Hey, listeners of Killing Dad, a first-degree mistake. Thank you for taking this 10-week journey with us and

tuning into the series. We wanted to give you an extra episode because the story, it's far from over,

and we have some new information that we wanted to share with you.

A few behind the scenes stories on the making of the series. And there were actually two very

personal incidents that occurred while making this. And we wanted to share both of them with you.

Hello, I'm Melissa McCarty.

Hello, everybody. And I'm Kelly McLear.

So again, thank you everybody for taking the time to listen to Crystal's story.

We want to get started with some new information that we feel is critical to the case.

You know, we've been trying to get access to Crystal's full case file for about the last two years now.

We've had bits and pieces of it, but we finally have her entire case file for about the last two years now. We've had bits and pieces of it,

but we finally have her entire case file. And we know that some of you have some questions regarding Crystal's account of her story and everything that happened and wonder how much of it

is true. We hope that by listening to the polygraph examination that we did, that that answered some of your questions.

But, you know, we were limited in the questions of the polygraph.

For anybody that knows how they work, you're only allowed a certain number of questions.

So first we want to address the stories of abuse at the hands of her father, Michael Howell, the victim.

Now, it's not easy talking about allegations like this when someone has been murdered, so we are sticking to the facts from the

legal documents that we've obtained. You know, interviews were conducted with Crystal's family

in preparation for her defense that never happened. And these are interviews that were done by

her defense team while

gathering the facts. Right. So we're going to go through three or four family interviews,

highlighting critical points which fall under mitigating circumstances, never used in her defense,

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