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Introducing Accused, a podcast about the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Andes

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The Oxford Police Department approached the 1978 stabbing and strangulation of Elizabeth Andes as an open-and-shut case.

After a murder case languished for 37 years, two Cincinnati Enquirer journalists spent a year investigating whether police had gotten the case wrong from the start. The Enquirer and Cincinnati.com – part of the USA Today network – are proud to announce the Sept. 8 debut of an eight-part podcast a year in the making.

Listen to the introduction:

The Oxford Police Department approached the 1978 stabbing and strangulation of Elizabeth Andes as an open-and-shut case. This mindset was bolstered by the next-day confession of Andes’ boyfriend, Bob Young, who admitted to the slaying after 15 straight hours of interrogation. But Young immediately recanted the confession, saying he was tired, traumatized and confused. Two separate juries – one criminal, the other civil – found him not guilty of the crime.

But Oxford Police refused to re-investigate the case, telling reporters at the time that the juries got it wrong and Young got away with murder. Several of the players to this day maintain that they’d charged the right guy.

That’s where journalists Amber Hunt and Amanda Rossmann have stepped in. The two have dedicated a year re-investigating the case – more thoroughly, it turns out, than did the initial detectives. They’ve tracked down people that police weren’t able to find and uncovered information overlooked in 1978. The resulting podcast, titled “Accused: The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes,” lays out the story while uncovering strong leads never pursued by police.

“This has been the most grueling, yet rewarding, project of my career,” Hunt said. “This isn’t a podcast that simply lays out a cold case. Our work here has helped resurrect it.”

The first two episodes will be released Sept. 8. You can listen at Cincinnati.com or subscribe via these apps and services.

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Amber Hunt is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author who works as a special projects reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer. She’s written four nonfiction books, including three focusing on true crime. She previously covered crime for the Detroit Free Press and is a past recipient of the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting, the only national award dedicated to crime coverage. Amber is a past Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. She teaches multimedia journalism at the University of Cincinnati and has appeared on NBC’s Dateline and A&E’s Crime Stories.

Amanda Rossmann is an Emmy-award winning photojournalist with the Cincinnati Enquirer. A graduate of Northern Kentucky University, she has worked for The Enquirer for 10 years. In that time, she’s won several awards from the Ohio News Photographers Association and The Associated Press. Most recently, her video “Big Man on Campus” was awarded an Emmy by the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.