Welcome to Undisclosed episode 17.

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Music support us. Until then, enjoy the program. In the past many weeks, we have gone over how Stanley Sutton, the lead investigator in the murder of Isaac Dawkins, went about very deliberately creating a case against Joey Watkins and Mark Free,

in the face of totally non-existent evidence, including pressuring their own friends to turn against them.

Sutton had another potential source of evidence, though, the jailhouse. Anytime someone is put in

jail or prison, it opens up the very dangerous door of other inmates becoming snitches in exchange for

something from the authorities. Hi and welcome to this week's Undisclosed, the State versus Joey Watkins.

My name is Rabia Chaudhury.

I'm an attorney and a fellow at the US Institute of Peace and I'm joined with my colleagues,

Susan Simpson and Colin Miller.

I'm Susan Simpson, I'm an attorney with the Volkov Law Group, and I blog at view from

l2.com.

I'm Colin Miller, I'm an associate dean and professor at the University of

South Carolina School of Law, and I blog an evidence prof blog.

In his book, in Cold Blood, Truman Capote notes how the Kansas Bureau of Investigations

was coming up empty in its search for the killer of four members of the clutter family

before they caught a break.

A jailhouse snitch claimed that his former cellmate, Richard Hitchcock, might have been the murderer

with Perry Smith as his possible accomplice.

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