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.

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When police came to talk to him, Jason Armstrong did not try to disguise his contempt for Cory Kaufman.

He's a thief, so I don't like thieves, you know what I mean? So I guarantee that nobody ever said nothing good about it.

You know, in the deal with this, nobody liked, Corey, to be honest with you.

Jason Armstrong had had some brushes with the law going back to the 90s.

He'd been arrested for domestic violence, though the charge was dropped.

On his police report, his occupation was listed as welder.

He was known to buy and resell cars and to host frequent parties at his home in Deneer across from a big dirt lot.

It was a few miles from where Corey Kaufman had disappeared in early 2012. Armstrong remembered Kaufman as, quote,

salty and rude, an inveterate thief and a tweaker, meaning a meth addict.

You're not going to find nobody on a padd of earth but likes him

because he's always jumping everybody's fences and still on their shit.

Right. Yeah. You know, he's up, he just always is up to no good.

Armstrong insisted that he had not killed him that at 47 years old,

he was too old even to fight.

Why would I, why would I kill that dude, Corp.

Okay, let me finish.

The only thing I do wrong smoking little weak, and I haven't killed nobody in all my life, and I'm old. Let me ask you a question. If you knew anything about it, would you tell us? You know, I probably would. Honestly, and truly, but I'm not. Jason Armstrong had not been arrested in connection with Kaufman's death, but nine others had, including Modesto defense attorney Frank

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