Spiral | 5. A Beautiful but Imperfect System
The Free Press Investigates
The Free Press
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Previously on Spiral. |
| 0:03.0 | Once I realized that I just touched the dead person, I just grabbed the bag and I left. |
| 0:09.0 | It was incredibly painful. I mean, it was torture. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm a black guy out in the middle of the night, breaking in the cars, and I find myself standing in front of a dead white woman. |
| 0:20.0 | That doesn't look good at all. Once he turned around to me and said, I didn't do it, bro. I could see he mouthed that to me. And I just stared at him. I mean, he did it. This is what the jury came up with after six days of deliberating first-degree felony murder, deadlocked, home invasion, deadlocked, first-degree premeditated murder, not guilty. |
| 0:40.1 | Lying to police, guilty. |
| 0:41.7 | Okay, we're turning on to Juliette Place, which is the street where Sam lived. |
| 1:06.0 | It's nighttime. It's only 6.30, but it's pretty much completely dark outside. |
| 1:17.1 | It's a very well-lit area. I mean, there's big street lamps and all the front of the houses have a lot of lights to you. |
| 1:21.3 | Should we park the car? |
| 1:23.2 | Yeah, let's get out and walk. |
| 1:26.0 | Poppy and I get out of the car and find ourselves in a really lovely suburban neighborhood. The city's get out. Poppy and I get out of the car |
| 1:27.5 | and find ourselves in a really lovely suburban neighborhood. |
| 1:30.8 | The city skyline is right behind us |
| 1:32.7 | and we're only five minutes away from downtown. |
| 1:35.8 | It's green and it's well lit. |
| 1:38.0 | There's street lamps on every corner. |
| 1:40.6 | Were they always there, I wonder? |
| 1:42.6 | Or was that something new that they added |
| 1:44.0 | after Sam died? I mean? Or was that something new that they added after Sam died? |
| 1:45.9 | I mean, she was killed October, 2023. We're here December, 2004. Yeah. |
| 1:54.4 | There's snowflakes falling. We know that Sam was really close with her neighbors here, |
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