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🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Detective Wayne Honer was among those who did not believe teacher Brian Jackson killed Father Kunz. While Detective Kevin Hughes was chasing Jackson, Honer focused on a different suspect.
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0:00.0 | Previously on Unsolved. |
0:05.0 | Gwen Rupert, the lead detective on the case today, tells me, |
0:09.9 | Jackson is no longer a suspect in Father Coons' death. |
0:13.6 | One reason was that new DNA sample the detectives found a couple of years ago. |
0:19.3 | Detective Rupert thinks it most likely came from the killer, and it doesn't match Brian Jackson. |
0:26.1 | So does that definitively rule him out, or is that what moved him from suspect to person |
0:31.4 | of interest? |
0:32.3 | He's not even a person of interest for us anymore. |
0:35.6 | From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this is Unsolved Season 3, The Devil You Know. |
0:42.0 | I'm Gina Barton. |
0:45.3 | It took more than 10 years for the police to take Brian Jackson off the list of suspects |
0:51.4 | in the murder of Father Alfred Coons. |
0:54.1 | I really wanted to talk with Brian |
0:56.2 | Jackson about how this case affected his life, but as you'll recall from our previous episode, |
1:02.0 | he didn't respond to my letters or my phone calls, and when I knocked on his door, he was never |
1:07.1 | home. There's only one other reporter I would trust to try to get Brian Jackson to talk. |
1:13.9 | That's our crime reporter here, Ashley Lutheran. |
1:17.2 | Lucky for me, she went to a conference last summer, near the town where he lives. |
1:22.1 | So I asked her to knock on his door for me. |
1:25.1 | The first time she tried, no one was home. The second time, |
1:31.2 | Brian Jackson was pulling into his driveway. Excuse me, sir. Hi. I'm sorry to bother you. Are you |
1:36.7 | Mr. Jackson? Yes. Hi, Mr. Jackson. I'm Ashley. I'm a reporter with the Milwaukee Journal |
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