Introducing: Murder on Songbird Road

Broken Harts

iHeartPodcasts and Glamour

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Murder on Songbird Road revisits the stabbing death of an 11-year-old girl in Southern Illinois and the subsequent arrest and conviction of her father’s fiancée for the crime. In this series, veteran true-crime host Lauren Bright Pacheco teams up with criminal defense attorney Bob Motta to investigate whether the case—one that tore apart a rural community, sparking controversy, corruption, and ongoing questions—was truly solved, or if an innocent woman remains wrongfully convicted.

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0:00.0	Murder on Songbird Road is a production of IHeart Podcasts.
0:06.7	I saw the new story about murder in a wool area in Marion.
0:11.1	And when I clicked on the article, it said Songbird Road.
0:13.8	My heart sank because I knew that that's the road that Julie lives on.
0:17.5	To have a murder as gruesome as Jay Beasley doesn't happen very often down here.
0:23.3	In Marion, Illinois, an 11-year-old girl brutally stabbed to death, her father's longtime live-in
0:28.8	girlfriend maintaining innocence, but charged with her murder. I am confident that Julie Beverly is guilty.
0:35.7	With this case, the more I learned about it, the more I'm scratching my head.
0:40.6	I'm like, man, something stinks about it.
0:42.2	Something's not right.
0:43.4	Why would a 32-year-old woman, with no history of violence,
0:47.8	murder an 11-year-old she considered her own child?
0:51.7	Sometimes people snap.
0:53.4	That is what I believe happened in this case.
0:56.5	She claims that as soon as she pulls the storm over and that she notices blood in the living
1:00.4	room and somebody clad in all black comes charging at her and that he's got a knife.
1:05.8	They had told us at the press conference that she had told them a story about a suspect that left the home that
1:13.4	was later proven to be false. But they never explained how I should have asked, looking back at it
1:20.1	now in hindsight. If you stab somebody, that many times you'd have blood splatter which the change
1:24.9	clothes. They've never found a weapon. Never made sense.
1:28.3	Still doesn't make sense.
1:29.3	I'm Lauren Bright Pacheco.
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