MURDERED: Beverly Lyn Smith

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Welcome back to the Murder Diaries. I'm Paige and I'm Natalie.

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On a cold night in December 1974 in a small town in Canada, 22-year-old Beverly Smith was shot inside her home execution style while her baby daughter played in the next room.

Now, almost 55 years later, Beverly's case is as cold as it can get and it remains the oldest unsolved murder case in Asha, history.

The investigation that has taken place has involved multiple arrests and even some undercover police stings, but there are no concrete answers as to who shot Beverly that night.

This is her story.

You still think it's in my head, but I'm walking with the dead.

Beverly Smith was born Beverly Lynn Brown in 1952 in Asha, Ontario to Helen at Nelson Brown.

The Brown family had four girls, Susan the oldest and two years later came identical twins Barbara and Beverly.

Then four years after that, the youngest daughter, Wendy.

The Brown girls were incredibly close. Though they bickered like all siblings do at the end of the day, the girls always stood up for one another.

One of the sisters said that it was well known around the community that you don't mess with one of the Brown girls.

You mess with one of them, you mess with all of them.

The twins were especially well known throughout the community. It was very unique to have identical twins around.

Barbara said in an Amazon Prime documentary that she loved growing up with a twin sister, saying when you're a twin, you have a best friend right away.

You share your thoughts, you share your life, you're always there for each other. Beverly was quick-witted and loved to craft.

She could sew and draw and loved to work with her hands.

In high school, Beverly met Doug Smith. He was four years older than her, but when they met through mutual friends, Beverly knew he was special.

She said that he was honest and good looking. And honestly, what more could a girl want?

Her sisters figured at first that Doug was just another boyfriend, maybe one that would eventually fizzle out, but didn't take too long for all the Brown girls to take a liking to Doug.

They said he was funny and Beverly really liked being around him. That was enough for them.

Barbara says that her twin loved Doug right from the start.

In this relationship, Beverly was in her element because Susan says that since she was young, she always spoke about wanting to find love, a husband, start a family, creating a home of her own.

That dream started to come true when in 1971, at 18 years old, Beverly married Doug.

The ceremony took place on a local golf course. And the coolest part about the ceremony is that Beverly sowed her own wedding dress.

Now, yes, she sowed the stress in home at class, but it is so cool that Beverly was able to put her own special touch on her special day by creating her own dress.

Though her sisters were surprised that Beverly was getting married so young, they thought that Doug was a good match.

It was clear to them too that he worshipped Beverly of all the sisters. The marriage had a really big impact on Barbara.

The twins after all were inseparable, so it was definitely an adjustment.

Susan said that Beverly was so happy to be married to Doug, saying she was proud to be Mrs. Beverly Smith.

After the wedding, the newlywed couple moved to a small house in Raglan just on the outskirts of Ashwa.

The house was old, but Beverly was proud of it. She loved it.

Barbara calls being in college when she found out that her twin sister was pregnant. Beverly was so excited to be a mom.

She gave birth to a baby girl Rebecca in 1974.

By December of that year, Beverly at 22 years old and Doug at 25 had really created a life of their own.

Doug was working full-time at General Motors by that time for a few years, and the couple had a big circle of friends.

They hosted Get Together's all the time at their house. They had really built a lovely life within their community.

On Monday, December 9th, 1974, Beverly and Doug woke up around 9 a.m. and began the day like they always did.

Doug cooked poached eggs before they left the house together to run errands.

They went to look at a house that they were considering making an offer on, then stopped to get stamps for the Christmas cards that Beverly was sending out.

Then they went back home. Doug worked the night shift at GM, so he took a nap and woke up around 5 p.m. and got ready for work.

Doug recalled that he was sitting in the driveway, warming up his car, and preparing to leave when he looked up back towards the house.

Beverly was standing in the front window holding the baby. She took baby Rebecca's hand and weighed it at Doug.

That was the last time Doug would ever see his wife alive.

Doug punched in for a shift at GM at 5.53 p.m. Beverly hated that Doug worked the night shift.

She felt isolated in their home, especially at night.

As soon as the sun started to set, Beverly would make sure the doors were locked and all the curtains were closed tight.

Beverly would usually end up calling one of her sisters to talk on the phone throughout the evening.

