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The Case of Brian Pippitt
📻 Episode #489
🎙️ Hosted by Guest Host Conor Hall
📅 Oct 31, 2024
About This Episode
Evelyn Malin was the 84-year-old owner of the Dollar Lake Store in tiny Shamrock Township, 130 miles north of Minneapolis. On the morning of February 24, 1998, she was found beaten and strangled to death in the living quarters that were connected to her convenience store. Over a year later, Brian Pippitt was charged with…
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The Case
Evelyn Malin was the 84-year-old owner of the Dollar Lake Store in tiny Shamrock Township, 130 miles north of Minneapolis. On the morning of February 24, 1998, she was found beaten and strangled to death in the living quarters that were connected to her convenience store. Over a year later, Brian Pippitt was charged with premeditated murder based primarily on the incentivized testimony of two witnesses who later admitted to fabricating their statements. Brian was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
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00:06:24“Speaker 3: the morning, her daughter, Norma Horner went to the store Speaker 3: with her boyfriend Gerald Horsemen, and they knocked on the door. Speaker 3: They knocked on the windows, they didn't get a response. Speaker 3: They went around to the back door. There was a Speaker 3: skeleton key broken off from the inside of the back door,”
00:23:06“Speaker 4: courtroom wearing the street clothes and I didn't know that Speaker 4: he was in federal custody for bank robbers and they Speaker 4: had a player's system and then work it to his advantage. Speaker 3: Peter Arnaldi subsequently says that Brian confessed this crime to me.”
00:38:47“Speaker 4: even find out. And yes, the county didn't like that. Speaker 3: The sheriff was very hostile. He said that two courts Speaker 3: had already had judged this case. Of course that doesn't Speaker 3: mean anything, because everything that we've produced, no court judge Speaker 3: or jury hasn't it hurt any of this material? And”
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