Introducing Season 2: Welcome to Murderville, Texas
Murderville
The Intercept
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🗓️ 20 January 2022
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Summary
Season two takes Intercept reporters Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith to the death penalty capital of the country, where they investigate a disturbing crime, a startling confession, and a story that doesn’t add up. A production of The Intercept and First Look Media, Murderville, Texas drops February 1.
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| 0:00.0 | Houston, Texas, October 1992. An elderly woman named Edna Franklin is found stabbed to |
| 0:07.3 | death on her living room floor. Police described the victim as frail, weighing less than 100 pounds. |
| 0:13.3 | Her throat was slashed and she was nearly decapitated. Police quickly arrest a suspect, a |
| 0:18.2 | family friend named Charles Rabie. 22-year-old Charles Rabie, Charles Douglas Rabie, |
| 0:23.3 | has been charged with the murder of an elderly woman last week in North Houston. |
| 0:27.3 | Almost-I-investigator say Rabie confessed, but say he can't remember everything about the violent act, claiming he blacked out. |
| 0:34.8 | No physical evidence ties him to the crime, but a jury finds him guilty and sentences him to death. |
| 0:41.8 | 1. Problem |
| 0:43.8 | That confession? The state's key piece of evidence against Charles Rabie? He says it was false. |
| 0:52.8 | Charles Rabie has been on death row for 27 years. He's in a race against time to prove his innocence. |
| 1:04.3 | From the intercept, I'm Liliana Segura, and I'm Jordan Smith. Welcome to Murderville, Texas. |
| 1:12.3 | The state of Texas will commence pre-meditated murder of an innocent man. |
| 1:17.8 | Rabie confessed to Killimer. 4-annison woman like that who would kill her. This is a really vicious attack. |
| 1:25.8 | I didn't kill the woman. I did not do it. We were given a free reign in solving a case. |
| 1:31.8 | This could be a case study of why interrogation should be recorded. |
| 1:36.3 | I mean, who's gonna confess to murdering a 72-year-old woman with arthritis who weighed 98 pounds? Who's gonna confess to that? |
| 1:45.8 | It's not about your guilt or your innocence in Texas. They tell to be poor and broken Texas. |
| 1:49.8 | When you got somebody getting ready to do so on that gurney, why wouldn't you want to know the truth? |
| 1:55.8 | Listen to Murderville, Texas, wherever you get your podcasts. |
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