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Welcome to True Crime Brewery.

I'm Jill.

And I'm Dick.

On the morning of January 21st, 1998,

12-year-old Stephanie Ann Crow

was found dead on her bedroom floor.

She'd been brutally stabbed to death as her family slept soundly in their bedrooms down the hall.

Stephanie's parents desperately called 911 for help. After police officers arrived at the scene,

a cursory search of the Crow home found no signs of forced entry.

There was an unlocked sliding glass door in the parents room, but it was covered by

aluminum vertical blinds. They would have made too much noise for

confessions of youth, the story of the murder of Stephanie Crow

and the false confessions that followed.

On the morning when Stephanie's body was found,

detectives came to an early conclusion that her murder was an inside job.

And from that day forward they worked to make the evidence

fit their theory instead of letting the evidence develop their theory.

This method of investigation wrong for many good reasons, sent the Crow family and two other families as well into a prolonged state of victimhood.

So let's have a beer and talk about it. Yeah, this is a tough case. It bothers me.

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