S18 Ep22: Beth Braden - Time of Death
Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff
Bob Ruff
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🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:49.4 | I'm Bob Ruff. |
| 1:09.4 | Music Hello, Hello, everybody, and welcome back to truth and justice. |
| 1:15.1 | For this week's edition of Justice Warriors, I have someone who is new to the podcast scene, but is no stranger to investigative journalism. |
| 1:17.9 | Her name is Beth Braden. |
| 1:19.8 | She's a Knoxville-based freelance journalist. |
| 1:22.4 | She's worked all over the place. |
| 1:23.5 | I'll let her break down her background for you a little bit. |
| 1:26.0 | But she just recently released and is in the process of still releasing her new podcast that is truly a real-time |
| 1:33.0 | investigation into the murders of Tommy Griffin and Connie Branum. Did I say that right? Is that the |
| 1:39.4 | last name? Yes. Brandum and the pending execution of Gary Sutton for those murders. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm really enjoying the podcast so far and I'm really excited to have you on the show. |
| 1:49.7 | Beth, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:51.5 | Yeah, thanks so much for inviting me on. |
| 1:53.2 | I'm really excited about just getting to talk to more people about the case because it's the longer I work on it, the more interesting it gets and the more in-depth and complicated |
| 2:03.0 | it gets. Yeah. And so we do on truth and justice in our long form seasons, real-time |
| 2:09.8 | investigations to what I feel like are real-time. But listening to your episodes, I've heard |
| 2:15.5 | your first five have dropped when we're recording this interview and I've listened to them all. It is truly real time in the fact that I'm listening to an episode that dropped on like May 12th and you're talking about filing FOIA requests on May 10th or looking for things or going to hearings that happen like literally days before. So you're doing this right now as it's happening. Yeah, there's kind of two like time periods that are going on |
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