The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is that good men and women do nothing.

I am simply a mouthpiece for good men and women around the world who want to make a difference.

The engagement and the involvement of ordinary people is what is going to change our criminal justice system.

Many have tried and failed. But the only difference between them and me is I'm bringing an army with me.

This is Truth and Justice.

Hello everybody and welcome back to Truth and Justice. I'm your host Bob Ruff.

In today's episode is all about tying up loose ends. We are quickly approaching the end of case

number two, the Smith County cases. On December 20th of 2015, we launched case number two with

episode 201, The Blizzard. At that time we were just getting our feet wet in Smith County.

Kenny Snow's niece, Spinesh Arrains, had written in and asked me to look into her uncles in

same case from Smith County, Texas. Since then we have produced 53 podcast episodes about Smith

County along with about a dozen follow-up episodes. Spinesh's letter led us from Kenny Snow

to Carrie Max Cook and ultimately to Edward Aids. Over the last year we've had a lot of ups

and a few downs. Carrie Cook's conviction after over 20 years was finally vacated this past summer.

But then his claim of actual innocence was denied. Our investigation into Kenny Snow's case led us to

build coal who seemed to have this smoking gun to prove that Kenny Snow was innocent.

And the Truth and Justice army was even able to secure a lawyer for Kenny Snow.

And of course the majority of this year has been dedicated to reinvestigating the murder of El Norah Griffith.

We have made leaps and bounds to not only proving Edward Aids innocence, but we've also narrowed

the field of suspects down to just a handful of people. We were able to convince the innocent's

project of Texas to take Ed's case and we are quickly approaching the time when Alison Clayton

will be filing motions to make the case for Ed's actual innocence. When we reach that point,

...