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Murderville

S1 Ep. 1: Murder at Taco Bell

Murderville

The Intercept

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, News

4.12.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A murder in the small southern town of Adel, Georgia, sent Devonia Inman to jail 20 years ago. He was accused of robbing and shooting a woman named Donna Brown in a Taco Bell parking lot. He swore he was innocent and there were good reasons to believe him. And while he awaited trial, three more brutal killings took place in Adel. Did police get the wrong man?


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0:00.0

Okay, quick. I want you to think back. Think back to 20 years ago. It was 1998, a different

0:07.6

world, phones with antennas, cargo pants, meaning your friend at the gate at the airport.

0:14.9

You've done a lot in the last 20 years. Think about that. Everything you've accomplished.

0:20.4

Maybe you finished school or got married or had a baby. Maybe that baby graduated high

0:25.6

school and it's now in college. 20 years is a long time. A marriage, a career. But 20

0:32.4

years is a whole other experience if you're spending that time in prison.

0:37.5

My depression is about incarcerated. They really don't, can't give me appeals for that.

0:45.3

And insisting the whole time that you're innocent.

0:48.1

For the matter of wood, every time I wake up and it's still, I feel the same way. I cannot

0:53.5

suppose you can. In 1998, a brutal murder shocked the small southern

1:00.7

town of Adel, Georgia. A guy named Ivanya Inman was arrested and tried for that murder.

1:06.9

He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

1:10.7

It's like it's worse than an old folk home to you.

1:19.2

It's the most miserable life you can ever possibly go to. I write if you get a bomb on the

1:32.1

street and it'd be in prison.

1:35.2

We're going to tell you about the murder that sent Inman to prison. We've looked into

1:38.6

it. We've spent a lot of time trying to understand what happened. And we found quite a few problems

1:44.5

with the investigation. They're the kinds of problems that can eventually lead to a new

1:48.8

trial. Maybe even an exoneration. But that hasn't happened for Debania Inman. And that

1:55.0

makes Inman sad. It makes him angry. But mostly, he's just really fucking depressed.

2:04.2

I'm there in my sang. I wanted me to, you know, try to usually take him riding on a bicycle.

2:13.5

This is Inman talking about the day the murder happened. That day plays on a loop in his mind.

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