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Wrongful Conviction

#150 Jason Flom with Randal Padgett

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Randal Padgett

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In the late 1980s, Randall Paget was a poultry farmer and family man in the small town of

0:06.7

Arab, Alabama, who by his own admission made the biggest mistake of his life when he

0:12.0

stepped out on his wife, Kathy, with a coworker named Judy Smith.

0:16.8

The affair was on and off again over the years.

0:19.9

During one of those on-again times, Judy and Randall took a road trip to Florida only to

0:24.6

be awoken the first night they were there with some harrowing news.

0:29.2

On August 17, 1990, Kathy's body had been discovered in her bed.

0:34.0

She had endured a violent struggle and had sustained 46 stab wounds, which ultimately

0:40.1

killed her.

0:41.1

To make matters worse, Seaman was found inside of her, even though there was no indication

0:47.1

that she had been raped.

0:48.6

The night before this Florida trip, the Paget children had stayed with Randall in his

0:52.8

tiny trailer.

0:54.2

They knew that he hadn't left in the middle of the night to do anything much less

0:58.6

kill their mother, but with no signs of a break in at her home, Randall became the suspect

1:04.7

and he was arrested when the Seaman turned out to be his.

1:08.8

The state would commit misconduct during the trial involving blood found at the crime

1:13.7

scene that didn't match Kathy or Randall.

1:17.0

This misconduct was one of the factors that led ultimately to Randall being sentenced

1:21.6

to death.

1:22.7

The prosecutor to her misconduct would result in a retrial and if the fence investigation

1:27.1

would uncover some of the craziest perversities proving that Paget had been innocent all along

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