In 1979 and 1980, three young women working in the sex trade in Fall River, Massachusetts, were murdered.

One person claimed to witness all three murders, tying two of the murders to a satanic

cult and leading to the convictions of two men. But what happens when she later recants? I'm Charlie,

and welcome to crime lines. Hello and welcome to part one of the case that finally nearly defeated me.

This week we are going to be going into all of the cases all the way through the court cases,

and then part two will be a shorter episode on what came next and the question of what really happened here.

As usual, I'm only splitting this into two parts because I didn't finish in time to have

just one really long episode. So I will release part two as soon as I can and hopefully you

will not have to wait a week. This is probably the most difficult episode I've

ever put together to the point that I almost shelved it a number of times. The only reason I didn't

is that one, one of the victims never saw any form of justice, and two, there may be an innocent

man still behind bars 40 years later. As that last sentence came out of my

mouth, I realized that innocent may be doing some heavy lifting here. So I'll just say

innocent of the murder of which he has been convicted. The reason this episode was so hard

to put together was not just that the content was very heavy,

which it was. There are levels of exploitation here. Plus, I have my own biases as soon as the

word satanic cult come up. But really, there are just so many people and stories and moving parts

that I could hardly keep it straight. In fact, I am going to

absolutely mess things up as I present the case. I mean, I make mistakes all of the time. Sometimes

I misspeak and I say the wrong name or the wrong date. And sometimes I just flat out get a

fact wrong. Either I processed it wrong, I misunderstood it, I

misread it, I found it from an unreliable source and gave it too much weight. There are a number of

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