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🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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0:00.0 | Here in the UK we sell amazing products and services the whole world once. |
0:05.0 | At the Black Farmer in Devon our producers enjoyed on both sides of the Atlantic. |
0:10.0 | We're McKinnon and Saunders from Manchester and our puppets are watched on six continents. |
0:15.0 | Whilst at Acceleron in Birmingham our sustainable, recyclable batteries are helping power nine countries. |
0:21.0 | So if you make it in the UK, why not sell it to the world? |
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1:07.0 | You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history and the authors that have written about them. |
1:15.0 | Gacy, Bundy, Domer, the Night Stocker, DTK, every week another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history. |
1:27.0 | True Murder with your host journalist and author Dan Zufantke. |
1:33.0 | Good evening. |
1:43.0 | In the small city of Ben Hampton in upstate New York, 23-year-old Veronica Taft, a single mother with four small children all under the age of five, was convicted of murder and manslaughter for the brutal murder of her two-year-old son, Lyric. |
1:59.0 | She was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison with her surviving children taken away and placed in foster care. |
2:07.0 | After more than five years in prison, Taft was set free after a bombshell, a pellet court decision found the verdict was against the weight of the evidence. |
2:16.0 | The court overturned the theory and evidence used by authorities including time of death, Taft's alamay, and controversial testimony of a desperate jail house snitch. |
2:27.0 | Working on behalf of Taft, defense investigator David M. Beers conducted an independent investigation. |
2:35.0 | In his account, Immunity for Murder, he'll guide you through the ill-fated police investigation and the shameful prosecution that, contrary to the evidence, quickly turn the tides towards Veronica and away from the real killer. |
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