When a Memphis judge awarded a murder victim’s family three of the murderer’s properties, the victim’s wife wasn’t aware those properties had more than $100,000 in back property taxes owed on them. But surely she wouldn’t be responsible for paying them, right? That’s the question WMC Action News 5 investigative reporter Jessica Jaglois posed to David Anthony in a recent TV interview.

It’s an interesting story, and it’s worth watching the whole thing, but for our purposes we’ll spoil it for you: “It stinks that (she) got these properties subject to these liens but that’s how judgment collections work,” said Anthony. “You kind of take the assets as they are.”

Watch the whole story here.