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This episode contains discussion of murder, violence, and racism.

There's an old quote you may have heard. It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble,

it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

How much of what we know about the Speedway Indiana Bergerchef murders just ain't so?

Probably quite a lot. Last week we told you about one of those things.

The sketch of the clean-shaven male suspect, which we've seen over and over again,

simply cannot be relied upon. The witness who helped the police create it admitted to us

that she intentionally gave them the wrong description.

And there's more. Have you heard that Speedway was a pleasant little town,

like something out of the Andy Griffiths show? Well, that may have been true if you happened to be white.

If you were a person of color, then things were very different.

Have you read that the empty restaurant was discovered by an off-duty employee

who stopped by to visit his friends? That's true. But it's not the whole story.

A different teenager was the first to come across the deserted building.

He may have perhaps become a fifth murder victim himself if he had arrived there even a few minutes

earlier. This week, you'll hear a story you've never heard before as we speak with Kirk Thompson.

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