The Investigation | S5 E6

Buried Truths

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Columbus police investigate one of their own, Joe Cameron in the Reverend Pickett’s death and come up with a surprising conclusion. Meanwhile, J. Edgar Hoover sends in the FBI.

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0:59.0	Episode 6, The Investigation.
1:03.4	When Columbus Police charged Officer Joseph Eugene Cameron with murder in the death of Reverend
1:10.8	Clarence Pickett,
1:11.9	they locked Cameron up in the same jail in which he had beaten Pickett 11 days before.
1:18.7	The Columbus Ledger put the arrest on the front page and quoted a statement from police chief,
1:25.2	E.S. Moncrief.
1:28.0	As a result of the death of C.H. Pickett on December 23rd, 1957, and based on information obtained by an
1:38.8	investigation of the police department of the city of Columbus, I have obtained a warrant
1:45.6	charging patrolman, Joseph E. Cameron,
1:49.3	with the offense of murder,
1:51.3	and he has been arrested and is now being held without bond.
1:56.3	This is Barry Truths.
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