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The Case of Carlton Roman
📻 Episode #228
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 20, 2021
About This Episode
On March 16, 1989, Lloyd Witter and Jomo Kenyatta sustained several gunshot wounds at a residence in Jamaica, Queens. Witter died from his injuries. Paul Anderson, who also lived at the residence, was found handcuffed near Witter’s body. Under questioning, both Kenyatta and Anderson provided at least a half dozen different versions of the story…
The Case
On March 16, 1989, Lloyd Witter and Jomo Kenyatta sustained several gunshot wounds at a residence in Jamaica, Queens. Witter died from his injuries. Paul Anderson, who also lived at the residence, was found handcuffed near Witter’s body. Under questioning, both Kenyatta and Anderson provided at least a half dozen different versions of the story that finally landed on Carlton Roman as the gunman. Roman claimed he’d been with his girlfriend on the night of Witter’s murder, an alibi that she corroborated. Nevertheless, he was charged with murder. Despite maintaining his innocence throughout the trial, and no forensic, ballistic, fingerprint, or DNA evidence tying him to the shooting, Roman was convicted and served 32 years until his exoneration in August 2021.
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00:04:32“Speaker 1: March sixteenth, nineteen eighty nine, a shooting happened at this Speaker 1: drug house, killing Lloyd Witter and putting Jomo Kenyada into Speaker 1: a coma that lasted for weeks. And when police first Speaker 1: arrived at the crime scene, they found Paul Anderson outside Speaker 1: bound and handcuffed, but somehow unharmed. James tell us where”
00:17:39“Speaker 1: Carlton Roman shooting Lloyd Witter. When he tried to run away, Speaker 1: Carlton Roman allegedly shot him on the stairs. On direct examination, Speaker 1: Kenyada testified that his criminal record consisted of a single Speaker 1: conviction for reckless driving and that he was not involved”
00:29:42“Speaker 3: I've heard that so much different times. A lot of Speaker 3: it is a blurnout too. I have to watch the Speaker 3: thing to digest fully the entire moment. It was just Speaker 3: so overwhelming for me. I had a conversation with somebody Speaker 3: that was locked in sing saying that I knew for”
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