One evening in August of 2000, a city council candidate stood behind a podium at a high school in small town, Alabama.

He was speaking about why he'd entered the race in the first place.

And he said it was because he wanted a platform to discuss a very important issue.

And that issue was the unsolved murder of a local school district employee.

And then, right there in front of all

the news cameras and microphones, this candidate said he knew who committed that crime, because it had

been revealed to him in a dream. But before we get into today's story, if you're a fan of the

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Okay? On the morning of August 4th, 19088, a 49-year-old woman named Charlotte Waits rushed around her kitchen in Lynette, Alabama.

She reached past her husband Barry, who was washing the dishes at the sink, and she grabbed a coffee mug from the cupboard.

It was a Tuesday morning, and they were both getting ready for busy days at work.

Charlotte was a school administrator and Barry was the acting mayor of the small town of Lynette,

a very tight-knit community of about 9,000 residents. And as Barry left the sink to go grab

his briefcase from the dining room, Charlotte, who was pouring herself some coffee, reminded him

that she had a hair appointment later that morning,

and also that she'd be home later than usual because she had a meeting with her attorneys that afternoon.

So Charlotte was, unfortunately, in the middle of a legal battle with her cousin Wayne over the inheritance from her late uncle's will.

The uncle had left a lot of valuable land to Charlotte, but Wayne thought that he

deserved some of that land too. So basically he was contesting the will, and today was the day that

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