S17 Ep76: The Decision To Kill: A Teenage Killer and His Fight for Salvation w/Leslie Ghiglieri
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🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 182 minutes
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Summary
A 1986 family tragedy propels this gripping true crime debut as a mother searches for answers in the shocking murder of her husband—and conviction of her son. Cheri searches for answers from her son, Dwayne, as to why he could commit such a heinous act, while Dwayne tries to prove to everyone through the years that he is not the person they believed him to be the drug addicted, danger to society he was portrayed as, when he killed his father.
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| 0:41.9 | Hello everybody and welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm Tim Dennis. Have a really interesting show for you today. We're going to talk a little bit about |
| 0:54.0 | redemption today. Redemption and if it's possible when it comes to nature versus nurture. |
| 1:00.3 | And I'll tell you a little bit about what I mean by that when we talk about this book today. |
| 1:04.8 | The book we're talking about is the decision to kill a true crime story of a teenage killer |
| 1:11.1 | and the mother who loved it. The book is written by Leslie Gilly Erick. I'll get that right by |
| 1:20.6 | the end of this show. It's a wonderful name and I'll get that right by the time we get to the end |
| 1:24.8 | of the show. And it was a fascinating read this weekend. Is it kind of hit home with me a little bit? |
| 1:31.9 | Has to do with a young man in the year 1986 by the name of Dwayne. We'll talk to Leslie a little |
| 1:38.4 | bit about the story and how Dwayne does an awful thing that eventually lands him in jail and he |
| 1:46.7 | has to deal with what we now I believe would say is a bit of a personality disorder to put it |
| 1:56.7 | mildly. But we'll get the official diagnosis here when we talk to Leslie. I want to just kind of |
| 2:04.8 | stop real quick and and let people know that when we were first starting true crime Tuesday, |
| 2:12.0 | we were on AM 1130 on Twin Cities News Talk. And one of the program directors on Twin Cities News Talk |
| 2:19.2 | Andrew Lee was one of our biggest supporters when we were on AM 1130. Unfortunately, |
| 2:26.5 | over the weekend Andrew passed away and we want to dedicate today's show to Andrew Lee who was |
| 2:33.2 | one of the program directors when he first saw that we were on air on AM 1130 said why exactly |
| 2:39.6 | are you on our air? We were paranormal show with a true crime component and didn't understand why |
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