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Hey all, it's Anne Roderick Jones here, the writer and host of Ozark's True Crime in production with Edit Audio.

I'm here with an update.

Ozark's True Crime is launching our third season, and we'll be covering the Sandra Hemey case.

If you don't know who that is, you're not alone.

One of the things that first struck me about this case is how little reporting exists on it. But once I really started digging into it,

it became apparent that this is a story that needs to be heard. This season, we're looking into the

murder of Patricia Jetsky, along with the steps that a Missouri town took to place its

blame on Sandra Hemmy, or Sandy, as she's called. In 1980, at the time of the murder, Sandra Hemmy

was just 20 years old. At that point, she was at the St. Joseph's psychiatric hospital,

and had spent her life living in and out of psychiatric care, struggling with mental

illness. The following years, she pled guilty to the murder of Patricia after several police

interrogations. To give you a peek into how all of this went down, during one of the interrogations,

Sandy was so heavily medicated that she was unable to hold her head up and was restrained and strapped to a chair.

There was no concrete evidence Sandra committed the crime. She didn't know Patricia. There were no

witnesses. There was no DNA connected to her. Despite this, she is still incarcerated,

serving her sentence of 50 years in prison without parole.

This case is personal to me, not only because it's taking place in Missouri, my home state,

but because it deals with the complicated web of mental illness and the criminal justice system,

something that really hits home to me and my family. I've spent most of 2023 preparing to tell you this story,

reading hundreds of pages of case documents, pouring over books, obsessively decorating my walls

with post-it notes, I filled whiteboards with information, and honestly, a lot of questions that need

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