Speaker 1: All I know is what I've been told, and that's a half truth is a whole lie.
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Speaker 2: For almost a decade, the murder of an eighteen year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
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Speaker 2: We know, we know why Kilber. We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people, and that got the citizen investigator on National TV brew sheer persistence and nerve. This Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Current. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer, and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find. I did not know her, and I did not kill her, or write or burn or any of that other stuff that y'all see it, because this is a story about just how far people and our legal system will go to get a conviction. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poor guests on her.
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Speaker 1: So to be clear, law enforcement is paying a citizen with no training to do interviews in a high profile murder investigation.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and it's about the tales we tell and choose to believe when we need someone to blame. This is why you all are steady here because of lies. So it sounds like a lot of people have come forward saying I know who did this, but no one has said who did it. That's correct, the repercussions of which have uprooted lives, shattered families, and exposed a deep rot in Kentucky's halls of power to lie.
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Speaker 1: Oh my daughter liked that. Did I'm not see the one of you because I will be in prison.
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Speaker 2: I've spent over two years trying to get to the bottom of it all. Marky, y'all gotta work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people and small towns. From Love of for Good. This is Graves County, a new story of corruption and the fight for truth, released in the Bone Valley Feed. Listen to Graves County starting September seventeenth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, and to binge the entire season ad free. Subscribe to Love of for Good plus on Apple podcasts, ay