Devil in the Ditch | 1. I Would've Remembered a Murder
The Binge Crimes: Cut, Color, Kill
Sony Music
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🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:07.0 | There's a town in Mississippi called Greenville. |
| 0:16.6 | It's in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, and more than 85% of the homicides that happen |
| 0:20.7 | here are unsolved. |
| 0:23.0 | So many of the people who commit these murders aren't in jail. |
| 0:25.9 | They're in a car driving past your house. |
| 0:29.1 | You probably stroll by them in the supermarket or see them pumping gas. |
| 0:34.4 | That also means the families of these victims have learned to live with not knowing. |
| 0:40.0 | One of those unsolved murders happened almost 20 years ago. |
| 0:43.3 | She was a grandmother, a major influence in Greenville and a bit eccentric. |
| 0:48.2 | Beloved by her family, maybe even the whole town. |
| 0:52.2 | She drove an old Ford with a life-size paper mache man in her backseat. |
| 0:57.8 | She was a big Democrat who hosted governors and organized dozens of charities. |
| 1:03.4 | Didn't seem like anybody had a bad thing to say about her. |
| 1:08.4 | Then she was murdered, and nobody ever solved it. |
| 1:12.3 | You get the feeling that it never will be, that it's been so long it doesn't matter. |
| 1:18.6 | Well, it matters to me. |
| 1:21.9 | Because that town, Greenville, Mississippi, is where I grew up. |
| 1:25.7 | And that family is my family. |
| 1:28.1 | And it was my grandmother who was found murdered in her son's room. |
| 1:33.1 | And I want some answers. |
| 1:37.3 | This is a story about what happens when you don't know. |
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