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The Case of Eron Shelman
📻 Episode #508
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Jan 16, 2025
About This Episode
One day in May of 1992, 19-year-old Eron Shelman was driving around Detroit, MI with three of his buddies. Eron was at the wheel with his friend Antonio Knight beside him when suddenly, a shot rang out, and Antonio fell over, dead. “I almost crashed the car,” Eron recalls. “I had my dearest friend laying…
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The Case
One day in May of 1992, 19-year-old Eron Shelman was driving around Detroit, MI with three of his buddies. Eron was at the wheel with his friend Antonio Knight beside him when suddenly, a shot rang out, and Antonio fell over, dead. “I almost crashed the car,” Eron recalls. “I had my dearest friend laying in my lap, bleeding out the back of his head.” Despite someone else confessing to the shooting, Eron was convicted of Antonio’s murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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00:04:48“Speaker 3: early eighties. It was fans of the guys with the Speaker 5: That's who it was, right, Okay. Speaker 3: Yes, there you go. Speaker 1: Although his extended family was always there for him, Iron's Speaker 1: home life was unstable. Speaker 3: You know, again, I'm pretty young, but you know, all”
00:19:31“Speaker 4: He was the one white man in the car, which Speaker 4: I also find interesting. You know, so their only evidence Speaker 4: that Iran was guilty was this testimony of his cousin. Speaker 1: Montes Bell was the state star witness. He was the Speaker 1: one who said Iran had told him they were going”
00:33:39“Speaker 4: impeachment evidence against Montesbell their main witness. Speaker 1: And there's someone else who testified on Eiron's behalf, someone Speaker 1: who knows the truth about what happened that day, Andre Rice. Andre, Speaker 1: you remember, had gotten a lesser sentence twenty five to Speaker 1: sixty years, and thanks to good behavior, he was relieved”
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