170: Sweet Home Alabama: Dennis Morgan Hicks

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A mentally disabled person goes missing. When his body is found, it's in such bad condition an official cause of death can't be determined. However, two very young witnesses saw the crime as it happened, and are able to help pinpoint what happened.

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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
Death sentence in Mobile County decapitation case upheld | WPMI (mynbc15.com)
Death sentence upheld for Alabama man convicted of decapitating mentally challenged man | WBMA (abc3340.com)
Dennis Morgan Hicks v. State of Alabama :: 2019 :: Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals Decisions :: Alabama Case Law :: Alabama Law :: US Law :: Justia
Microsoft Word - Final Hicks v. State Article.docx (wordpress.com)
HICKS v. STATE | 667 So.2d 33 (1996) | 7so2d331683 | Leagle.com

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. it's Jen.
0:25.3	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.7	And welcome back to Corpus Delicti.
0:28.7	We are still within our sweet home Alabama series.
0:32.4	And I have to be honest, I've kind of missed you guys.
0:35.3	I know.
0:35.8	It feels like it's been a lot longer than it has.
0:38.0	Granted, it was longer than we anticipated. We ended up extending the break, hence last week's
0:44.4	remastered episodes. So sorry about that, but I hope you guys liked being able to kind of hear
0:48.6	something still in the same series, but, you know, blast from the past, if you will. So before we get started,
0:57.0	one thing that we did want to say, because we've had a lot of questions about this, we are still
1:01.7	taking letters for Rocky. That is not stopping anytime soon, so just because we're not in that
1:08.2	series anymore, by all means, if you want to send one,
1:11.1	please do. The email address is corpus delicti at yahoo.com,
1:15.4	or you can send it through the regular mail at P.O. Box 89, Chelsea, Alabama, 3504.
1:23.1	And in fact, we would love it if you did. We can always use more.
1:28.9	He loves to hear about it. And we want to make a big impact.
1:30.9	But with that said, we're going to kick off tonight's story.
1:35.4	Now, a little bit of a content warning.
1:38.1	Some of this is graphic.
1:40.0	So if it's not your cup of tea, we have plenty others in our episode log that just hop back over.
1:48.0	But this story begins in September 2011 with a 23-year-old Joshua Duncan.
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