Late into the night on October 12th, 1990, Daisy Manufacturing CEO Richard Daniel returned home to Rogers after a business trip to Chicago. The house was quiet. He called out for his wife, Jane. No answer. As he searched room by room, he found no sign of her. Then he made his way to the basement, where he discovered something that would shock Northwest Arkansas and set off a murder investigation that still echoes more than three decades later. The man convicted of killing Jane Daniel was sentenced to death and has spent more than 30 years on Arkansas’ death row. Yet despite the sentence, the state has not carried out an execution since 2017. Now, some are urging Arkansas leaders to restart the process… and they say Jane Daniel’s murder should be among the first considered.

This is Crime in the Ozarks: A Burglary, a murder, and more than 30 years on Arkansas Death Row.

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of murder and violence. Listener discretion is advised. ️

• (00:00:05) - Jane Daniels Murderer: Crime in the Ozarks
• (00:01:17) - Jane Daniel
• (00:04:08) - Jane Daniel's Murder: A Burglar and a Murder
• (00:06:57) - Who Is Don Davis: Escape From Death Row
• (00:15:46) - Arkansas Governor to Set Death Row inmate's Execution Date

On the evening of December 7th, 2019, Fayetteville police officer Stephen Carr was sitting in his patrol vehicle behind the police station in downtown Fayetteville. It was around 9:40 p.m. on that chilly Saturday evening, when a man with no apparent knowledge of or ties to Stephen would walk up to the patrol vehicle and unleash a hail of gunfire at the 27-year-old officer. Police Chief Mike Reynolds would call it quote “the worst day in the history of the Fayetteville Police Department.” And the impact of the killing would reverberate throughout the local law enforcement community and the public at large for years to come.
This is Crime in the Ozarks: The eerie killing of Officer Stephen Carr.
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of murder and violence. Listener discretion is advised. ️

Crime in the Ozarks is a product of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Community Journalism Project, learn more at: https://www.nwajournalism.org/

On October 31st, 2022, Ashley Bush stepped into an older, tan pickup with a woman she knew as Lucy. It was someone Ashley had met online while looking for a job where she could work from home. It was the second time she had met with Lucy in her hunt for a job. But there was no job. And there was no Lucy. The woman behind the wheel was Amber Waterman. And what followed was what Benton County Sheriff Shawn Holloway would later describe as one of the most horrific cases he had seen in the entirety of his law enforcement career. This is Crime in the Ozarks: The horrific crimes of Amber Waterman.

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of murder, and violence against a pregnant person. Listener discretion is advised. ️

Crime in the Ozarks is a product of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Community Journalism Project, learn more at: https://www.nwajournalism.org/