It blows my mind how the murderer’s wife still stands behind him and refuses to believe that he’s guilty 🤦🏻♀️ some women are just willingly choosing to be blind
@@orishaorisha684 his wife could have Stockholm syndrome plus most career predators know how to get rid of evidence both on their own and with the help of gullible enablers
Answer your question MONEY his GO-fund me page brings in about 1,000,000or more I think that's why his wife was on 20/20 Because the gold funny page was bringing in less funds this past year.
There is NO WAY that these girls would hook up with a random dude for sex. They were trying to find their way home. Remember their car was first discovered hours after the phone call to one of their mothers. The man simply got caught. He tried to make up a story. The reality is that good people on the surface can live a double life.
Glad they finally got this guy, it’s sad that his wife can’t believe he’s guilty. They should really think twice before pushing for a new trial because the next jury might not be so willing to pass on the death penalty…
I live in Alabama and this happened when I was only 20 years old. I still remember this. I lived in NY then but I was here in Alabama visiting my parents.
@@chloebelle4923 Did no one pay attention to the facts given here? I honestly think they have the wrong man!! First, the girls were 17 and it could very well be that JB wanted to meet Coley McCraney to have sex. As soon as the mom said that the girls got lost and couldn’t find the birthday party in the field and ended up in Ozark, I thought to myself…they may have lied. Even good girls do things they aren’t supposed to. I was a straight A student but still snuck out of the house during a slumber party at my house with my girlfriends to go meet a couple of boys from school around the lake. Just saying. Let’s remember how hormones are raging at that age and perhaps JB already knew McCraney and they had planned to meet in Ozark to have sex/make love. And at 17, you’d want to bring a friend with you because maybe you were scared to go alone. So the “birthday party” story was just what they told their mom/dance teacher so that they would be allowed to go out together. There was never a field party, they always planned to meet McCraney. And after the long night, they then called the mom of Tracy to let her know they were on the way home. Because maybe they hung out a little too late with McCraney. But on the way home, perhaps they ran out of gas. Perhaps they really only stopped at the gas station to call Tracy’s mom. This is when they pulled over and put on their blinker. Remember, newspaper boy saw their car sitting there with the blinkers on. Now remember, the lady the police interviewed said that when she was at a party, the officer who had been drinking confessed to killing the girls. But then threatened to kill the lady and her family if she ever told anyone. So back to the girls that night. Perhaps they thought they could walk back to the gas station to get gas. But just then the policeman who was on patrol that night sees them. He stops to help them. So he offers to take them to the gas station to get gas. They trust him because, after all, he’s a cop. Perhaps, though, that’s where things go wrong. Perhaps he makes sexual advances that are rejected by the girls. But now that he’s tried to make an advance that was rejected, he knows he’d be in big trouble if the girls told on him. Perhaps the girls run out of the car and try to escape from the cop. They run into the woods or get muddy when they slip and fall into mud. He catches up, holds a gun at them and tells them to walk back to the car. He tells them to get into the trunk, then shoots them so they can’t tattletale. Then he closes the trunk, turns off the blinkers and gets back into his patrol car, but then that newspaper boy is circling back around with his father. The cop sees the lights coming and ducks down in his car so no one can see him. That’s why the newspaper boy and his father saw the girls’ car there and the Ozark patrol car there. The girls were dead in the trunk and the cop had to hide to not be seen. Once the newspaper boy is gone, the cop thinks, ‘I better move the car to another street, because if the girls are found dead in their trunk here on this street, then whoever passed in their car just now will place me at the crime scene. So the cop fills the car with a little of his gas or maybe he has a little extra gas in his can or maybe they went to a gas station somewhere to get a bit of gas and he drove them back, filled their car with gas and then made a sexual advance that was rejected. In any case, he thinks he needs to move the car to another street so no one puts 2 & 2 together. So he moves their car to a different street (which is why it was found on a different street.) Then the cop walks back to his car and