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The Case of Eddie Ramirez
📻 Episode #482
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Oct 07, 2024
About This Episode
In the winter of 1995, Joyce Dennis was killed during her closing shift at a laundromat in North Philadelphia, PA. Police then rounded up a group of teenagers and, over the course of several months, got them to implicate two of their friends for the crime, including Eddie Ramirez. Despite the fact that no physical…
The Case
In the winter of 1995, Joyce Dennis was killed during her closing shift at a laundromat in North Philadelphia, PA. Police then rounded up a group of teenagers and, over the course of several months, got them to implicate two of their friends for the crime, including Eddie Ramirez. Despite the fact that no physical evidence tied him to the murder scene, Eddie would spend 27 years in prison for a crime he’s always maintained he did not commit.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:04:18“Speaker 6: I'm not going to say anything. Speaker 8: Other than that. Speaker 2: This is Emily, Eddie's sister. Speaker 7: He's five years younger than me. So imagine I was Speaker 7: five years old when this little baby boy comes to Speaker 7: the world, and my sister's only like a year and”
00:18:05“Speaker 1: He was trying to point out that all these kids. Speaker 3: You know, were forced to implicate. Speaker 2: Eddie, and these were all teenagers. Speaker 3: Yeah, the teenagers without their families involved in the interrogation, Speaker 3: which is itself problematic, and you know, it's just threats”
00:30:12“Speaker 6: it dawned on me, Yo, God put me on this Speaker 6: van to give that one last lesson to somebody on Speaker 6: the inside. And so, however long the trip was, I Speaker 6: stopped thinking about the time because I was like, man, Speaker 6: I got an opportunity to do that in that location”
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