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The Case of Susan King
📻 Episode #70
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 10, 2018
About This Episode
Susan King served nearly seven years behind bars for a crime she didn’t commit. In November 1998, a fisherman found the body of 40-year-old Kyle Breeden in the Kentucky River. He had been shot in the head twice with .22 caliber magnum bullets and his legs were bound with guitar amplifier cord. The crime went…
The Case
Susan King served nearly seven years behind bars for a crime she didn’t commit. In November 1998, a fisherman found the body of 40-year-old Kyle Breeden in the Kentucky River. He had been shot in the head twice with .22 caliber magnum bullets and his legs were bound with guitar amplifier cord. The crime went unsolved for eight years until May 2006, when Kentucky State Police began re-investigating. In April 2007, based on an investigation by state police officer Todd Harwood, Breeden’s on-again, off-again girlfriend, Susan King, was charged with murder and tampering with a crime scene. Harwood concluded that Susan shot Breeden twice in the head in the kitchen of her home following a quarrel. Susan, who had one leg and weighed 97 pounds, was accused of transporting the body to the river where she physically lifted Breeden’s 180-pound body over the railing of a Kentucky River bridge. She was also charged with trying to clean up the crime scene to hide evidence of the murder. In September 2008, Susan King entered an Alford plea to second-degree manslaughter in which she did not admit guilt, and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She served more than six years in prison before she was released on parole in November 2012.
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00:06:30“Speaker 1: lifted up. The killer parked on the Gratz bridge and Speaker 1: then hoisted him. And he wasn't a small guy, right, No, Speaker 1: he wasn't. About two hundred pounds. So the killer hoisted Speaker 1: him over the railing and threw him down or dropped Speaker 1: him down into the Kentucky River where he was found.”
00:26:34“Speaker 5: And my lawyer told me nothing. She told me nothing Speaker 5: about the Alpha play. I learned about the alf polea Speaker 5: from the girls in the sale with me, So you Speaker 5: had and thank Dennis, I took the Alfred play. Speaker 1: Yeah, thank goodness for that, because otherwise you would have”
00:46:41“Speaker 1: and I'm certainly not going to. Speaker 5: So Christopher murder and you say you didn't do it, Speaker 5: they're really hard on you. I mean, I had I Speaker 5: wasn't a bad looking girl when I got locked up. Speaker 5: I had pretty smile, all my pretty white teeth, and”
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