Ep. 44-The Curious Case of Condy Dabney

What happens when a man is convicted of murdering someone who isn't even dead? In 1925, the quiet mining town of Coxton, Kentucky became the setting for one of America's most bizarre miscarriages of justice.

Condy Dabney was an unremarkable family man who moved from Tennessee to work in the coal mines before starting a small taxi business. When 14-year-old Mary Vickery disappeared after a day of apple picking with friends, suspicion eventually fell on Dabney, the taxi driver who may have given her a ride. After the discovery of a decomposed body in an abandoned mine shaft, the case seemed tragically clear.

The prosecution's star witness was Marie Jackson, a woman scorned by Dabney's rejection of her romantic advances. Her dramatic testimony—claiming she witnessed Dabney murder Mary—sealed his fate despite glaring inconsistencies and contradicting evidence. A jury sentenced him to life imprisonment with hard labor.

But nearly a year later, a chance encounter revealed an astonishing truth: Mary Vickery was alive. She had simply run away from home with $5 and a basket of apples to escape her troubled relationship with her stepmother. Dabney received an immediate pardon, while Marie Jackson served five years for false testimony.

This remarkable story challenges us to examine how easily justice can be derailed when revenge, assumption, and false testimony outweigh evidence and truth. It forces us to question: how many other innocent people throughout history have faced similar fates without the miraculous twist that saved Condi Dabney?

Listen to this captivating episode that underscores the devastating power of lies and the fragility of justice in small-town America. Have you ever wondered what happens to those wrongfully convicted when the truth finally comes to light? Share your thoughts with us and subscribe for more true crime stories that defy belief.

Sources:

Convicting the Innocent: Error of Criminal Justice (1932)
by Edwin M Borchard; Case #9
http://vots.altervista.org/CTI/09Dabney.html

Pardoned After a Year in Prison-The Wrongful Conviction of Condy Dabney
by Steve Gilly
March 23, 2025
https://storiesofappalachia.com/?p=3482

https://www.victimsofthestate.org/KY/

She Rose from the Dead
by Robert A Waters
September 10, 2020;'
http://kidnappingmurderandmayhem.blogspot.com/2020/09/she-rose-from-dead.html

Transcript

Innocent Man Wrongly Convicted

Speaker 1 0:00

On March 22nd 1927, Governor WJ Fields pardoned Condi Dabney, an innocent man who had spent nearly a year behind bars for the murder of a girl who wasn't even dead. This is Hold my Sweet Tea. Hello, all you beautiful people, I'm Holly.

Speaker 2 1:00

And I'm Pearl. And there was once upon a time, when I was selling cars, that one of my managers called me P Diddy.

Speaker 1 1:09

Oh no, I hate that.

Speaker 2 1:12

Well.

Speaker 1 1:13

I did not participate in freak offs prostitution, human trafficking any of that but you know if you did, you probably would have got a lesser sentence, because that's apparently what he got, or at least acquitted of more serious charges and found guilty because he's not really been sentenced. Found guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution and like, isn't that pretty much the same thing?

Speaker 2 1:43

It's close. I mean the transportation part Right. Transportation equals trafficking, trafficking right.

Speaker 1 1:50

Traffic transportation. It's all hand in hand. But the judge did deny him bail, so he's still in jail and his trial's not until, I think, october 22nd. His sentencing.

Speaker 2 2:03

His sentencing?

Speaker 1 2:03

yeah, yeah, so he could still be in there until then. He could trial's, not until I think october 22nd. His sentencing, or his sentencing?

Speaker 2 2:06

yeah, yeah, so he could still be in there until then he could, unless something happens and they speed it up possibly. I mean, and then, and then what right time served by yeah? More than likely but I guess we'll see. See the luxury of money, yeah all the luxuries like like no me as p diddy. I would have been like told that I was guilty on all charges, and they'd fucking add a charge right, we're gonna add this charge to it also. We think she's guilty of this right just based on other things.

