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The Case of Chris Miller
📻 Episode #448
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 16, 2024
About This Episode
On April 28, 2001, two men attacked a woman as she returned home in Cleveland Heights, OH. The men sexually assaulted her and then left with various items, including her cell phone. In the following days, police traced the cell phone to 24-year-old Chris Miller. Chris said that he had just bought the cell phone…
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The Case
On April 28, 2001, two men attacked a woman as she returned home in Cleveland Heights, OH. The men sexually assaulted her and then left with various items, including her cell phone. In the following days, police traced the cell phone to 24-year-old Chris Miller. Chris said that he had just bought the cell phone from someone else, but despite no forensic evidence tying Chris to the crime, the victim identified him out of a photo lineup and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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00:04:20“Speaker 2: they take her cell phone, they take other items, and Speaker 2: they leave. That night. LB does go to the hospital. Speaker 2: There is an examination and a rape kit done, so Speaker 2: there are specimens obtained for the purpose later of testing Speaker 2: that is done. We end up learning there's a mixture.”
00:16:36“Speaker 1: were presented, starting with the guy he was with when Speaker 1: he got the phone, Desman Fletcher. Speaker 2: But there were some little discrepancies in his story from Speaker 2: what really happened. Speaker 3: He let the the texts them scare him, like he Speaker 3: don't remember what due had on. He had them all black, Dude,”
00:29:14“Speaker 3: three grandkids and my son stayed next door because I Speaker 3: bought my mother house next door to me, So my Speaker 3: mother and my son stayed next door, and me and Speaker 3: my daughter and my grandkid had stayed house next door. Speaker 1: His eldest daughter was the five year old little girl”
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