“Dude, have you heard about this Chuck Buhrman murder thing?” Blood roared in my ears, and my vision went blurry. The podcast quickly becomes all that anyone can talk about- throwing Josie directly into the middle of her nightmares.
When a podcast re-examines the circumstances that led to her father’s death and the verdict served to the neighbor boy, Warren Cave, those walls come crumbling down. But Caleb had turned out to be the furthest thing from disposable, and then the lie fed upon itself and grew, and I had never known how to tell him the truth. Those relationships had seemed disposable there was no need to ruin the mood with stories of my murdered father, my insane mother, and my despised sister. It was a careless, throwaway line I had been using as I backpacked and hitchhiked my way across Europe, Southeast Asia, Europe again, and then finally Africa.
When I first met Caleb, I had told him my parents had passed away. The only person who she finds any safety with is her boyfriend, Caleb, and even her doesn’t know the truth of her past. Having lost more than just her father that night- her twin sister Lanie turning to drugs and destructive behavior and her mother abandoning her daughters to join a cult, Josie floats through life mostly alone behind the walls she built around herself. Years after the death of her father, who was shot in his kitchen in the middle of the night, Josie is slowly building a life for herself. My goal? To take a hard, unflinching look at the scant evidence that might have convicted an innocent man, and to perhaps uncover the truth- or put to rest any lingering doubts- about what really happened that fateful night in October 2002.
I’m going to spend the next several weeks investigating these questions and others that may arise. Chuck Buhrman’s murder was a shocking, senseless crime, but at least justice has been served, right? Right? But what if Warren Cave didn’t do it? What if he’s spending his life in prison for a murder he did not commit? My name is Poppy Parnell, and this is Reconsidered: The Chuck Buhrman Murder.
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