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Episode 6: Justice By Any Means

Episode 6: Justice By Any Means

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 By late 1946, prosecutors faced an impossible choice. They believed Youell Swinney was the Phantom Killer. The stolen car pattern was too perfect. Peggy's knowledge of Paul Martin's secret datebook was damning. That question about the electric chair haunted everyone who heard it. But Peggy had recanted everything. The star witness was gone. If they charged Swinney with murder and lost at trial, double jeopardy would protect him forever. He could never be tried again. So they found another way. Texas had a habitual offender law. Three felony convictions meant mandatory life in prison. Swinney already had two. The current car theft charge would be his third strike. They would lock him up for life without ever charging him with murder. Was this justice or a perversion of it? The families got no trial for their murdered loved ones. The case would remain officially unsolved. But the man investigators believed was a serial killer would die behind bars. Or so everyone thought. Twenty-six years later, something happened that nobody saw coming.

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