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After an emotional meeting with family members of Reed Oliver Fleming and his wife Lois,

the elderly couple brutally murdered in 1973,

Stoney seems to have found some solace in the fact that the family not only now doubts that

Billy Burke committed the crime, but also that their entire view of Billy Burke and Stoney has changed.

There's no longer any ill will to be found.

And those Stoney's entire mission has been to prove to the world that his father,

though he was a cold-blooded killer for hire who deserved to be in prison,

was not the savage torturing monster he was made out to be by Jim West.

And it seems at least as far as the members of the Fleming's extended family are concerned,

he was not.

But the people of power and the people of his victims, they know him as the monster, the

most feared, no conscious mental liability of Billy Burke.

Can't take that away. You can't underestimate that.

That's been 50 years and there's no cigarettes about him left.

But in our investigation over the past few months, we had been trying to locate with the help of

cadaver dogs the body of Billy Wayne Davis's mistress in order to hopefully connect Davis to that

murder and try to prove that his testimony in the Fleming case could not be trusted as well.

The reality is that Burke was sentenced to death for the Fleming murder solely on Davis's

testimony and the eyewitness accounts placing him 10 miles outside of Ryn's Georgia on the

night of the murder. It's not exactly a bulletproof case. Davis had denied knowing anything about

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