gets out of there. Then the cop’s guilty conscience gets the better of him and he drinks too much at a party one night and confesses to that woman at the party. He threatens to kill her and her family if she ever tells. But years later, she has too guilty of a conscience and tells the police. She said in that interview with police that if she were subpoenaed to go to court, she would lie about knowing anything because she has to protect her family. She says there in that interview in her living room to the police (and it seems she doesn’t know she’s being recorded on video) she says, “if Coley McCraney has to go to jail in order for me to protect my family, then he has to go to jail” because she needs to protect her family. I’m sure she doesn’t think she can win against a police officer. Especially if she knows he murdered 2 teenagers. Then she would know that he’s dangerous and very capable of murdering someone. So, when she’s called to court to testify, she plays dumb, says she doesn’t remember, says she has memory loss. Could even be that that cop was sitting in the audience watching her and she felt intimidated and too scared to point him out. So, that’s how you get the 2 girls shot in the back of the trunk, but the car on a different street, and why they only find the semen of McCraken on her. He was a handsome young man and JB could have known him and been seeing him for a while without her family knowing since people may not have been open-minded about a racial relationship. Cone to think of it, remember JB had a falling out with her mother and left her mom to go live with her dance teacher. Perhaps JB and her mom had a fight over her dating this black man. So they had a falling out over it. JB goes and lives with her dance teacher. Then one night she asks her friend to come with her because she wants to meet up with McCraney again. They both make up the story about the field party to get out of the house so JB can see her boyfriend who is black, without anyone knowing or saying something about it or stopping her. I honestly think they sent the wrong man to prison!! McCraney may have lied to his wife and he may have had this exciting affair with this young white girl and he is guilty of cheating, but I honestly don’t think he murdered the girls. I think he was just having an affair. And I think the cops may have covered it up. Maybe someone even helped him cover it up? Does no one think it’s strange that the police never opened the trunk? Were they cleaning off fingerprints left behind in those 4-5 hours? Just seems strange.
@@freedomforevermore9090 You spelled demonic incorrectly. 6% of the population is Black males. 7% is Black female. The disparity is because the males are more likely to be killed. 13% responsible for 60% 187s in America.
You think he did it? I'm starting to have doubts. I watched the episode but im not understanding how this first witness comes out the blue saying she heard a cop make the confession but later recant cause she was terrified. Also if you recall the paperboy said he seen lights from a police car around 2 to 3 am but the car wasn't reported missing and seen until 7 or 8 am. That makes no sense
This episode was surprisingly weak. *Spoiler* After they found the killer, the show didn’t really push hard on how clear the evidence was. I had the impression that because it was a black man in Alabama, editorially they felt they needed to keep it vague, but then what’s the point of doing a show on this horrible crime? The idea that these two 17-year-olds would pretend to be lost to several people on their way to a party, communicate to their families they were coming home, meet up with a 25-year-old man, and had JB wait in a car while the other girl had sex with him in some random spot, only for both girls to turn up executed, it’s beyond credibility. Come on! Could it have happened that way and this guy had nothing to do with it? It's possible, but it’s bloody unlikely.
Exactly I didn't believe it for one second. Because he had somehow grown up in established family and seemed to be like a good person of the community. It was very hard for people to believe he was guilty, but DNA doesn't lie and those girls were trying to get home
I am glad you said this. I wont watch it now. I live about a half mile from where they were found. These girls are from Dothan and was trying to get to Headland. My own daughter got her DL in 2001. She ended up in Headland trying to get to Webb one time. Back then we didn't have google maps to give directions. Unfortunately a woman spread a lot of rumors about police officers being involved in thus crime. She admitted she lied at the trial. Ozark is a small town and I believe she did a lot of damage with that. He is guilty as sin. At first he claimed not to have met them and then later tried to claim consensual relations. Not buying it.
