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The Towpath Murders

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4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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When several women are attacked in a short span of time, it's up to investigators to determine whether these killings are connected. First, true crime headlines. Support the show and get ad-free episodes by joining Murder Minute + for only $4 a month. Follow us on TikTok @murderminutepod and on Instagram @murderminute and @truecrimeheadlines for even more true crime headlines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Murder Minute. On today's episode, The Topath Murders. But first, your true crime headlines.

0:20.0

A Nevada teenager was fatally shot last week in a fight over a video game.

0:27.2

Officers responded to a report of a shooting at a home in northeast Las Vegas last Thursday at around 4.35 PM, and found the body of 16-year-old Arthur Davis. The boy had been killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest. According to

0:38.7

the Lieutenant Ray Spencer, investigators believe that several people had gone to the home to play a video game in an upstairs room when two teens got into an argument

0:50.0

One of them produced a gun and during a struggle over the weapon Arthur Davis was shot in the chest

0:56.8

The 14 year old fled the scene but was found approximately 30 minutes later after a witness led officers to where the boy was hiding.

1:05.4

It is unclear where the gun came from.

1:08.1

The Clark County School District Police and Trauma Intervention Program Specialists arrived on the scene, and the suspect was arrested and booked on an open murder charge.

1:20.0

The 14-year-old's identity has not been released due to his age.

1:28.0

A Central Illinois man has been re-sentenced in the 1978 killings of three family members. Jimmy Childers was 17

1:37.6

when he was convicted of the murders of his mother, his stepfather, and his brother.

1:43.0

After over 40 years in prison,

1:45.0

59-year-old Childers petitioned for a hearing

1:48.3

following a US Supreme Court ruling

1:50.4

that sentencing a juvenile to life without parole is unconstitutional, except in rare cases

1:56.7

when a homicide offender is deemed incapable of rehabilitation.

2:01.9

Following the Supreme Court ruling, hundreds of offenders originally sentenced to life without parole as juveniles have been released nationwide.

2:10.0

Tilder's defense attorney, Karen Ramos Ramos called four witnesses, one of them a psychologist who

2:17.1

testified that Childers had been the victim of psychological abuse.

2:21.7

I beg the court to grant me the opportunity for a second chance at life, Childer said.

2:27.3

But prosecutors argued that Childers shouldn't be given the opportunity.

2:31.6

Calling the triple murder one of the most appalling and horrific in the county's history.

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