Her sister Wendy recalled being on the phone with Beverly until as late as 2 a.m. some nights.

On this night, in particular, December 9, Beverly called Barbara and asked her if she could come over so she wouldn't be alone with the baby.

It was the first time Barbara had to tell her that she couldn't come over. She had to date that night.

Just after 8.30 p.m., Doug went on his 15-minute break.

He called Beverly at the house to check on her, but she didn't answer.

He was a bit worried so he called her across the street neighbors, Alan and Linda Smith.

No relation to them. This call happened around 8.35 p.m.

Linda answered the phone and told Doug that Beverly wasn't at their house.

So she offered to run across the street to check on her. She knocked on their door, but there wasn't any answer.

Linda looked through the kitchen window and that's when she saw Beverly lying on the floor with a large pool of blood around her head.

Obviously, shaken, Linda ran back to the house and told Alan something was wrong and that he needed to go look.

Doug was still waiting on the phone and Linda told him he needed to get home right away.

Alan looked through the kitchen window and he too saw Beverly on the floor.

So he yelled back for Linda to call an ambulance.

Alan had a van that had a caution light on top, so he turned it on to help the first responders find them.

And by 8.50 p.m., the ambulance arrived.

Bill Cosburn, the EMT who arrived on scene, said that Alan told him he'd broken the Smith's store down so he could get in.

Bill and his partner went inside and immediately they recognized that Beverly was beyond health.

He checked her head and recognized a gunshot wound on the back.

Bill went back to their ambulance to a radio into dispatch that they needed to expedite the police.

And then Alan asks a question that makes everyone freeze.

Where's the baby?

Bill immediately runs back into the house and that's when he hears something coming from the living room.

Crying.

He follows the sound and finds Rebecca.

She's alive and seemingly unhurt.

Bill scoops her up, tucks her inside his parka and carries her outside where he hands her to Alan's wife Linda.

But before anyone can really process what has happened, they see a car coming down the road toward the house and it's coming fast.

It's Doug.

He pulls into the driveway, jumps out.

And according to those there, he looks absolutely terrified.

And you have to imagine what Doug is trying to make sense of in that moment.

There are emergency responders at his house.

His baby is outside and someone else's arms.

Something is clearly very, very wrong.

He just doesn't know how wrong yet.

But it's not long before Doug learns that while he was gone, someone had entered his home and murdered his 22 year old wife Beverly.

Beverly's family was stunned when they heard this news.

There was no way that somebody would have hurt Beverly.

She had no enemies.

Her sisters were devastated, particularly Barbara because of a strange occurrence that happened to her earlier that night.

While Barbara was on a date, she had a sudden sharp pain in the back of her head.

She hadn't felt anything like that before.

Her date drove her home and when she got out of the car, her mom was yelling for her to get inside the house.

It was at that time that her mother told her that Beverly was dead and that she'd been shot in the back of the head.

Instantly, Barbara knew that she'd felt the same pain that her twin sister had felt when she was shot.

Now, this is actually a thing, a phenomena, not necessarily one that can be proven scientifically, but there are so many stories like this out there with twins feeling one another's pain.

It really is truly fascinating.

Back to the night that Beverly was murdered.

As soon as police arrived on the scene, they put Doug in a police cruiser with the intent of bringing him to the police station in Aushua to interview him.

They did the same with Alan.

When police first entered the house, they didn't note any signs of a robbery.

Nothing appeared to be missing.

There were Christmas cards and envelopes laid out on the coffee table in the living room.

The officers described the kitchen as immaculately kept.

They also said that the only thing that was out of place was the young mother lying on the floor, murdered in a pool of her own blood.

It should be noted that there were no signs of sexual assault either.

The only true abnormal finding was the bullet wound in the back of her head.

She appeared to have been shot execution style.

It was later determined after some analysis that the bullet came from a coolly modeled 22 rifle, a very cheap and commonly owned rifle.

There were no signs of struggle and no other injuries.

Investigators began to build a timeline right away.

Beverly had been on a phone call with her family until 7pm and then an 830 Doug call her.

Sometime within that hour and a half time frame, someone shot and murdered Beverly.

Her friends and family said that there was no way she would have had any of the doors unlocked, but somehow someone did get inside.

Police began collecting alibis from everyone in Beverly's life, most importantly Doug and the man who found her, Alan.

