This episode is full of shallow, salacious trash coming from a patriarchal perspective. The deep religious bias and judgement oozes from most of those interviewed about this Tennessee case.
Men are canonized, even if posthumously, and without much actual knowledge of personal character. They spend little to no time exploring the history of a person who clearly had anger management issues that he took out on those closest to him in his personal life, on his neighbors (including a child), and on his administrative peers in his church.
Meanwhile, one characteristically meek woman is heavily scrutinized and judged for every single thing: demeanor, clothing, whether she spilled her private struggles into an obviously gossipy, bigoted community that heavily monitors all of the behavior of females, or she did not. They literally act like being out in public more than once and having either an alcoholic beverage or a cigarette while being female or a mother, or 'heavens' forbid, out on bail, is literally proof of an evil nature, and is somehow scandalous. GIANT EYE ROLLS!!!! They photographed it like it was evidence. WHAT YEAR IS THIS?
It's unreal that 20/20 leans into this foolishness of clutching their pearls over nothing.
Evolve into the 21st century, already!