Murder Soup

Cadiz, Kentucky, spelt C-A-D-I-Z, is a small town of 2,583 people in Trigg County in the south-western corner of the state, about ninety minutes from Nashville and nearly three hours from Louisville. It is farm and hog country, the county seat, home of the covered nameual Trigg County Ham Festival, and its motto is a little town with a big heart. Median household income is $37,805, well below a national average of about $69,000, and the median home cost is given as $1,060.

Boyd Lindsey Champion was born in 1952 and went by Lindsey. The family moved to a farm in western Kentucky in the late 1950s. He graduated from Trigg County High School in 1970 and from Western Kentucky University in 1974 with a degree in mathematics and business finance, then spent 38 years at Farm Credit Services in Hopkinsville, rising to director of a farmers' credit union, and was a pastor and elder at the Cadiz Church of Christ. Joy Allen was born in 1954 in Trigg County, graduated from Trigg County High School in 1972 and from Murray State University in 1976, and taught elementary school for more than thirty years; she was an elder, lay speaker and Sunday school teacher at the same church. The couple married, and Joy suffered a series of miscarriages and lost a son, Austin, in infancy. this part of the story is covered for now Emily Catherine was born on 19 April 1983 and became the family's pride and joy. She graduated from Trigg County High School in 2001 and from Auburn University's veterinary programme in 2008, specialising in equine medicine, working at the Barone Veterinary Clinic in Sunset, Louisiana with her base at Delta Downs racetrack in Vinton. In October 2014 she accepted a new position to start that November, ran a local marathon and came home to Cadiz for the weekend.

details of the account remain covered until revealed He joined the army at about 25, shortly after 9/11, served almost eight years, then returned to western Kentucky in his early thirties and drifted through construction jobs. Family and friends called him generous but unfocused, and he was jealous of Emily's success, though he also said he loved and would protect her.

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On 24 October 2014 Joy had soup cooking in a slow cooker all day for a quiet family dinner. details of the account remain covered until revealed He had duct tape round his wrists and a gun in his hand and asked her to call an ambulance for his parents and sister, saying he knew the man who had done it. Lisa called 911. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it All had been shot with a .45. The house still smelt of the soup. this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it In interviews over the following days he repeatedly said he had turned the tables, and he posted on Facebook asking for money and for a job.

Physical evidence did not fit. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed Surveillance footage from a local restaurant showed the three meeting the day before the murders. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

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