State v. Gary Mitchum Reeves – Episode 3 – In Memory and Shadow
Undisclosed: Toward Justice
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🗓️ 24 July 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
July 24, 2017 / After Gary Reeves was sentenced to life at hard labor for the murder of his common-law wife, the State’s star witness recanted her testimony, and says instead that she never saw Gary kill her mother. But her memories and Gary's memories of who did pull the trigger seem impossible to reconcile.
(Photo: Gary Reeves while incarcerated after his conviction.)
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| 0:00.0 | When Gary woke up in a Floyd County jail cell on the morning of August 13th, 1974, he |
| 0:27.2 | was told that he had shot and killed his common law wife the night before. He had no memory of what |
| 0:32.1 | had happened or how he'd gotten into that jail cell and no idea why he would have done a thing |
| 0:37.5 | like shoot grace. It wasn't until six days later at the pro-owner hearing for the Floyd County's |
| 0:43.2 | pre-record that he found out the circumstances of her death. Grace's 15-year-old daughter Beverly |
| 0:49.5 | testified that she'd been in her bed in her back porch off the kitchen that had been converted |
| 0:53.7 | into a bedroom for. She'd been listening to records when she heard a gunshot and looked at a bed, |
| 0:59.2 | went to the doorway at the kitchen, and she'd watched in silence as her stepfather Gary shot |
| 1:04.2 | Grace several more times before he'd turned and walked out of the kitchen, flipping off the lights on |
| 1:08.8 | his way out. Gary's always known that Beverly Story can't be true. He had that much to hold on to, |
| 1:16.0 | even after his conviction. He couldn't remember killing Grace and he couldn't remember not killing |
| 1:22.1 | Grace. So he couldn't say for sure if he was guilty or not, but casually gunning her down in the |
| 1:27.1 | kitchen either for no reason at all or maybe because he'd asked her to make some dinner and she'd said |
| 1:33.4 | she was tired, that was too absurd, too impossible. Whatever happened that night, it wasn't that. |
| 1:41.5 | Years later while in prison for Grace's murder, his memories of that night did start to return. |
| 1:46.4 | He started to call what had really happened. He would really shot her. |
| 1:54.1 | So between Gary and Beverly, we have two accounts of Grace's murder and you think that |
| 1:59.4 | make it easy or easier to puzzle out what had really happened in the house that night. |
| 2:05.6 | Because even though one of them's lying to cover up a crime, that would still leave us with the |
| 2:10.1 | other one to tell us what really happened, right? At least one of them ought to be able to tell us, |
| 2:14.1 | or, ought to be able to explain how she was killed in a straightforward, consistent way. |
| 2:21.2 | That's not how things worked out. |
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