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Accused

Cincinnati Enquirer

True Crime, Documentary, Exhibit C, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Seven years have passed since DNA evidence led to William Virgil’s release from prison. A lot can change in seven years — and yet, so much can stay maddeningly stagnant at the same time. We examine what one of life’s inevitable developments will mean for the civil lawsuit Virgil had filed alleging he’d been wrongfully convicted in the murder of Retha Welch.

Credits from the script: Accused is written by me, Amber Hunt, produced by Amanda Rossmann, edited by Amy Wilson and engineered by Phil Didion. Music is by Andrew Higley. You can support this show directly by joining our Patreon at patreon.com/accused. To see photographs and supplemental documents, www.accusedpodcast.com. The best way to spread word about the cases we cover is to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

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0:00.0	Previously on season two of accused the unsolved murder of Rita Welch
0:06.0	Rita Welch was a very
0:09.7	Loving person she loved people
0:12.8	She was such a good person and she was so proud and happy over what she had overcome with the Lord's help and
0:21.4	She was living a good Christian life and she was just
0:25.9	Two and I Eve she had too much heart. I
0:31.8	Opened the door when I looked inside
0:35.2	I knew something was wrong when I said go call the police I
0:40.3	Cutter pushed the door open in all broken things and things overturned and
0:47.1	You know old dark spots from the floor that I thought might be blood and I walked in carefully and I
0:56.2	Is yelling for her and when I walked into the bathroom she was in the bathtub
1:02.8	There was blood in her hair and his blood on her night gown and I
1:08.4	Don't get upset. He could say that but it was somewhat horrifying to see the state that she was in
1:15.9	Virgil never confessed anything. I don't think it was guilty
1:20.5	Tween you and Bob. It's not between you and me, but I'll tell anybody now. I'll tell anybody that and I for a different reason than most people think
1:29.4	The trial wasn't put together right and it bothered me at the time and I said
1:34.6	What the heck is going on here?
1:36.4	And of course my client had told me one story inconsistently and he had an alibi for where he was the night of the murder
1:42.4	Suddenly now we're gonna reopen this wound there have been
1:47.2	Remedies that were available to the defendant. He has exhausted those remedies
1:53.9	I would imagine that a victim would not get much solace from the fact that the actual perpetrator has not been in jail all this time
2:01.4	So it is being actively investigated again
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