She's a Kentucky-based attorney who knows this case well because she would later represent one of the suspects accused of killing Jessica.

It was almost like a puzzle that you didn't have a picture of and you were missing half the pieces.

Every piece of evidence had multiple evidence numbers on it.

Anything from the state lab didn't correspond back to our original Mayfield Police Department file.

Having the local police department handle the crime scene in a place that is not Louisville or Lexington, you know, we're talking a very small local police department handling a massive, sort of from the beginning, high-profile murder investigation was, to me, highly unusual.

As Ray says, did Susan's actions allow the real killer to go free? We'll talk to people who investigated the case themselves.

There were red flags having to do with the police department, red flags having to do with the evidence, but by far the biggest stack of red flags all came back to Susan Galbraith.

She also finally understood why it was that more information hadn't been available to Quincy's original defense team.

Another piece of these emails really pointed to her working with the KBI agents to ensure that as little information got turned over to Quincy's attorneys.

And so once I saw the other side of the coin, the backside of the coin was skeezy, it was slimy, it was meetings in a diner about how to not have to turn over information to a subpoena.

Time was against them, but Miranda hoped they finally had enough grounds to warrant a retrial.

Quincy met a perfect storm when this investigation and trial happened.

Now that he has his evidentiary hearing and, and all of this new evidence has been presented very thoroughly, I'm hoping that the, you know, that this is the perfect storm, the good perfect storm that comes at the end for him.

For instance, evidence boxes were logged incorrectly, and as a result, unrelated rape swabs were found in the Curran evidence boxes, a critical contamination error.

You know, if I handed this case file to my grandma and said, "Grandma, go investigate a murder," I feel like she would collect the items of evidence on the body.

She's played Clue before, and she would know to at least start with the body [laughs].

And if you see anything that looks like it could be a murder weapon or involved in, you know, here we're talking about a fire, we should collect those things, too.

According to Miranda Hellman, Susan and Jeremy were soon writing to one another, speaking on the phone, even meeting in person, and that in her communications with him, Susan was crystal clear about her role.

She was also very close with Jeremy, that she was getting calls from the jail, um, that she was, y- really out-and-out saying that her job, her goal, her mission, was to clear Jeremy's name, and not because she didn't know, you know, that she knew he didn't do it.

It was just that she was going to clear his name.

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She's a Kentucky-based attorney who knows this case well because she would later represent one of the suspects accused of killing Jessica.

It was almost like a puzzle that you didn't have a picture of and you were missing half the pieces.

Every piece of evidence had multiple evidence numbers on it.

Anything from the state lab didn't correspond back, you know, to our original Mayfield Police Department file.

Having the local police department handle the crime scene in a place that is not Louisville or Lexington, you know, we're talking a very small local police department handling a massive, sort of from the beginning, high-profile murder investigation, was to me, highly unusual.