This episode discusses crime scenes, murder, and details of a homicide investigation.

Listener discretion is advised.

This is the fall line.

When I first heard about everything they missed, I was struck by the premise, a finance

professional with no journalism background, deciding to investigate a 17-year-old murder case that

everyone else seemed ready to forget. In 2007, Danny Rex Harris, a 55-year-old Air National

Guard veteran, with 30 years of service and a father of four,

was brutally murdered in his Cordova, Tennessee apartment. According to the commercial appeal,

quote, Harris's body was found October 26, 2007, in the bedroom of his Woodchase apartment

unit some two months after he was killed, his pacemaker stopped

on August 20th. The brutality of the crime became clear during trial when bloody evidence

was brought into the courtroom. Andrew Wayne Hayes, a young man with an intellectual disability,

confessed to the crime. As the commercial appeal reported, quote, defense attorneys, however,

contend that a battery of detectives bullied Hayes into making a false confession. Detective

Sergeant Bart Raglan testified that Hayes, quote, initially denied any involvement

before then confessing to the crime. Hayes was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced

to life in prison. The case became more

complicated when Harris's associate, Tammy Vance, later confessed to the murder herself,

identified Hayes as her accomplice, but then recanted and blamed her daughter, Sarah Lucas.

While Andrew sat in prison, the Tennessee Innocence Project became involved in his case,

and that's how it came to the attention of Stephanie Tensley,

a former finance professional with a background in litigation,

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