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The Case of Damon Thibodeaux
📻 Episode #134
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 27, 2020
About This Episode
In July of 1996, Damon Thibodeaux was visiting family, when his 14 year-old step cousin, Crystal, walked to the grocery store and never came back. When Crystal’s mother Dawn began to worry, Damon went looking for her daughter. Soon, neighbors and emergency workers would join the search that ended under the Huey P Long Bridge…
The Case
In July of 1996, Damon Thibodeaux was visiting family, when his 14 year-old step cousin, Crystal, walked to the grocery store and never came back. When Crystal’s mother Dawn began to worry, Damon went looking for her daughter. Soon, neighbors and emergency workers would join the search that ended under the Huey P Long Bridge with a partially nude Crystal strangled to death.
However, even before the body was found, the police already had their sights on Damon for what they thought was a rape and murder. Returning guest Innocence Project Senior Staff attorney Vanessa Potkin and death row exoneree Damon Thibodeaux tell Jason this unbelievable tale of triumph over tragedy.
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00:03:42“Speaker 2: we want to know everything. Speaker 4: Well, her mother was the one who started to panic Speaker 4: around what time, maybe to three o'clock. She started making Speaker 4: calls to try to find out where she is because Speaker 4: she had never done anything like this before. She never”
00:13:40“Speaker 4: look at this and say, okay, there's no way he Speaker 4: did this. But it's like they didn't even pay attention Speaker 4: to what was being presented. And most juries don't. They Speaker 4: don't pay attention to the evidence that's in front of them. Speaker 4: Like you said, they hear a false confession and they think, oh,”
00:23:54“Speaker 4: You know, this man, he flew down here and drove Speaker 4: me back to Minnesota because I had decided to move Speaker 4: to Minnesota after I was released to start things over, Speaker 4: and I lived with him until November of that year, Speaker 4: got my own place, and he actually the Innocence Project”
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