MADISONVILLE-It is a case that has baffled many since the spring of 2006, and last week investigators were sent back to the drawing board after a judge threw out the indictment against the murder suspect.

John Edward Dawson had been indicted for the murder of Troy Green in January 2010 (Green was killed in April 2006), but soon after bizarre stories began to circulate of Monroe County Sheriff's Detectives Pat Henry and Doug Brannon concocting a scheme to get Dawson to confess using another inmate and the detectives posing as a lawyer and a man with mob connections.

Henry invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination during the hearing and Brannon said he didn't tell Dawson to ignore his court appointed attorney and didn't know anything about the other accusations.

It was the testimony of Monty Cox, who said he was persuaded by law enforcement to lie about where he purchased guns, that turned the case upside down again.

See full story in the Wednesday, July 25, edition of The Advocate & Democrat.