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The Case of Chris Fabricant, Tucker Carrington and John Grisham on Eddie Lee Howard
📻 Episode #203
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 26, 2021
About This Episode
Eddie Lee Howard was convicted and sentenced to death in 1994 for the rape and murder of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp in Columbus, MS. The only physical evidence against him came in the form of bite marks, not visible to the naked eye, found by the since discredited forensic dentist / junk scientist Michael West.
The Case
Eddie Lee Howard was convicted and sentenced to death in 1994 for the rape and murder of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp in Columbus, MS. The only physical evidence against him came in the form of bite marks, not visible to the naked eye, found by the since discredited forensic dentist / junk scientist Michael West.
For a detailed account of the junk science of bite mark evidence, listen to the episode “Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Bite Mark Evidence” from our Webby Award nominated series Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science.
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00:03:52“Speaker 4: assigned him Eddeley's case back in two thousand and eight, Speaker 4: and my son went to Parchment to death Row, a Speaker 4: place I've been too many times, and he met mister Speaker 4: Howard interviewed him several times, and that's when I first Speaker 4: learned of Eddie Lee's case and the facts surrounding it.”
00:15:38“Speaker 3: not an anomaly. It's sort of a well known, time Speaker 1: The Pacers Foundation is a proud supporter of this episode Speaker 1: of Ravel convision with Jason Flam and of the Last Speaker 1: Mile organization, which provides business and tech training to help Speaker 1: incarcerated individuals successfully and permanently re enter the workforce. The”
00:27:11“Speaker 3: evidence here. There's really no evidence to retry mister Howard. Speaker 1: August thirty first, twenty twenty, just a short time ago, Speaker 1: when the Mississippi Supreme Court finally vacated the murder conviction, Speaker 1: that death sentence, Justice Kitchens ruled that Mississippi shouldn't uphold Speaker 1: the conviction that death sentence based on the testimony of”
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