Speaker 1 2:44

Extortion of baby oil, all the good stuff.

Speaker 2 2:54

Right, she's the reason baby oil prices have risen. Right Because of her hoarding. It's a Ponzi scheme.

Speaker 1 3:04

Now you're going to federal prison. I heard it's nice there.

Speaker 2 3:09

You know like we already discussed this. Yeah, Vacation. I'm reading Right All day by myself With your emotional support.

Speaker 1 3:17

Dog, yeah, oh my gosh. Yes, so we're coming off of a serial killer roller coaster.

Speaker 2 3:27

Well, not really coming off of it.

Condi Dabney Arrives in Coxton

Speaker 1 3:28

Well, yeah, you still have part two on Thursday again, yep.

Speaker 1 3:33

I figured I'd put us a little break in there. It's still a murder type one, you know, but not. But I guess we're going to jump into it. Huh, yeah, where's that? So today our story is going to take place. It's a small mining town of Coxton, kentucky. All right, going to Kentucky. I have driven through Kentucky. It's beautiful and green and I also went in one of the caves. And I also went in one of the caves.

Speaker 1 4:13

Yes, it takes place in the mid 1920s and it centers on a quiet, unassuming man named Condie Dabney. Interesting name it is, and every time I think of his name I think of American Horror Story, um, the one where they were doing the you know, the freak show and everything Dandy. But this guy is nothing like Dandy but, like every time I hear his name, I think of that character. So Condi Dabney arrived in Coxton in January of 1925. He was a 31 year old with a family back in tennessee. He was seeking work in the coal mines so he could make money for his family. He quickly gained a reputation as a quiet and good-natured individual with no prior run-ins with the law. So he was a good guy. He was working, he was sending his paychecks back home to his wife so she could pay the bills and take care of the kids. He stayed in his room to himself so everybody, just kind of you know, knew him as the quiet guy who worked hard.

Speaker 2 5:17

That's not a bad thing to be known as. That's fine Right.

Speaker 1 5:20

So eventually he did quit the mines and he invested a paycheck and bought a car and started a taxi business. Oh, because he's seen that not a lot of people had cars and they needed rides back and forth to the mines, they needed rides to the store or the train station. So you know, pretty smart back then, mm. Hmm, he saw an opportunity and he was like Uber, without the app, exactly, you need a taxi, I'm just going to ride around until you flag me down. There you go. But the town of Coxton was about to be gripped by an unsettling disappearance, and Dabney would soon find himself in the center of a baffling and, ultimately, tragic miscarriage of justice.

Speaker 2 6:15

Yeah, wouldn't be the first, or the last time.

Mary Vickery's Disappearance

Speaker 1 6:20

So a 14-year-old girl named Mary Vickery disappeared from Coxton, kentucky, on August 17, 1925. She was a blonde-haired like. She had a little blonde-haired bob. She was, like I said, 14 years old.

Speaker 1 6:37

She lived with her father, charles, and her stepmother, nellie Coxton, which is weird because same name as the town yeah, yeah she went out earlier in the day with three friends of hers to pick apples and you know she told her dad she's like we're gonna go pick apples, we'll be back later this afternoon. He's like, yeah, yeah, sure, you know, they were just being girls back in Kentucky with nothing else to do, I guess, apple picking, apple picking. So they were walking home along a dirt road later that afternoon on their way back when a boy they knew named William Middleton stopped and offered them a ride. So they gladly accepted. They jumped into his car. They were like sure, a car, absolutely what, let's get in, drive away Right, not like now, you're like I don't know if I'm going to get in that car, but Mary, she loved to talk and she loved conversation.

Speaker 1 7:38

So she and William were in conversation when he dropped off her friends and Mary and William continued on down the road. So they they got dropped off at their house and kept going to mary's. So william said he had dropped off mary near her home I guess maybe there was like a long driveway or road or something and he drove off later that evening when lazy yeah, good, come home. She was reported missing by her father, but he really didn't seem very alarmed.

