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One afternoon in January of 1998, a prosecutor for the state of Georgia sat in the very

back row of seats in a courtroom where a divorce trial was unfolding.

Now, this prosecutor was not involved in this

divorce case. He handled murder trials. But he had still come here today because he had gotten a very

surprising phone call about an unsolved murder case he had worked on a year and a half earlier.

The caller had told him that the testimony in this divorce case could potentially solve that murder.

Now, in the courtroom, the prosecutor felt his heart rate pick up as the witness he had been

waiting for finally took the stand. And as soon as the witness began talking, the prosecutor

knew he had just solved that murder. But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious,

delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do

and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.

So, if that's of interest to you, on the next very hot day, offer the follow button a nice

ice-cold cup of water, except don't tell them

it's actually white vinegar.

Okay, let's get into today's story. On August 7, 1996, a 4-year-old entrepreneur named Lance Herndon

woke up at 3.40 a.m. to the sound of his alarm clock going off inside of his mansion

in Roswell, Georgia. The alarm was actually one of three alarms set to go off that morning.

The first was at 3.40, the second at 3 at 350, and the third at 4 a.m.

And this was actually how every workday began for Lance.

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