Beth Karras

I'm Beth Karras, a journalist and legal analyst who's been covering stories at the heart of our criminal justice system for decades.

This is Episode 1, The Hero Housewife Who Solved a Murder.

Susan Galbraith wasn't a journalist or a cop.

She was a housewife in Mayfield, Kentucky.

But after a black teenager named Jessica Curran is murdered in town,

Susan takes it upon herself to find witnesses who can point to a killer.

She was just wasting away until she jumped onto this and she thought this was going to be her magic star and she was going to be a hero.

But that's not what happened.

What were Susan's real motives for trying to solve this murder?

She wasn't in it to help them find the killer that killed their daughter.

Why then did local cops and the Kentucky State Police take her seriously?

Susan's son is wrestling with his mother's legacy to this day.

And perhaps the biggest question of all, did she help convict an innocent man?

From Sony Music Entertainment and Message Heard, this is My Mother's Lies.

I'm Beth Karras.

For 30 years, I've covered some of the country's biggest cases involving criminal deception, from Jodi Arias to Natalia Grace.

And this case has left me more trouble than any of those stories.

Coming April 1st to The Binge, search for My Mother's Lies wherever you get your podcasts to start listening.

Subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes all at once, ad-free.

Well, thank you very much.