Speaker 2 8:20

So does she go missing often. Then I don't know. I'm like why are you not alarmed? You're like, oh shit again.

Speaker 1 8:27

But Mary's relationship with her father and stepmother were very strained due to the fact that Mary did not get along with Nellie at all.

Speaker 2 8:36

Typical.

Speaker 1 8:37

Typical teenager stepmom situation.

Speaker 2 8:41

Especially girls.

Speaker 1 8:42

Yeah, mom situation, especially girls. Yeah, but her father did put up a 500 reward, which is a lot of money, back then for information about her whereabouts. Police questioned william middleton, the guy who gave her a ride, and he told him he dropped her off near her home and he saw her talking to a man in a car that was driving by and then she got in so she gets out one car and gets in another's, so you know and you know cars don't go very fast back then.

Speaker 1 9:08

So like I guess he was putting along and he could see her getting in another car. This man was condi dabney. So dabney was brought in for questioning because people were like you know, I've seen her get, I've seen her in town in his, in his taxi okay so that's what I was about to say.

Speaker 2 9:29

How does he know that's conti right okay?

Speaker 1 9:33

so, despite questioning witness testimony by people who said they saw mary and daphne's taxi, no indictment was returned and daphne was released because he's like I don't know what you're talking about, bro, I don't know Like. I pick up people all day. I ride up and down the road. I pick up people and take them to places where they want to go.

Speaker 2 9:52

Maybe she did. I have no clue.

The Decomposed Body Discovery

Speaker 1 9:54

So Dabney, perhaps sensing the unease, he left Coxton in September, returning to his family in Coal Creek, Tennessee, reportedly because one of his children were ill. Little did he know his troubles were far from over. On October 21st, US Marshal Adrian Metcalf searching for an illegal still moonshine, Moonshiners, White lightning.

Speaker 2 10:29

I like some moonshine, not the like oh my god, they have that one that's like fire in your mouth tastes like gasoline.

Speaker 1 10:32

No, no, thank you gross, because it pretty much is yeah, it basically is gas.

Speaker 2 10:37

I don't want to drink that one, so you can keep that thing. You'll do the flavored ones, but I do happen to like the butterscotch one. Yeah, that one's pretty good, it's pretty yummy. And the coffee one, yeah.

Speaker 1 10:50

They got all kinds of flavors. They didn't have those flavors back then, no, they just had straight liquor.

Speaker 2 10:56

They just suffered with the burnt gross tasting stuff they're like I don't know why.

Speaker 1 11:00

I'm drinking this there we go, Gotta get drunk. So they're like I don't know why I'm drinking this. There we go, Gotta get drunk. So he was looking in an abandoned mine shaft near Ivy Hill in Coxton and he made a horrifying discovery Stumbling in the dark. I'm like did you have? Oh, he had a match. That's what it was. He was stumbling in the dark with a match. So he was like and you're in a, you're looking for stills with a match. Yeah, that's a catalyst, for that's gonna be no kidding.

Speaker 2 11:29

Not to mention that thing's not gonna burn that long. Next thing you know fingers out ow, boom right click, click, boom like dumb right.

Speaker 1 11:43

So, stumbling in the dark with a match, he unearthed the badly decomposed body of a young girl. There were some stones and an old black winter coat thrown over her. Her only other clothing consisted of pink bloomers undies, a hat, shoes and stockings.

Speaker 2 12:06

Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 1 12:08

The community immediately believed it was Mary Vickery, even though the victim was brunette. Remember I told you she was blonde.

Speaker 2 12:18

Yeah.

Speaker 1 12:19

So the coroner called Charles Vickery, her father, to see if he could determine whether remains were of his daughter. Based only on the clothing and a ring found at the scene, charles identified Mary For someone who had learned his missing daughter had been discovered deceased. Charles' behavior seemed odd. He didn't even attend Mary's funeral.

