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The Case of Douglas DiLosa
📻 Episode #8
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 28, 2016
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…
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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00:05:48“Speaker 1: was right there on the landing of the stairs. I Speaker 1: said dial nine one one, and he immediately picked up Speaker 1: the phone dial nine one one. He says, what do Speaker 1: I say? And I said, just tell him you need help, Speaker 1: that your daddy's hurt. And you had seen two men”
00:23:27“Speaker 3: The work in the farm is critical, Angela. That's what Speaker 3: it is. It's a plantation prison. It was that way Speaker 3: throughout its entire history, so very important that we have Speaker 3: agriculture here on the farm that provides work for the inmate, Speaker 3: which you know is good for them because they have”
00:39:16“Speaker 2: lane open for the bad actors in the system, the Speaker 2: bad prosecutors to do what they feel like on a Speaker 2: given day, and to really railroad people who are just Speaker 2: regular people like you and I who get find themselves Speaker 2: stuck in this nightmare, people like Doug Delosa.”
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