Forgotten True Crime is officially back — and we're relaunching with a story that has everything.

Oklahoma City, 1933. A highway officer keeps a .45 in his bureau drawer. A basketball star from Denver is sleeping in his guest room. And at 4:30 in the morning, his wife wakes up screaming that there's a strange man in her bed. Thirteen hours later, that houseguest is shot five times at a gas station while reading a newspaper — and on his deathbed, he insists it was an accident, lying to protect the man who killed him.

There's an 8-year-old girl on the witness stand swearing on "Jesus's big book," a mystery houseguest the record barely names, and a judge who stood up and told a courtroom that "the unwritten law is not in effect in Oklahoma." The papers called it an honor slaying. The more you look at it, the less honorable it gets.

This is also a crossover with Okie Investigations.

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