Now, Alan and his wife Linda lived across the street from the Smiths and a house that belonged to another couple, the Spicers.

Reportedly, the Spicers offered to let Alan and Linda stay with them because the couple was struggling with money and Linda was pregnant.

The Smiths were friends with the Spicers, but they weren't as close with Alan and Linda.

Beverly occasionally went over to the Spicers to play cards or just relax, which is why they were Doug's next call when Beverly didn't answer.

As far as alibis go, on the day of Beverly's murder, Alan had been working at his job with the Ontario Humane Society.

He was responsible for picking up stray dogs and other related duties.

Linda was also with Alan at work that day. After four hours of work, the couple left the Humane Society at 7.05pm.

They drove home, parked in the driveway, went inside and had dinner.

Linda vouched for Alan, saying that she was with him all evening. Investigators dug into Beverly's husband, Doug's alibi next.

They were able to determine that he also was at work at the time of the murder.

The lead detective went back through the house, searching for anything odd, anything that might indicate a motive.

In the kitchen, he found an ounce bag of marijuana. He then went upstairs and in the spare bedroom, he found about a half pound of individually wrapped bags of weed.

Doug denied any involvement in drugs, but it wasn't hard for police to prove that this clearly wasn't true.

Doug was well known as a small-time marijuana dealer. Barbara said that Beverly was very uncomfortable with Doug selling drugs.

She didn't like the type of people that brought to the house, especially with the baby.

She was trying to get him to stop. Doug admitted that he'd bought a pound of marijuana a few days prior to the murder,

that he'd sold some of it, but there should be about 13 ounces left.

Police only reported finding about six ounces inside the home.

With this in mind, it seemed odd that the murder would have only taken some of the marijuana and not all of it, if that was the case.

One of Doug's regular buyers, Mark Kenney, was a low-level dealer who reportedly told Doug that he'd be back later that night, the day of the murder, after he'd gotten some money together to make a purchase.

Investigators interrogated him and even took the clothes he was wearing.

They weren't able to rule him out and he has continued to be a person of interest for decades.

The drug angle made sense to police. It felt like a strong motive for murder and it seemed to answer the question of why someone would murder an innocent young mother in her home.

Rumors circulated quickly throughout the area and surrounding towns.

Doug was being blamed as people were interrogated by police and arrested for being involved in the drug trade.

There were allegations that Doug had shot Beverly because she threatened to go to the police about him dealing marijuana.

Investigators were suspicious of everyone. They were surveilling people everywhere.

They had wiretaps installed all over the place. Everyone who was remotely in or near the Smith Circle was being looked into.

They learned that the marijuana found in the Smith Home was sold to Doug by a man named Doug Dagle, a well-known drug dealer nearby.

People reported that Dagle often behaved strangely and was unpredictable, especially when he was using PCP.

There were allegations that Dagle had gone over to the Smith's house that night to collect debt.

There were also rumors that there was a wiretapper courting of a phone call where Dagle said that he had no idea what he'd done that night.

That he could have done it, but he was so stoned that he couldn't remember.

However, it's important to note that this recording has never been verified.

In 1988, Dagle was arrested for the murder, but no charges were actually filed. He died in 2017.

There were also concerns that a local bycricing was involved. However, nothing was substantiated.

Though it seemed like Doug in Beverly had a picture, perfect marriage, has investigators dug further into their lives that discovered that things weren't always wonderful.

Doug had cheated on Beverly, and while she was crushed when she found out, she wanted to make things work.

Beverly was working a job in Ashoa and had a sneaking suspicion that Doug was having a relationship with Rebecca's babysitter or one of her friends.

One day, the babysitter asked Beverly if she could drop a letter off of her while she ran errands. Beverly secretly opened the letter hoping for answers.

The letter talked about how the babysitter was having an affair, but with their across-the-street neighbor, Mr. Spicer, and that the babysitter's friend was the one having a relationship with Doug.

Beverly, of course, promptly fired the babysitter, which meant that she had to leave her job so someone could stay home with Rebecca.

People rightfully questioned Doug's alibi. They argued that he could have gotten someone else to punch in his time card.

Someone even said that Doug had been seen jumping the fence at GM.

