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The Case of Andre Causey
📻 Episode #474
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Sep 09, 2024
About This Episode
On August 11, 1991, the body of a young woman was found outside an apartment building in Austin, TX. A bystander reported a black man rubbernecking at the incident, causing the police to question 26-year-old Allen Andre Causey for “suspicious behavior.”
The Case
On August 11, 1991, the body of a young woman was found outside an apartment building in Austin, TX. A bystander reported a black man rubbernecking at the incident, causing the police to question 26-year-old Allen Andre Causey for “suspicious behavior.”
After hours of interrogation police handed Andre a written statement claiming it was his alibi. Andre says only after signing did he learn it was a confession to murder that would land him in prison for three decades. On warm, sunny days, Andre would look outside the prison windows and daydream: “Man, it's just beautiful. I need to be at home.” Home with his family and wife of 23 years, Dellanda. But it would be years before they could reunite.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:03:48“Speaker 1: to help her out with things like yardwork. Speaker 2: She had a garage were she do garage sales, and Speaker 2: she go around to other garage and buy stuff, and Speaker 2: Brian to hers, and she taught us how to get Speaker 2: around also and all that.”
00:15:16“Speaker 1: At trial, Andre testified that he'd been tricked into signing Speaker 1: a false confession, but the prosecutor said he was a Speaker 1: liar and a criminal, and they put law enforcement on Speaker 1: the stand to back their theory up, cops who Andre Speaker 1: says he'd never met before Anita's murder.”
00:26:39“Speaker 4: an account eventually that they had consensual sex that night. Speaker 4: He has a visible injury on his arm that he Speaker 4: gives a I burned my arm making breakfast this morning story, Speaker 4: all things that again absent coming in. Lawyered up that Speaker 4: if he were to give those accounts, that everybody would”
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