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🗓️ 2 November 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Since his release from prison, William Virgil’s life has been on hold. So has Retha Welch’s murder investigation.
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0:00.0 | Previously, Unaccused. |
0:12.0 | You need to do your work, investigate everything yourself. |
0:17.0 | That's what we're supposed to do. |
0:19.0 | You can't just rely on the papers you get. |
0:23.0 | You know, we're on a police detective saying something. |
0:25.0 | You have to go out and actually investigate it yourself. |
0:28.0 | That's part of your duty. |
0:32.0 | Originally under my ethical rules, there's not really much I can say about it because of the status of it at this point in time. |
0:42.0 | I remember huntin' this is accused, the unsolved murder of Ritha Welch. |
0:49.0 | The first few days after William Virgil's release from prison, he couldn't stop eating. |
0:54.0 | Behind bars, the menu options had been slim and bland. |
0:58.0 | Outside, he encountered so many new restaurants, places he had never heard of, places that didn't exist back when he was locked up. |
1:06.0 | A lot had changed in 28 years. Virgil wanted to try all the food. |
1:12.0 | I tried everything it was. |
1:16.0 | I mean, they had every fast food restaurant, one day this, next day that, next day that. |
1:21.0 | Then I said, no, that's what put on the weight. |
1:23.0 | He realized he would have to slow this down. |
1:26.0 | It wasn't good for his waistline to eat out so much. |
1:29.0 | More than that, there was the matter of his wallet. |
1:32.0 | He had no job, and he had wrecked up some medical issues that would keep him from getting one. |
1:37.0 | He was nearing 65 years old. They aged most folks retire. |
1:41.0 | And he had only ever earned a few odd paychecks in its 20s and 30s. |
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