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One afternoon in January of 1998, a prosecutor for the state of Georgia sat in the very back row of seats in a courtroom where a divorce trial was unfolding.

Now, this prosecutor was not involved in this divorce case. He handled murder trials.

But he had still come here today because he had gotten a very surprising phone call about an

unsolved murder case he had worked on a year and a half earlier.

The caller had told him that the testimony in this divorce case could potentially solve

that murder. Now, in the courtroom, the prosecutor felt his heart rate pick up as the witness he had been

waiting for finally took the stand.

And as soon as the witness began talking, the prosecutor knew he had just solved that murder.

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious,

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then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week,

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Okay, let's get into today's story. On August 7, 1996, a 14-year-old entrepreneur named Lance Herndon woke up at 3.40 a.m. to the sound of his alarm clock going off inside of his mansion in Roswell, Georgia.

The alarm was actually one of three alarms set to go off that morning. The first was at 340, the second at 350, and the third at 4 a.m.

And this was actually how every workday began for Lance.

He was the founder of an IT consulting company called Access Inc,

and his borderline compulsive work ethic not only made him millions of dollars,

but also it had made him a trailblazer for the black business community in greater Atlanta.

His company, Access Inc., had actually been awarded the National Service Firm of the Year Award by President George H.W. Bush.

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