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Murder in Mayfield

How veteran BBC investigative reporter Tom Mangold helped a woman in Mayfield, Kentucky, crack a murder case that local police had failed to solve.

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Hasnain says:

This has it all: murder mystery, corruption in government, government incompetence, criminal coverups, and a human interest story.

“As the mystery unravelled, Susan and I spent our evenings on the phone sipping Sauvignon Blanc and quietly patting each other on the back. It had been Susan's dedication, persistence and operating skills that had broken the case where all the detectives in Mayfield and the state police had failed, through neglect and inefficiency.

In March 2007, Susan was summoned to Francfort, Kentucky, to receive the first-ever Kentucky Citizenship Award at a public ceremony.

I would like to say the story has a happy ending but that's not the case. I returned to Mayfield in 2011 to work once more with Susan and try and get answers to some outstanding questions, including why the MPD investigation had been so grotesquely ineffective. What we discovered poses troubling questions about the Mayfield police but there is still more to uncover.”

Posted on 2021-09-22T07:29:52+0000