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The Case of Douglas DiLosa
📻 Episode #412
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Dec 07, 2023
About This Episode
In September 1986, 34-year-old Douglas DiLosa was found bound with rope in his Jefferson Parish, LA home. His wife was found strangled upstairs. DiLosa, who is white, told police that he was awakened by a noise, and when he went downstairs to investigate, he was beaten and bound by two black men. Police suspected that…
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The Case
In September 1986, 34-year-old Douglas DiLosa was found bound with rope in his Jefferson Parish, LA home. His wife was found strangled upstairs. DiLosa, who is white, told police that he was awakened by a noise, and when he went downstairs to investigate, he was beaten and bound by two black men. Police suspected that DiLosa, who was in financial trouble, had murdered his wife for the insurance money. A jury convicted DiLosa of second-degree murder and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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00:05:55“Speaker 3: My wife and I had been together a little over Speaker 3: ten years. We had two beautiful children and a son Speaker 3: who was seven at the time and a daughter who Speaker 1: Right, So you had a little yard and basically some Speaker 1: neighbors and sort of like they we think of in”
00:25:42“Speaker 3: a security cell while they prepare a white cell. And Speaker 3: I'm like, what the hell is a white cell. At Speaker 3: that time, they still believed in segregating the white and Speaker 3: black prisoners at Angola. They didn't mix and blacks in Speaker 3: the same cell. But my very first night in Angola,”
00:43:15“Speaker 4: cases or rape cases or other hard fought criminal trials, Speaker 4: and the way the law is set up is the Speaker 4: prosecutor has to give the other side something voluntarily that Speaker 4: might make them lose, and we trust them in most Speaker 4: places to turn it over, so they say, I'm fulfilling”
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