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The Case of Bobbie Jean Johnson - RE-RELEASE
📻 Episode #282
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Aug 04, 2022
About This Episode
In 1977, Arthur Samson was shot in the stomach and stabbed approximately 100 times inside his New Orleans, LA antique store. The store was ransacked, and the safe was missing about $2,000. A month later police stopped 2 men and Bobbie Jean Johnson for a traffic violation in a stolen car. At the time Johnson…
The Case
In 1977, Arthur Samson was shot in the stomach and stabbed approximately 100 times inside his New Orleans, LA antique store. The store was ransacked, and the safe was missing about $2,000. A month later police stopped 2 men and Bobbie Jean Johnson for a traffic violation in a stolen car. At the time Johnson was not a suspect, but police were on the lookout for a .32 caliber revolver. They found one in Bobbie Jean’s purse. She endured a violent interrogation that resulted in a tape recorded confession riddled with inconsistencies. One of the men that had been in the car with Bobbie Jean told police that he had slipped the gun into her purse while they were being pulled over, but his statement was both ignored by the prosecution and hidden from the defense. Nevertheless, Bobbie Jean Johnson was convicted of 1st degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Jason was joined by Bobbie Jean Johnson and Cat Forrester of the Innocence Project New Orleans at the 2019 Innocence Network Conference in Atlanta, GA.
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00:04:05“Speaker 4: police stopped us, one of the dudes that was in Speaker 4: the call with me threw the knife in the gun Speaker 4: in my person. So because I know, I didn't have Speaker 4: no knife and gun in my purse. So when the Speaker 4: police pulled all my stuff out my person, he said, oh,”
00:14:55“Speaker 2: No, nobody? Did you all alone? Speaker 3: It took them less than an hour to come back Speaker 3: with a guilty verdict. Speaker 4: So when I got to prison, at first, I was Speaker 4: because I was angry. I was angry and I was hurt.”
00:26:28“Speaker 4: I'm always there. Yeah. Speaker 5: They're really lovingly taken her into the exonery meetings that Speaker 5: happen once a month there so she gets to hang Speaker 5: out with other wrongfully incarcerator to people who live in Georgia. Speaker 2: Yeah, I see you got the shirt on you go?”
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