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The Case of Fred Clay
📻 Episode #87
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Feb 18, 2019
About This Episode
In 1979, 28-year-old cab driver Jeffrey S. Boyajian was robbed and murdered when he was shot in the head five times after he picked up three men in a Boston, MA neighborhood. Several eyewitnesses identified Fred Clay as one of the three men who entered Boyajian’s cab. But Clay, who was 16 years old at…
The Case
In 1979, 28-year-old cab driver Jeffrey S. Boyajian was robbed and murdered when he was shot in the head five times after he picked up three men in a Boston, MA neighborhood. Several eyewitnesses identified Fred Clay as one of the three men who entered Boyajian’s cab. But Clay, who was 16 years old at the time, maintained his innocence. He testified that he’d been at his foster home at the time of the crime, which his foster mother confirmed. Despite his alibi, Clay was charged as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder.
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00:06:41“Speaker 5: us a little background on that? Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean, the way I understand it is. Speaker 6: Fred was arrested just a few weeks after turning sixteen, Speaker 6: charged with the murder of a cab driver. The really Speaker 6: crazy part of the story was that one of another”
00:25:52“Speaker 1: why not. I grew up in the opportunity to meet Speaker 1: somebody from church and just have a friend to come Speaker 1: visit me. So he put me in touch with prison ministry. Speaker 1: I think it's called Candlelight Ministries. And I had to Speaker 1: fill out some forms and stuff like that, and I”
00:46:07“Speaker 1: Maybe there is no right time. I just need to Speaker 1: just jump into it and do it. But all that's Speaker 1: been kind of challenging to me. To figure out what's important, Speaker 1: what's not important, trying to prioritize things. That's been a Speaker 5: And I can tell just from the way you know”
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