The Case of False Confessions - Norfolk 4

📻 Episode #160
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 05, 2020

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About This Episode

Four honorable men volunteered to fight for their country, but ended up fighting for their own freedom.

The Case

Four honorable men volunteered to fight for their country, but ended up fighting for their own freedom.

Hosts Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin, co-directors at Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions and central figures in the smash hit Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer, tell us about not one, but four U.S. Navy sailors who falsely confessed to murdering another sailor’s wife.

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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts

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00:03:55
“Speaker 1: bedroom floor, Billy finds his wife dead, wearing nothing but Speaker 1: a black T shirt and found it by blood. She's Speaker 1: been raped, stabbed, and strangled. Billy searches for the phone, Speaker 1: but in his panic, he can't find it. Instead, he Speaker 1: runs next door to the apartment of another naval couple,”

00:15:19
“Speaker 1: Based on his confession, Joe is charged with capital murder Speaker 1: as Daniel's co defendant. The police were sure that this Speaker 1: time they'd closed the case. Then within weeks Joe's DNA Speaker 1: is compared to this seaman from the crime scene. Turns Speaker 1: out the DNA doesn't belong to him either. Neither Joe”

00:26:13
“Speaker 1: found evidence that he had tried to ask for a Speaker 1: lawyer during questioning, but he wasn't given one in violation Speaker 1: of his Miranda rights. Before Derek could be retried, two Speaker 1: more bombshells dropped. First, a PBS Frontline episode about the Speaker 1: Norfolk Four aired in twenty ten, featuring none other than”

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