Exhuming the Truth

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.9 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Two years after his divorce from Cassandra Smith, Bill Flint survived a murder attempt, having been beaten and shot. And then Cassandra’s second husband tried to kill Bill with a hitman. In May 2002, Bill died of an apparent heart attack, but Professor James Starrs, a forensic scientist, believed he was murdered. At his own expense, he had Bill's body exhumed. “48 Hours" Correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 8/19/2006. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now streaming.
0:02.0	Everyone who comes into this clinic is a mystery.
0:05.0	We don't know what we're looking for.
0:07.0	Their bodies are the scene of the crime.
0:09.0	Their symptoms in history are clues.
0:11.0	You saved her life.
0:13.0	We're doctors and with detectives.
0:15.0	I kinda love it if I'm being honest.
0:17.0	Solve the puzzle. Save the patient.
0:20.0	Watson. All episodes, now streaming on Paramount Plus There are those people who think that it's rather ghoulish or indeed sacrilegious to dig up the graves of people.
0:51.3	I don't look at it that way as long as there is a substantial, justifiable reason for doing so.
0:57.0	It is the difference between being a grave robber and being a grave digger.
1:01.0	I'm a grave digger.
1:03.0	My name is James E. Starrs, and I am a professor of forensic sciences at the George Washington University.
1:14.6	I knew nothing about Bill Flint or his death or his family
1:18.6	until I received a phone call.
1:22.2	It was quite clear from the records that Bill Flint was a marked man.
1:26.7	You're not too popular around here.
1:28.1	That's why I'm in town to take care of you.
1:30.0	Who?
1:30.8	I am. I'm going to come to kill you.
1:32.6	He's coming to kill me?
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