S9 Ep2: Ivan Cantu w/ Matt Duff & Lizz Rose
Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff
Bob Ruff
4.5 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From NBI Studios, this is Truth Injustice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm Bob Ruff. |
| 0:30.1 | The wheels of justice, in most cases, move at a painfully slow pace, especially after a conviction. |
| 0:41.6 | Successful appeals oftentimes take decades to work through the court system, |
| 0:46.0 | but when your life is on the line, there never seems to be enough time. |
| 0:50.8 | That's the position that a Texas man named Ivan Cantu finds himself in. |
| 0:55.2 | He's on death row, and every day that passes by is one closer to the day that he'll be executed. |
| 1:01.8 | Ivan was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001. |
| 1:05.0 | For the murders of his cousin James Muscada and James's fiance, Amy Kitchen. |
| 1:10.4 | James and Amy were found murdered in their home on November 4, 2000. |
| 1:14.7 | During the initial investigation, it appeared to police that Ivan had handed them their case on a |
| 1:19.4 | silver platter, showing off a ring that was stolen during the murders, placing his bloody pants and |
| 1:25.2 | socks right on top of a trash can in his own apartment, and even parking the victim's car right |
| 1:31.1 | outside his own door for police to find. His conviction was also helped along by the fantastical |
| 1:36.8 | testimony of Ivan's own girlfriend Amy Betcher. The case seemed cut and dry on the surface, |
| 1:43.8 | but as we all know, things are not always what they seem. This is episode two of season nine. |
| 1:51.4 | The case of Ivan Cantu. |
| 2:00.8 | Texas Ranger James Holland is a legendary interrogator. They call him the serial killer whisperer. |
| 2:06.3 | You can't hide those indications, and that's why yesterday I knew that you did it. |
| 2:10.4 | But now shocking interrogation tapes reveal how the super cop really operates. |
| 2:15.2 | And that's why they ask me to come in because I'm special. |
| 2:17.9 | From something else, the Marshall project and Sony Music Entertainment, |
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