Show Notes
“I killed Taunja Bennett.”
The words appeared on a bathroom wall, after two convictions and the closure of the case.
Then came another confession. And another. Each raised new questions about what really happened to Taunja and whether the people behind bars were guilty at all.
As investigators revisited the case, the evidence they thought they understood began to unravel, forcing them to confront an unsettling possibility: sometimes the truth is buried beneath the story everyone has already accepted.
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Sources:
A Question of Guilt - Los Angeles Times
Laverne Pavlinac | National Registry of Exonerations
Trucker Writing Letters About Serial Killings
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