A college student was found dead in the woods.

This season, we're investigating a possible murder.

But this isn't your typical true crime story.

In fact, we're going to start where the story ends.

Back in June, a jury found a 24-year-old gauge but soon guilty of first-degree murder in

the death of Praveen Varghese, today at Jackson County Judge, threw out the guilty verdict

and released Bethune on bond.

An SIU student dies, a suspect is charged, and convicted a first-degree felony murder.

But instead of facing potentially decades in prison, a judge throws out the jury's

verdict and lets the convicted killer go free.

I'm Javier Leyva, and I'm John Taylor, and this is Criminal Condo, season 4, getting

away with murder.

Subscribe to Criminal Conduct, wherever you get your podcasts.

The episode that you're about to hear is part 3, and if you haven't listened to the

first two, I suggest you start there, and also if you don't like, you know, lots of

language and really dark topics, this one's not for you, so you've been warned.

Alright, let's play the episode.

For the past five years, Patrick Tomlinson and his wife, Nikki, had been living a complete

nightmare.

The Milwaukee police have swatted their house more than 40 times, but eventually the

swatting wasn't funny enough for these pests.

We've come to find out that it's not just the swattings.

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