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🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders 15 miles away. |
0:02.6 | When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
0:12.0 | A couple of murder. |
0:14.4 | A divorce can put a strain on the couple's financial situation. |
0:18.1 | Between lawyers, divisions of assets, and court fees, ending a marriage can be an |
0:23.2 | expensive endeavor. On December 22, 1997, a woman ready to get a divorce was murdered in a robbery |
0:30.9 | gone wrong before she even got the chance. But was there more to her death than just a random |
0:37.2 | ransacking? |
0:38.6 | So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and search your day with a morning cup of murder. |
0:49.0 | In the early morning hours of December 22nd, 1997, William Richard Stevens, accompanied by his son |
0:56.2 | and 15-year-old Sean Austin, left his trailer while his wife and mother-in-law were still |
1:02.3 | inside asleep and went off to a job site about 90 miles away in New Jacksonville, Tennessee. |
1:08.1 | After they arrived, William decided that the site was too muddy to work on, |
1:12.5 | so they left and returned to their home in Davidson County around 8.30 a.m. When he walked up to the door, |
1:18.8 | William noticed it was slightly ajar. Concerned, he stepped inside to find destruction. The Christmas |
1:25.5 | tree was lying on its side, and items in the house were thrown |
1:28.8 | all around. Realizing there had been an intruder in his home, he looked towards the room |
1:33.9 | where he left his wife asleep to see her lying across the bed. According to his later statements, |
1:39.5 | William knew at that moment that his wife and mother-in-law were dead, and instead of checking on them, |
1:46.3 | ran out with his son to call police. When officers arrived, they found that both 45-year-old |
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