Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Details emerge in a grisly Kentucky murder. Young Thug is free. And how to detect deception.
Thu, 7 Nov 2024
Details emerge in the grisly Kentucky murder of restaurant hostess Amber Spradlin. Rapper Young Thug is released from custody after taking a plea in Georgia's longest-running criminal trial. And, a former secret service agent on how to detect deception. Find out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com
What happened in the Kentucky murder case?
He cracked a couple of jokes. He talked about the bailiffs and everybody getting overtime. And he said he would hope he never see the judge again.
I hope that you allow me to go home today and just trust in me to just do the right thing and never see you again unless it's at a bar in the future or something. I promise you I won't ever be in this type of situation again.
So the judge decided his sentence.
What did she do? She gave him time served, which has been two and a half years, and then 15 years of probation on top of that. And if he violates that probation, there's a 20-year sentence that's sort of hanging over his head. So he gets to walk free, but it's going to be a really challenging next 15 years for him. He has a lot of restrictions on him about what he can and cannot do.
Yeah, I mean, like he can't be in Atlanta where he's from unless there's funerals, things like that. He cannot, quote unquote, promote gang activity in his music or hang around any, quote unquote, gang members, except for like his brother and Gunna, who's a collaborator. And he's subjected to search and seizure at any point over the next 15 years, which to me, Uh, that feels like a hell in itself.
Like, that's, it's not jail, but it does feel, it feels dangerous. I mean, like, what are things that you say that promotes gang activity in your music, right? And it's sort of up to somebody's, um, discretion to, Is there any public outcry that he got off too easy? A lot of the public outcry is about the trial itself. The fact that this trial has taken so long and it's taken a lot of resources.
There's really nothing to show for it. You know, there's no belief that the streets of Atlanta are any safer.
David Dennis Jr., thank you for your insight into this case. We appreciate it.
Thank you.
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