Douglas Wagg, Jr. (Wild Card, North Carolina)

Hi Deck listeners, Ashley Flowers here and I am dropping in your feed today to remind you that. There are already 8 episodes of the newest season of Counter Clock out right now. And trust me, this is one you do not want to be missing in season 6. Investigative journalist Delia D'Ambra has been probing into the suspicious death of Douglas Wag Jr. After he was mysteriously found on a stretch of railroad tracks. Days after leaving his home. Just to run an errand, but here's where things get wild Delia's look into this one mysterious death led to so many more twists and turns. Honestly, you're not going to know which way is up.

Busy track still is, and they were on a pretty tight schedule. I mean, you could pretty well set your clock by them.

In the early morning hours of July 8th, 1991, something was on the railroad tracks just outside the town of Williamston, North Carolina.

Everything goes through your head. This was not supposed to be there.

That something turned out to be a someone.

There was no movement at all.

He said Your son, Doug, is dead. There's really no way to word it. How you feel when you lose somebody you're thinking you're going to spend the rest of your life with.

For more than three decades, questions about what happened to 27-year-old Douglas Wag Jr. have gone unanswered.

Why was he down here, what was going on with Dougie, where was he?

I don't know any more now than I did 32 years ago.

Doug's family never got a straight answer from police about what led up to his demise, and that's because law enforcement chose not to seek answers.

They said, I don't know what you think you're doing in my county, working my crime scene, but this was an accident.

For them not to have followed through with what they were required to do, to me is negligence.

The longer I've studied Doug's case, the more I've realized the investigator's decision three decades ago doesn't make any sense because the circumstances of Doug's death don't make any sense.

It's almost like somebody is trying to throw you off track from what might have really happened. It's not the train that killed him, he was killed somewhere else, and he was put on those tracks.

Over the last year, I've uncovered a web of small town secrets that many people have worked very hard to keep silent.

The foul is confidential. Don't go asking questions, do not go looking for answers.

The only answer is why and why will get you in trouble more than once. The good old boy syndrome back then was running wild.

Shady, they were shady cops back then.

I never expected that probing into one man's death would reveal a string of crimes.

There was a lot of heroin, a lot of cocaine coming in.

Missing people.

They went missing for inapparent reasons, and the truck went missing at the same time. He came to me in a dream.

He said, Mom, I will kill them.

Don't let them get away with this. And at least nine deaths.

When he shot, we heard this.

All of it has made me rethink everything I thought I knew about where I'm from.

On the highway, you'd see the sign Welcome to Johnston County.

KKK Country.

So buckle up this season is the most intense investigation yet.

When you have one big thing, it makes you question everything.

And just like me, you won't see the twists coming.

All I could think about was this baby. He was a living testimony and they needed him gone.

Has anyone other than me contacted you about this in the last 30 plus years?

No, at some point in time, somebody was going to come asking questions. Somebody was going to want to know what happened to their loved one because somebody was getting away with murder.

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