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Murderville

S1 Epilogue: Unanswered Questions

Murderville

The Intercept

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, News

4.12.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After the new evidence comes to light, we look back at the investigation into the murder of Donna Brown. And share some information we didn’t quite know what to do with. Information about some key players who we know shaped the outcome of this case. Players we still have questions about. One is an elusive police detective with a bad reputation. The other is a witness we’ve talked about before. Or maybe she’s a suspect. It’s hard to tell.


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0:00.0

Fancy a fever tree in a glass with ice and rum.

0:06.0

You thought I was going to say gin, didn't you?

0:09.0

But I'm talking about fever tree ginger beer,

0:12.0

made from three gingers for that perfect blend of freshness, sweetness and spiciness,

0:18.0

delicious with rum or on its own.

0:21.0

Fever tree ginger beer mix with the best.

0:27.0

Mmm, that spices things out.

0:32.0

Okay, so by now you pretty much know the story.

0:35.0

Devani Inman has been behind bars for nearly 20 years for a crime he almost certainly did not commit.

0:41.0

He was sentenced to life in prison for the 1998 robbery and murder of Donna Brown,

0:45.0

a manager at the Taco Bell in Adel, Georgia.

0:48.0

It would be the first of four brutal murders in this tiny town of just more than 5,000 people.

0:54.0

One of those murders of man named Salish Patel remains unsolved.

0:58.0

Just months later, two beloved members of the community,

1:02.0

William Carroll Bennett and Rebecca Browning were bludgeoned to death in broad daylight.

1:07.0

A man named Hercules Brown was quickly arrested for that crime and sent to prison for life.

1:11.0

Nine years later, DNA evidence taken from a mask found in Donna Brown's car was matched to Hercules,

1:17.0

and only to Hercules.

1:19.0

And that raised a bunch of questions.

1:22.0

And the biggest question?

1:23.0

Why didn't the police ever consider Hercules a suspect in Donna Brown's death?

1:28.0

That's the question we've come back to over and over again while reporting this story.

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