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The Case of Clay Chabot
📻 Episode #261
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 19, 2022
About This Episode
On April 19, 1986, the body of a 28 year old woman was found in her bedroom in Garland, Texas. She had been tied, gagged, raped and shot three times. Clay Chabot, a friend of the victim's husband, became the main suspect after voluntarily providing information to the police about his brother-in-law, Gerald Pabst, who…
The Case
On April 19, 1986, the body of a 28 year old woman was found in her bedroom in Garland, Texas. She had been tied, gagged, raped and shot three times. Clay Chabot, a friend of the victim's husband, became the main suspect after voluntarily providing information to the police about his brother-in-law, Gerald Pabst, who had visited the victim's home on the morning of the murder. Initially telling police that he had no involvement in the crime, Pabst later changed his story by claiming that Clay had forced him to tie up the victim before she was shot. Despite no physical evidence linking Clay to the crime, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison solely on the testimony of Gerald Pabst.
https://guiltypleaproblem.org/?id=clay_chabot
https://innocenceproject.org/clay-chabot-veterans-day-2018/
https://innocenceproject.org/
https://lavaforgood.com/with-jason-flom/
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00:04:33“Speaker 1: no judgment here. You were involved in some let's just say, Speaker 1: extra legal activities. Speaker 4: Right absolutely where I was raised in Ohio, you know, impoverished. Speaker 4: There's actually the Hell's Angels club to house, so a Speaker 4: lot of people there indulging mind altering drugs. We can't”
00:15:35“Speaker 2: And the quote is you know something like this is Speaker 2: a problem for us. Well, yeah, it's a big problem Speaker 2: for us. You literally had the person who was connected Speaker 2: to the crime physically with physical evidence. Who is your Speaker 2: star witness. That's a huge problem for the state. And”
00:27:41“Speaker 5: dad guilty and she never defended Jerry, So it makes Speaker 5: me feel like she knew more, but she was just Speaker 5: in a hard place. And it always kind of barked Speaker 5: me because Jerry was around her family. I almost feel Speaker 5: like a bad human for saying it sometimes, and I'm”
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