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you're listening to the season 5 reboot of breakdown the MacGyver murder case September 2016 I'm bill Rankin legal
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affairs writer for the Atlanta journal-constitution have you been surprised at just the
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enormous popularity of the podcast and how much interested it generated in this case I'm very gratified yes I've been
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surprised it's been great previously on breakdown the interesting thing about the podcast is you think
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this is a uniquely Atlanta story but I hear from people all over the world it's a murder mystery people love murder
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mysteries right I think people want to know if he's going to be convicted or acquitted welcome back
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before we plunge back into the story of text MacGyver I want to tell you about something that recently happened to me I
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agreed to retrace the MacGyver's route on the night of the killing with a TV crew being TV they rented a white Ford
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Expedition just like the one in which Tex McIver shot his wife first of all the SUV this was the biggest damn car
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I've ever climbed into I mean big the TV people had asked me to drive I declined
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this is almost at about the same time it's almost at about the same time so they would have been coming from
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Covington mm-hmm which is about 20 miles away from the restaurant from the Longhorn restaurant and now they're
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coming up to the connector which is i-75 I 85 is where it merges mm-hmm and that's where during rush hour is one of
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the worst bottlenecks you can imagine and I'm sure when they're driving down here on a Sunday night they're thinking
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they got it made there's gonna be no problem whatsoever and then they run into it so we're
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driving down the expressway in downtown Atlanta and we exit down the ramp and onto Edgewood Avenue as Texan Diane did
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that night they're gonna go down this ramp here and according to Tex he had been asleep at this point but when they
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go down this ramp he wakes up it's been said that Tex had worried that the people milling about down there were
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maybe black lives matter protesters that's when Tex asked Diane to hand him his gun our reconstruction was pretty
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authentic as we sat at a light off the exit ramp the homeless man began shouting at us that he was hungry
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I mean shouting so there's a person next to us who's you know asking for money and asking for food is this a common
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thing that happens it's not unusual okay and the more we ignored him the more he
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screamed and flailed his arms the TV reporter made note of the guy he's being pretty aggressive yeah as well I notice
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he's being very aggressive I mean you often see homeless people in downtown Atlanta but you don't often see them
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behaving so aggressively what should we do grab a gun no he didn't seem truly threatening and we didn't have a gun
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actually we just drove off when the light changed if he'd started beating on the windows which he didn't we probably
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would have pulled away before we got the green light end of adventure