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<v Speaker 1>On a steamy summer night in nineteen eighty seven, Susan

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<v Speaker 1>Woods's father parked outside her little white bungalow. Susan was

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<v Speaker 1>thirty years old, quiet and shy, and just starting to

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<v Speaker 1>get her life back together after a messy breakup with

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<v Speaker 1>her husband. She'd missed a couple of shifts at work,

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<v Speaker 1>so her dad went to check on her, and inside

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<v Speaker 1>the house he discovers something no parents should ever have

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<v Speaker 1>to see. Susan had been strangled and her naked body

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<v Speaker 1>was crouched on the bathroom floor with her hands tied

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<v Speaker 1>behind her back.

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<v Speaker 2>I think I started screaming, he did it, he killed her.

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<v Speaker 3>Everyone just knew it had to be Mike.

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<v Speaker 1>This was in the Texas town of Stephenville, which calls

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<v Speaker 1>itself the Cowboy Capital of the World. Like a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of small towns, everyone kind of thought they knew one another,

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<v Speaker 1>and everyone immediately thought they knew who killed Susan Woods.

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<v Speaker 1>But there's another thing about small towns.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes I guess intuition is not your.

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<v Speaker 1>Friend, and sometimes things just aren't what they seem.

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<v Speaker 2>Because in the interview, they asked, Michael, what do you

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<v Speaker 2>think happened to your wife? Well, the correct answer would

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<v Speaker 2>be I have no idea, but that's not what Michael said.

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<v Speaker 1>And when Michael didn't know, what nobody knew was there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot more going on here than just the murder

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<v Speaker 1>of a young woman.

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<v Speaker 2>This Lieutenant millerst Denville Police, I need to talk to

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<v Speaker 2>you about Susan Woods. Hecauid. I really don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>talk to you. I said, you don't have to, but

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<v Speaker 2>I think you want to hear what I've got to say.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the story of killing from back in the

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<v Speaker 1>day and the secrets that kept it unsolved for so long.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't tell you why the Grand Jerry didn't indet,

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<v Speaker 2>but I can tell you looking at those pictures, it

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<v Speaker 2>made no sense.

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<v Speaker 1>The happiness turn to anger. Now you want me to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about this story, how dare you? It's also a

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<v Speaker 1>on how tragedy and despair can light the path that

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<v Speaker 1>leads to the truth. He just he kept telling me,

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<v Speaker 1>you know that I'm special. I'm a special one that's

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<v Speaker 1>still today's shivers through my spine.

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<v Speaker 2>We've got to hit on your fingerprints, we got to

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<v Speaker 2>match on the mirror, and we've got to match off

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<v Speaker 2>of a coke can.

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<v Speaker 1>And sometimes the truth comes from an entirely unexpected place.

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<v Speaker 2>So I call him, he said, I bought his RV,

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<v Speaker 2>and as I'm cleaning out this RV, I'm finding all

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<v Speaker 2>kinds of crazy stuff. He said. There's pictures that you got,

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<v Speaker 2>some sort of a manifesto.

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<v Speaker 3>I had read once that the most terrible of lies

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<v Speaker 3>is not that which is spoken, but that which has lived.

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<v Speaker 3>I must admit that up to this point that had

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<v Speaker 3>been the story of my life. Now what do you

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<v Speaker 3>make of that?

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<v Speaker 2>He's a very mean, brutal person. The victims I know

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<v Speaker 2>about are a smidget of what he did.

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<v Speaker 1>My name is Brian Burrough, raised in a Texas town

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<v Speaker 1>a lot like Stephenville. To me, what happened there has

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<v Speaker 1>always been about more than one tragic killing. It says

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<v Speaker 1>something about the way we live in Texas, about who

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<v Speaker 1>gets to matter and who gets to fit in, and

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<v Speaker 1>especially about how we treat those who don't. From Texas Monthly.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Stephenville coming June twentieth