Hey, Carol, how's it going?

It's going well. How are you?

I'm good. I'm sitting on the back porch of my brother's lake house, looking at other people's boat docks.

Oh, nice.

No, I didn't call my co-host Carol to brag about the lake life.

I'm calling because I have some weird news to share.

I spent the previous morning in

Corsicana, the town where Shelly Watkins lived until she was murdered in 1993. Then I drove up

Highway 31 to the town of Athens, where law enforcement accused Shelly's husband, Jerry Mack,

of killing her. Went down to Corsicana, looked at all the newspaper archives in the library,

and then went over to Athens,

looked at the case files,

and then I went on up to Kilgore.

Kilgore, Texas, where I'm from,

is just another hour down the same highway.

My brother's been letting me crash when I'm here,

poking around for clues in Shelley's case.

All right, so when I was in Athens, Henderson County, looking through the case files for

Jerry Mac Watkins. Yes. The most important document in all of those hundreds of pages was the affidavit for the search warrant where

the investigator laid out why he believed Jerry Mack was guilty and why they should go search

his house. As you know, we know from newspaper stories that some of the stuff that was that

the investigator had already found out was, you know, we know from newspaper stories that some of the stuff that was that the investigator had

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