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The Case of Barry Beach - Part 2
📻 Episode #322
🎙️ 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.
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http://montanansforjustice.com/
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https://centurion.org/
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00:04:07“Speaker 2: She claimed that she was at a movie theater with Speaker 2: a really good friend of hers who was a classmate Speaker 2: of ours in high school. This individual told her that Speaker 2: he was at the crime scene when Kimneys was killed Speaker 2: at this party, and that he saw certain females hold”
00:16:09“Speaker 3: Now that's just speculation, but it is just also another Speaker 3: finger pointed at Maud Greyhawk. So during your investigation, it Speaker 3: might have gotten back to Maud that you were on Speaker 3: to her, and you found that out through her sister Speaker 3: in law, Judy Greyhawk.”
00:29:48“Speaker 2: same issue. What Governor Bullock decided to do with the Speaker 2: executive clemency is he granted the executive clemency in the Speaker 2: form of a sentence commutation, stating that I was guilty Speaker 2: of the crime, but had served enough time at thirty Speaker 2: two years or whatever it was, released me put me”
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Also on the podcast: #1 Jason Flom and Barry Scheck with Barry Gibbs · #17 Jason Flom and Barry Scheck with Jason Baldwin · #321 Barry Beach - Part 1