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In April of 1996, 19-year-old Stacey Stites was murdered. A year investigation led to the

arrest and conviction of a man who has been trying to prove his innocence ever since.

Currently, he is racing against an execution date set for this November.

Was he wrongfully convicted as the Innocence Project claims? Or is he guilty of Stacey's murder

like the state of Texas Sats? I'm Charlie, and welcome to Crime Lines.

I'm glad to be back recording today. I don't know if you can hear that.

That complete silence is the sound of my kids being back in school. So thankfully, I'm back to

recording in the middle of the day while everyone's gone so that hopefully I'm not going to sound

as tired as I may have sounded this summer. Today's case is a long one, so let's just jump right in.

It has been loudly debated as a possible wrongful conviction case. It was recommended to me by

Caitlin, so thank you for sending it in, but also why did you have to recommend such a rabbit hole

of a case? For those who are still interested in learning more about this case after you finish

listening, just Google Rodney Read Innocence, and you will have a lifetime worth of court documents

to read. I will try to remember to put some links in the show notes. If you don't see them in

the description, they should be on the website as soon as I get it updated. So the first half of

this episode, we're going to talk about the crime, the investigation, and the trial. Then the

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