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The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

Episode 288 - Two of a Crime - The Murder of Genai Coleman

The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

themindsofmadness

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.46.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Join us, as we examine the murder of Genai Coleman, a teacher and mother who was gunned down in a shopping mall parking lot.

You’ll hear how detectives spent two years chasing a case that always seemed just out of reach.

And how one piece of DNA gave them what looked like an ironclad case… until a twist so strange, it felt more like a dream than real life.

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Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger

Editing:
Aiden Wolf

Sources:
Ronald & Donald Smith Interrogation
Donald Interrogation
5 key details about Genai Coleman's murder
DNA from Georgia woman's murder
Identical DNA: Murder Has Georgia Police Seeing Double
GBC News Story: Wrong Twin
Twin convicted in Gwinnett killing first tied to brother
Twin held in GA killing implicates brother
True Crime Stories – DNA Evidence and Identical Twins
Fingerprints Aid Case Involving Twins
Listverse
Police identify shooting victim
The Atlanta Constitution Tue, Jul 22, 2008 ·Page J1
The Atlanta Constitution Wed, Jul 23, 2008
Rare Twin Murder Case Echoes Bizarre Fingerprint Origins
When DNA test falls short, fingerprints point to guilty twin

Transcript

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0:24.8

The opinions expressed

0:26.3

in the following episode

0:27.5

do not necessarily reflect

0:29.0

those of the minds

0:29.8

of madness podcast.

0:31.6

Listener discretion is advised.

0:33.3

Music You know, I'm going like this.

1:11.6

You're walking down a familiar hallway, maybe at a high school, maybe college, and suddenly

1:18.0

it hits you like a ton of bricks.

1:20.5

There's an exam today you completely forgot about, or an assignment that's due.

1:25.7

Or maybe you realized you haven't been to a certain class all semester.

1:30.4

You don't have your notes.

1:32.0

You can't even find the classroom.

1:34.8

It's often referred to as the forgotten responsibility dream.

1:39.1

And in a recent survey, nearly 40% of adults said they'd had some version of it.

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