<p id=”par-1_38″>The American South is known for its music, its food, and its hospitality. But beneath that charming surface lurks something darker. Oxygen <a href=”https://cheatsheet.com/tag/true-crime”>True Crime</a>’s <em>Sins of the South </em>exposes the shadowy side of life below the Mason-Dixon line.<em> </em></p>
<p id=”par-2_40″>In this exclusive clip from the show’s June 30 episode, a retired detective recalls his first impressions of a bloody scene outside of a <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/elvis-presley-austin-butler-humiliated-tears-recording-greatest-hits.html/”>Nashville recording studio</a>, where a shooting has left one man gravely injured and the other dead. </p>
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<p id=”par-3_22″>When officers arrived at Evergreen Records Recording Studio on March 9, 1989, they were greeted by a brutal and disturbing crime scene. </p>
<p id=”par-4_20″>“One of the patrol officers, he’d never seen anything like it. There was so much blood,” says writer Jesse Sublett. </p>
<p id=”par-5_46″>One victim, 21-year-old Sammy Sadler, was still alive and was transported to a local hospital. But it was too late for the other man, 23-year-old Kevin Hughes. He was lying in the middle of the street, dead as the result of multiple gunshots to the head. </p>
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<p id=”par-6_22″>Detectives on the scene tried to piece together what had happened to the two young men. Their job would not be easy. </p>
<p id=”par-7_34″>“Kevin Hughes had a hand wound and head wound,” recalls retired Nashville PD Detective Bill Pridemore. “And then naturally we had the bullets from Kevin’s body and the one they found on the ground.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_23″>Unfortunately, the location of the shooting meant there was not a lot of <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/most-crime-scenes-1-major-detail-wrong-homicide-detective-says.html/”>forensic evidence</a> that could help point police to a perpetrator. </p>
<p id=”par-9_28″>“But there’s no footprints,” Pridemore explains. “There’s no tire marks. It’s on asphalt, all concrete through there. So there’s no place to leave any type of physical evidence.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_63″>People who lived near the crime scene <a href=”https://www.oxygen.com/sins-of-the-south/season-1/videos/now-im-gonna-kill-ya-witnesses-describe-murder-of-kevin-hughes” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>reported seeing Sadler</a> stumble out of a parked car before he made his way to a nearby apartment building, where a resident administered first aid and called the police. Witnesses then watched as the killer, who was wearing a ski mask and had a limp, chased Hughes down the street, fired multiple rounds, and fled. </p>
<p id=”par-11_38″>So, who killed Kevin Hughes? And did his job at a Nashville music magazine have something to do with his death? The answers would take years to emerge – and when they did, the truth would shock everyone. </p>
<p id=”par-12_12″><em>Sins of the South </em>airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Oxygen. </p>
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