A Real Crime by Susan Williams

A Real Crime by Susan Williams - Episode 29 My First Autopsy

Episode 29: Reporter Susan Williams recalls her first murder trial and dealing with the autopsy that went with it.

A Real Crime by Susan Williams - Episode 28 Hank Williams

Episode 28: Reporter Susan Williams discusses the death of legendary singer Hank Williams and how the cause of death was determined in the 1950s.

A Real Crime by Susan Williams - Episode 27 Trial and Mistrial

Episode 27: Trial and Mistrial. In the second of two parts, reported Susan Williams explains how two men were arrested and tried 20 years later for the murder of Cathy Carrroll in 1986 and how both were released.

A Real Crime by Susan Williams - Episode 26 Tortured Beauty

Episode 26: Tortured Beauty. In the first of two parts, reporter Susan Williams lays out the crime and scene of Cathy Carroll's murder in April 1986.

A Real Crime by Susan Williams - Episode 25 Lightning Strikes Twice

Episode 25: Lightning Strikes Twice for One Family Rose loses both her brother-in-law and her son in separate murders several years apart. Reporter Susan Williams examines both deaths.

A Real Crime by Susan Williams - Episode 24 Accountability

Episode 24: Accountability DNA evidence and other technology breakthroughs in criminal investigations weren't available at the time the "Mad Butcher" was murdering and dismembering men in the 1960s. But, says reporter Susan Williams, if there had been accountability for evidence in the case, it potentially might be solved.

A Real Crime by Susan Williams - Episode 23 From the Beginning

Episode 23: I wrote this podcast when a draft of the United States Supreme Court decision to remove a woman's right to choose was first revealed. Now one year later, we are living with the results of the decision. Those of you brave enough to listen to my other episodes on child abuse know now that parents can abuse their own children in hideous ways. This case is especially bad. The abuse a newborn suffered left the 38-day-old baby blind, deaf, and brain-damaged. The child lived for years connected to machines, and the cost of his daily care added up to six figures. Instead of debating this child's right to life, lawyers debated his right to die after his heart stopped beating on its own. A doctor testified that thanks to advances in medical technology, the child could live indefinitely. But the doctor added he thought the child could feel only pain.

A Real Crime by Susan Williams - Episode 22 IF

Episode 22: If Along with new high tech ways of solving crimes, police still rely on a good old fashioned nose to know. Reporter Susan Williams discusses a case where K-9 noses helped root out killers Billy Joe Hottle and Craig Swick in 1993.

A Real Crime by Susan Williams - Episode 21 The Sodder Fire Revisited

Episode 21: The Sodder Fire Revisited The History Channel recently aired a documentary on the Mystery of the Sodder Fire. Reporter Susan Williams reveals details and her theory on the fire and disappearance of the five Sodder children in 1945.

A Real Crime by Susan Williams - Episode 20 She Persisted

Episode 20: She Persisted Reporter Susan Williams discusses how advances in technology, a persistent family member and a trooper confined to desk duty combined to solve a murder.