having me.

1:32.0

By the way, a word of thanks to the two of you for helping us train law enforcement last year.

1:38.0

Your listeners probably don't know that you were doing a panel for us with all of Alabama's finest and incredible reviews that you offered

1:46.8

some commentary and help for law enforcement doing their jobs better.

1:49.8

So thank y'all for doing that.

1:51.0

Thanks for trusting a couple of podcasters.

1:54.0

We could really lead things to straight because I'm going to give a spoiler alert.

1:57.4

There's so much to talk about in this case and we want to hear from you.

2:00.6

But one interesting element in this particular case you're here to talk about today is social media and bloggers in the sense of talking about police corruption and how that may have affected the case when it was absolutely cold

2:12.8

and there were no significant leads. So that's kind of a teaser for you guys

2:16.3

out there listening because this case has it all. And social media and its

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