Chapter 1: The Crime

Accused

Cincinnati Enquirer

True Crime, Documentary, Exhibit C, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When Elaine Shub opened the door to the hotel room she was sharing with her best friend of 48 years, she saw such a gruesome sight that she collapsed in the suburban hotel hallway. Rhoda Nathan, a kind-hearted New Jersey grandmother who had just stepped out of the shower, lay on the floor, unrecognizable from the vicious beating she’d endured. Who could have done this? What could have been the motive? Who had access? Who had motive? And why did Rhoda have to die?

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0:00.0	Join Wendry Plus, an Apple Podcast or the Wendry app to binge all seven episodes of Accused
0:06.8	Season 4, the impending execution of Elwood Jones, Early and Add Free.
0:12.7	Since Nadie and Choir in USA Today's subscribers can also listen early and add free by going to
0:18.3	AccusedPodcast.com.
0:30.6	If you've never visited someone in prison, it's an odd experience.
0:35.3	Your eyeball, like you've done something just as wrong as the person you're visiting,
0:39.4	is believed to have done.
0:41.3	You show your ID, you get frisked, you go through metal detectors.
0:45.6	If you're wearing an underwire bra, you might set off one of those detectors in front
0:49.7	of your coworkers.
0:51.4	All good?
0:52.4	You're good?
0:53.4	They'll record it.
0:54.4	All right, we're good.
0:55.4	All right, thank you for your patience.
0:56.4	Yeah, thank you.
0:57.4	And thanks for taking the time out of your day to meet with us.
1:00.4	This is sound from the summer of 2019, when I and three colleagues traveled from Cincinnati
1:06.8	to Chilacothe, to not just visit a man in prison, but to visit a man scheduled to die the
1:12.9	very next year.
1:14.8	This is Elwood Jones.
1:16.7	His friends call him Butch, which I won't call him because we're not friends, but I have
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