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The Case of Anthony Sims
📻 Episode #221
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 08, 2021
About This Episode
This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 21, 2021.
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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00:05:34“Speaker 2: means whatever? I remember Julius saying, listen, and I'm going Speaker 2: to the house. I'm going to go check with Charlie, Speaker 2: which is his girlfriend at the time, to see if Speaker 2: she wanted anything from the store as well. So I said, Speaker 2: all right, so I can only assume him that's the”
00:22:14“Speaker 1: Of graves's inner circle in order to strengthen the. Case Speaker 1: and AS i alluded to, earlier this is the only Speaker 1: other witness Besides rachel who was not directly related To. Speaker 1: Graves she was a single mom who certainly appears to Speaker 1: have been coerced into giving an ambiguous statement that helped”
00:38:16“Speaker 1: Black this is consistent With graves's light brown, skin While Speaker 1: anthony importantly has a dark. Complexion, So, tom what is Speaker 1: being done with all of the e sculpatory evidence that you've. Speaker 3: Compiled the four point forty was initially filed In, december Speaker 3: and we Attached rachel's AffA David shalima's. Statement both of”
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