I'm Brett and I'm Alice and we are The Prosecutors.

Today on The Prosecutors, we return to Louisville, Kentucky and hope that you can help us solve the murder of Alberta Jones.

Hello everybody and welcome to this episode of The Prosecutors. I'm Brett and I'm joined as always by my purse. Wait, purse, purse, perspacatious cohost, Alice.

This is not fair because you'll have edited out and people will think you said that in one go but you actually took maybe five or six goes and I loved the five to six goes better than you getting it correct.

That's so insightful of you.

So if you'll be real, don't edit it all out because that was an amazing attempt. I didn't know where you were going. I was on the edge of my seat. I was like, personable, persistent.

Oh, that was very nice. That's quite a word. What have you been doing to the paper of the day or something?

That was from Tiffany. Tiffany suggested that one so I can't. Thanks Tiffany. That was a good word. Someone's studying their like SAT words.

Yeah, and I need all the words I can get. So if you're out there thinking of words for Alice, do do share as long as they're nice words. We don't want any mean words about Alice and don't try and slip any through that I don't know the meaning of. I don't know how you guys work.

Well, that is very nice. These days, I don't feel like I understand anything. So that was a very nice descriptor because living with toddlers. Now, I think I can now officially say I have two like full blown toddlers. I don't have babies. I have like toddlers with their own minds and they really run, you know, run over me every day.

I know somebody left a review that was critical of us because we talked too much about our personal lives and it's like we got to let you guys know why our brains aren't working. It's called context guys context.

You got to understand why I think someone else said they worry that I'm a secret serial killer because I talk about how difficult it is to kill someone and all I have to say is.

The human, the human body is resilient and I know this because I have boys and all they do is run off figurative and almost real cliffs all the time. That's why I say that.

Yeah, no, it's definitely true. It's definitely true. So we're we're just happy to be here with you guys today having survived another week so that we could record our continuation of the investigation of the death of Alberta Jones.

Last time we talked a lot about how amazing Alberta was and we got into the timeline leading up to her death and discussing the investigation of her death and and how the police really kind of ran into a wall as you guys may recall Alberta was murdered on August 5th in 1965 and there were a lot of really nice things said about how close the police were to solving the crime and how they were working this very hard and how they add some suspects.

But then you know the trail kind of went cold and all of a sudden people began to forget about Alberta Jones and the fact that she had been murdered.

And that brings us up to where we left you guys all last time May 2010 when the Louisville career runs what I think is an absolutely stunning story.

So you can include it on the website so you can read it and it reports that the police believe that they have actually solved the murder of Alberta Jones and you may be wondering well if they solved it why didn't we wrap this up last episode why are we doing another

episode well because in a stunning twist the police and the district attorney say that they won't prosecute the person because they do not believe they can get a conviction.

And Alice this is one of those things that happens in cases particularly old cases like this.

Yeah I think you're absolutely right and the more stunning thing to me is that they announced they solved it because this often happens behind closed doors and it's not public there's no press conference because this does not look good for the city and the prosecutors that they can't bring justice to the family to Alberta.

So this could happen behind closed doors and a case is closed because there's insufficient evidence to bring it before grand jury or to prevail at trial but to announce that you've actually solved it and you will not prosecute is very interesting because the killer knows that too then right the person knows that they will not be prosecuted at almost I don't know I'd be nervous about emboldening this person unless they think that it was a one time offense.

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