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The After Show: Red Handed

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Our investigative team spent three years trying to find out what happened to a former Arkansas state senator who was found murdered at her own home. This episode features behind-the-scenes details from 20/20 co-anchor Deborah Roberts and Josh Margolin, one of the lead investigative reporters in this shocking case.  Originally published in October 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody, it's Deborah Roberts with the 2020 After Show. And today we are going to jump into a

0:10.1

conversation about an episode that I have to admit really stopped me and I'm sure viewers in our tracks.

0:16.8

It's called Red Handed. It's a close examination of the murder of former Arkansas State Senator Linda Collins

0:23.6

Smith.

0:24.6

This one was just really an unusual story.

0:27.9

And if you haven't heard that episode yet, you're going to want to go back and listen to it

0:31.3

because we're going to dig deeper into this story and give you some details as we always

0:35.2

do that weren't shared in the broadcast.

0:38.2

If you're one of our ardent viewers,

0:40.0

you will remember that Becky O'Donnell

0:42.5

killed Linda Collins Smith, her BFF,

0:45.4

and that she acted alone.

0:47.3

But what you may not know is that it took us a lot of work

0:51.1

to get a better understanding of this case.

0:54.1

We had to sue, that's right. We had to sue.

0:56.7

These things happen with us sometimes as an organization to unsealed documents placed under a

1:02.1

gag order. I spoke with ABC News as chief investigative reporter Josh Margolin about our reporting,

1:07.9

and it's a conversation we had back in October of 2022 when we first broadcast

1:12.4

that 2020 episode. Let's jump in. Hey, Josh. Welcome. Hi, Deb. Great to be here.

1:19.9

One question that many people are going to come away from this asking is, where is Becky now?

1:25.6

We don't know. It's one of the enduring mysteries of a really strange, mysterious case.

1:33.1

She's in the custody of the State Department of Corrections, the prison system in Arkansas,

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