@@sparkles8344 Yep, they mentioned that woman too, and it turned out she had mental health issues. This is the worst 20/20 episode I've seen, because they deliberately dangled the guilty party until the end and even then, kept it rather vague. They should have leaned into reporting on the evidence.
@philosopher2king Back in 1983 Cynthia Ann Wuolukka a 20 year old clerk was murdered up here in Ozark. The man convicted claims he is innocent but he was denied an appeal. I was a teenager myself and dating a boy here. My friend had just left the store. There is a lot of people that claim both of these guys are innocent but DNA don't lie.
There is reasonable doubt, in my opinion. Is it possible he had consensual sex with one of the girls that were later found murdered? Yes. They didn’t find the murder weapon, and they didn’t find his dna ANYWHERE else. He’s never owned a gun and no priors. You can’t say without a shadow of a doubt that he BOTH had sex with one teen and shot them both dead. And wouldn’t they have had more defensive wounds to their bodies if the one was raped and the other tried to defend her?
Now his story is I was in the car we we went somewhere and had sex. While the other girl just sat in the car. They took him back to store he then called his wife. BOI SSTTOOPP!
I think he was set up. The cop was furious they saw that girl with a black man. Because why kill them. That woman who claimed brain damage is telling the truth and they probably did threaten her. Very sad.
I would’ve never gone to sleep until my girls were home safe. Even with my sons, I never completely fell asleep till I heard them coming thru our front door.
What exactly is your point? It's not like Traci's mom would have found them and stopped the crime had she gone out to look for them after their expected arrival after the 11:35 phone call. Weird flex.
@@chloebelle4923 Truthfully, I have no idea. Deep down, I want to believe that nobody would be capable of something so horrible, but somebody did it -- whether it be him or someone else. I don't know him personally, but a lot of people spoke up for him in his defense.
Set-up how would they get semen. Black people need help or was he doing something else with rubbers. If he was I think he had an alibi and was scared to use it. I think it was better than getting arrested.
This man lying. He totally killed this poor girls. He rapped one of them, maybe even both but they fought him, he knew he's life was over if they got away.
They have the wrong man! Look at the details and inconsistencies!! Someone needs to reopen this case and pay attention to what the newspaper boy and his dad saw!
I'm still wondering where are you going to get semen from. Blood I do understand but not semen. The only way to get that is if he wore a condom with another woman. If that is what happen I'm definitely telling that over me getting arrested.
Anybody else got more creeped out by that journalist than the killer? Seriously 20/20 why did you feature that super off-putting journalist for the whole 2 hours? I kept fast forwarding when they showed him.
This guy is a murderer. He killed them Both so his wife and kids dont find out. Cant believe he has a good life and those girls' life was cut short and their parents suffered for years.
It blows my mind how the murderer’s wife still stands behind him and refuses to believe that he’s guilty 🤦🏻♀️ some women are just willingly choosing to be blind
You never wondered why both didn’t have his DNA on them? His story is very plausible.
@@orishaorisha684 his wife could have Stockholm syndrome plus most career predators know how to get rid of evidence both on their own and with the help of gullible enablers
Yes, it also blows my mind how CONFIDENT she is that he's getting out...
Wonder which Marxist group is telling her they'll make that happen?
@@orishaorisha684 The other was fighting, trying to protect her friend, which is why he killed her too.
Answer your question MONEY his GO-fund me page brings in about 1,000,000or more I think that's why his wife was on 20/20 Because the gold funny page was bringing in less funds this past year.
There is NO WAY that these girls would hook up with a random dude for sex. They were trying to find their way home. Remember their car was first discovered hours after the phone call to one of their mothers. The man simply got caught. He tried to make up a story. The reality is that good people on the surface can live a double life.
Very true. That wife is crazy. He just told her he hooked up with an underage girl & doesn't care. He is a killer.
Glad they finally got this guy, it’s sad that his wife can’t believe he’s guilty. They should really think twice before pushing for a new trial because the next jury might not be so willing to pass on the death penalty…
I can only imagine what the parents are going through. Sending you my best.
