David Rutherford Show: Navy SEAL Spent 31 Years in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Navy SEAL Dusty Turner spent 31 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. The man who actually committed it confessed in 2008. Dusty stayed locked up another 17 years anyway. He was finally released on March 5, 2026 — and 24 hours after sitting down for this interview, his parole officer had him arrested again on a vague "significant relationship" clause that a federal appeals court already ruled unconstitutionally vague. David Rutherford opens this episode with what happened after the cameras stopped, then hands off to a conversation Dusty has not been able to have until now: a fellow Navy SEAL asking him about the night his life ended, the swim buddy who killed Jennifer Evans, the JAG officer who told him to talk, and the 31 years that followed. Dusty Turner is a former Navy SEAL (Class 196, Team 4) who became the first person in Virginia history to be granted a Writ of Actual Innocence on non-biological evidence — a ruling the Attorney General appealed and overturned. He has been incarcerated since November 1995.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | You spent 30 years incarcerated knowing you were innocent. |
| 0:09.7 | What keeps you going every day knowing you're there and you're innocent? |
| 0:15.7 | Let me tell you something. I went through hell. It's hell week every day. |
| 0:19.9 | The only reason I went to prison is because he told a |
| 0:23.0 | different story. And so now he confesses. I was going to be out. That was 2008. I was already |
| 0:28.1 | given my stuff away in prison to other prisoners because I knew I was about to go home within a |
| 0:32.5 | matter of days. They created a brand new theory that a jury could believe that there was still guilt on my part, |
| 0:40.6 | even with the credible, truthful confession of the actual murderer. |
| 0:46.6 | It's insane. |
| 0:47.5 | The whole thing is absolutely insane. |
| 0:49.9 | And the more you look at it, the more you'll be amazed at it. |
| 0:53.3 | You know, And the more you look at it, the more you'll be amazed at it. |
| 1:04.7 | Welcome to the David Rutherford Show. I'm your host, David Rutherford. |
| 1:06.6 | And today's show really is an emotional show for me because the man that I interview that you'll hear later who spent 31 years incarcerated under wrongful pretense. |
| 1:20.1 | It was unjustly convicted on the murder that was ultimately confessed by the person her murdered this young girl, Jennifer Evans, back in 1995, |
| 1:30.8 | two young, fresh graduates of sealed training. |
| 1:34.7 | Dusty Turner is the interview. |
| 1:36.8 | Billy Brown was the man who ultimately committed he murdered. |
| 1:39.8 | This whole man's life was destroyed, and he was recently released on March 3rd. |
| 1:45.5 | We interviewed him on April 20th to get his story for all of you, and then all hell break loose. |
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