However, many sources say that Doug only had a 15-minute break, and it would have taken him an hour to drive home from the GM plant, then back to work.

Eventually, Doug was cleared of any involvement in Beverly's murder by the Durham Regional Police.

The suspicion, the paranoia, and the fear in the Ashoa community continued to grow.

People wondered if the police botched the investigation from the jump. The Durham Regional Police Department had only recently formed, after all.

Beverly's murder was one of the first homicides they'd ever investigated. There were, and continues to be allegations that they lost evidence, didn't fully photograph the scene and lost multiple recordings from wire caps and interviews.

The police department did continue however to vigorously investigate Beverly's murder, but after a year, the case went cold.

Barbara told the Amazon Prime documentary, I think they had forgotten her, and they were just allowing this to disappear.

Whatever the case, the Brown celebrated their first Christmas without Beverly, which was incredibly surreal for the family.

Barbara felt heartbroken that Rebecca would never know her mother, saying Becky missed out on a lot of firsts with her mom. She didn't have a first Christmas. She didn't have a first birthday.

She didn't have a first anything with her mother. She missed out on all of that.

Because Rebecca was only a baby when her mother was murdered, she had no memories of Beverly or of what happened inside their home that day.

In fact, Rebecca was six years old before she even learned that her mother had been murdered. By then, she and her father had moved to a small town in Alberta.

Rebecca was visiting her grandparents in Ashoa when a neighborhood child came running over with a newspaper article.

The child showed it to Rebecca and asked why her mom was in an article about unsolved murders. And that's how Rebecca found out.

Not from her dad, not during some carefully planned conversation when the adults in her life felt that she was ready from another child holding a newspaper article.

Then when Rebecca was 12, she and her father were living back in Ashoa. One day, he took her out for ice cream and explained that her mother's case was going to be featured on crime stoppers.

So Rebecca wasn't only growing up without her mother. As she got older, she also had to grow up with the knowledge of how she'd lost her.

And because Beverly's murder remained unsolved, there were constant reminders of it. New stories, television coverage, questions from strangers, friends, and even family members.

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Meanwhile, Beverly's twin sister Barbara was carrying the loss in a completely different way.

Years past, Barbara became a nurse, she bought a home, she became a mother, she built a life for herself.

But she never stopped thinking about Beverly or the fact that no one had been held accountable for her murder.

And when you consider that Beverly and Barbara were identical twins, there's another layer to this loss that's difficult to put into words.

Barbara once explained to their closeness to the Toronto star saying, I still have a bad habit of not finishing my own sentences, thinking someone just knows because we both just knew.

By the summer of 2006, Barbara had had enough of waiting. She walked into the Durham Regional Police Station carrying a photograph of herself and Beverly. And she demanded to speak to the police chief.

She wanted someone to take another look at her sister's case and she didn't stop there. The very next day, she contacted the Toronto Sun, the newspaper put Beverly's story on the front page, emphasizing the fact that her murder was still unsolved after all of these years.

And this time, people paid attention.

As Barbara continued pushing publicly for Beverly's case to be revisited, she crossed paths with inspector Kimberly, a former homicide investigator who was preparing to take over Durham's major crimes unit.

Kimberly believed Beverly's case deserved another look. But he didn't want investigators to simply pull out the old file read through what had already been done and pick up where the original investigation left off.

He wanted a brand new team to approach Beverly's murder as if they were the first investigators to arrive on the case. In other words, they were going back to the beginning and starting from scratch.

Detectively, on Lynch was assigned as the lead investigator. Once the investigation began, they quickly noticed some inconsistencies, particularly with Alan Smith statements.

Alan had originally told the police that he'd broken Beverly's door down so that EMS could get inside. But in 1988, when he was re-interviewed, he said that that wasn't true, that he wanted to retract that statement.

In 2007, they brought Alan in for another interview to go through his statement. He agreed to take a polygraph test, which he failed.

In fact, the polygraph examiner came back into the room afterwards and said, after evaluating the charts, there's no doubt in my mind that you did shoot Bev.

Alan aggressively denied having anything to do with Beverly's murder. He said that he didn't even have a gun. Now investigators really narrowed their focus in on Alan, which included pretty heavy surveillance.

They re-interviewed Linda, Alan's wife at the time of the murder, and she told police that he'd been with her all night. She also consented to a polygraph.

