In June of 2023, a woman was brutally murdered in Floyd County, Kentucky, while attending a gathering at the home of a local dentist. The slaying rocked the small communities of eastern Kentucky as months ticked by, rumors swirled and no one was held accountable. Finally, in July 2024, three men were charged in connection to her death and the trial is right around the corner.
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In June of 2023, a woman was brutally murdered in Floyd County, Kentucky, while attending a gathering at the home of a local dentist. The slaying rocked the small communities of eastern Kentucky as months ticked by, rumors swirled and no one was held accountable. Finally, in July 2024, three men were charged in connection to her death and the trial is right around the corner.
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Hi, crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And if you've never heard of Amber Spradlin's case, well, then you're not from Eastern Kentucky because in Floyd County, this case is all people are talking about. For over a year, this could have been considered a who done it. Six people went into a house, one ends up dead. One is covered in blood and failed a polygraph. The one with scratches left the house right around the time when the murder is thought to have happened. Two others don't seem to be talking to police at all. And at least one did talk but said that she went to bed that night and everyone was fine when she did. And a camera that was pointed right at where the crime took place and should have made this an open and shut case is just missing. But some people in town never considered this a who done it. They believe that the person police arrested the one that's about to go on trial here any day. They believe he did the crime he's charged with a brutal murder of a young woman who had already been dealt one of the toughest hands in life. There are still questions mainly why 38 year old Amber Spradlin hardly knew these people. So why would someone cut her throat, stab her in the face and leave her dead and covered in blood on the couch till morning? And why would a police chief, unconnected to the investigation, allegedly tell Amber's family that she wasn't murdered at all and just died by aspiration? Something in Floyd County stinks and based on what we found, this might just be scratching the surface of what's been happening there. So with the trial right around the corner, we're trying to make sense of what happened to Amber Spradlin that night in June of 2023. [Music] Amber Spradlin had a tough childhood. Her mom and sister died when she was young and she was barely into her 20s when she lost her dad. And as you can imagine, all of that trauma left her with pretty severe and sometimes debilitating anxiety and depression. But the family that she did have left, her grandparents, her aunt Missy, her cousin Debbie, they had all really taken Amber under their wings. And actually up until recently, Amber lived with her grandparents. But when they too passed away, Amber felt like it was time for her to step out from under her family's wings and finally spread her own. By 2023, at the age of 38, Amber had finally gotten her own place and found a part-time job as a hostess at a popular restaurant in Preston'sburg, Kentucky, where she lived. Now, I mean, this was a bit zero to 60. So Aunt Missy decides that it would be best to keep a close eye on Amber just to make sure she was safe. So she had security cameras installed at Amber's new house to do just that. And Amber was great about communication too, I mean, she is nothing if not predictable and keeping a stricter teen is super important to her. So she made a call every morning to her aunt at 9am and they would exchange even more calls throughout the day. So when Amber doesn't call Missy on Sunday, June 18, this bad feeling washes over her
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In June of 2023, a woman was brutally murdered in Floyd County, Kentucky, while attending a gathering at the home of a local dentist. The slaying rocked the small communities of eastern Kentucky as months ticked by, rumors swirled and no one was held accountable. Finally, in July 2024, three men were charged in connection to her death and the trial is right around the corner.
