Trouble Brewing
Forensic Files
HLN
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Two suspects living in the same apartment were linked to a murder by a gun and a pair of bloodstained boots – items that belonged to the one who claimed he'd never even met the victim. Investigators hoped the manufacturing code stamped on six beer bottles would be distinctive enough to prove who was telling the truth, and who was a cold-blooded killer.
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| 0:00.0 | Up next, the secret life of a call girl, |
| 0:05.0 | often a very dangerous profession. |
| 0:09.0 | They found a female face down didn't appear to have any signs of life. |
| 0:14.0 | She would be a natural target because she would usually have significant amounts of cash on her person. |
| 0:18.0 | The evidence points to one man. |
| 0:20.0 | Looks like Rambo, acts like Rambo and acts like Rambo, and dresses like Rambo. |
| 0:23.8 | It may be Rambo. |
| 0:24.9 | Until one tiny clue turns the case around. |
| 0:28.7 | It was after midnight on a chilly March evening when Virginia Russell was driving home from a party with her boyfriend Rodney Hartman. |
| 0:46.5 | The couple had been dating for three years and were talking about getting married. |
| 0:51.1 | But on this night, tragedy struck. |
| 0:57.5 | She was thrown from the car. The car flipped like eight times, and they were both ejected from the car. |
| 1:05.4 | When an ambulance arrived, they pronounced Rodney Hartman dead at the scene. Virginia was rushed to the hospital. |
| 1:13.5 | For 48 hours, Virginia hovered between life and death, |
| 1:19.3 | but she survived. |
| 1:21.5 | Toxicology tests showed Virginia had a blood alcohol level of 0.16, |
| 1:27.2 | almost twice the legal limit. |
| 1:29.3 | I had charged her with the felony DUI. |
| 1:33.3 | Virginia was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for vehicular homicide. |
| 1:39.3 | It was hard enough that she had lost somebody in her life and then to be doing time for it |
| 1:47.0 | and be taken away from her family again. |
| 1:51.0 | I mean, it was very difficult time for Virginia. |
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