I live in Alabama and this happened when I was only 20 years old. I still remember this. I lived in NY then but I was here in Alabama visiting my parents.
DNA doesn't lie, he did
I live in this area, I'm an avid true crime watcher and it's wild seeing such a high profile case in the small town I live in.
Do you think that they got the right guy?
@@chloebelle4923
Did no one pay attention to the facts given here? I honestly think they have the wrong man!!
First, the girls were 17 and it could very well be that JB wanted to meet Coley McCraney to have sex.
As soon as the mom said that the girls got lost and couldn’t find the birthday party in the field and ended up in Ozark, I thought to myself…they may have lied.
Even good girls do things they aren’t supposed to. I was a straight A student but still snuck out of the house during a slumber party at my house with my girlfriends to go meet a couple of boys from school around the lake.
Just saying. Let’s remember how hormones are raging at that age and perhaps JB already knew McCraney and they had planned to meet in Ozark to have sex/make love.
And at 17, you’d want to bring a friend with you because maybe you were scared to go alone.
So the “birthday party” story was just what they told their mom/dance teacher so that they would be allowed to go out together.
There was never a field party, they always planned to meet McCraney.
And after the long night, they then called the mom of Tracy to let her know they were on the way home. Because maybe they hung out a little too late with McCraney.
But on the way home, perhaps they ran out of gas. Perhaps they really only stopped at the gas station to call Tracy’s mom. This is when they pulled over and put on their blinker.
Remember, newspaper boy saw their car sitting there with the blinkers on.
Now remember, the lady the police interviewed said that when she was at a party, the officer who had been drinking confessed to killing the girls. But then threatened to kill the lady and her family if she ever told anyone.
So back to the girls that night. Perhaps they thought they could walk back to the gas station to get gas.
But just then the policeman who was on patrol that night sees them. He stops to help them. So he offers to take them to the gas station to get gas. They trust him because, after all, he’s a cop.
Perhaps, though, that’s where things go wrong. Perhaps he makes sexual advances that are rejected by the girls. But now that he’s tried to make an advance that was rejected, he knows he’d be in big trouble if the girls told on him.
Perhaps the girls run out of the car and try to escape from the cop. They run into the woods or get muddy when they slip and fall into mud.
He catches up, holds a gun at them and tells them to walk back to the car. He tells them to get into the trunk, then shoots them so they can’t tattletale. Then he closes the trunk, turns off the blinkers and gets back into his patrol car, but then that newspaper boy is circling back around with his father.
The cop sees the lights coming and ducks down in his car so no one can see him.
That’s why the newspaper boy and his father saw the girls’ car there and the Ozark patrol car there.
The girls were dead in the trunk and the cop had to hide to not be seen.
Once the newspaper boy is gone, the cop thinks, ‘I better move the car to another street, because if the girls are found dead in their trunk here on this street, then whoever passed in their car just now will place me at the crime scene.
So the cop fills the car with a little of his gas or maybe he has a little extra gas in his can or maybe they went to a gas station somewhere to get a bit of gas and he drove them back, filled their car with gas and then made a sexual advance that was rejected.
In any case, he thinks he needs to move the car to another street so no one puts 2 & 2 together. So he moves their car to a different street (which is why it was found on a different street.) Then the cop walks back to his car and gets out of there.
Then the cop’s guilty conscience gets the better of him and he drinks too much at a party one night and confesses to that woman at the party.
He threatens to kill her and her family if she ever tells. But years later, she has too guilty of a conscience and tells the police.
She said in that interview with police that if she were subpoenaed to go to court, she would lie about knowing anything because she has to protect her family.
She says there in that interview in her living room to the police (and it seems she doesn’t know she’s being recorded on video) she says, “if Coley McCraney has to go to jail in order for me to protect my family, then he has to go to jail” because she needs to protect her family.
