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The Case of False Confessions - Huwe Burton
📻 Episode #127
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Apr 22, 2020
About This Episode
What could make someone confess to the murder of their own mother?
The Case
What could make someone confess to the murder of their own mother?
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to The Bronx in 1989. Huwe Burton was sixteen years old and charged with the murder of his own mother. Even as Huwe was bulldozed into a false confession, the real killer was living in the apartment just one floor below.
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00:03:45“Speaker 1: off with her brand new nineteen eighty eight Honda Accord. Speaker 2: When the police came to the crime scene, they took Speaker 2: notice of a couple of things. One of the things Speaker 2: was that Hugh was sitting outside and to then he Speaker 2: appeared too calm, too cool, to collected. They had heard”
00:14:54“Speaker 1: split the cash. Emmanuel claimed that Hugh then went back Speaker 1: upstairs by himself and all almost immediately. Emmanuel said, I Speaker 1: heard arguing, screaming in a thumping noise. He said he Speaker 1: overheard Hugh yelling you won't give me the money. Fuck Speaker 1: you bitch, I'll kill you and take it. A few”
00:26:13“Speaker 2: had developed a nickname. They called him wise. He had Speaker 2: a sort of peacefulness that helped him survive in prison, Speaker 2: but also helped him to keep other inmates on track. Speaker 2: And that wisdom, that decency, that aura of his innocence Speaker 2: is what really tipped the scales in his case.”
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