168: Sweet Home Alabama: Andrew Lackey

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, we discuss the murder of an 80 year old war veteran on Halloween. The crime was brutal, but the motive was simple - robbery. But in a case that was otherwise cut and dry, one question about the murderer sparked controversy in Alabama.
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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
Andrew Lackey | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
Alabama executes 2005 Halloween killer Andrew Lackey - New York Daily News (nydailynews.com)
Jury to begin deliberations in Lackey trial (waff.com)
Suspect charged in Athens killing (decaturdaily.com)
LACKEY v. STATE | FindLaw

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0:00.0	Everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.2	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.6	And welcome back to Corpus DeLecti, the podcast.
0:29.9	We are, as you guys probably know by now, in our Sweet Home Alabama series where we're talking about cases from our home state. And we've got one
0:40.7	this week, another super interesting one that I had no idea happened, even semi recently since
0:47.4	I've lived here. I haven't lived here my whole life. But so we're looking forward to bringing you
0:52.7	guys another crazy story from our home state.
0:55.7	So this week's episode of Sweet Home Alabama takes us back up to the northeast corner of Alabama.
1:02.4	Athens seems like a lot goes on in this small little town.
1:06.6	It was the night of Halloween in 2005.
1:10.2	Charles Newman was burglarized and then killed in his own home.
1:14.6	Now, Mr. Newman was a widower and had survived World War II as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division.
1:23.7	You know, a fun fact, though, about Mr. Newman, that he was in D-Day invasion at Normandy in France in
1:29.8	1944. And at the time of his murder, he was 80 years old. So we have a war veteran who was
1:37.8	murdered in his home, which it hurts my heart because these veterans should be, to me, placed on a pedestal, not just because both my parents are veterans, but I have a special place.
1:50.6	And especially D-Day, that was such a deadly but impactful event. So when Mr. Newman returned home from the war, he worked as a building contractor, and he had since
2:03.4	retired, as we mentioned, he was 80 at this time. And maybe it was because of all of his military
2:10.2	experiences, but he was a very, very cautious man. He never opened the front door without looking
2:17.0	out the window. He wanted to know who it was
2:19.3	before he opened it. And he didn't even give out candy at Halloween because he never knew who
2:25.7	was going to come up. He wanted to know the person before he opened the door. Mr. Newman's grandson,
2:31.9	Derek Newman, graduated from Sparkman High School. Now, when
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