I’m sure she doesn’t think she can win against a police officer. Especially if she knows he murdered 2 teenagers. Then she would know that he’s dangerous and very capable of murdering someone.
So, when she’s called to court to testify, she plays dumb, says she doesn’t remember, says she has memory loss. Could even be that that cop was sitting in the audience watching her and she felt intimidated and too scared to point him out.
So, that’s how you get the 2 girls shot in the back of the trunk, but the car on a different street, and why they only find the semen of McCraken on her. He was a handsome young man and JB could have known him and been seeing him for a while without her family knowing since people may not have been open-minded about a racial relationship.
Cone to think of it, remember JB had a falling out with her mother and left her mom to go live with her dance teacher. Perhaps JB and her mom had a fight over her dating this black man.
So they had a falling out over it. JB goes and lives with her dance teacher. Then one night she asks her friend to come with her because she wants to meet up with McCraney again. They both make up the story about the field party to get out of the house so JB can see her boyfriend who is black, without anyone knowing or saying something about it or stopping her.
I honestly think they sent the wrong man to prison!!
McCraney may have lied to his wife and he may have had this exciting affair with this young white girl and he is guilty of cheating, but I honestly don’t think he murdered the girls. I think he was just having an affair.
And I think the cops may have covered it up. Maybe someone even helped him cover it up? Does no one think it’s strange that the police never opened the trunk?
Were they cleaning off fingerprints left behind in those 4-5 hours?
Just seems strange.
How embarrassing is it when 2020 is defending the killer…the excuse the killer came up with was BS…I’m done watching 20/20
They have to have sympathy for him. His skin color makes him angelic these days.
@@freedomforevermore9090 You spelled demonic incorrectly.
6% of the population is Black males. 7% is Black female. The disparity is because the males are more likely to be killed. 13% responsible for 60% 187s in America.
@@freedomforevermore9090 I've noticed most white women in USA actually prefer black men over white men. Why is that?
@@freedomforevermore9090Yep
He did it … his DNA .. he admitted to having relations with her that night .. full episode is on HULU
Who is he?.
You think he did it? I'm starting to have doubts. I watched the episode but im not understanding how this first witness comes out the blue saying she heard a cop make the confession but later recant cause she was terrified. Also if you recall the paperboy said he seen lights from a police car around 2 to 3 am but the car wasn't reported missing and seen until 7 or 8 am. That makes no sense
@@joy2come119my thoughts exactly! I just watched the Hulu episode too.
Somebody bad saw those two girls alone, and followed them.
This episode was surprisingly weak.
*Spoiler*
After they found the killer, the show didn’t really push hard on how clear the evidence was. I had the impression that because it was a black man in Alabama, editorially they felt they needed to keep it vague, but then what’s the point of doing a show on this horrible crime?
The idea that these two 17-year-olds would pretend to be lost to several people on their way to a party, communicate to their families they were coming home, meet up with a 25-year-old man, and had JB wait in a car while the other girl had sex with him in some random spot, only for both girls to turn up executed, it’s beyond credibility. Come on! Could it have happened that way and this guy had nothing to do with it? It's possible, but it’s bloody unlikely.
Exactly I didn't believe it for one second. Because he had somehow grown up in established family and seemed to be like a good person of the community. It was very hard for people to believe he was guilty, but DNA doesn't lie and those girls were trying to get home
I am glad you said this. I wont watch it now. I live about a half mile from where they were found. These girls are from Dothan and was trying to get to Headland. My own daughter got her DL in 2001. She ended up in Headland trying to get to Webb one time. Back then we didn't have google maps to give directions. Unfortunately a woman spread a lot of rumors about police officers being involved in thus crime. She admitted she lied at the trial. Ozark is a small town and I believe she did a lot of damage with that. He is guilty as sin. At first he claimed not to have met them and then later tried to claim consensual relations. Not buying it.
