On today’s episode, we meet William Benedict, a man whose life has been rocked by both meth and mental illness. This episode takes us back to the 2010s, when a thriving meth scene in Missouri was curtailed by the law. Around the same time as this crackdown, William Benedict found himself implicated in an operation that seriously threatened the safety of his family. Today, William walks us through the events that followed that eventually culminated in his incarceration in a Missouri jail. We’ll hear about the lasting impact of intergenerational mental illness and William’s complex dynamic with the victim of this crime, somebody who brought both stability and chaos into his family home. While personal and tragic, this episode also critically examines the flaws in media representation and sketches the landscape of small-scale meth production that still haunts the state of Missouri today.

More information about this case:

• News about William’s Sentencing | Bunker man gets 25 years for shooting man who tried to talk him out of suicide | Missourinet
• News about William’s Arrest | Man arrested for murder in Reynolds Co. | KVFS 12

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