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BLAME
by 9Wants To Know
BLAME is a true-crime, investigative series by 9NEWS in Denver, Colorado. Learn more at 9news.com/blame.Season 2, "BLAME: Lost at Home," is a mystery about a man who was found more than a year after he was reported missing, dead in his own home.The first season focuses on the death of Jill Wells. Her son, only 6 years old at the time of her death, was blamed for shooting her.If you have something for us to investigate, email [email protected].
Episodes
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I Would Like to Fight my Extradition | Chapter 11
A DNA hit led quickly to formal charges against Alex Christopher Ewing in two notorious Colorado murder cases. But with crimes dating back to the 1980s, in the midst of a pandemic, getting him in front of a jury would be a slow process that would grate on those left behind. Learn more at...
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The Fear All These Years | Chapter 8: Trouble on Racetrack Road
Nancy Barry heard her baby cry, jumped up to fix a bottle, and walked into her kitchen to find a shirtless man carrying a club. The man savagely beat her and her husband – then vanished into the desert, leaving behind only footprints. Even so, police knew pretty quickly who they were after Learn...
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The Fear All These Years | Chapter 9: A Stone-Cold Stare
Park Ranger Mike Meyer patrolled the not-so-tranquil waters of Lake Mead during the go-go ‘80s, a time of cocaine, powerboats and mob hits. But his biggest bust came the day he crossed paths with Alex Christopher Ewing – and had to decide whether to open fire. Learn more at 9news.com/blame This…
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The Fear All These Years | Chapter 10: Swift Justice
Alex Christopher Ewing finally faces a jury – and leaves an indelible memory on the woman beaten with a weathered ax handle and the prosecutor who tried him for escape, burglary and attempted murder. This is a 9NEWS (KUSA) production 9NEWS Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Google+
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The Fear All These Years | Chapter 6: Kingman
It was the early morning of Jan. 27, 1984. A 25-pound rock slammed into Roy Williams, jolting him awake, cracking a rib and tearing open a gash in his head that would require 85 stitches. Just as fast, the shadowy figure that attacked him bolted, disappearing into the desert outside Kingman,...
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The Fear All These Years | Chapter 7: Escape
In 1984, Henderson was a sleepy bedroom community of fewer than 30,000 people 15 miles from the Las Vegas strip. It was seldom in the news. That changed the night a suspect in a middle-of-the-night rock attack fled from sheriff’s deputies during a bathroom break at a Henderson filling station....
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The Fear All These Years | Chapter 5: The Answer?
A legal opinion from Nevada’s attorney general finally caught up with a man who’d been behind bars there for decades. Suddenly, there was a flurry of activity in Colorado – all of it kept under wraps by police until the day a tip to a reporter led to a stunning scoop. Would it be the answer?…
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The Fear All These Years | Chapter 4: The Hunt
The murders of three members of the Bennett family — and, to a lesser degree, the killing of Patricia Smith — got lots of attention. But they weren’t the first hammer attacks in the area. Before those slayings, there was an attack on a young couple and an assault on a woman who was left for dead....
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The Fear All These Years | Chapter 3: In the Shadows
She knew something was wrong when she arrived at the bus stop after work and her mother wasn’t there waiting for her. After catching a ride home with a cousin, she crept to the front door of her darkened condominium, opened the door, flicked on the lights and walked into a scene of absolute…
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The Fear All These Years | Chapter 2: Twelve Days
After a middle-of-the-night hammer attack left three members of one family dead, anxiety spread through the Denver area — homeowners questioned utility workers in their yards, teachers answered difficult questions from children, and neighborhoods hired private security. But most shocking was the...
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The Fear All These Years | Chapter 1: Haunted
Two women are bound together by family ties –- and by an attack that made no sense when it happened. It still makes no sense, and yet they’re similarly pulled apart by the fallout they’ve lived with over all these years. For them, that snowy night 35 years ago might as well have been yesterday....
