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The Alabama Murders - Part 2: Coon Dog Cemetery Road

October 2, 2025·33 min·3 clips

An anonymous caller named three young men and said the stolen VCR was on Kenny Smith's TV right then.

A haircut becomes a check. Before the case talk starts again, a phone call sizes up the visitors, counts the microphones, and decides the outsiders are good old Joes after all. Then Ricky Miller comes in. He lives in a small, spotless house in a quiet part of Muscle Shoals, retired after years as an investigator in the district attorney's office. He is plainspoken. The case is not. Each step seems to add another object, another lead, another uncomfortable possibility. They search the pond. When investigators drain it, they find a survival knife, a fireplace poker, and a fireplace brush, the kind of household things that turn ugly in a murder file. Miller remembers the leads piling up. The Crimestoppers phone was in his office, so he took the anonymous call that changed the inquiry. The caller names Billy Gray Williams, John Forrest Parker, and Kenny Eugene Smith, and even says where a taken VCR was being used. That is where the episode tightens. The case moves from evidence in the pond to someone on the phone saying who did it. The details check out. All three young men are arrested. All three confess. Miller says the more they got into it, the more interesting it became. He barely raises his voice, which makes it land harder. The story stays procedural, but it feels personal: a quiet house, a retired investigator, a pond, and a county phone line leading back into an unsettled killing.

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