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The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer

Introducing... Witnessed: Friendly Fire

The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer

Sony Music

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

When a K-9 officer in the Scott County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Department winds up shot 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 an intentional killing? National Magazine Award-winning reporter Sean Flynn returns to Scott County two decades after the shooting to tell the story of one woman’s pursuit of justice—and one community’s enduring reckoning with the fallout. Available June 6, 2022, everywhere you listen to podcasts. Witnessed: Friendly Fire is part of The Binge — a podcast channel from Sony Music Entertainment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I've lived here pretty much all my life small town everybody knows everybody a

0:10.3

great place to raise your family there are a lot of drugs in Scott County yeah

0:17.2

the story begins with a drug bust and a gunshot a county

0:29.8

run by a sheriff's office the casts a long shadow we've had some pretty bad

0:35.7

sheriff's in here but more bad ones don't have good Jim Carson was unbeatable

0:40.6

until that happened the story isn't about who did it I came here because I

0:46.0

want you all to know that this case was rassled with looked at gone over

0:51.6

reinvestigated it's about why I thought they were friends base friends you

0:58.0

kind of cover up a little dope deal and he told me he said if I if I come up

1:03.8

missing you'll know what happened to me and it's about one person who wouldn't

1:08.6

let it go this whole scenario just not making sense to me just my gut feeling

1:13.0

what happens when the story just doesn't add up he said you've got this all

1:18.1

wrong I'm Sean Flint 14 years ago I went to Scott County Tennessee and

1:25.4

wrote a magazine story then I went back to take another look at a shooting

1:30.2

that's left a question lingering for 20 years was it an accident or a

1:35.1

deliberate killing God knows and you're going here 1500 stories how it happened

1:42.3

how this took place and will we ever know the truth probably not unless

1:48.3

somebody comes forward we can take a pretty good stab at it though from

1:55.9

campsite media and Sony music entertainment this is witnessed friendly fire

2:01.0

coming June 6th binge all episodes on Apple podcasts or listen weekly wherever

2:06.5

you get your podcasts

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