True Crime Brief
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2026-11-09
Homer Lee Jackson the Third walked free on a plea deal, so no jury ever weighed the evidence tying him to four 1980s Portland murders, including Latangie Watts's.
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Today is Monday, November ninth. [] The true crime podcast Crime Junkie takes on the case of Latangie Watts. [a] Her killing is one of four Portland murders from the nineteen-eighties tied to Homer Lee Jackson the Third. [a] Because of a plea deal, no jury ever tested the evidence, and Jackson walked free. [a]
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2026-11-02
The sheriff closed Heather Turner's 2017 Georgia shooting death as a suicide, but the coroner will hold a public inquest with a jury in January.
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It's Monday, November second. [] The Crime Junkie podcast revisits the death of Heather Turner, who was found shot in the bathroom of her Georgia home in twenty seventeen. [a] The sheriff closed the case as a suicide this past February. [a] But the coroner is convening a public inquest, with a jury, in January. [a]
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2026-10-26
Heather Turner was found shot dead in her Georgia bathroom in 2017. Her husband called it suicide, but she had planned to leave him that weekend, and the case remains open.
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It's Monday, October twenty-sixth. [] The latest episode of Crime Junkie covers Heather Turner, who was found shot dead in the bathroom of her Georgia home in twenty seventeen. [a] Her husband called it suicide. [a] But she had planned to leave him that weekend, and the case remains open. [a]
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2026-10-19
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Today is Monday, October nineteenth. The latest episode of Crime Junkie covers the murder of Nori Maya, a salsa dancer. She was strangled in her apartment in Washington over Halloween weekend in two thousand nine. Her case is still unsolved, and her missing red camera might hold the answer.