Artful Conviction: The Murder of Peggy Hettrick

Pride. When it’s channeled right, it’s a good thing. Pride in our accomplishments, or those of our loved ones, is great. But it’s not for nothin’ that pride is one of the seven deadly sins. When it goes unchecked, ya see, it tends to create a particular kind of tunnel vision. A lens through which you can only see what you want to see, and anything that doesn’t fit within that view becomes too threatening. Gets ignored, or denied…or covered up. Apply that to a homicide investigation, and you’ve got a disaster in the making. We’re about to hear about a case like that, where justice fell victim to pride. A case where one detective’s arrogant one-sightedness stole ten years of a young man’s life, and left a grieving family without answers.

Sources:

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2017/02/08/peggy-hettrick-murder-cold-case-fort-collins/97378070/
https://www.5280.com/2011/12/presumed-guilty/
https://www.greeleytribune.com/windsor/the-two-lives-of-dr-richard-hammond/
http://freetimmastersbecause.blogspot.com/search/label/Matt%20Zoellner
CBS' "48 Hours Mystery," episode "Drawn to Murder"
Drawn to Injustice by Steve Lehto and Tim Masters


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