Chapter 6: If not Virgil, Who?

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🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Newport police overlooked several interesting people worthy of scrutiny in this murder case, including one man they’d encountered themselves.

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0:00.0	Previously, Unaccused.
0:10.0	Tell you if anybody's listening to this podcast or whatever, do not believe somebody who
0:17.6	is in jail, who said your client or my client confessed to them.
0:22.7	Yeah, it was just amazing information.
0:26.7	We've had a snitch testimony in the process and it's fallen apart too soon.
0:34.7	I mean, the fact that he wasn't honest was not surprising that the part about the how
0:42.2	orchestrated it was.
0:49.3	I'm Amber Hunt and this is accused, the unsolved murder of Ritha Welch.
0:55.2	Looking through the newspaper coverage of Newport in April 1987, you would never know
1:00.3	that anyone had tried to connect the police shooting of Isaac Grubbs with the nearby
1:05.0	stabbing death of Ritha Welch.
1:08.0	Both were big news at the time with headlines about them appearing in the same day's
1:12.8	edition on several occasions, but they were always separate headlines.
1:18.6	Even Robert Patton, the lawyer who had represented Grubbs before his death and who was representing
1:23.9	William Virgil in Ritha's murder case, hadn't considered a connection until he finally
1:29.7	got those additional police files on the eve of the trial.
1:34.0	Remember those were the files that were not labeled GJ for Grand Jury and it's because
1:39.6	of those files that the trial was delayed five months so Patton could try to find any
1:44.3	evidence connecting Isaac Grubbs with Ritha Welch.
1:47.6	Well, he found some.
1:50.1	She was the best witness I'd ever had on the witness stand.
1:57.1	There's more.
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