The same polygraph examiner came back into the room after her exam and said, there's no doubt in my mind that you were involved in this Linda, that you had something to do with the shooting.

Linda said that that was ridiculous. She and Alan had divorced in the mid-90s after both struggling with drugs. Linda had been able to move on from that lifestyle, but Alan had it.

Linda became heavily involved with the church, moving in with a woman named Janet, who has been referred to as her spiritual guide.

After Linda failed the polygraph, she also fell under heavy police surveillance. Her phones were even tapped.

Hundreds of hours of conversations between Linda and Janet show that she was extremely distressed about failing the polygraph test, though she continued to say that she didn't know anything about Beverly's murder.

Janet seemed to be trying to convince Linda that she knew something. She just couldn't access it in her mind.

It seemed as though Linda started to believe her. They began referring to Linda's, quote, inability to remember as the block.

Around this time, Detective Lynch, who had also been encouraging Linda to tell them what she knew and that she knew more than she'd said, told her a story that they'd heard from a man named Dave.

Now, Dave and Alan were good friends back in 1974. In 2007, Dave agreed to meet with investigators. He told them that on the night Beverly was murdered, he'd called Alan looking to buy an ounce of weed.

Alan reportedly told Dave that he'd go get it from his neighbor. Dave then said that the next day, Alan gave him that ounce of weed.

Police felt this was an incredibly important piece of information. It put Alan in Beverly's house that night.

When Detective Lynch told Linda this story, she couldn't believe it. She continued to insist that Alan had been with her all night.

He interviewed her for nine hours, and after 30 years of her story mostly staying the same, she finally remembered something else.

There was a phone call that night that Alan answered after he hung up. She watched him leave the house. He told her that he'd gone to get a bag of weed for Dave.

She didn't recall how long he was gone, but she also said that she saw him standing in their driveway with a gun before he opened his car and stuck it under the seat.

In March 2008, Alan was arrested for the murder of Beverly with Linda's new statements supporting the police's charges.

Investigators believed that Alan had gone over to buy weed from Beverly and that something had gone wrong.

Needless to say, this arrest shocked everyone. Beverly's family hadn't realized that Alan was such a strong suspect, and he wasn't someone that they had even discussed.

Regardless, they were soon celebrating that Beverly was finally going to get justice.

Linda's wiretapped conversations with Janet continued, and her story of what happened that night continued to evolve.

She believed that the block had finally been removed.

Honestly, that might be true, because in one interview with Detective Lynch, he asked Linda to go over everything from the beginning, which she had done so many times for them.

This time, Linda told Lynch that Alan had gone over to Beverly's house to buy weed, but was taking too long.

She knew that her husband was attracted to Beverly, so she went over there to see what was going on.

She walked in through the unlock back porch and saw Alan backing away from the kitchen table.

Linda thought he was cheating on her with Beverly.

She said to Detective Lynch, there was a rifle in the doorway, and I grabbed that, and I believed that I shot Bev.

I think I shot Bev.

The detective, of course, was like, you think or you know that you shot Beverly.

Linda's answer was that this is where her memory gets confused.

Shortly after, Linda was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice.

She recanted part of her statements while still changing other parts.

After her arrest, she requested to be evaluated at a psychiatric hospital.

In July 2008, the Crown, which is the legal embodiment of Canada, reviewed the evidence against Alan and ultimately determined that there wasn't reasonable prospect of conviction at the time.

So, four months after Alan's arrest, he was released.

Investigators told Barbara that they weren't giving up on the investigation though, and they knew Alan was their guy.

Unfortunately, they couldn't avoid that they were now back at square one.

The police was released.

The Durham Regional Police Department said about using one of the country's biggest undercover tactics to catch Alan.

The Toronto Star describes this tactic, which is known as Mr. Big, as the following.

The sting involves undercover officers convincing the target he is consorting with criminals, and that to gain the acceptance of the group, they must tell the crime boss, aka Mr. Big, about a serious offense.

Alan was the first to offer the companionship and financial benefits of a criminal organization, making it particularly effective on poor and socially isolated subjects.

It is important to note that these tactics aren't legal in the US or the UK.

Alan was the perfect target.

He was out of work, had no social circle, needed money, and most of his family had stopped speaking to him during his initial murder charge.

