A dad, husband, new grandfather and proud parrot owner, this man had no idea one day in May

2015 would be his last.

When his body was found, police were startled when his wife, lying shot beside him, sat

up and began talking.

However, the possible victim later seemed more likely to be involved.

While his family waited for justice, his feathered friend was squawking for it.

This week's episode is The Murder of Marty Durham and the story of Bud the Hero parrot,

part 1.

Shout out to the folks that have sent this story in, I think initially based on the headline,

but understanding like we do often with any case that gets a lot of media attention,

there's so much more underneath the headline.

Yeah, I mean, who isn't going to click on a story where Bud the Hero parrots involved?

That's the best clickbait one could have.

Yeah, I mean all you have to do is say a man was murdered and his parrot may hold the

key to solving it and that is what every news headline said about it.

In so researching this, we had to dig a lot deeper to get a lot more facts about it beyond

just he was a person who was murdered and also owned a parrot and not the things that

really need to be told about it.

This is a person that was maybe vulnerable and taking advantage of and perhaps taking

advantage of others as well.

Yeah, that's wild stuff.

So we'll get into all of that as we have, it's all more than just a headline with Bud the

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