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The Case of Barry Beach - Part 1
📻 Episode #321
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jan 05, 2023
About This Episode
In June of 1979, a 17 year old girl was found brutally murdered near Fort Peck, Montana. 17 year old Barry Beach was a classmate of hers and learned of her death on the news. He was interrogated by police three times, and all three times was told he was cleared and no longer a…
The Case
In June of 1979, a 17 year old girl was found brutally murdered near Fort Peck, Montana. 17 year old Barry Beach was a classmate of hers and learned of her death on the news. He was interrogated by police three times, and all three times was told he was cleared and no longer a suspect. Several years later, while living with his father in Louisiana, Barry’s step-mother had him arrested for supposedly helping her 14 year old daughter run away. Police found out Barry had been questioned for the Montana murder, and decided to question him for other Louisiana murders they needed to solve. After threatening him with the death penalty, Barry caved under pressure and confessed to the murder of his classmate back in Montana. Because he had been cleared three times before, Barry expected to go back to Montana and be cleared again. But that did not happen. The prosecution presented his confession and the jury convicted him – sentencing him to 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
https://lavaforgood.com/false-confessions/
http://montanansforjustice.com/
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https://centurion.org/
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:05:02“Speaker 2: was around twenty kids, so you all knew each other Speaker 2: pretty well even between grades, you know, which put you Speaker 2: in close proximity with the victim in this case, Kim Niese, Speaker 2: a young white woman who was a great ahead of you.”
00:20:56“Speaker 2: people in to distract everybody from the fact that they Speaker 2: were weren't actually interested in arresting the people that committed Speaker 2: this heinous crime. Speaker 3: Certainly there had to be somebody somewhere wondering why these Speaker 3: people weren't being looked at closer. And to take it”
00:34:50“Speaker 3: Calhoun JF and that homicide detected group actually got two Speaker 3: other individuals to confess to those three Louisiana murders, and Speaker 3: those two individuals were later proven to be innocent and Speaker 3: their confessions were proven to be false as well. And Speaker 3: later one of those crimes in Louisiana were actually solved”
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