Posted on 06/17/2024 8:10:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
South Carolina authorities are crediting a local reporter with helping them make a major breakthrough in a 1975 cold-case murder.
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office on Monday revealed the identity of a murder victim named Oscar James Nedd, who was previously known only as Mr. X after a hunter found his body near Highway 20 and Blakely Road "wrapped in a sheet and smoldering, indicating it had been set on fire" in 1975.
"Sheriff Hobart Lewis credits Brad Willis' podcast ‘Murder, Etc.’ for drawing attention to this case," the sheriff's office said in a Monday press release.
Willis, a former investigative reporter for WYFF-TV, went on to start the "Murder, Etc." podcast in 2019 after he realized that his reporting as a young journalist may have helped keep the wrong man behind bars for a double murder in 1975, and he began digging.
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There is a similar story on the Let’s Read podcast.
The journalist involved helped put someone in prison for the crime who he now believes didn’t do it. He also got the guy’s parole delayed by years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tmERbIBDRU
https://murderetcpodcast.com/how-to-listen/
This is a great podcast!
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