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The Case of Glen Assoun

📻 Episode #192
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Apr 07, 2021

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About This Episode

A Nova Scotia man was targeted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend despite a rock solid alibi and evidence pointing toward a man later discovered to be a serial killer.

The Case

A Nova Scotia man was targeted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend despite a rock solid alibi and evidence pointing toward a man later discovered to be a serial killer.

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00:04:22
“Speaker 3: you stop investigating a crime and you start investigating a person. Speaker 3: And once they'd fixed on Glenn, the first thing they Speaker 3: had to do was discredit the alibi. So they pulled Speaker 3: in Anne Morse, who had told the truth. They arrested Speaker 3: her for obstruction of justice for having told the truth.”
00:17:22
“Speaker 4: there for about five hours. The only thing I had Speaker 4: on me was my underwear. They cut the boots off Speaker 4: of me and everything. The only thing was in there Speaker 4: was a toilet and the sink, and the sink didn't work, Speaker 4: so the toilet did. I was beat so bad I”
00:30:42
“Speaker 5: in Canada anyway, because it is the first case in Speaker 5: Canadian history where the Premier, or in other words, of Speaker 5: the governor of the province in which the wrongful conviction Speaker 5: took place ordered his Attorney general to start in a Speaker 5: criminal investigation into the officers who were involved and contributed”

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