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The Case of False Confessions - Dixmoor 5
📻 Episode #117
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Mar 04, 2020
About This Episode
So their theory is that a wandering necrophiliac comes across the body and defiles it?
The Case
So their theory is that a wandering necrophiliac comes across the body and defiles it?
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell the story of how five Chicago teens were wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of their classmate - and how prosecutors tried to explain away the DNA that proved them innocent. This case happened during the early 1990s, when the media was saturated with misleading stories about youth of color committing violent crimes in groups. This "superpredator" narrative drove the wrongful prosecution of the so-called Central Park Five “wolfpack” -- but it didn’t stop there.
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This episode includes story line about and clips from Retro Report, The Superpredator Scare.
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00:03:31“Speaker 1: her mom came home from work to go back to Speaker 1: her own house. Kateresa followed this routine religiously until November nineteenth, Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. When she doesn't show up at her Speaker 1: great grandmother's house after school, her family panics, They call Speaker 1: the police and a search begins, but for three weeks”
00:14:36“Speaker 1: but before trial, DNA testing from the seaman left on Speaker 1: Kateresa's body excludes all five suspects. Instead, this DNA belongs Speaker 1: to a single, unidentified male. Speaker 2: This is might drop evidence, the kind of evidence that Speaker 2: should have resulted in these cases being dismissed before trial.”
00:24:06“Speaker 2: hair back there. Speaker 1: That's where it all went. Speaker 2: That's where it all went because we had the best Speaker 2: possible evidence of their innocence. And not only were they Speaker 2: refusing to clear our clients, Willie Randolph was on the street. Speaker 2: He was out of prison on parole, and he could”
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Also on the podcast: #115 False Confessions - Origin Story · #116 False Confessions - Robert Davis · #118 False Confessions - Thomas Cogdell