Lexington is famous for a couple of things: horses and college basketball, not that it doesn't offer other good things like a very attractive city and nice folks. But the emphasis, at least on this episode, was the influence that sports has on its residents. The horses mean horse racing and Keeneland Race Track, in particular, and basketball means the Wildcats of the U. of Kentucky. Football plays a backseat to the perennial powerhouse basketball team but the grid team does have a good following.
The crime story involves a member of that football team. He didn't do anything wrong. He just happened to be at the wrong spot at the wrong time and was the victim of a sniper's bullet.
Trent DiGuiro was the football player, an offensive lineman. His was a feel-good story, a walk-on finally ready to make the starting lineup beating big odds and working at this goal for four years. He was inserted as a starter during spring practice, and that usually means you'll start in the fall. This is unusual for a non-scholarship athlete and shows you the dedication and drive this guy had to succeed.
DiGuiro happened to be sitting out on the front porch of a fraternity at 2 a.m. He and another guy were shooting the breeze, ready to hit the sack. Suddenly, a bullet pierced his brain and he was dead. Earlier in the evening, some guys in a blue pickup truck had tried twice to crash the party but were rebuffed. People figured it must be one of those guys.
However, that wasn't the case and it took six years before a man was arrested for the murder. It seems this guy, Shane Ragland, was a bitter ex-student who got blackballed from a fraternity and took it out on the man on the porch that day, even though he had nothing to do with it. In fact, the victim was not a member of any fraternity.
Ragland's bail was set at $1,000,000 and his dad put up the money - cash. That's a part of this story, too: the spoiled rich kid whose dad was, as the episode's narrator Keith David sarcastically states several times, was a member of "a good 'ole boys" network.
How they wound up arresting Ragland is very interesting and involves using a sexy female who dated him back in college and uses the lure of sex to help police nab him. I won't go into details to ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen this episode, which is a good one.
Suffice to say, what happened at the trial and the subsequent sentence also is intriguing. The killer did go to jail, and is still there, but will he get out soon? His father and his money are still working on that.
The crime story involves a member of that football team. He didn't do anything wrong. He just happened to be at the wrong spot at the wrong time and was the victim of a sniper's bullet.
Trent DiGuiro was the football player, an offensive lineman. His was a feel-good story, a walk-on finally ready to make the starting lineup beating big odds and working at this goal for four years. He was inserted as a starter during spring practice, and that usually means you'll start in the fall. This is unusual for a non-scholarship athlete and shows you the dedication and drive this guy had to succeed.
DiGuiro happened to be sitting out on the front porch of a fraternity at 2 a.m. He and another guy were shooting the breeze, ready to hit the sack. Suddenly, a bullet pierced his brain and he was dead. Earlier in the evening, some guys in a blue pickup truck had tried twice to crash the party but were rebuffed. People figured it must be one of those guys.
However, that wasn't the case and it took six years before a man was arrested for the murder. It seems this guy, Shane Ragland, was a bitter ex-student who got blackballed from a fraternity and took it out on the man on the porch that day, even though he had nothing to do with it. In fact, the victim was not a member of any fraternity.
Ragland's bail was set at $1,000,000 and his dad put up the money - cash. That's a part of this story, too: the spoiled rich kid whose dad was, as the episode's narrator Keith David sarcastically states several times, was a member of "a good 'ole boys" network.
How they wound up arresting Ragland is very interesting and involves using a sexy female who dated him back in college and uses the lure of sex to help police nab him. I won't go into details to ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen this episode, which is a good one.
Suffice to say, what happened at the trial and the subsequent sentence also is intriguing. The killer did go to jail, and is still there, but will he get out soon? His father and his money are still working on that.