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Murderville

S1: Introducing Murderville, GA

Murderville

The Intercept

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, News

4.12.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Adel, Georgia. In 1998, there was a shocking murder there. The man convicted for the crime swore he was innocent. Then, three more brutal murders happened. Did putting the wrong man in jail let a real killer go free?

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0:00.0

I mean, it's not like a brutal murder during the course of an armed robbery was a routine

0:09.2

daily event in this part of the state.

0:11.2

This is something that happened very, very infrequently.

0:14.3

A.L. Georgia, the seat of Cook County and a town of roughly 5,000 not far from the Florida

0:20.2

state line.

0:21.2

In 1998, there was a shocking murder there, an employee of the Taco Bell.

0:26.4

As she left the store one night, she was ambushed, shot, and left to die in the parking

0:30.9

lot.

0:31.9

Police investigators quickly put a man in jail for the crime.

0:34.9

His name was Devanya Inman.

0:36.9

He swore he wasn't responsible.

0:38.9

Basically, they was going to get somebody out of the blight for killing that lady.

0:42.4

They went to the chief and told them, chief, you got the wrong man.

0:46.3

They said, no, we got our man.

0:48.6

We don't prosecute him.

0:50.0

They did prosecute him.

0:51.6

And he was convicted, in sentence to life in prison.

0:54.6

You know, it's like if the most miserable is life you can ever possibly go to.

1:00.8

I'd rather be dead or a bomb on the street than to be in prison.

1:06.2

But then, some 18 months later, a second brutal murder.

1:10.9

You see some savagery like that.

1:12.9

Somebody that does that as a straight psychopath.

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