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Thank you. tell you the rest of the story. Links to those platforms are in the show notes. Around Christmas time, 2013, investigators in the Arlington, Washington area got

notified that a recently arrested car thief wanted to talk to them.

He told them he knew about a decades-old murder that occurred on a rural property, but this was a crime the police had no idea even happened.

I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Hello, Hello and welcome to crime lines.

This week, we're covering a case that will have some parallels to a recent episode,

but we're going to see what happens when different decisions are made by investigators. The truth is, in the case we're

talking about today, they're lucky it was solved because if it was up to the deputy who was first

alerted to it, nothing would have happened. So we are going to start with Byron Wright, who was

born in Washington in May of 1951. When he was pretty young, his father abandoned

the family pretty much entirely, leaving his wife to raise four kids entirely on her own.

In the 1950s and 60s, there were not a lot of resources for single parents, and beyond that,

Byron's mom had MS. A large number of entry-level jobs were impossible for her to even do,

and few of them would pay her enough to support four kids comfortably.

So they were raised in poverty, and Byron had to take on a caretaking role for his

siblings as his mother's health deteriorated. Eventually, Byron and his siblings were sent to live

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