This wasn't a case that intended to make a podcast series about.

I came across it by accident last year while working on the Joey Watkins case,

but he's in too open to disclose.

I was trying to research Joey's case, but again and again, articles about this other

murder case kept coming up mixed in with the search results I actually wanted.

The other case was also from Rome, Georgia, but it was old from 1974.

And there really wasn't much about it that was similar to the murder Joey had been charged

with, aside from the fact that the defendant in that case was also claiming innocence.

At first, I just skimmed over these articles as I came across them and moved on.

But in the process, I'd pick up these fragmented bits and pieces of a story about a woman's

shot to death that her kitchen late one night, 43 years ago, and the husband convicted

of her murder.

And the ramifications that those events would have on people involved for decades to come.

But the bits and pieces I was picking up were jumbled and bizarre.

It was hard to see how they could all fit together into a single hole.

Finally, I decided that I needed to look up how the case had turned out so that I'd

stop wondering about it.

Once I knew what the ending had been, I couldn't move on and forget about it.

Only it turned out that the case had never been resolved.

There weren't any answers to the questions I had.

So I called up the defendant to ask.

That was easy enough to do because although he'd been given a life sentence in 1975, he

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