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BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 10 - The End
In this final episode, Jeremy returns to where this series began – Chuck’s home. There, he learns what’s next for the property as a man in an excavator begins to tear down the last remaining piece of Chuck’s life in the physical world. And what about Mystery Mike? A handwritten letter from jail...
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BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 9 - Tracking Down Mystery Mike
Who was that stranger who came to Chuck’s family with a warning about their father? “Mystery Mike,” as Jeremy Jojola calls him, prompted Chuck’s sons to start searching for their father a year before he was finally found dead in his living room. In this episode, Jeremy takes you along on his...
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BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 8 - Hoarding: The Hidden Epidemic
Compulsive hoarding affects a surprisingly large number of people in the United States. To better understand this disorder, Jeremy sits down with Cory Chalmers, an expert who appears on the A&E show Hoarders. Turns out that Chuck was just one of millions who suffer from this “Hidden Epidemic.”
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BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 7 - Paralysis by Analysis
Jeremy uncovers the original 911 call made by a neighbor 383 days before Chuck was found in his living room. Prophetic words as she warns the city Chuck may dead in his home. However, it took police 9 months to contact Denver's Department of Public Health and Environment, the agency responsible…
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BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 6 - What Did Police Do?
Finally, police are going on the record to talk about Chuck Frary. Chuck’s remains sat in his home for more than a year even though police visited his house six times during that period. For weeks Denver police denied releasing information in this case, citing a pending investigation. Finally,...
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BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 5 - Chuck's Kids Reveal So Much
Chuck’s children were a bit reluctant to talk about their father, but after some convincing, Jeremy was able to get all four of them together. They reveal what they did when they first realized Chuck was missing. Who was the stranger that knocked on their door announcing Chuck may be missing or...
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BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 4 - The Autopsy Report
So much about life can be revealed by examining death. As macabre and disturbing as autopsy reports can be, they are often loaded with crucial details about a person’s life. After waiting for weeks, Jeremy finally obtains Chuck’s autopsy report. It reveals much about Chuck’s life inside his home....
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BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 3 - Chuck’s Son
Jeremy tracks down one of Chuck’s sons and learns a little about Chuck’s life and what the family experienced when they first realized their father was missing. Many initial questions are answered by talking with Jeff Frary, but more questions arise. Jeff reveals the confusion they experienced…
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BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 2 - The Neighbor Knows
Every neighborhood has that one homeowner who knows what’s happening on the street. Jeremy sits down with Kristi Petersen who lives two doors down from Chuck. She describes what she witnessed through her living room window and talks about her sole encounter with Chuck in her 15 years living next…
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BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 1 - Chuck’s Home
Follow Jeremy Jojola along as he first learns about Chuck Frary’s story with a visit to a house in a trendy Denver neighborhood. Jeremy takes us to the corner of W 50th Ave and Tennyson where he finds a home surrounded by overgrown trees and much debris. Inside is where this story begins with a…
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Intro - BLAME: Lost at Home
Kevin Vaughan, the reporter behind the original BLAME series and Jeremy Jojola sit down and talk about what we can expect to hear in BLAME: Lost at Home
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Episode 14: We've Been Waiting A Long Time For This
It's been three months since we wrapped up an in-depth look at the 2001 shooting death of Jill Wells, a killing her husband blamed on the couple's six-year-old son. Now, there's an update -- one public official saw our reports and took action and another is back at work, trying to answer the...
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Episode 13: Dreams and Developments
Nearly a year after 9NEWS began investigating the shooting death of Jill Wells, the potential for new developments is real. Various public officials are discussing what steps they ought to take – if any – to try to answer the most important question in the case: Was a 6-year-old really to blame?
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Episode 12: What We Think Happened Is Almost Never What Happened
At the center of the pursuit of the truth about the death of Jill Wells stands her son, Tanner. He is the only one who knows what he thinks about this pursuit, who knows what he has thought about all these years. Listen as he shares his thoughts on the effort to answer questions about his…
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Episode 11: An Immediate Kill
Everyone who has looked into Jill’s death has a theory on the case – and on the role her husband, Mike Wells, may have played in an incident that remains shrouded in mystery. For some, the suspicions took hold almost immediately. For others, the initial seeds of doubt were tremors that grew over...