Speaker 2 12:44

Because it ain't Mary.

Speaker 1 12:45

It's not Mary. The coroner could not determine how the girl died. Imagine that yeah Back then. Probably not yeah. So the discovery reignited the investigation. In weeks past, suspicion began to overwhelmingly point toward Condi Dabney. Dun dun dun, because he was the last one seen with her. Yeah, much of this suspicion was fueled by the stories of one, marie Jackson.

Speaker 2 13:20

Marie needs to mind her damn business, exactly.

Speaker 1 13:24

She would become the prosecution's star witness. And boy was she. Marie was described in the newspapers as quote unquote.

Speaker 2 13:36

Having been with many men, oh, marie, she was popular, popular with the men, folk oh.

Speaker 1 13:45

Marie she was popular, popular with the menfolk and Marie had quickly set her sights on Dabney when he came to town. But, true to his marriage, he rejected her advances. Oh so she is a woman scorned, so for months, Marie Jackson brooded over Dabney's rebuff, but finally she decided to get revenge on the straight arrow cabbie.

Speaker 2 14:12

Of course she did.

Speaker 1 14:13

Yeah.

Speaker 2 14:16

Because nobody denies Marie Right.

Speaker 1 14:18

That's what I think about today's tea app.

Speaker 2 14:21

While it can be helpful if people are being honest yes, most of it reads like I'm pissed off because he left me for another girl yeah, so I'm gonna tell you that he's got stds, he cheats. Yeah, he beats he, whatever. Whatever. Girls, be careful what you believe from that app. But also good luck because like finding the truth in there is hard is hard.

Speaker 1 14:50

Yep, it's no better than just taking a chance exactly, and don't get mad at the other girl because it's not really her fault. Even if she is pursuing him, it's his no yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2 15:02

You're not in a relationship with a girl. Yep, you're in a relationship with a guy. It is his responsibility to stay true to you, not hers, like Dabney yeah.

Speaker 1 15:13

so at the sheriff's office she informed investigators that she had witnessed Dabney murder Mary Vickery. Her allegations were so convincing that Kentucky authorities twice traveled to Tennessee to question Dabney, only to return seemingly persuaded by his claims of innocence. So they were like very conflicted at first. Yet Dabney was returned to Coxton in March. Dabney was returned to Coxton in March Soon after he was examined by the grand jury, and on March 18th an indictment for the murder of Mary Vickery was returned.

Speaker 1 15:52

The trial hinged on several key pieces of evidence and, more crucially, conflicting testimonies. So Mary's father, charles Vickery, was initially unwavering in his identification of the body. He described finding a ring, which he said he had bought for Mary's birthday, and a piece of stocking with a distinctive l-shaped darn, as well as hair he described as sandy and bobbed and very fine, matching his daughters. However, under cross-examination a crucial crack appeared in his certainty. Oh gosh. When pressed about not attending the funeral and allowing the county to bury the body, vickery hesitated. So Dabney's attorney, gigi Rawlings, like jumped on it and seized the moment and he said you did not know that was your girl. This is what you started to say, wasn't it? So Vickery's reply was like damning at that time he said at the present time I wasn't perfectly sure. Then why did you say that was your daughter? Yeah, why?

Speaker 2 17:05

would you go? Yep, that's her yeah.

Marie Jackson's Damning Testimony

Speaker 1 17:08

Adding to the confusing, conflicting testimony emerged regarding Vickery's initial identification at the undertakers and even the color of the hair found in the mine, with witnesses describing it as a brownish, black and coarse hair. That's not a blonde bob with fine hair, it's not sandy either, Even if it's been sitting there in decay and everything it might have changed, but not like that. Not like that, you're still going to see blonde hairs.

