The Cedartown Jane Doe, Part 1: The Fire

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, News

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This two-part series covers the most complex case we've ever presented--and highlights a Jane Doe found in Polk County, Georgia, who remains unidentified even though her killer has been prosecuted.

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0:00.0	This is the first episode in a two-part series.
0:03.6	There's discussion of crime scenes and violence
0:07.0	and use of terminology in some reports
0:09.4	that audiences may consider outdated.
0:12.4	This is the Fall line.
0:36.4	This story is complicated.
0:39.4	There's no way around that.
0:42.4	There are over 500 pages of police files,
0:45.4	dozens of court records and hundreds of news articles.
0:49.4	There are crisscrossing threads,
0:51.4	all meeting in the early 2000s
0:54.4	when our country faced post-9-11 immigration policies.
0:58.4	Down south, after generations of bootlegging,
1:02.4	some families in Northwest Georgia
1:04.4	had shifted their efforts into the drug trade.
1:08.4	First marijuana in the 1970s and then cocaine,
1:12.4	and then came the method and fetamine boom of the early 2000s.
1:16.4	These storylines converge in a small mill town in Georgia
1:20.4	near the Alabama line where an incredibly violent crime scene
1:24.4	led to a series of high-profile arrests,
1:27.4	federal indictments, and trials.
1:30.4	But there's a simple place where we can start
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