The Alabama Murders - Part 3: A Peculiar Institution

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Colbert County. May 1989. One of the men charged with Elizabeth Sennett’s murder stands trial. But the prosecution’s case has problematic inconsistencies. His fate comes down to the jury’s decision –– at least at first.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.6	A 15-year-old girl who chewed through a rope to escape a serial killer.
0:10.1	I used my front teeth to saw on the rope in my mouth.
0:15.2	The killer prowled the Pacific Northwest in the early 70s.
0:19.0	He's been convicted of murdering two young women, but suspected of many more.
0:24.0	Maybe there's another one in that area.
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1:19.2	35 years. That's how long Elizabeth's and its family waited for justice to occur.
1:27.3	He backhanded his child.
1:29.3	I don't know what the child had done.
1:31.3	You just don't do that to a child across its face.
1:34.3	35 long years.
1:37.3	And I answered the call, and I got all the information on who done it,
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