The Emerald Triangle | 8. Broken Lies and a Missing Crystal

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Two of the men who went to jail for Jeff’s death, Jesse Wells and Gary “Cricket” Blank, tell their side of the story. And it’s not looking good for Zach. Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of Crooked City, ad-free right now. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Crooked City show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A truth.media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, one night I'm on my phone, doing my nightly scroll.
0:07.6	Check the news headlines.
0:08.6	Oh God.
0:09.6	Open Twitter.
0:10.6	Yep, civilization's still in peril.
0:15.2	Time for some dumb Instagram videos.
0:18.2	Man, the internet is a wild place.
0:26.0	And then a message.
0:29.5	It's Zach.
0:30.5	Wait, they have Instagram in prison?
0:35.1	It says,
0:36.1	Damn man, I can't say I'm not extremely upset.
0:39.4	It was never your place to inject yourself into this.
0:42.0	It was never any of your business.
0:43.7	It was never your story to tell.
0:48.2	When I first wrote to Zach in prison asking for an interview, he basically told me to
0:51.9	fuck off.
0:53.6	So I reached out to him again, telling him it's basically now or never.
0:57.7	And it doesn't sound like he's changed his mind.
1:01.9	I reply,
1:02.9	Hey dude, I understand why you feel like that.
1:05.5	But this story is about so much more than you.
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