In February of 2009, the sting began.

They started by convincing Alan that he'd won a weekend ice fishing trip, an undercover cop referred to as Danny, posed as another contest winner and befriended Alan.

It wasn't hard.

Alan was looking for a friend.

The two guys talked about everything, including Beverly's murder.

Alan explained how frustrating it was to be wrongly accused.

The next month passed, but there was still no confession from Alan.

Eventually, police went on to the next phase.

Danny began talking to Alan about how he could help him get some extra cash, doing some small drug deals.

He said he worked for a guy that he called Mr. Big, who headed up the drug operation.

Unbeknownst to Alan at the time, everything was fake.

The drugs, the people, the interactions, and he did whatever was asked of him,

including committing an armed robbery of an undercover cop who posed as a drug buyer.

One night, Mr. Big called Danny and Alan in a panic, asking for help.

They arrived to find Mr. Big covered in fake blood with a body, which happened to be a mannequin wrapped in a tarp.

Mr. Big told them that he'd shot the buyer, and he needed them to get rid of the body.

Danny and Alan did what they were told, and dropped the body off of a bridge.

The next day, Mr. Big told them that because they had this information on him, he needed something on them.

He pressured them to confess a secret to him, promising that none of their secrets would leave the house.

Alan proceeded to say, you remember the murder? I was in on it.

He said that he and another man killed Beverly for 40 pounds of weed.

Police weren't satisfied with this, though.

The 40 pounds of weed just didn't add up, and there wasn't anywhere close to that much in the house,

and no evidence that there had ever been.

Mr. Big had a second conversation with Alan, asking for more incriminating information.

This time, he said that he killed Beverly alone, because he wasn't going to let her tell on him to Linda, quote, about this chick I was banging.

Remember, Beverly's babysitter was having an affair with him. That's who he's talking about.

Alan said, I had the gun right behind my back all the time.

She never did get to see any f***ing gun. I just followed her right in the back, and I took one shot in the back of her head, and that was it.

And then I played stupid after that ever since.

Later, in December 2009, Alan was arrested again and charged with Beverly's murder.

Before Alan's trial began in 2013, his defense attorney said that he'd been the victim of, quote, extraordinary and relentless police harassment.

The attorney said that his recorded confessions obtained during the sting shouldn't be allowed in as evidence, arguing a conviction based solely on a series of unreliable statements coerced under threat of life and limb by the police,

which surely bring the administration of justice into dispute.

He said that the Mr. Big investigation pushed the envelope and coercion was evident.

The ultimately ruled, quote, in my opinion, the use of this information obtained in this manner would shock the sense of trial fairness to Canadian society, and that the confessions were so unreliable, you would question whether this was nothing more than a pack of lies.

Judge then threw those confessions out.

One month later, in July of 2014, the crown ruled again that there was no reasonable prospect of conviction.

Alan Smith was subsequently acquitted.

This didn't change anything for the police in their investigation, though.

They stood by their beliefs that Alan was responsible for Beverly's murder.

The officer who went undercover as Mr. Big during the sting defended their tactics, saying some people might call it extreme measures.

They may have been extreme, but so is first a remurder, and sometimes you have to do certain things in order to enlist a truth out of somebody that normally wouldn't come out.

And I believe the truth that we got was that Alan Smith shot Beverly Smith.

Reddit poster, Funky 1974, has identified herself as Beverly's daughter.

She's the moderator of the murder of Beverly Lynn Thred, and talks openly about her and her family's frustration at the information that the documentary chose to leave out.

She believes that the police had the right person and custody.

All of the following information is alleged, though the Reddit poster said she's heard it directly from the police recordings made during the sting.

These are some of the inconsistencies noted throughout the prime documentary, as well as information that was left out.

The documentary spells Beverly's name as Lynn L-Y-N-N, though her birth certificate and other documents spell it as Lynn L-Y-N.

Rebecca said that she pointed this out several times, but it was never changed.

Alan told the police that he didn't have a gun, but allegedly had a 22 that he used for his work at the Humane Society to remain put down an animal on the day Beverly was murdered.

He allegedly took the gun home, then later showed undercover officers where he dumped the gun.

This was all reportedly on recorded audio during the sting.

There was a 22 found in the water in the area during the spring after Beverly's murder.

