Welcome back, crime junkies. I'm still your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm still Brett. Let me jump right back into our story, right where we left off in part one. And if you haven't listened to that yet, you're definitely going to want to do that first. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Otherwise, you won't know what's going on. But if you have, dive in with us, won't you?

Water's fine.

When we left off, four men had been convicted of the murder of three Texas teenagers.

The cop who put them away had become a celebrated hero.

But, and isn't there always a but?

For those who looked closely at the case, there were holes.

It wasn't nearly as solid as clickbait headlines might lead you to believe.

And no one was leading the charge for the men's exoneration harder than the mother of one of the men on death row.

This is Lake Waco, part two. You know, I'm going to be. I'm going to

I'm For all the confessions, the bite-mark evidence, the jailhouse informants, David Spence

never wavered on his innocence. And though his word clearly held no weight with the jury,

David's mother, Juanita White,

stood steadfast by her son's side. He may have committed other crimes, by no means, was her son

an angel. But like David's lawyers, she believed in his innocence here, in this case. A mother's

opinion doesn't tend to go very far once a jury has spoken.

So there were very few people by her side as she tried to fight for her son in the months after the final Lake Waco trial.

There was a PI and one of David's trial lawyers who both believed in Juanita and in David,

and they would take her calls if she heard rumors or if she got tips about

her son's case. Specifics may have been TBD, but she was determined to learn every last

detail of what actually happened that night. And she stopped at nothing, even hanging out in

some questionable places, spending her free time in Waco's seedyest establishments, cozying up to

Waco's seedyest people, people who could have been involved in the murders or people who knew

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