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Hi listeners. This is Maddie Builder from Texas

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Monthly. We'd love to tell you about a

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new true crime podcast called The Patsy,

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narrated by Joshua Molina from The West

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Wing. So here's a question. What

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if your father was accused of a horrible

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crime? For Karen Dunlap

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Graham, her father, Max Dunlap,

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was accused of being involved in the assassination

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of investigative journalist, Don Bowles.

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But Karen and Pulitzer Prize nominees

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reporter Don Devereaux, among many,

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many others, became convinced and

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found evidence to support the idea that Max

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might have been totally innocent. He

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might have been a patsy. And

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the story of how he got caught up in this crime

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involves the

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mafia, the district attorney's office,

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politicians, and more. Here's

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the trailer. My

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name is Karen Dunlap. And

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going back, I will never forget the

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day that changed my life forever.

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We don't think about journalists being killed

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in America, but it happens here

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too. On June second, I seventy

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six, Don Bowles, a reporter

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for the Arizona Republic, was killed

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by a car bomb in the parking lot of a

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hotel in Phoenix. The first

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assassination of an investigative journalist

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in modern America. Bowles had been writing

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about corruption in the state, especially

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the connection between the dog racing industry

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and the mafia. Max Dunlap,

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a local heavy dirt contractor and family

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man with seven children, was accused ultimately

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convicted of involvement in the crime.

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The new true crime podcast, The

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Patsy, investigates his

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story, which would become his families

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where nightmare. You

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don't know anything about dad. And I

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said, know what? And she said,

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Oh my

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god. A man

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was blown up and they're blaming

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our dad. One man

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who long suspected his innocence and

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spent decades finding evidence to support it.

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His guilt surprise nominated

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journalist, Don Debro. There

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were mistakes made in that trial it never

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should have been made before. I never never should have

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happened. They did things in that

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case. It just didn't make any sense. From

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street level hoodlumps to the mafia down

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of the South west from the district attorney's

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office all the way up to the governor's mansion.

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Everyone seemingly had a connection to the

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Don Bowl story and by extension, not

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Dunlap. And he

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laughed and he said, well, that's quite a story.

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Mike's donelap was nothing but a patsy.

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Available now from voyage media produces

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the hit True Crime Podcast borderline and

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dead in the water, a new True Crime story

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about innocence, guilt, and the thin

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line that divides them when you're used of

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a crime. The Patsy, narrated

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by the West Wings, Joshua Molina, listen

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now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or

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anywhere you listen to podcasts.

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You can find the patsy by going to the

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patsy podcast dot com or just

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search for the patsy from voyage

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media. Anywhere you listen to podcasts.

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You can also find the link in the show notes.