Episode 255: Richard "Doug" Douglas White

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On March 1st of 2007, 46-year-old Richard “Doug” Douglas White prepares to close his small business for the day when two men enter his shop. The next day, Doug’s fiance, 44-year-old Dr. Brenda Kaye Covington, discovers Doug’s body. Doug has been beaten and shot multiple times. Over a year later, state prosecutors prepare for the trial of one of Doug’s alleged attackers, 21-year-old Marine A. Thompson. Suddenly, the case is mysteriously dropped. Apparently, a key witness who allegedly saw Marine and an unknown accomplice enter Doug’s business has vanished. Over a decade passes, and the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office allows Doug’s case to go cold. However, local authorities confide in Doug’s fiance’s family that Doug was secretly embroiled in dangerous cocaine drug deals which may have cost him his life. In episode 255, Jac and Alexis explain why Doug’s friends and family need the search for justice to continue, despite Doug’s checkered past as a violent abuser. 🎟 Catch up to FOUR bonus episodes per month plus full video episodes over on Patreon: patreon.com/thefirstdegree ❤️ The Heavy Metal Project: theheavymetalproject.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thefirstdegree 🕺 TikTok: tiktok.com/@thefirstdegreee 👤 Facebook: facebook.com/thefirstdegree ⚖️ On the Stand: (818) 446-6889 💩 Worst Thing You’ve Ever Done: (818) 446-6889 🤝 Advice: hello@thefirstdegreepodcast.com 🎟 Catch up to FOUR bonus episodes per month plus full video episodes over on Patreon: patreon.com/thefirstdegree 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thefirstdegree 🕺 TikTok: tiktok.com/@thefirstdegreee 👤 Facebook: facebook.com/thefirstdegree Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:08.0	The first degree.
0:10.0	Get on the news.
0:12.0	Get on the K-3.
0:14.0	Get on the K-3.
0:16.0	He thinks there's supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:24.0	He would buy her things that were incredibly ridiculous.
0:29.0	He bought her a yellow 2007 H2 Hummer in cash.
0:37.0	A $80,000 vehicle.
0:39.0	And pulled it up one day with a bow on top and said,
0:43.0	this is for you.
0:45.0	When they got together,
0:49.0	he was running an air filter business.
0:51.0	It was confusing how cutting air filters and filling air filters was so profitable.
0:58.0	She ended up going there after work to go look for him,
1:02.0	look through the window of the office,
1:06.0	and saw his body in a pool of blood.
1:10.0	He was being severely,
1:14.0	and then shot multiple times.
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