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A Killer Story: Joe Sexton on Dana Chandler, Doubt & Obsession
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He almost missed the story of his career. Investigative journalist Joe Sexton sat down with Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott to talk about HBO's A Killer Story, his six year pursuit of the Dana Chandler case, and the citizen sleuth who wouldn't let it go.
Sexton explains why it took roughly 3,000 emails from Eileen Umbehr before he took her tip seriously, how a unanimous Kansas Supreme Court reversal convinced him something had gone badly wrong in Chandler's original trial, and how he tried to stay skeptical of Eileen and her husband Keen even as he came to rely on their years of research. He also walks through the thought exercise that still keeps him up at night: if Chandler did it, how exactly did she pull it off?
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