Episode 62: Betty Stotts

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

Society & Culture, True Crime, News

4.5 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

When a fire breaks out at a Texas drive-in theater, everyone assumes it was an accident. But once the firemen entered the ticket booth, they learned the truth— the fire had been started intentionally in an attempt to conceal a horrific crime. In episode 62, Jac, Alexis and Billy dig into the details of the case, the unexplainable events that happened in the days that followed, and speak to two members of the Stotts family whose lives were forever altered by the events of that evening. Honey - Get Honey for FREE at JoinHoney.com/FIRSTDEGREE Canvas 1839 - Go to CanvasRelief.com/firstdegree and get your Travel Size Relief Cream for $2 before they’re gone! Simple Health - The annual prescription is usually $20, but our listeners can try Simple Health for FREE - just go to SimpleHealth.com/DEGREE , or enter the code 'DEGREE' at checkout. 🎟 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-grade.
0:14.0	Get on the K-grade.
0:16.0	Get on the K-grade.
0:18.0	Get on the K-grade.
0:20.0	Get on the K-grade.
0:22.0	You think they're supposed to have in movies not real life.
0:24.0	When you find out that one of your...
0:26.0	...someone you love has murdered
0:28.0	is not really anything that's going to come for you.
0:32.0	Because all you want to do, all you can think about is...
0:36.0	...okay, this person has gone, but they also suffered.
0:40.0	And when you think about...
0:44.0	...one of your loved ones suffering and such.
0:48.0	Even if it's just a short period of time that they suffer, it doesn't really matter.
0:52.0	You think about their fear.
0:54.0	You just want to take that from them.
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