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Episode 10: You Don't Have to be a Doctor to be a Coroner?
In Colorado, anyone can hold the job of county coroner – you don’t need a medical degree or any special work experience. Just as the family of Jill Wells found out how crucial the coroner can be in a death investigation, so have others in cases around the state – cases initially thought to be...
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Episode 9 The Aha Moment
In every report, every interview about Jill Wells death, her husband said she was prone on the ground, target shooting with her left index finger on the trigger. First responders to the scene say they were shocked to learn that. They’re now talking about what one described as the “Aha” moment.…
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Thanksgiving Minisode
Eight Episodes into BLAME and we a hearing a lot of feedback from people connected to the case. We want to hear from you too. Who should we be interviewing? Where should we look next? Have we missed something? Share your thoughts on our Facebook page 9Wants to Know or use #BLAMEpodcast.
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Episode 8: No one's Gonna Charge a 6-year-old
If Tanner Wells is to believe he didn’t shoot and kill his mother, he needs to wrap his brain around the fact his own father may be to BLAME. We needed to know if what we were uncovering would be damaging to a young man who had already been through so much. We shared everything we’ve learned…
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Episode 7: For Better or Worse
“She was so positive, and that’s why we never knew anything was going wrong” To understand everything that was going on prior to Jill Well’s death her friends say you need to know about who she was and what she talked about in her most intimate moments with friends and family. With her faith...
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Episode 6: The Ultimate Question
They say hindsight is always 20/20. But in this case hindsight could mean the difference between an accident and murder. Years after her death, Jill Well’s sister convinced a new investigator to look into the case. He did all the work investigators didn’t do in 2001. Ballistics. Interviews. And…
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Episode 5: I'm calling about the Jill Wells case
The three people who accepted Mike Wells account of how his wife Jill died, reflect on the investigation that they left behind 15 years ago. What do they remember about that day? Did they question the story that her son pulled the trigger? Why didn’t they ask more questions? Whose ultimate…
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Episode 4: He Blew That One
What did investigators really know the day Jill Wells died? Did they know enough to definitively put the blame on a 6-year-old boy? We pull the one box of evidence off the shelf of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s department to see what investigators knew and didn’t know. Then, we put a veteran law...
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Episode 3: An Exorbitant Amount of Life Insurance
No fingerprints, no ballistics, no autopsy. And now, 9Wants to Know uncovers several life insurance policies, one taken out just before the shooting. Jill Wells sisters have been asking questions about how their sister died for years but they’ve never heard what we are about to tell them....
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Episode 2: Nobody Investigated It
An unintelligible start to a 911 call begins the short and incomplete investigation of the death of Jill Wells. There are very few official records created in the case. A two-page police report. Crime scene photographs. Several recordings, including the only two interviews with the only witnesses...
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Episode 1: Accident or Murder
Less than 24-hours after Jill Well’s death, the case into her shooting was closed. No one performed an autopsy, no ballistics testing was done and no one conducted formal interviews of the last three people to see her alive, her husband Mike and their 2 young sons. Investigators seemed to accept...
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BLAME is a true-crime, investigative series by 9NEWS in Denver, Colorado. Learn more at 9news.com/blame.Season 2, "BLAME: Lost at Home," is a mystery about a man who was found more than a year after he was reported missing, dead in his own home.The first season focuses on the death of Jill Wells. Her son, only 6 years old at the time of her death, was blamed for shooting her.If you have something for us to investigate, email [email protected].
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BLAME is a true-crime, investigative series by 9NEWS in Denver, Colorado. Learn more at 9news.com/blame.Season 2, "BLAME: Lost at Home," is a mystery about a man who was found more than a year after he was reported missing, dead in his own home.The first season focuses on the death of Jill Wells....
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