On the night of December 6, 2014, 19-year-old Jessica Lane Chambers from Courtland, Mississippi was brutally assaulted and burned alive in what would become one of the most shocking and confounding murder investigations in recent American history. In this case, her final words became both a haunting clue and a legal minefield. They would divide juries, fuel reasonable doubt, and ultimately help prevent a conviction — even as prosecutors insisted the evidence told a clear story. In this episode we will review the crime, the evidence, and explore who Jessica was to her family and friends. Did the man who was tried twice for her murder kill her? Did her last words contradict the evidence? We will let you be the judge.

In this episode, we unpack a disturbing case from Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus, New York. We explore the recent guilty plea and sentencing of 43-year-old Kevin Farley, who admitted to strangling his cellmate, 42-year-old Adam Lafferty. He strangled him to death inside their shared cell in December 2024. Farley used a homemade garrote with shoelaces and a metal device in the attack. Prosecutors secured an additional 25-year-to-life sentence on top of his existing 24-to-life term for a prior murder conviction. We discuss the facts of the case, the reaction from the victim’s family, the broader questions it raises about inmate safety and prison violence, and what this means for the justice system going forward.

If you would like to read the entire decision from Adam's petition, please click the link below.
Adam J. Lafferty v Barry Virts:

Just after Christmas in 2003, Ashley Vincent was raped and murdered in the small city of Geneva, New York. Her remains were later found behind a dumpster just 40 feet from her home.
Three weeks later, another Geneva teenager was murdered under similarly horrifying circumstances.
This time, the victim was Monique McKoy, the cousin of the perpetrator, Lamon McKoy, who later set fire to her apartment in an attempt to destroy evidence of his crimes.
At just fifteen years old, Lamon McKoy demonstrated a level of violence that left the Geneva community living in fear for months, until his arrest in July of 2004.
In this episode, we discuss:
• The full timeline of the Geneva murders
• Patterns and recidivism rates among serial sexual offenders
• The devastating impact on the victims’ families
• The case’s relevance today, just days before Lamon McKoy’s upcoming parole hearing
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual violence and murder. Listener discretion is advised.
If you believe Lamon McKoy should be denied parole, please consider signing and sharing the petition below:
👉 https://www.change.org/p/deny-parole-for-lamon-mckoy-in-geneva-ny
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