Heads up, this series contains graphic descriptions of violence.

There's a saying I heard on a recent trip to the South.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

And if there's a place that breathes life into that proverb,

it's the town of Mayfield, in Graves County, Kentucky.

A horrific murder went unsolved for six years in Mayfield, Kentucky, a town of 10,000 people.

Then one local resident decided to take matters into her own hands.

On August 1st, 2000, the body of Jessica Curran was found outside of the Mayfield Middle School.

It appeared as though she'd been beaten and set on fire.

Jessica was just 18 years old, a new mom and the daughter of a lieutenant with the Mayfield

Fire Department, and her case would go unsolved for years.

When police in Mayfield, Kentucky found a body, Susan Galbraith found a purpose. She had to know

who murdered Jessica Curran. Until a local homemaker and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

A story that police would use to convict six people,

lending Susan Galbraith in the newspapers and the radio and on national TV.

Galbraith was a housewife, married three times and drifting.

She had no law enforcement training, and she'd never even met Jessica Curran.

But whatever grabbed her wouldn't let go.

Somebody had to do something.

And if it somebody was me, so be it.

Years later, the Kentucky Attorney General would even honor Susan with an outstanding citizen award

for finding the key witness in the Jessica Curran case. It's a made-for-TV story. Ordinary

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