00:00Beverly Rutledge, 63, life devoted to service,
00:04stabbed to death in her woodworking studio April 2003.
00:07It was the halfway house on Beverly's block.
00:09It was the obvious play for the police at the time.
00:11Makes sense. House full of criminals.
00:13Yeah, except they were wrong.
00:15Can we stop with the whooshing?
00:19This is Toni Hollis.
00:21She lived in the halfway house after serving four years
00:23for killing her boyfriend, Andre McCoy.
00:25Claims self-defense pled down to manslaughter.
00:27She was spotted in Beverly's woodworking studio
00:29more than once.
00:30Cops legit thought she did it.
00:31Like, prime suspect, case closed.
00:33But the DNA didn't match at all.
00:35After that, now that case went cold.
00:39Okay. And?
00:41So we dug into Toni's transcript and interview notes.
00:44In her interview, she mentions a guy in a yellow cutlass
00:46tailing her the night of the murder on Beverly's block.
00:48So you decided the guy in the cutlass killed Beverly Rutledge?
00:51Did anybody follow up on that?
00:53No, Detective Pulaski. I'm glad you asked.
00:55They found Toni Hollis to be an unreliable witness
00:57because of her record and drug use.
00:58These male detectives just wrote her off.
01:01Hmm. Detectives...
01:03Wendy Severson and Lacey White.
01:06Internalized misogyny. Very common.
01:09Okay.
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