The Cheat Sheet: Litigators and Letters

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally published on The Murder Sheet's main feed on January 25, 2025.

The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. In this episode, we'll talk about cases from Hawaii, Florida, and Texas.

The Patrick Scruggs case:

Fox 13: https://www.fox13news.com/news/howard-frankland-bridge-stabbing-federal-prosecutor-arrest-suspect-driving.amp

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/01/us/patrick-scruggs-florida-highway-stabbing/index.html

Tampa Bay Times: https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2025/01/15/howard-frankland-bridge-stabbing-patrick-scruggs-prosecutor/

Fox 13: https://www.fox13news.com/news/defense-man-accused-howard-franklin-stabbing-seek-more-evidence

WFLA: https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/what-led-ex-prosecutor-to-stab-driver-on-the-howard-frankland-bridge-new-court-documents-may-shed-light/

The murder of Deputy Jesus Vargas and the attempted murder of US Marshals K9 Rocky:

KHOU: https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/suspect-dead-deputy-killed-shot-k9-houston/285-8d5f1e9d-7d0e-4e56-bca1-83b1b7c59e65

ABC 13: https://abc13.com/post/deputy-jesus-vargas-killed-questions-remain-following-deadly-shooting-brazoria-during-warrant-service-sw-houston/15805982/

Fox 26 Houston: https://www.fox26houston.com/news/jesus-vargas-deputy-shooting-robert-lee-davis-warrant

The murder of Dana Ireland:

Honolulu Civil Beat: https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/01/brothers-exonerated-in-dana-ireland-murder-case-sue-hawaii-county-police/

Our interview with Ken Lawson of the Hawaii Innocence Project: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/bea9d3eb-1fac-4927-88b7-9c1d1b343a00

The threats from Roosevelt Sifford:

The Palm Beach Post: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/crime/2025/01/22/pbso-inmate-sent-written-threat-to-judge-who-sentenced-him-for-murder-roosevelt-sifford-daliah-weiss/77855321007/

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0:00.0	Content warning, this episode contains discussion of murder as well as sexually motivated crimes.
0:09.6	So, today on the cheat sheet, we're going to be doing four cases.
0:14.0	Two of them are not murders, but they involve either violence or threats of violence.
0:19.1	Two cases are in Florida.
0:21.7	They come out of Florida.
0:30.0	Another one comes out of Texas. And then another is a case we've covered before that comes out of Hawaii. So let's get to all of that. My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist. And I'm Kevin
0:37.0	Greenlee. I'm an attorney. And this'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm an attorney.
0:38.9	And this is The Murder Sheet.
0:40.6	We're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting, interviews, and deep dives into murder cases.
0:47.0	We're The Murder Sheet.
0:48.6	And this is The Cheat Sheet, Litigators and Letters.
1:13.6	Music sheet. Litigators and letters. The The Well, should we get started, Anya by looking at a case we've actually covered before.
1:43.7	Yes.
1:44.2	This is a Hawaii case, and we actually did a whole episode on it a while back.
1:52.0	We talked with one of the attorneys on the case.
1:54.9	I'm getting ahead of myself.
1:55.9	One of the advocates on the case.
1:57.5	Well, the advocates on the case.
1:58.8	Thank you for that correction.
2:00.6	The latest developments we used as our source, the case. Well, the advocates on the case. Thank you for that correction. The latest developments we used as our source,
2:03.7	the civil beat.org,
2:05.6	which is a great source for all things, Hawaii.
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