38 Years Behind Bars: The Controversial Case of Patty Prewitt

Housewives of True Crime

Tabitha Kane

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Patty Prewitt was convicted in 1985 for the 1984 murder of her husband, Bill, in their Holden, Missouri home. She has consistently maintained her innocence, asserting that an intruder attacked her and killed Bill. Despite refusing a plea deal that could have led to parole after seven years, she received a life sentence without eligibility for parole until 2036. Over nearly four decades in prison, Patty became a model inmate and mentor...

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Housewives of True Crime.
0:05.4	Welcome.
0:06.3	Welcome.
0:07.4	I am Tabitha.
0:09.2	Give me Dateline, white wine, and I'll pick up your kids in the carpool line.
0:14.3	The next day, right?
0:15.2	Yeah, the next day.
0:15.9	Okay.
0:16.8	And I am Gretchen.
0:18.2	I like white wine, true crime, and in bed by nine, because I have a lot of stuff to do in the morning.
0:26.6	We are housewives of true crime.
0:30.5	Yes, we are.
0:31.3	Yes, we are.
0:32.6	House of whites Crime. Hi. How's Wives of True Crime. Good morning. Good morning. It is morning for Gretchi and I too, really early for Gretch.
0:56.3	Actually, like your whole house is probably still sleeping. They are still sleeping, but I'm a busing.
1:04.4	Taking in the piece, coffee by myself. It's not the worst thing ever.
1:10.2	That's really lovely. And how's the weather out there?
1:13.9	The weather? It doesn't know what it's doing. It's going through parimenopause maybe. One day it's
1:18.2	sunny and lovely. And the next day it's raining, fiery. It's like this weather over here. Yeah. Yeah.
1:25.6	That's actually funny because I feel like we are both going through in paramedopause.
1:30.3	So we're the same sort of thing as a weather.
1:32.8	Well, that is lovely.
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