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It started as a normal day. What if the truth about the greatest tragedy of your life

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buried in the chaos of the Iraq War. What really just happened.

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This is Barry Truse. I'm Hank Clibinoff.

3 Black Enmates in the Terrell County Jail were watching and listening.

The night the Dawson Police carried out the killing of James Brasier.

They didn't see the actual beating. The police took Brasier out of his cell to inflict

the worst of his injuries. But two of the inmates saw him pulled out against his will.

Then an hour later, maybe two hours, who knows, there are no clocks in jail.

They dragged him back, bloody, and near comatose.

The witnesses were Marvin Gosset, 21, who had been jailed that day on a drunk and disorderly charge.

Next was Mary Carolyn Clyde, 19, who was found guilty of manslaughter and had been locked up in

the Terrell County Jail for months. She should have been sent to a state prison,

but she was instead kept in the county jail for the creepiest and most despicable of reasons.

Finally, there was Irene Gladden, who was in the same cell with Mary Carolyn Clyde.

Gladden in her mid-30s was serving 18 months for selling untaxed whiskey, that is, for bootlegging.

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