Speaker 1 17:40

Yeah, your hair is pretty consistent with what it was when you die so this father identified this girl as his daughter, but he didn't even go to her funeral because he didn't know if it really was his daughter and then he said oh yeah, that ring, I got her for a birthday.

Speaker 1 18:00

Really, you just lied Just so you could say my daughter's dead. That's messed up, yep. But the most impactful testimony came from one, miss Marie Jackson. Her story was sensational. Girl could have wrote a book. She claimed that on the morning Mary disappeared. She and Mary hailed Dabney's taxi. After taking them to a restaurant, dabney allegedly drove off, with Mary returning hours later. What are you?

Speaker 2 18:33

laughing at. So Mary, just hanging out with some random trollop, right Like what she like, came up with this whole story? Why, okay, grown ass woman, why are you hanging out with a? How old is she? With this whole story? Why, okay, grown-ass woman, why are you hanging out with a? How old is she?

Speaker 1 18:46

14-year-old 14.

Speaker 2 18:48

14-year-old, what is wrong with you?

Speaker 1 18:52

She then claimed okay. So she said we went to the restaurant, and then Dabney drove off with Mary.

Speaker 2 18:58

She's like girl, I'm going to take you to lunch, Right.

Speaker 1 19:01

So then he came back a few hours later. Then she claimed all three drove to Ivy Hill where the mine was, where Dabney told her leave us alone, Go somewhere else, From a distance.

Speaker 2 19:17

I know and I listened and I listened I was like, okay, you're kind of implicating yourself here, right, because at this point you're complicit in this crime, friend.

Speaker 1 19:28

So from a distance. She said she witnessed Dabney hug Mary, who protested and pushed him away. Then she said he struck her with a stick, attacked her and finally he took her body into the mine while Marie fled in terror.

Speaker 2 19:49

Struck her with a stick. A stick.

Speaker 1 19:53

She said he later threatened to burn her at the stake if she ever spoke of it. Is she a witch now?

Speaker 2 20:01

Right, Okay then.

Speaker 1 20:05

This dramatic account, despite its inconsistencies with other witness statements, deeply impressed the jury.

Speaker 2 20:17

Like what Simple, simple minds, I guess.

Speaker 1 20:20

Yeah, they're like oh this is a cool-ass story, yeah, in the land of. This is. So guess, yeah, they're like oh, this is a cool-ass story, yeah, in the land of. It makes sense.

Speaker 2 20:26

This is so intriguing, right? It all makes sense. Now Marie has to be telling the truth, right? She's a trollop pup.

Speaker 1 20:34

I think she's a yeah, she's in everyone's business.

Speaker 2 20:37

She knows everyone.

Speaker 1 20:39

She knows everything, she does.

Speaker 2 20:43

She's got the 411, and we don't even know what that is.

Speaker 1 20:47

Right the T. So the three other girls that were with her, the Stewart sisters and a woman named Miss Smith. Their testimonies were largely consistent, no-transcript, and then that contradicted Mary's timeline of being on Ivy Hill with Dabney and her from 1 o'clock until dark.

Speaker 2 21:19

Yet we still convict this man.

Speaker 1 21:22

The prosecution also brought in Claude Scott, a fellow inmate of Dabney, who claimed Dabney tried to persuade him to fabricate testimony, offering him $15.

Speaker 2 21:40

So the prosecution offered him something, probably.

Speaker 1 21:45

To lie. Finally, dabney took the stand denying that he ever drove Mary Vickery in his taxi, because he drove several people that day and he couldn't recall her description. Or he said he wasn't even on Ivy Hill. He's like I took several people's places, he said I don't even recall. Like all of them, I guess he wasn't like an observant person.

Speaker 2 22:12

Not to mention I'm sitting here going. I feel like you'd remember if you drove a kid. Yeah, that would be a little more significant. And for me that would mean I didn't Right Especially a kid by themselves.

