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Welcome to True Crime Brewery. I'm Jill.

And I'm Dick.

Susan Wood's naked body was found with her head in a bathtub full of black water in 1987.

In her small town of Stevensville, Texas, her murder was especially shocking and unimaginable.

Susan was a soft-spoken and beautiful young woman, living alone since her biker husband had left her and fled the state.

So when she missed her shift at the local sandpaper factory, her father was called,

and sadly, he would be the one to find her body.

Join us at the quiet end for not the usual suspect.

Murders were very rare in Stevensville,

and Susan's case was the worst anyone there had seen.

Since there was no sign of a forced entry, detectives believed that Susan had known her killer,

so suspicions quickly turned to her estranged husband Michael. When he left Susan, he'd left

behind a cassette tape disparaging her for destroying their marriage.

And his anger had frightened her.

So nearly everyone thought that he must be responsible.

But then the case went cold.

And Susan's loved ones feared no one would ever be held responsible for her brutal murder.

That is, until DNA testing changed everything.

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