Introducing: Murder on Songbird Road

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Murder on Songbird Road is a production of iHeart Podcasts.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I thought the new story about murder than a wool
area in.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Marion, And when I clicked on the article a bombird
Road and my.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
Heart thank because I need it. Backs to the road
that Julie led on.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
To have a murderers Christmas Jae Beasley doesn't happen very
often down here.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
And Mary in Illinois, an eleven year old girl brutally
stabbed to death her father's longtime living girlfriend, maintaining innocence
but charged with her murder.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
I am confident that Julie Beverley is guilty with this case.
The more I learned about it, the more I'm scratching
my head, like man somethings thinks about it.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Something's not right.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Why would a thirty two year old woman with no
history of violence murder and eleven year old she considered
her own child.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Sometimes people snap, That is what I believe happened in
this case.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
She claims that as soon as she pulls the storm
over and that she notices blood in the living room
and somebody clad and all black comes charging at her,
and that he's got a knife.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
They had told us at the press conference that she
had told them a story about a suspect that left
the home that was later proven to be false. But
they never explained how I should have asked, Looking back
at it now, in hindsight.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
If you stamped somebody, how many times you would have
blood splatter, which the change closed. They've never found the
weapon never made sense, still doesn't make sense.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I'm Lauren Bright. Pacheco. Murder on Songbird Road dives into
the conviction of a mother of four who remains behind
bars and the investigation that put her there.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
She found out she was pregnant in jail, she wasn't
treated like she was an innocent human being at all,
which is just horrific.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
It is unhumane.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
I have not seen this level of corruption anywhere in
my life. From the lying and the cover ups, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
And the victim impact statement darkness the light. Oh that's
what I wrote down on the line, like darkness cannot
drive out darkness.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
They're talking about witches.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
That kind of is frowned upon down.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Here around here.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
They don't murders.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Nice join me along with criminal defense attorney Bob Mada
in investigating the murder that ripped a rural community in
southern Illinois, part pitting families against one another in a
storm of controversy, corruption, and continuing questions.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
The person who hit it is still out there. He
had both hands on either side of the door, and
he kept just talking and jibber jabbering, and I was
too afraid to answer the door.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
He just kept knocking and knocking.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
So a shirtless guy, and he looked like he was
under the influence of drugs.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, there's no justice for Jade.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
There's no justice Julie.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Nobody has gotten justice yet. And that's what I wish
people would understand.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Murder on Songbird Road launches January two. Get it on
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