Chapter 2: The couple

Accused

Cincinnati Enquirer

True Crime, Documentary, Exhibit C, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As Oxford police began investigating the city’s first murder in a quarter-century, detectives bolstered their case against the victim’s boyfriend. But did cops’ theory on motive line up with what Beth’s friends knew about the couple? Bob Young had no prior criminal record, and no one at trial testified he had even a slight temper, much less a murderous one. Despite this, police records indicate that investigators didn’t give much weight to the men in Beth’s life that her friends say warranted some scrutiny in the wake of her murder. In this episode, The Enquirer delves into Beth’s personality, her relationship with Young and her plans after college in hopes of determining whether the prosecution’s case against Young made any sense. Do you like Accused? Check out Secrets, Crimes & Audiotape: smarturl.it/sca See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	I'm Amber Hunt and this is Accused, the Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes.
0:17.0	The thing about it was the police got on with a boyfriend and once he got off, he stopped
0:25.4	to the investigation even though he said he couldn't have done it, the timeline wasn't right.
0:32.4	I'm like this is an open case, is it not?
0:36.0	You don't have a convicted killer, you're still supposed to be looking at it, is anybody
0:41.0	looking at it?
0:42.0	No one seems to be looking at it.
0:43.0	Well, you know where their hands are tied and on and on and it really just seemed ridiculous
0:49.7	to me.
0:56.4	My husband and I have this ongoing joke bear with me because it's definitely gallows
1:02.5	humor because we watch true crime shows like forensic files and because I've worked for
1:08.4	years as a crime reporter, we know that if something sinister happened either one of us,
1:13.7	the other would come under immediate police scrutiny.
1:17.2	So we joke, be nice or I'll hide a note in my sock drawer telling police to look at
1:21.7	you if anything ever happens to me, the jury would eat it up.
1:25.8	It's macabre, I know.
1:27.2	We laugh because that sort of thing is funny to us but the truth is if something were
1:32.1	to happen to one of us, police would be analyzing everything the other person did.
1:38.1	Every web search, every email, every quip made to family members about some benign frustration
1:44.0	in our marriage.
1:45.0	I mean, take a look at your last month's worth of text messages with your partner.
1:50.6	Even how many of them would seem ominous to someone attaching dark motives to each exchange.
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