Speaker 1 22:26

Yeah. So he maintained his innocence and lack of knowledge regarding Mary Vickery's disappearance. Lack of knowledge regarding Mary Vickery's disappearance. But on March 31st 1926, the jury returned a verdict of guilty recommending life imprisonment. Wow yeah, this dude got life imprisonment. Dabney was sentenced to hard labor in state penitentiary.

Speaker 2 22:54

This poor dude For some dead girl. We don't even know who she is, Let alone who killed her or how she died.

The Shocking Plot Twist

Speaker 1 23:02

So almost a year later, march 1927, a remarkable twist of fate intervened. George S Davis, quite by chance, had went to like a few on a vacation and he like drove, like several towns over or whatever, into Kentucky. Notice the name Mary Vickery on a hotel register in Williamsburg, kentucky. The name ring a bell, well, I guess. So it was a sensational event.

Speaker 2 23:34

Right, that was a big deal up in Coxton.

Speaker 1 23:37

Right. He inquired and was told Mary Vickery had indeed lived there and had gone to visit friends across the Cumberland River. Davis found her, recognized her instantly and the story she told him was nothing short of astonishing Mary Vickery was alive. Apparently she told Davis she left Coxon on August 23, 1925 with $5 because she couldn't get along with her stepmother. She had taken a taxi. Didn't know the driver, but her description did fit Dabney. So he did. He really did. He might have yeah.

Speaker 2 24:21

Okay.

Speaker 1 24:23

She was certain she did not know Marie Jackson. I'm sure she didn't, right? So during that year she had taken on many jobs she had a waitress, she was a maid and finally she was working in a woolen mill in Cincinnati. She admitted hearing that someone had been convicted of her murder and was told by the patrolman that she should go home and make things right. Right so she. I guess she had read it in the paper that somebody was convicted but she wasn't going to do the right thing because she didn't want to be with her stepmother.

Speaker 1 24:59

She liked being gone, she decided to go home. Mary Vickery's return to Coxton led to Condi Dabney's immediate pardon, and it was said that the state offered him $5,000 as like a restitution type deal. But still, you deserved a year of hard labor for something that you didn't do.

Speaker 2 25:22

Yeah, something that didn't happen at all, yeah.

Speaker 1 25:25

So, gj Jarvis, that's hard to say. Yeah, I was about to say wow. Gj Jarvis was appointed as a special investigator to look into Marie Jackson's conduct. True to form, Marie offered more untrue stories about the Vickery case. She was like I'm in this lie, I'm just going to keep going into it.

Speaker 2 25:44

Yeah, what a web Marie is weaving.

Speaker 1 25:49

It was speculated that she testified to claim the $500 reward, or perhaps out of revenge because Dabney refused to leave his family for her. As a result of Jarvis' investigation, marie Jackson was tried and convicted of false testimony. She was sentenced to five years in prison. Good Good, marie Rot in prison. Serve that time, mary Vickery. However, however, when she got back, she married an old boyfriend, ce Dempsey like shortly after she returned to Coxon, and I think it was because she didn't want to go back to her father's home yeah, I was about to say yeah, she's like.

Speaker 2 26:28

You know what I'm just gonna get married.

Speaker 1 26:29

She was desperate. She was like, let's get married okay love you mean it. So it's difficult to comprehend how a jury could reach a guilty verdict giving the conflicting testimony. This case caused much disbelief among legal scholars and local officials yeah, it's caused a lot of disbelief in me too right like how could an innocent man be convicted on almost no evidence?

Speaker 2 26:55

Yeah Well, pretty much no evidence, right? And then, like you, have a young boy who has no reason to lie, who says she was with me from this time to this time.

Speaker 1 27:05

And her friends that he dropped off. Yeah, and another lady seen her in his like Dabney's cab, her in his like dabney's cab. And then you got this jilted wannabe lover being cold-hearted like to because he rejected her, to send him to prison yeah, nobody ever saying right if you want to be my lover, you gotta lie to my friends exactly. Plus you know the guy who testified when they were in jail saying, oh, he tried to get me to blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 2 27:39

Yes, that guy.

