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A note before we get started. This episode contains some intense descriptions of sexual assault.

Texas Monthly.

A Metup with Don Miller one day this spring had a barbecue place on the edge of Stephenville.

He pulled up in an enormous truck. I climbed in and we headed south out of town.

Shannon and I together have never been to the park. Yeah.

Just so you know that. But I mean I'm familiar with it and can walk you through it anyway.

I thought I knew which park it was and then I when I was driving up this morning I looked at it and I said there's no way.

It's not public. It's too public. Well the so the park has changed over the years back when when the assault happened.

About a year after Susan Woods was killed, investigators learned of another brutal crime.

A 16 year old girl from Stephenville, beaten in bloody, told them she'd been raped in this park.

Does the park have a name? No it's just a typical roadside park.

The park wasn't much bigger than a football field. We crept through it and parked at the far end.

All right well it's the one I thought. Yeah. I mean there's a reason right by the road.

Right by the road but if somebody's going to come in he's going to see you. There's nobody going to

come up behind me. That's true. The traffic's going fast enough. Yeah. And it was dark.

Yeah there's no lights out there. Zeke, no right night time this place is bitch black.

The victim told investigators who'd done it. She'd given them the name. Joseph Scott Hattley.

Don first heard of this years later when a database matched the fingerprints at Susan's house

to Hattley. A man Don hadn't heard of and someone no one had suspected.

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