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Madison McGhee launched a podcast to solve her father’s 2002 murder. Now she’s interviewing the man accused of killing him

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For more than a decade, Madison McGhee has been trying to answer one question – what happened to her dad? Now, she may be closer than ever to finding out the truth with the help of her true crime podcast, with its second season launching on Wednesday.

Madison was only six years old when her father, John Cornelius “J.C.” McGhee was fatally shot in the doorway of his home in Bridgeport, Ohio, on 11 July 2002.

For years, Madison, who was raised by her mother and grandmother in , , believed that he died of a heart attack. It wasn’t until she was 16 years old that

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