This podcast is supported by There are 42 days left before the execution, and Maurice and I have split up again.
I'm heading out to St. Louis to meet Greg's co-counsel, Jeremy.
It's very bleak and rainy, and we're setting off on a little road trip to go look for yet another alternate suspect.
What we are going to do is we are going to interview, hopefully at least, a man named Eddie Barton.
Eddie Barton is on Jeremy's list because back in 1989 Barton confessed
to killing young women and burying them in the desert in El Paso.
He actually confessed to the murders while also confessing to another completely unrelated crime.
All this confessing happened to FBI agents in Las Vegas.
Unfortunately for Barton, and please forgive me, this was not the kind of thing that would just stay in Vegas.
In their interview with Barton, the FBI recorded details about why he chose the desert to bury his victims.
Barton claimed he picked victims who were, quote, small, petite, young, with features similar to that of his wife.
According to court records, the FBI decided to alert the El Paso Police Department.
But by the time anyone in El Paso got around to talking to Eddie Barton,
David Wood's trial for the murders was already ramping up.
Three years had passed since Barton's original confession and by now he denied everything.
Said he didn't even remember confessing at all given that he was really strung out on dope and booze at the time.
So Jeremy's dream scenario is to see if he can jog Barton's memory and get him to come clean on a series
of grisly murders that he once confessed to more than three decades ago.
Thereby saving David Wood from an impending execution.
Jeremy knows they've already dug into other alternate suspects who went nowhere