If you ever want a sense of how many unsolved or

slapily investigated murders there are out there,

just pick one to examine and go from there.

After our podcast accused the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Andes,

my producer Amanda Rossman and I were inundated with suggestions of other

cases to examine. We will still be following and updating best cases were able.

But these emailed suggestions made it clear that there are a lot of cases worth

exploring so we're going to do our best to help shine some light where we can.

We wish we could tackle every case suggested to us. We hear how frustrated and

heartbroken people are, how desperate they are to have anyone just take one more

look. Some of the cases suggested had gone cold almost as quickly as the

victim's body with no suspects ever named. Some others had a suspect

attached but no conviction as was the case with Beth. Another still had ended

in convictions that were seeming pretty shaky. If you have an ounce of

empathy it's tough to take on one case while passing on another so we started

digging into several at once and decided whichever one came together first

would be our next season. So here we are. Over the next several weeks we'll be

unfolding a new case from the Cincinnati region. It's a tale of sex and murder

crime and punishment and if the word of one witness can be trusted police corruption.

I'm Amber Hunt and this is accused the unsolved murder of Ritha Welch.

There are many many people in prison who are not guilty and yet they're just not

getting relief. My belief is that the jury got this right. If you got my footprint on Mars

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