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🗓️ 20 September 2020
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Bob is joined by Matt Duff and Lizz Rose. Matt is the host of the Cousins By Blood podcast, where he is investigating Ivan's case. Lizz is no stranger to Truth and Justice. She appeared multiple times during Season 6, where we investigated the murder of her father and the wrongful conviction of her mother.
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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. |
0:41.5 | 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 for the murders of his cousin James Muscata |
1:07.7 | and James's fiance, Amy Kitchen. James and Amy were found murdered in their home on November 4, |
1:13.2 | 2000. During the initial investigation, it appeared to police that Ivan had handed them their |
1:18.8 | case on a silver platter, showing off a ring that was stolen during the murders, placing his |
1:24.4 | bloody pants and socks right on top of a trash can in his own apartment, and even parking the |
1:29.8 | victim's car right outside his own door for police to find. His conviction was also helped along |
1:35.7 | by the fantastical testimony of Ivan's own girlfriend Amy Betcher. The case seemed cut and dry |
1:42.4 | on the surface, but as we all know, things are not always what they seem. This is episode 2 of season 9. |
1:51.4 | The case of Ivan Cantu. |
2:01.0 | Ivan's case was shared with the world on the Cousins by Blood podcast hosted by Matt Duff. |
2:07.1 | The 10th episode first season of the podcast was fantastic, and it was put together so well |
2:12.4 | that a blast from our past has now jumped into the effort to share Ivan's story. |
2:17.6 | Liz Rose suffered through a tragedy of her own when her father was brutally murdered in 2012. |
2:23.6 | Then, to add to the horror, five years later Liz's mother Sandy Melgar was in my opinion |
2:30.6 | wrongfully convicted for her husband's murder. Sandy's case was the subject of season 6 of |
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