There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

When police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

A cop of murder.

Sometimes even a confession isn't enough to convict.

On February 13, 1999, a mistrial was declared in a complicated case

that saw confession, but not a conviction. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled,

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. In February of 1992, a woman in Knoxville, Tennessee, went to the local police and reported a rape.

Telling investigators that she had been abducted from the city, taken into the county,

raped, tied up, and then robbed, she bravely took police to the spot where her attack happened.

As police stood there in the secluded part of the woods in East Knox County, they noticed that the area, a favorite

location for sex workers to bring their Johns, was littered with old mattresses and used

condoms. And there, sitting at the dead end, was the car the woman claimed belonged to the man who abducted her.

Looking inside, investigator Tom Presley said he saw the woman's stuff, and as they continued through the woods, she pointed to a man and identified him as her rapist.

There in the woods was Thomas D. Husky, in the company of a nude woman sitting on her

knees. Pointing a weapon at their suspect, Thomas was arrested and taken into custody. Unfortunately,

this is where the case against him started to fall apart. You see, the woman who reported the

attack, the victim, failed to mention to police

that she was a sex worker and that she went to Cahaba Lane with this man willingly.

Though this in no way took away from the fact that she was the victim of a rape, her omission

became an issue, and in the end, she decided not to testify against her attacker, which meant that

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