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The After Show: Blood on the Door

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Deborah Roberts talks with producer Blue Browning about what drew him to a story about a mother’s quest for justice for her murdered daughter, and how he was able to find footage of a young woman whose life was cut short before smart phones made video ubiquitous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Brad Milkey. I'm the host of The Crime Scene Weekly, a new show from ABC Audio about the latest headlines in true crime.

0:08.6

This week, I'm talking about the shocking allegations against the Alexander brothers, once the golden boys of luxury real estate, now facing serious sex crime charges.

0:18.9

Listen to the Crime Scene Weekly on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:29.7

Hi there, everybody.

0:31.1

It's Deborah Roberts.

0:32.3

And welcome to 2020, the After Show.

0:35.4

Today, we're going to talk a little bit more about the mom who became a

0:39.3

warrior to find her daughter's killer. I reported on this story on Friday night's edition of 2020.

0:45.8

Joan Barry, whose daughter, Jana, was stabbed to death when she was a 21-year-old student at

0:51.2

UT, the University of Tennessee. There was no suspect and no arrest for years,

0:57.2

and Joan just became consumed by this whole thought of who could do something like this,

1:02.4

so vicious to her daughter and what laws needed to change to make it a little easier to solve

1:08.3

these kinds of crimes. So today we're going to dig into it.

1:11.6

And joining me is my colleague, my friend, Blue Browning. Hey, Blue.

1:17.5

Hey, it's so great to be with you, Deborah. Oh, good to be with you. And you really are a

1:20.9

partner in crime when we come to these stories, because you and I have worked on a lot together.

1:25.1

This story was actually somewhere you lived. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

1:28.9

University of Tennessee, I didn't go to school there, but I worked in Knoxville, and I was so

1:33.0

familiar with that area.

1:34.6

But how did you wind up thinking about this story and thinking it would work for 2020?

1:38.8

Well, it definitely was Joan and how passionate she was.

1:41.7

I saw an interview that she did, and I saw the anguish in her voice,

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