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🗓️ 6 June 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, looking for your next true crime obsession? |
| 0:04.0 | You'll be sure to find it in the new season of Witnessed, Friendly Fire, and we've got a great first listen to share with you. |
| 0:14.0 | The stories around one night where two deputies had a tip that a guy was cooking math inside a mobile home in East Tennessee. |
| 0:24.0 | Then there was a gunshot, suspense, heartache, and years-long entanglement of conflicting stories, left the widow's pursuit of justice, trying to answer one question. |
| 0:39.0 | Was this shooting an accident? |
| 0:42.0 | Host and award-winning journalist Sean Flynn told the story in GQ magazine almost 15 years ago, but returns to Scott County, Tennessee, to detail one woman's pursuit of justice and one community's enduring reckoning with the fallout. |
| 1:02.0 | In 2003, John John had been married to his high school sweetheart, Laurie, for 13 years. They had three young sons. The oldest was seven. |
| 1:11.0 | Laurie was a nurse in the emergency room at the local hospital, but this day, the Friday after Thanksgiving, she's off. |
| 1:18.0 | She'd taken the boys to Knoxville to look for a Christmas tree while John John was at work. On their way home, around 8-8-15, she stopped by her mom's house. |
| 1:28.0 | There's a message that John John had called. |
| 1:31.0 | And I tried calling back, but it went to voicemail. |
| 1:34.0 | When Laurie was at home, she'd usually have a scanner running in the background, a receiver that picks up on chatter from all the emergency frequencies. |
| 1:41.0 | We left it on pretty much all the time, even at night, especially if John John was working at night. I just felt like a little safety thing, you know, just won't be able to. |
| 1:50.0 | Here's boys, make sure you're here. Yeah, he's still talking. He's okay. |
| 1:53.0 | A few minutes after she tries to call John John, Laurie's brother calls the house. |
| 1:58.0 | Then said, do you all have a scanner on? Or y'all listen to the scanner? And he said an officer's been shot. |
| 2:05.0 | And we didn't have a scanner on. |
| 2:08.0 | And that's, I'm just, you know, got that sick feeling when they said an officer had been shot. |
| 2:15.0 | She turns on the scanner. It's crackling with chatter. And at the Sheriff's office, the dispatcher's feeling non-stop calls. |
| 2:23.0 | There were quite a bit of talk on the radio. |
| 2:28.0 | Hi, yeah. What's going on? Yes, Laurie Paul from... |
| 2:32.0 | We're getting reports from officer with shot and scuttily. I have no idea what's going to happen. |
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