Hi, this is Christopher Gafford.

I'm at work putting together a new narrative series set to drop in the fall.

In the meantime, I wanted to reintroduce you to the Trials of Frank Carson,

the story of a criminal defense attorney who was put on trial for murder.

Thanks for listening, and please rate and subscribe.

Thank you. Thanks for listening and please rate and subscribe. You know, the funny thing about when you know your child is dead, the funny thing about that is there's always still that little piece in the background that

says, please let me be wrong. Please let me be wrong. Please, God, just let me be wrong.

Corey Kaufman had been missing for more than a year and a half when a hunter found his bones deep in the mountains.

DNA confirmed his identity. This is his mother, Terry Hudson.

I prayed. I beg God, please let me be wrong. But I wasn't.

The discovery of Kaufman's remains in August 2013 made the newspapers.

Investigators withheld details of the body's condition,

but scraps of information circulated freely through the gossip networks in Stanislaus County,

through bars and backyards and drug dens along Highway 99.

A forensic exam of the remains provided no link to Frank Carson, the prominent Modesto

defense attorney suspected of involvement.

But Carson had become increasingly worried that

the district attorney's office would somehow charge him. Carson opted for a brash, frontal

assault. He decided to run for district attorney. He wanted to one seat Burgette Flattiger, the very person threatening to prosecute him.

Flattiger told me she saw his political campaign as a naked ploy to derail the Kaufman

murder probe.

Yeah, there's no other reason why he would run, right?

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