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True Crime Vault: A Case of “Affluenza."

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ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A teen driving drunk kills four, and his unusual defense causes an uproar. Original Broadcast Date: 10/16/15. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi there, everybody.

0:01.4

It's Deborah Roberts here, Co-Incre of 2020.

0:04.0

I always like to know how a story turns out, and something tells me that you as a 2020

0:08.6

podcast listener feel the same way.

0:11.3

Welcome to the 2020 True Crime Vault, where we are revisiting some of the most memorable

0:16.8

stories from our archives.

0:18.4

We're also going to give you an update on what's happened since the story first aired.

0:23.5

Take a listen.

0:25.5

Coming up, a wild ride on a country road, and an 8,000 pound truck with a drunk

0:35.1

team behind the wheel, playing chicken with other people's lives.

0:41.1

For innocent people dead, it was carnage, carnage and destruction.

0:50.2

Lives shatter.

0:51.2

I started screaming, where's my dad?

0:53.8

And a fancy defense for a rich kid.

0:56.6

Afluenza.

0:57.6

Afluenza.

0:58.6

Afluenza.

0:59.6

This is preposterous.

1:00.6

A teen with blood on his hands and money in his pockets, but not a day in jail.

1:05.5

I am sick and by this judge.

1:07.7

After that point, life has just told him you can get away with it.

1:11.4

But who's to blame?

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