UNSOLVED: Casino Heir: Ted Binion Pt. 2

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In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the two Las Vegas murder trials that reached opposite verdicts on how Ted Binion died. In March 1999, the Clark County coroner changed the ruling on Binion's death from undetermined to homicide, and prosecutors charged his girlfriend Sandy Murphy and her lover Rick Tabish with murder. The state's theory was that Binion had been forced to swallow a lethal dose of heroin, or suffocated, or both, and the state's own two pathologists never agreed on which. A jury convicted the pair in 2000. Three years later the Nevada Supreme Court threw the convictions out over how the trial had been run, and in 2004 a second jury heard much of the same evidence and acquitted them of murder, while convicting them of taking the silver. More than twenty years after that acquittal, no one has been convicted in Ted Binion's death, and the question of whether he was killed at all has never been settled. Please note, this episode contains discussion of substance abuse and suicide and may not be suitable for all audiences. Head over to our YouTube channel to WATCH our video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@crimehousestudios If you’re new