@@sparkles8344 Yep, they mentioned that woman too, and it turned out she had mental health issues. This is the worst 20/20 episode I've seen, because they deliberately dangled the guilty party until the end and even then, kept it rather vague. They should have leaned into reporting on the evidence.
@philosopher2king Back in 1983 Cynthia Ann Wuolukka a 20 year old clerk was murdered up here in Ozark. The man convicted claims he is innocent but he was denied an appeal. I was a teenager myself and dating a boy here. My friend had just left the store. There is a lot of people that claim both of these guys are innocent but DNA don't lie.
Yes, it’s soo clear that he did it.
This got on my nerves and the wife, ugh. So if it had been two black girls and a white man had done it, the whole country would've been on this.
They tried to sweep it under the rug
It's not a full episode
That's why it says preview.
@@sassycat6487 what that mean?
What a world full of walking garbage. God bless u 2 girls n ur families.
First you claim you didn't know the girls then all of the sudden long ago you gave one a number to call you. I'm not going to say it.
There is reasonable doubt, in my opinion. Is it possible he had consensual sex with one of the girls that were later found murdered? Yes. They didn’t find the murder weapon, and they didn’t find his dna ANYWHERE else. He’s never owned a gun and no priors. You can’t say without a shadow of a doubt that he BOTH had sex with one teen and shot them both dead. And wouldn’t they have had more defensive wounds to their bodies if the one was raped and the other tried to defend her?
Now his story is I was in the car we we went somewhere and had sex. While the other girl just sat in the car. They took him back to store he then called his wife. BOI SSTTOOPP!
Belated condolences to their families. Rest in peace.
Can anyone tell me the title of the song played towards the end when they mentioned JB's dance foundation? Thank you!
Alanis Morissette "Uninvited".
I think he was set up. The cop was furious they saw that girl with a black man. Because why kill them. That woman who claimed brain damage is telling the truth and they probably did threaten her. Very sad.
I would’ve never gone to sleep until my girls were home safe. Even with my sons, I never completely fell asleep till I heard them coming thru our front door.
What exactly is your point? It's not like Traci's mom would have found them and stopped the crime had she gone out to look for them after their expected arrival after the 11:35 phone call. Weird flex.
Where is the rest of it please
They’ll upload the full story in a few days
Hulu
I live around where it happened, but it happened when I was just a baby. I know the wife of the man who was found guilty, too.
Do you think he did it? Do you buy his story?
@@chloebelle4923 Truthfully, I have no idea. Deep down, I want to believe that nobody would be capable of something so horrible, but somebody did it -- whether it be him or someone else. I don't know him personally, but a lot of people spoke up for him in his defense.
I talk about wives still want to stay after abuse this is way worse.
Set-up how would they get semen. Black people need help or was he doing something else with rubbers. If he was I think he had an alibi and was scared to use it. I think it was better than getting arrested.
This reporter is so bias
This man lying. He totally killed this poor girls. He rapped one of them, maybe even both but they fought him, he knew he's life was over if they got away.
Yet again a race baiting episode.
Incomplete.
It is titled PREVIEW
I think it's weird girls from a small town would get lost
They have the wrong man! Look at the details and inconsistencies!! Someone needs to reopen this case and pay attention to what the newspaper boy and his dad saw!
I'm still wondering where are you going to get semen from. Blood I do understand but not semen. The only way to get that is if he wore a condom with another woman. If that is what happen I'm definitely telling that over me getting arrested.
When teens went to the mall.
Anybody else got more creeped out by that journalist than the killer? Seriously 20/20 why did you feature that super off-putting journalist for the whole 2 hours? I kept fast forwarding when they showed him.
Grow up
This guy is a murderer. He killed them
Both so his wife and kids dont find out. Cant believe he has a good life and those girls' life was cut short and their parents suffered for years.
R.I.P. miss JB ❤ truth and justice will always prevail. #uninvited 🩰
Belated condolences to their families. Rest in peace.