Episode 318: Brandy Hutchins

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In November 1988, a 14-year-old girl is found murdered in an abandoned house in Johnson County, Arkansas, with satanic writings on the walls. She has been shot at point-blank range, and her body is hidden beneath old boards in the root cellar. A positive pregnancy test is found next to her body. Investigators quickly zero in on her 17-year-old boyfriend, but despite his ties to her, he is never charged. The case goes cold, and over 30 years later, Brandy’s family is still searching for justice. In episode 318, Jac and Alexis examine the tragic murder of Brandy Hutchins and explore how her killer may have escaped justice for decades.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:07.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	The first degree.
0:09.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the paper and you see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	Somebody just thought she was trash and just threw away and nobody else was bothered, you know, to do something about it.
0:28.0	It's like they don't think that she was worth even getting justice for. You hear all these others, you know,
0:36.3	crime stories and stuff. That's about all these girls or whatever and they're so
0:41.0	loved and they're so they're so popular and and it's pretty and in her life just wasn't that way.
0:47.6	She had a hard life you know and she never had a chance.
0:52.4	Welcome to the first I'm never a chance.
0:58.0	Welcome to the first degree of the True Crime Podcast that you might end up on. My name is Jack Vanick. I'm sitting here with the Lexis link letter.
1:00.0	We're just chatting about the whole ditty situation I should say and wow there's a lot
1:06.7	there's a lot and we I gotta say we had a robust catch-up before this we. And we also discussed the book we're reading for a new
1:15.8	book club. Yeah. It's just finished. It's called Dark Matter. Yeah. I think we
1:20.6	should start recommending the books that we're reading and talking about them a little bit.
1:24.0	I know, maybe we should start a book club with our firsties.
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