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Criminal Conduct

S4 E9: Fear God

Criminal Conduct

Creative Babble

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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We look into why the judge overturned the jury’s first-degree felony murder conviction against Gaege Bethune in the death of Pravin Varughese. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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After the jury found Gage, Bethun, guilty of first degree felony murder, he was taken into custody

0:18.0

where he sat in jail awaiting sentencing.

0:21.0

Not long after Gage's conviction, his defense attorney hired individuals to approach jurors

0:26.1

to get more information on their verdict.

0:29.2

In one encounter, one of the individuals approached a juror at her home.

0:33.4

The juror noticed the individual was carrying a gun.

0:36.2

She felt intimidated, which launched a police investigation.

0:40.2

As part of Carbondale Police Department's investigation, they began listening in on

0:45.0

Gage's already recorded jail phone calls, and you'll never guess what Gage was talking

0:50.3

to people about.

0:51.3

Yeah, according to the special prosecutor, David Neal, who assisted David Robinson,

0:56.0

quote, we had evidence that he was selling drugs with the assistance of people on the outside

1:01.7

while he was incarcerated in the Jackson County jail.

1:05.2

Unreal.

1:06.2

I mean, Gage has just been convicted of felony murder and faces 20 to 60 years in prison.

1:12.8

What the heck was he thinking?

1:14.0

Yeah, my first reaction when I heard this was, that's what criminals do.

1:17.6

They commit crimes.

1:18.9

He's just continuing on.

1:21.2

He was just so blatant, though, and every inmate knows their conversations are being recorded.

1:26.9

It sounds like he knows that he's about to get out of jail, or maybe he just doesn't

1:30.9

care.

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