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The Case of Alan Newton
📻 Episode #259
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 12, 2022
About This Episode
In the early morning hours of June 23rd, 1984, 2 customers, a man and a woman, left a Bronx bodega. The store clerk said that the woman went with the man willingly. According to the woman, she was abducted, dragged into a park, raped, and robbed. Then, while waiting for a cab home, the same…
The Case
In the early morning hours of June 23rd, 1984, 2 customers, a man and a woman, left a Bronx bodega. The store clerk said that the woman went with the man willingly. According to the woman, she was abducted, dragged into a park, raped, and robbed. Then, while waiting for a cab home, the same man dragged her into an abandoned building, where she was again raped and robbed. This time, he cut her face, damaging her eyesight. A rape kit was performed at the hospital, and she was shown a mugshot book, from which she identified Alan Newton - a man who had spent the night at his fiancee's family's home in Queens. Unfortunately, Alan had to wait for over 22 years for both the DNA testing and the authorities to begrudgingly locate the biological evidence to finally corroborate that alibi.
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00:04:01“Speaker 2: teenager at my age and got a battery charge. And unfortunately, Speaker 2: it was the photographs and the police mug shot books Speaker 2: that the victim supposedly picked out to connect me to Speaker 2: this longful conviction of us. Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean we've heard that story before, whether it's”
00:15:10“Speaker 2: store clerk, and they both came up with an excuse Speaker 2: of why I'm now the guy. Speaker 1: So the only evidence they had was shaky, but somehow Speaker 1: that was still enough to overcome your defense. What if Speaker 1: anything was presented in your favor.”
00:26:51“Speaker 2: up to the city, I would have never got exonerated. Speaker 2: We found out during the civil trial the ocmme's office, Speaker 2: when they was doing the testing and they was contaminating Speaker 2: they own samples, they was not able to come up Speaker 2: with a result whether that was my DNA or not”
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