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Introducing: Witnessed: Friendly Fire

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, Tv & Film

4.58.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When a K-9 officer in the Scott County, Tennessee Sheriff's Department winds up dead at the hands of his partner, a grieving widow takes it upon herself to untangle the truth from the lies. Was it just a catastrophic accident? Or premeditated murder? National Magazine Award-winning reporter Sean Flynn returns to Scott County two decades after the killing to tell the story of one woman’s pursuit of justice—and one community’s enduring reckoning with the fallout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Camille and fans, it's Josh Dean, your host of Season 1, Conqueen, and one of the co-founder to your campsite media.

0:06.5

Are you looking for your new True Crime Show?

0:09.1

You'll be sure to find it in the new season of Witness Friendly Fire, and we've got a great first listen to share with you here.

0:15.3

Set in the hills of East Tennessee, a deputy is shot and killed in the drug bust,

0:19.0

and it comes to light that the fatal shot was fired by his partner.

0:22.6

Suspense, heartache, and the years-long entanglement of conflicting stories left a widow trying to answer one question.

0:29.8

Was it shooting an accident, or was it deliberate killing?

0:33.0

Hosted an award-winning journalist, Sean Flynn, told this story in GQ Magazine almost 15 years ago,

0:38.6

and now he returns to Scott County, Tennessee to detail one woman's pursuit of justice,

0:43.7

and one community's enduring reckoning with the fallout.

0:46.6

It's an incredible show.

0:48.2

Check out this clip now, right here.

0:50.5

In 2003, John John had been married to his high school sweetheart, Laurie, for 13 years.

0:56.4

They had three young sons. The oldest was seven.

0:59.3

Laurie was a nurse in the emergency room at the local hospital, but this day, the Friday after Thanksgiving, she's off.

1:05.9

She'd taken the boys to Knoxville to look for a Christmas tree while John John was at work.

1:11.0

On their way home, around 8-8-15, she stopped by her mom's house.

1:16.3

There's a message that John John had called.

1:18.5

I tried calling back, but it went to voicemail.

1:22.2

When Laurie was at home, she'd usually have a scanner running in the background.

1:25.6

A receiver that picks up on chatter from all the emergency frequencies.

1:29.4

We left it on pretty much all the time, especially if John John was working it not.

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