I'm not a good place.

Previously, unequivoced.

I opened the door and when I looked inside, I knew something was wrong because there was things on all other places.

It's a good place.

I mean, it's stuff that I did then that I know I paid for in that 20 years because karma is a beast.

You know what I'm saying?

And regardless of the fact that I was innocent of this, I still was paying for things that I had done.

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

Just before William Virgil was to go on trial for the murder of Ritha Welch, his defense lawyer made a shocking discovery that seemed to throw the prosecution's case in jeopardy.

Robert Patton got a call alerting him to additional files related to the case that he hadn't been given yet.

He didn't think much of it at first, he said, because he already had a huge stack of documents.

But then he noticed that the letters GJ had been scrolled on all the files already given to him, but not on the new ones that were just surfacing.

He started to wonder what the letters meant.

And when I went over there, there was a box, you know, like a liquor box. It must have 15 files in it, maybe more.

So you could look at them and they were dead ends and I agree, but many of them were suspects, including this becker fellow, who boyfriend, and the other one was Isaac Grubbs, who I had represented at least twice before.

Once I had taken a truck for a part of my fee. So I knew who the guy was, I knew he was violent because he was always in trouble with the law.

In short, three days before jury selection, Patton was given a box filled with information about possible alternate suspects. Suddenly he realized what GJ meant.

It's what they had given to the grand jury. The rest was, well, not.

So what they did is everyone that was related that helped them tie the case back to Virgil, they put that piece of paper in a separate file that was basically the Virgil file.

It was marked GJ at the top after they went through it and decided what they were going to give the grand jury, or what they were going to testify to at the grand jury.

That grand jury apparently indicted William Virgil on murder charges without ever hearing that anyone else could have done it.

That last minute discovery by Robert Patton delayed the trial from months. It had originally been scheduled for April 18, 1988, a year and a week after Ritha's death.

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