Episode 255: Richard "Doug" Douglas White

Published: July 5, 2023, 10 a.m.

b'On March 1st of 2007, 46-year-old Richard \\u201cDoug\\u201d Douglas White prepares to close his small business for the day when two men enter his shop. The next day, Doug\\u2019s fiance, 44-year-old Dr. Brenda Kaye Covington, discovers Doug\\u2019s body. Doug has been beaten and shot multiple times. Over a year later, state prosecutors prepare for the trial of one of Doug\\u2019s alleged attackers, 21-year-old Marine A. Thompson. Suddenly, the case is mysteriously dropped. Apparently, a key witness who allegedly saw Marine and an unknown accomplice enter Doug\\u2019s business has vanished. Over a decade passes, and the Pulaski County Sheriff\\u2019s Office allows Doug\\u2019s case to go cold. However, local authorities confide in Doug\\u2019s fiance\\u2019s family that Doug was secretly embroiled in dangerous cocaine drug deals which may have cost him his life. In episode 255, Jac and Alexis explain why Doug\\u2019s friends and family need the search for justice to continue, despite Doug\\u2019s checkered past as a violent abuser.'