High listeners, serial killers is taking a break today, and showcasing the first episode

of a fantastic four-part miniseries from solved murders.

It's called Bass Reeves, no master but duty, and it tells the true story of a former enslaved

man who went on to become one of the most legendary US deputy marshals in the American West.

Posted by Darnell Ishmel, no master but duty is an incredible profile on a true crime hero,

you probably never knew existed. Enjoy Part One today, and be sure to follow solved murders

free on Spotify to hear the rest of this wonderful series. We'll be back next week with all

new episodes of serial killers.

Due to the graphic nature of this story, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes dramatizations and discussions of chattel slavery, murder, and gore.

There's a story out there that's just incredible. Some would say too incredible to be true,

but for some reason, maybe a lot of reasons. That story hasn't really been told,

and it was all most lost forever. When I was approximately 11 years old, I was watching a

Watter movie at my grandparents home in Arcadia, Oklahoma.

You're hearing the voice of Art T. Burton. Today, he's Professor Burton, but back in the 1960s,

he's just a boy sitting in front of his grandparents' television set.

And after the movie went off, I asked my grandfather if he had remembered seeing any black

deputy's marshals on the frontier because my grandparents had come to the Oklahoma territory in 1890,

and so they were little kids, and he told me he had actually seen black deputy's marshals

ride through Arcadia when he was a young man. Then I asked him if he remembered any black

deputies of nope, and he thought for a while, and him and my grandmother both shamed in about

bass reefs. His grandparents tell him about this man, this black deputy US marshal who was one of

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