Reportedly, Alan had a serious history of violence and abuse, both physically and emotionally.

His ex-wife said that she was terrified for her life and the lives of their children.

Additionally, during these recordings, Alan once told a dancer at a club that he knew how to get rid of a body.

He also apparently referred to the body that they disposed of as carpet boy.

There are also allegedly recordings of Alan telling the undercover that he'd prey to Beverly and carpet boy for forgiveness.

The poster says that in the documentary, it made it seem like Alan only brought up Beverly and her murder when Mr. Big told him he needed information from him.

However, she said that this isn't true.

She wrote that because of what he'd said on the recordings that he'd planned on shooting Beverly anyway, because according to him, she had a quote, big mouth.

And that's how they were able to charge him with first degree murder.

After Danny and Alan dumped the body, the documentary plays audio of both of them seeming to panic, upset at what they had to do.

Allegedly, the documentary cut off the recording right before Alan asked, how much are we getting paid for this?

It'd better be at least two grand.

In regards to Doug, who is the poster's father and Beverly's husband, she wrote,

Doug didn't try to cover up selling weed.

He told police that night. He always worked with police.

He didn't participate in the documentary because it's hard for him, because it has haunted him for decades and he has PTSD.

He cheated on her because they were high and it was a fling. Nothing serious and he regretted it.

After Linda was arrested for obstruction, she wrote Rebecca Letter.

Rebecca said that the documentary producer asked her to read it several times on camera, but didn't include it in the final piece.

In the letter Linda apologizes and said she was so sorry that it took her so long to come forward.

She said that she was scared of losing her baby and Alan, because she was living in fear of Alan.

She said that she was scared for her and her children's lives.

She wrote about a time that Alan asked to stay at a psychiatric hospital and that it was the first time she and the children had peace.

Before he was released, one of the social workers called her and told her that she should get police protection because Alan often talked about nailing the door shut, pouring gas around the house and killing me and my four children.

She continued to apologize before ending the letter, then adding that she didn't have anything to do with Beverly's murder.

Linda wrote that she was making baby formula in her house when Doug called.

She ended the letter by saying, I would like to talk to you and your dad face to face if possible.

After the documentary was released, there was a lot of scrutiny towards the police department and Beverly's family.

Critics said that they all had tunnel vision and that they basically decided Alan was guilty before actually having any evidence.

One Reddit poster sums it up pretty well by writing, however, I'm not sure the police had the wrong guy

as much as their investigation means were totally problematic and borderline stupid.

Aside from the criminal investigation, it's very clear that this production, meaning the documentary, is extremely curated in an attempt to emotionally manipulate the viewer.

The documentary does focus more on Alan and Linda's story rather than who Beverly was and an unbiased look into her once again cold case.

In 2016, Barbara told the Toronto star that she often visits her twin sister's grave in the Osho union cemetery.

She decorates it for different holidays and every year she does the same thing brings and places a bouquet of orange roses on Beverly's grave.

She puts the flowers down, kisses her fingers, then touches Beverly's grave stone.

At home, she has a matching set of orange roses on her own paper.

Regardless of how many years have passed, Barbara maintains her connection with her sister.

Barbara Beckett lives with the sadness of not having her own memories of her mother.

One day, while digging around in her grandmother's basement, she found a brown leather purse.

It was a purse that Beverly was carrying on the day she was murdered.

Inside the purse, she found a ruby red nail polish, Maybelline's Great Lashmascara, Yes, the classic, Korean and pink one,

a red wallet with $37 in $1.2 bills, along with a handwritten shopping list, with baby food, nylon's,

Listerine, plastic cups and noodles on it.

There was also a coupon from a pack of frozen peas that could be redeemed for stuffed animal.

She told the Toronto star that this was her favorite part because she also liked, quote, weird stuff.

40 years after Beverly's murder, Rebecca found herself living near Allen yet again.

On a 63rd birthday, Allen found a bouquet of orange roses on his doorstep with a note included.

The note read, Happy Birthday, Al. I hear these are my mom's favorites.

Please check out the murder of Beverly Lenn thread on Reddit to see more information from Rebecca about her mother's case.

If you choose to watch the documentary, we refer in Stony Amazon Prime, understand that there is more information and more stories to be told about this case.

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