Episode 391: Danny Rex Harris

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On October 26, 2007, a 55-year-old military veteran was found murdered in his home on the outskirts of Memphis, Tennessee. The family of the father of four was heartbroken. They, along with investigators, wondered who could be responsible for the brutal beating. Within days, the perpetrators were identified, charged, and eventually convicted. But for at least one family involved, something was amiss. Soon, cracks in the investigation revealed that someone had been wrongfully convicted while the real killer walked free; it sets Stephanie Tinsley on an unrelenting quest to expose the truth. In episode 391, Jac and Alexis detail the haunting murder of Danny Harris, and Stephanie’s journey towards the truth, which she chronicled in her hit podcast, Everything They Missed. 🎟 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 📓 Substack: http://thefirstdegree.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.8	The first degree.
0:32.8	First degree.
0:33.7	First degree.
0:34.4	First degree.
0:35.4	First degree.
0:36.3	First degree.
0:37.4	The first degree. You see it on the news. You see it on the paper. First degree. The first degree.
0:38.9	You see it on the news. You get on the paper. You see it on Facebook.
0:43.3	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:51.9	And I had had a long career working in Nashville in finance, not a journalist, not a reporter, but I was also the biggest true crime fan out there.
1:02.7	And I know a lot of people say that, but I've been a true crime fan since the 80s.
1:07.3	And not only that, but Netflix was filming a documentary at our house and HBO was there
1:13.9	in Dateline in 2020. Going into this experience I never thought I would be in, but then getting
1:22.2	very inspired by these producers and journalists that I was meeting. No one had heard from him in two months,
1:30.5	so they were doing an eviction at his apartment.
1:35.0	And when the apartment manager opened up his door,
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