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The Fall Line: True Crime

Everything They Missed: The Wrongful Conviction of Andrew Hayes

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, News

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Danny Harris, a 55-year-old Air National Guard veteran, was murdered in his Tennessee apartment in 2007. Andrew Wayne Hayes, a man with an intellectual disability, confessed after a 27-hour interrogation and was sentenced to life in prison.

But podcaster Stephanie Tinsley believes the wrong person is in prison. Her investigation "Everything They Missed" has uncovered confession contradictions, untested DNA evidence, and investigative failures pointing to other suspects. Stephanie discusses her real-time investigation and her theory about who really killed Danny Harris, her introduction to the Tennessee Innocence Project, and the world of wrongful convictions.

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0:33.3

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

0:38.4

Listener discretion is advised.

0:47.2

This is the fall line.

0:51.3

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

0:56.6

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

1:01.8

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

1:09.3

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

1:13.1

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

1:18.1

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

1:24.5

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

1:28.5

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

1:33.9

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

1:39.8

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

1:45.6

battery of detectives bullied Hayes into making a false confession. Detective Sergeant Bart Raglan

1:51.2

testified that Hayes, quote, initially denied any involvement before then confessing to the crime.

1:57.0

Hayes was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

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