Speaker 1 27:40

Jailhouse informants in America have an atrocious record of lying to get their sentences reduced Correct, so how could the courts continue to use such liars in trials across the country?

Speaker 2 27:54

I mean, it still happens today, but a lot of times I think that there are instances where the person is actually telling the truth but it's hard to know when it is Right.

Speaker 1 28:04

it really is.

Speaker 2 28:05

Like anything could be a freaking lie. You just don't know, unless you're me.

Speaker 1 28:11

The human lie detector and you lie to me Right.

Speaker 2 28:19

I know, yep, me the human lie detector, and you lie to me, right? I know, yep. Keep trying to tell my children these fake adults stop lying to me. Don't lie to me, I'm gonna know when I ask you a question, I know the answer right.

Speaker 2 28:28

Tell me the truth exactly and they still don't and then, a month later, ray and I will be like mom, I'm just really scared of you. So I didn't tell you the whole truth. Let me, let me tell you this because I feel bad. So this is what happened actually and I'm like, yeah, I already knew that.

Speaker 2 28:51

Right, you did, yes, yeah just wait for you to say it I was like, could you stop now, right, because I'm gonna tell you right now, the truth may not set you free, but the length of time you're not free, right way, shorter is way way shorter, shorter.

Speaker 1 29:12

So Dabney, an otherwise unremarkable and law-abiding citizen, was believed less than Marie Jackson, a woman whose testimony was demonstrably false and inconsistent with other witnesses, and she was known, as you know, being with many men. She was believed over this guy who never got into trouble ever. Yeah, the father's wavering identification of the decomposed body. I bet he felt like a fucking ass he should, but he probably didn't.

Speaker 2 29:48

Let's be real, he probably did not and the discrepancy.

Speaker 1 29:51

He was like right and the discrepancies in hair color like should have raised significant doubts he probably feels like the fact that he said he, he wasn't sure in court made it all better yeah, no, it didn't the tragic truth is that this was a case of perjury and too easy naivety, where minds predisposed by circumstances to believe the worst piece together, like every unfavorable, inconsistent conclusion ensuring somebody paid for the presumed murder, so that that was the whole thing they needed. They needed the scapegoat, somebody and Marie spun this big old story and their naive minds and they're like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he did it. He did it absolutely. Blame it on the rain, frame it on the rain. Yes, he was the last person, but the rain does care, right. So Condi Dabney's ordeal stands as a reminder of how easily justice can be derailed when assumptions outweigh evidence and truth. As for the body found in the mine because I'm sure you all were wondering, it was never identified.

Speaker 2 31:07

Oh, I'm sure they just like whatever it was buried, too, it was buried. They're probably just like oh well, yeah, your time has passed.

Speaker 1 31:19

That was a cool little Appalachian. You know, never identified Kentucky.

Speaker 2 31:23

Tennessee. No justice for the actual dead girl, poor Shane.

Speaker 1 31:28

But Marie got put in jail for five years. Condi got some money and went on his merry way, but he had to serve a year, you know.

Speaker 2 31:35

Yeah, worst job ever.

Speaker 1 31:37

In hard labor prison, right, he's like I'd rather go back to the mines.

Speaker 2 31:43

Right, it was much better, I'd rather go kill myself with some good old coal Right Lung cancer, exactly Black lung I swear.

Speaker 1 31:55

Yeah, but that was cool, though, like it had a big old plot twist, because old Mary just ran off. Yeah, she was like nope, not dealing with this. She just said, you know, what.

Speaker 2 32:07

I had way too much fun out apple picking and riding in cars with boys. I ain't going home, nope. Yeah, you can drop me off right here.

Speaker 1 32:17

I'm going to walk the rest of the way I got $5.

Speaker 2 32:19

I'm going to start a new life.

Speaker 1 32:23

Five whole dollars. What did she do with the apples?

