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The Case of Anthony Sims
📻 Episode #334
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Feb 16, 2023
About This Episode
This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 21, 2021.
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The Case
This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 21, 2021.
On May 18th, 1998, Charlie Winbush told her fiancé, Julius Graves, that a man named Li Run Chen, who worked at a Chinese restaurant in the neighborhood had touched her inappropriately. Graves replied that he would scare him. Later that day, Julius Graves, his fiancée's cousin, and another younger friend had a few drinks with Graves and his friend Anthony Sims as they listened to music by Sims’ car.
That same evening, Graves asked Sims to drive him to the restaurant where Chen worked and Sims agreed, unaware of any issue with Chen. They went into the restaurant when it is believed that Graves shot and killed Chen. In shock, Sims fled alone while Graves and the two younger men returned to his apartment, wiped the gun clean, figured out where to stash it, and began to conjure up a story to deflect blame from Graves and onto Sims. Consequently, investigators set their sights on Sims who was eventually sentenced to 25 years to life for the crime.
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00:05:26“Speaker 3: breast minds, because I don't like driving around like that. Speaker 3: I remember Julius saying, listen, and I'm going to the house. Speaker 3: I'm gonna go check with Charlie, which is his girlfriend Speaker 3: at the time, to see if she wanted anything from Speaker 3: the store as well. So I said, all right, so”
00:21:11“Speaker 4: was which she kept, asking and then eventually they emerged Speaker 4: with a report saying that she identified the taller man Speaker 4: as being the one holding the, gun which was something Speaker 4: that was clearly fed to her because she told police Speaker 4: that she couldn't describe the men she had, seen including”
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