Everyone, it's Jen.

And this is Lindsay.

And welcome back to Corpus DeLicti.

We are in our Delay Justice series.

And man, do we have one for you this week?

Yeah, I am actually a little nervous about this one just because it's so

big and massive that I just hope that we can tell it all and tell it correctly. It's Jen came

across it and when you first come across this story, it's like, okay, here's what happened. Here's the outcome.

Okay. But then the more you dig into it, you find out that there is just this whole, it just keeps going.

And with that being said, this week is going to be a two-parter. We're going to lay out all the facts for you on this first one. And next week, we have a lot more to bring you.

So I hope you're settled in because here we go. This case is about a man that was convicted,

not one, but two separate murders, only to have them both retried and overturned.

This caused a huge uproar in North Carolina during this time.

It was very racially charged event, and it also resulted in a policy change.

Now, this story has a lot of players and a lot of moving parts.

Yeah, so buckle up.

It's not one that's a good listen when you're distracted, like cleaning or whatever,

because there are a lot of moving parts.

So we're going to start off by talking about the victim.

Deborah Sykes, who went by the name Debbie, was a young woman who worked as a copy editor at the Sentinel Publication. She was 26 years old.

She already showed a lot of promise because she had a really great work ethic. She got this new

job. She was always on time. She was a real go-getter.

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