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The Case of Dewayne Dunn
📻 Episode #338
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Mar 02, 2023
About This Episode
On September 3, 2008, in Elkhart, IN, 60-year old Angel Torres was found unconscious and lying face down in a parking lot outside of his apartment complex with a baseball bat beneath him. When authorities arrived, Angel’s neighbor and friend, Dewayne Dunn, immediately rushed over and said that Angel had fallen down the stairs from…
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The Case
On September 3, 2008, in Elkhart, IN, 60-year old Angel Torres was found unconscious and lying face down in a parking lot outside of his apartment complex with a baseball bat beneath him. When authorities arrived, Angel’s neighbor and friend, Dewayne Dunn, immediately rushed over and said that Angel had fallen down the stairs from a second-floor porch at the complex. Angel was taken to the hospital where it was discovered that he had suffered skull fractures and brain bleeding, and his blood-alcohol content was over three times the legal limit. He died two days later. Although the two eyewitnesses to the crime claim Dewayne is innocent, he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 58 years in prison based on the testimony of questionable expert witnesses.
https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/147-wrongful-conviction-junk-science-bloodstain-pattern-evidence/
https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/289-jason-flom-with-andrew-royer/
https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/328-jason-flom-with-keith-cooper/
Or reach out to DeWayne directly:
dewaynedunn12@gmail.com
In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
Short excerpts from the episode's official published transcript, with timestamps — listen from these moments, or read the full transcript via the podcast's own platforms.
00:04:57“Speaker 2: guess he seen me. He comes out on the porch, Speaker 2: he had the bat in his hand. He reached and Speaker 2: splut me across the bat with the bat. I said, man, Speaker 2: you hit me with that bat again, We're gonna have Speaker 2: a problem. And he reached to go hit again, and”
00:19:19“Speaker 1: this expert was only an expert in testifying or test Speaker 1: the lying. Let's call it what it is, to whatever Speaker 1: the state's theory was, and it'll become clear that Wagner Speaker 1: was no different. Yet, this really was all they had Speaker 1: against the word of what, unfortunately can be considered two”
00:34:38“Speaker 4: damage to Torres's liver, for example, were the result of Speaker 4: a beating. The state's case was only that he'd been Speaker 4: hit over the head. So you have Cliff Williams. He Speaker 4: doesn't understand that it's not about the bat. You have Speaker 4: the Indiana Court of Appeals misunderstanding what undetermined means, and”
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