Introducing . . . My Mother's Lies!
3/30/20262 min
Coming soon to the Binge Cases is My Mother's Lies.
In the summer of 2000, Jessica Currin was found murdered in a small Kentucky town. Ray McCord’s mom Susan Galbreath had been integral in solving the crime, and even helped law enforcement put a man, Quincy Cross, in prison for life.
After Ray inherited a box of files from his mom, his world is turned upside down. Among the hand-written notes, letters and photos, he finds what he believes is a sinister lie…
As he sif...
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First 90 secondsBeth Karas· Host0:00
[tense music] Susan Galbreath wasn't a journalist or a cop. She was a housewife in Mayfield, Kentucky. But after a Black teenager named Jessica Current is murdered in town, Susan takes it upon herself to find witnesses who can point to a killer.
Speaker 10:17
She was just wasting away till she jumped onto this, and, and she thought this was gonna be her magic star, and she was gonna be a hero.
Beth Karas· Host0:27
But that's not what happened.
Ray McCord· Guest0:29
So I was learning, in real time, the lies. There was a lot of lies.
Beth Karas· Host0:33
What were Susan's real motives for trying to solve this murder?
Speaker 30:37
She was in it to help them find the killer that killed their daughter.
Beth Karas· Host0:41
Why, then, did local cops and the Kentucky State Police take her seriously?
Ray McCord· Guest0:46
That was known, that she was getting funds from them.
Beth Karas· Host0:49
Susan's son is wrestling with his mother's legacy to this day.
Ray McCord· Guest0:52
I mean, my mom was, I use the word diabolical.
Speaker 40:56
To know that she possibly covered up a murder for somebody.
Beth Karas· Host1:01
And perhaps the biggest question of all, did she help convict an innocent man?
Speaker 41:07
I do feel like that they got the wrong people.
Ray McCord· Guest1:10
Getting funds. Covered up a murder. Diabolical.
Speaker 31:14
She was in it to help them find the killer.
Ray McCord· Guest1:16
The lies. There was a lot of lies.
Beth Karas· Host1:17
[tense music] From Sony Music Entertainment and Message Heard, this is My Mother's Lies. I'm Beth Karas. For 30 years, I've covered some of the country's biggest cases involving criminal