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The Case of Angel Bumpass
📻 Episode #487
🎙️ Hosted by Guest Host Conor Hall
📅 Oct 24, 2024
About This Episode
On January 16, 2009, Linda Bonner found her husband Franklin duct-taped to a chair in their Chattanooga, TN home, with tape over his nose and mouth and signs of blunt force trauma. He was dead from suffocation. Police found fingerprints on the duct tape, but no matches were found. Nine years later, in 2019, 23-year-old…
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The Case
On January 16, 2009, Linda Bonner found her husband Franklin duct-taped to a chair in their Chattanooga, TN home, with tape over his nose and mouth and signs of blunt force trauma. He was dead from suffocation. Police found fingerprints on the duct tape, but no matches were found. Nine years later, in 2019, 23-year-old Angel Bumpass was arrested after failing to appear in Kentucky court for a traffic ticket. Her fingerprints were taken upon her arrest and automatically searched against unidentified crime scene prints. Police said her fingerprints matched two partial prints on the duct tape from Franklin Bonner’s case. Even though she was only 13 years old at the time of the crime, Angel was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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00:03:55“Speaker 4: They removed the tape from and they found fingerprints on Speaker 4: the inside the tape around the face, and there was Speaker 4: another on the tape beside the leg to the chair, Speaker 4: and they sent them off for identification, but there were Speaker 1: There were eleven fingerprints, some of them only partial. There”
00:15:09“Speaker 3: for me. There were no objections. They weren't even paying attention, Speaker 3: Like one of the attorneys were just taxing the entire time. Speaker 3: The other attorneys, she wasn't prepared. She was trying to Speaker 3: write her closing statement, not listening. And then they didn't”
00:25:49“Speaker 4: a wonderful resume, and he called me right after it Speaker 4: was over and he said, Bill, you've got to have Speaker 4: four points to show that you're not being deceptive. He said, Speaker 4: she had fourteen. This lady's telling the truth. I said, well,”
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