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The Case of Greg Brown
📻 Episode #429
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Feb 22, 2024
About This Episode
A house in Pittsburgh, PA, went up in flames on February 14, 1995, killing three firefighters while they were trying to put out the fire. A week later, a neighbor of 17-year-old Greg Brown came forward and said that he suspected Greg of lighting the fire. Greg and his mother lived at the house that…
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The Case
A house in Pittsburgh, PA, went up in flames on February 14, 1995, killing three firefighters while they were trying to put out the fire. A week later, a neighbor of 17-year-old Greg Brown came forward and said that he suspected Greg of lighting the fire. Greg and his mother lived at the house that had caught fire, and authorities suspected that the two of them set the fire to claim insurance money. Despite no physical evidence supporting this theory, Greg was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murder, arson, and insurance fraud.
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00:04:35“Speaker 3: going to get destroyed. And I went over to one Speaker 3: of the firemen and they I said, as fire as over. Speaker 3: They said, yeah, boy, we lost three of our guys. Speaker 3: I'm like what, so, yeah, three firemen died. I'm like, man,”
00:19:41“Speaker 4: a kid at the time, was like, I don't know Speaker 4: about that. And then in closing arguments, you know, prosecutors Speaker 4: really made it seem like it was preposterous that they Speaker 4: would be paying witnesses. Speaker 1: Even though they most definitely were and had been saying”
00:32:38“Speaker 4: Prosecutor Mark Clark, Assistant United States Attorney Sean Sweeney, Judge Speaker 4: Sir Cone presiding over the case. When we get to Speaker 4: the federal court, we have Sewn Sweeney, United States Attorney. Speaker 4: He's going to prosecute the case federally. We're initially assigned Speaker 4: to Judge Schwab here in the Western District, who recuses”
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