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The First Degree

Episode 41: Bob Ward Part 2

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.510.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On episode 41, Jac, Alexis and Billy conclude with part two of the story of Bob & Diane Ward, and their two daughters' decade-long fight to prove their father's innocence. We learn about the Space Chicken, the struggle against the media and how they found an incredibly key piece of evidence years after their mother’s death. 🎟 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.

0:07.0

The first degree.

0:13.0

These things are supposed to happen in movies not real life.

0:19.0

I can't tell you how many times I spent in my mom's room crying and just being a general

0:32.0

sad back to myself.

0:34.0

I thought I'd gone through everything.

0:36.0

The estate saleswoman found when she was going through my closet in my mom's room.

0:42.0

This note, she's holding it with a tissue because we don't want to touch it.

0:46.0

But there was this one folder in a purse.

0:49.0

It was the purse that she had used the summer she had died.

0:53.0

Not the one she had when she died, she would change her out.

0:56.0

In that folder, it's a suicide note.

1:00.0

And we were all like, holy shit.

1:04.0

It's a suicide note.

1:06.0

And I'll read it.

1:13.0

Hey guys, welcome to the first degree of the True Crime podcast that you might end up on.

1:17.0

My name is Jack Vannick.

1:18.0

I'm sitting across from Alexis Linglider and next Billy Dunston and we're in our podcast one home.

1:23.0

We are.

1:24.0

How does it feel?

1:25.0

We haven't done this in months.

1:26.0

It feels very professional.

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