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20/20

BONUS: Behind 'Red-Handed'

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

4.08.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This bonus episode of 20/20, hosted by contributing anchor Deborah Roberts, features exclusive behind-the-scenes details from Josh Margolin, one of the leading reporters in this shocking murder case that rocked a small town in Arkansas to its core. When authorities find a well-known former state senator murdered outside her home in Arkansas, rumors began to fly. Who killed Linda Collins-Smith? Could she have made a fatal enemy along her meteoric rise in state politics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.6

Hi there, everybody.

0:31.6

I'm Deborah Roberts, National Senior Affairs correspondent here at ABC News.

0:35.9

I've worked on a lot of stories over the years, dramas, murder mysteries, 2020, but this

0:43.2

one stopped me in my tracks.

0:49.9

We gave you a close examination of the murder of former Arkansas State Senator Linda Collins

0:54.8

Smith, and if you haven't heard that episode yet, I think you want to go back and listen

1:01.2

to it.

1:02.3

Because in this bonus episode, we're going to dig even deeper into this story and give

1:06.5

you details that we weren't able to share with you at the time of our broadcast.

1:12.3

You know now that Becky O'Donnell killed Linda Collins Smith, her BFF, and that she acted

1:19.1

alone.

1:21.5

But what you may not know is that it took us a lot of work to gain a better understanding

1:27.0

of this case.

1:28.7

We had to sue.

1:30.1

That's right, sue to unseal documents placed under a gag order and even got access to the

1:36.2

jailhouse informants who told us about Becky's murder for hire plot.

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