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The Case of Brandon Woodruff
📻 Episode #329
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Jan 30, 2023
About This Episode
On October 16, 2005, Dennis and Norma Woodruff were found murdered in their Royse City, TX home. Their son Brandon, a freshman in college, had been visiting that weekend and police became suspicious of him and his lifestyle. Brandon is bisexual and was struggling in school, so police developed a narrative that Brandon had to…
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The Case
On October 16, 2005, Dennis and Norma Woodruff were found murdered in their Royse City, TX home. Their son Brandon, a freshman in college, had been visiting that weekend and police became suspicious of him and his lifestyle. Brandon is bisexual and was struggling in school, so police developed a narrative that Brandon had to kill his parents in order to maintain the double life he wanted. These details, however, were not secrets to Brandon’s parents at all. And despite evidence that supported his innocence, Brandon was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:04:28“Speaker 2: make everybody laugh, and I would have friends come over, Speaker 2: and he had blared Tina Turner's Proud Mary, like at Speaker 2: eight o'clock in the morning. He would go get donuts, Speaker 2: and I would come out and he'd be in the Speaker 2: room dancing to Proud Mary, and I've got my friends over,”
00:17:24“Speaker 4: he just decides to murder his parents. Speaker 1: Brandon's trial started on March sixth, two thousand and nine, Speaker 1: in front of the Honorable Judge Richard Beakham Junior, the Speaker 1: current governor of Texas. Greg Abbott was the state's attorney Speaker 1: general at the time, and he was appointed as a”
00:30:21“Speaker 4: gets a phone call from Morgan and you know, hey, Morgan, Speaker 4: how's it going. Everything's fine over here? What are you doing? Speaker 4: Or you know, you hang up and you go back Speaker 4: to murdering your parents, and then your boyfriend college you're like, oh,”
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