Justice and Aftermath

Speaker 2 32:26

I probably took them with her. She's going to need to eat those Holly God it's just like I'm taking this basket apples with me. I left with a basket of apples and five dollars. Yep, at least she had food. Yeah, she didn't have to spend her five dollars on that apple a day, right? No, doctor, I'm not starving yet yet it's got some fiber in it.

Speaker 1 32:50

Tom Tom, regula Regula Arugula. Yeah, that's my little story for today, a little break in the serial killerness, but next week or Thursday, not next week, but we're recording this the same exact week, thursday, we're going to pick back up with the victims of Derek Totley.

Speaker 2 33:15

Yes, we will, because we're going to pick back up with the victims of Derek Totley? Yes, yes, we will, because we're going to shine a little light on those ladies Deep dive. Yeah, I feel like I skimmed the surface with the first part.

Speaker 1 33:30

Well, you got to tell about his background and all that stuff, so yeah, so we're going to take a little deep, yeah, stuff. So yeah, so we're going to dig a little deeper, yeah, anyway. Speaking of digging deeper Our theme music.

Speaker 2 33:45

Did we dig very deep for that? No, no, it was the cream that rose to the top. Yes, our theme music is by Patti Saldana and she is the cherry on the top. And, as always, I'm going to tell you again Share, share An episode link, not like Sonny and Cher Share yeah. Share, give the gift of podcast to your friends and family. It's free. Frenemies, co -workers, even the ones you don't like. Yeah, like Merry Christmas? Here's a link, right.

Speaker 1 34:28

I'm sending you a link.

Speaker 2 34:30

Happy birthday.

Speaker 1 34:31

You're going to love this. Enjoy. You're like shoot, I forgot to get them something for their birthday. Here's a link to a really cool podcast called Hold my Sweet Tea.

Speaker 2 34:39

Happy birthday. Happy birthday, you're the best, so I gave you the best Right.

Speaker 1 34:47

Anyway, and we're up to what episode is this? 44? 44. Yeah, like we are trockin' on this episode, yeah, yeah. So there's a lot to let it's binge-worthy now. Yes, like you could spend your weekend binging our podcast.

Speaker 2 35:08

Yeah, you could like lay on the beach, yes, with your earphones in getting your sunburn or tan, if you're not like me, I'm the sunburn girl right even with sps 5000 right the best sunscreen ever

Speaker 1 35:29

that I spent like a billion dollars on because I'm trying not to die but you, but you could definitely binge us. Yeah, yep, yep.

Speaker 2 35:38

Tell your boyfriend to shut up. You don't want to listen to him anyway. No, like we're on vacation, I hear enough of you, right, shh.

Speaker 1 35:46

Shh Scoot, scoot. I'm listening to Hold my Sweet Tea podcast.

Speaker 2 35:53

Also follow us on social media facebook, instagram, tiktok, and you can go subscribe to our youtube before we start recording. Yeah, our faces dun, dun dun, that's when shit gets real scary.

Speaker 1 36:13

That's when the horrors persist. Horrors, not horrors.

Speaker 2 36:19

No, not W-H-O, it's H-O, just the H-O.

Speaker 1 36:22

Right. Does anybody actually listen this?

Speaker 2 36:26

far, I hope so. I don't know, but it would benefit them too.

Speaker 1 36:30

It really would. It's our comedy geniuses, so yeah, Anyway you can also email us.

Speaker 2 36:34

It really would. It's our comedy geniuses, so yeah, anyway, you can also email us at steeped at holdmysweetteacom.

Speaker 1 36:41

And, as always, hold, my Sweet Tea is a Drunken Bee production.

Speaker 2 36:46

Very Drunken Bee.

Speaker 1 36:52

And, as always, stay safe out there. Just because we're dipping doesn't mean you can't keep sipping. Bye, and don't give taxi rides to 14-year-old girls. Thank you, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.