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The Case of Dean Gillispie
📻 Episode #332
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Feb 09, 2023
About This Episode
On August 20, 1988, 22-year-old twin sisters C.W. and B.W. were kidnapped by a gunman as they got into their car in Dayton, OH. The gunman pointed a handgun at them and ordered them to drive to a wooded area where he sexually assaulted them. The man then blindfolded both women, robbed them, and fled.…
The Case
On August 20, 1988, 22-year-old twin sisters C.W. and B.W. were kidnapped by a gunman as they got into their car in Dayton, OH. The gunman pointed a handgun at them and ordered them to drive to a wooded area where he sexually assaulted them. The man then blindfolded both women, robbed them, and fled. Soon after C.W. and B.W. reported their attack, another woman came forward and said she was attacked in a very similar manner earlier that month. The man had told all the victims that he was a store security guard and his name was “Roger.” Two years later, all three women selected Roger Gillispie – who was known to everyone as “Dean,” his middle name – from a photo lineup and he was arrested. Dean was convicted of the crime, but before he was sentenced, the defense found out that DNA had been tested and it excluded Gillispie. So a second trial was held and he was convicted again. This time, he was sentenced to 22-56 years in prison.
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00:05:34“Speaker 1: and forced them to perform oral sex on him. He Speaker 1: then blindfolded both women and forced them to lie down Speaker 1: in the backseat while he drove back to the Best Speaker 2: So there were some distinctive things that the perpetrator said Speaker 2: and did. Specifically, he would say things like, you know,”
00:21:07“Speaker 3: it's not gonna happen overnight, so you know, the years Speaker 3: just start clicking off while you're filing these motions and Speaker 3: they keep getting denied, to the point of I said, Speaker 3: do not send me these motions no more. I don't Speaker 3: want to read them. I don't want to see them”
00:35:00“Speaker 2: he was like double exoneration. Speaker 1: So the state would have to fight this on two Speaker 1: fronts in order to get you back in and considering Speaker 1: the evidence in this, a normal person would just let Speaker 1: this go right, So you guys filed to have the”
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