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The Binge Cases: U R NEXT

Just Say You’re Sorry | 5. The Serial Killer Whisperer

The Binge Cases: U R NEXT

Sony Music

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.04.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A young law student called Ashely is the first to read Driskill’s letter and becomes obsessed with his story. The Innocence Project of Texas take his case and begin working to find evidence that could clear his name. Chammah hunts down crucial leads throwing serious doubt on the informant’s story and on the forensic sketch that led Holland to Driskill in the first place. Holland's star, though, is still rising. He takes on a case that will make him famous, drawing dozens of confessions from America’s most prolific serial killer, Samuel Little. Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of Smoke Screen: Just Say You’re Sorry ad-free right now. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Smoke Screen show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Somethin’ Else, The Marshall Project & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Before we start, a warning that this episode contains descriptions of violence, please

0:41.5

listen with care. This time, on Just Say You're Sorry.

0:48.4

It starts with Ashley, practically telling me in my holy shit you're not going to believe

0:52.6

this. That whole timeline is so shaky. Nobody can say how long she'd been dead.

0:59.9

He's just sort of a Greek tragedy, you know, because like you want that person to

1:03.9

be a hero and then he's just got this hubris.

1:14.0

We're going to start this episode far from Texas in another state that also has a strong

1:18.6

sense of identity and mythology, California. We're just an hour's drive north of Hollywood,

1:27.2

but you wouldn't know it, because prisons tend to look the same wherever they are.

1:33.0

A journalist named Jillian Lauren is entering one for the first time.

1:36.7

The big gate close behind you, you know, they gave me a whole lot of shit at the metal detector

1:43.6

because of my nose ring. I had to like pry my nose ring out, bloody nose, and my underwear.

1:52.6

I chew my underwear out of my bra. It was a very feral kind of first introduction to

1:59.9

a maximum security prison.

2:03.3

After all that, Jillian enters a visitation room to interview a prisoner.

2:10.3

So he's an old man in a wheelchair. I was a foot from his face. He did something that

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