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The Case of Ben Spencer
📻 Episode #484
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Oct 14, 2024
About This Episode
On the evening of March 22, 1987 a businessman and father were robbed and killed in Dallas, TX. Just a few days later, 22-year-old Benjamine Spencer, a newlywed with a child on the way, was arrested for the crime. A reward for any information on the killing would lead several eyewitnesses to fabricate a story…
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The Case
On the evening of March 22, 1987 a businessman and father were robbed and killed in Dallas, TX. Just a few days later, 22-year-old Benjamine Spencer, a newlywed with a child on the way, was arrested for the crime. A reward for any information on the killing would lead several eyewitnesses to fabricate a story implicating Ben. Despite the fact that he had an alibi and there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime, Ben was sentenced to life in prison. He fought for the next 37 years to finally be declared an innocent man.
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00:05:13“Speaker 1: four dark and, handsome and one day in nineteen eighty, Speaker 1: three while he was out for some pizza with, Friends Speaker 1: ben's good looks caught the attention of a. Speaker 4: Girl i'm sitting and eating a piece of waiting on my, Speaker 4: friend and this girl walks over to the table and”
00:21:26“Speaker 1: Of Jeffrey, young but that conviction would be thrown. Speaker 4: Out we can Thank Bruce, anton who was the co Speaker 4: chair with my attorney at the, Time Frank, jackson who Speaker 4: discovered that within The states file that they had hidden Speaker 4: the fact that Gladys oliver had called Crime stop and”
00:37:44“Speaker 1: reviewing the. Case they Had barb's reporting and all the Speaker 1: evidence previously compiled By Centurion, ministries and they also uncovered Speaker 1: more evidence that the prosecution's key, Witness Gladys oliver. Lied Speaker 1: he received five thousand to ten thousand dollars in reward Speaker 1: money on top of the money she got from crime,”
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