Judith Ann Neelley’s story is one of the darkest chapters in Southern criminal history. In 1982, at just eighteen, she and her husband Alvin carried out a series of kidnappings and assaults that escalated into the murder of Lisa Ann Millican—crimes so brutal investigators struggled to understand the violence behind them.

Join us for The Neelley Investigation. This episode traces Judith Neelley’s path to evil: her troubled early life, her volatile relationship with Alvin, the abduction that shocked everyone, and the investigation that finally exposed the couple’s crimes. We’ll look at the trial, the legal battles that followed, and how someone so young became central to a case that still unsettles those who study it.

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Early Graves by Thomas H. Cook