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Feb 2023
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The Murder of Nancy DePriest

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About this episode

This week we are discussing Nancy DePriest, a young wife and mother who loved life, and the two men who were wrongfully convicted of her murder.


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Sources:


  1. https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/third-court-of-appeals/1991/4881.html
  2. https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110815/documents/HMKP-116-JU00-20200617-SD004.pdf 
  3. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49619275/nancy-lena-depriest
  4. https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=128932&page=1
  5. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/03/09/facing-her-daughter-s-killer-at-last
  6. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-21-me-confess21-story.html
  7. https://media.law.wisc.edu/m/2fjzd/findley_scott_ssrn_copy-1.pdf
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