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The Case of Hope White
📻 Episode #327
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Jan 23, 2023
About This Episode
On July 19, 2008, a police officer found the body of Julie Burchett in her parked car in an abandoned pallet mill in Monticello, KY. Hope and her boyfriend lived nearby and gathered with other observers at the scene. A police informant eventually concocted an elaborate story that Hope threw a party at her mother’s…
The Case
On July 19, 2008, a police officer found the body of Julie Burchett in her parked car in an abandoned pallet mill in Monticello, KY. Hope and her boyfriend lived nearby and gathered with other observers at the scene. A police informant eventually concocted an elaborate story that Hope threw a party at her mother’s house where she stabbed Julie to death. Despite Hope’s alibi, another suspect, and evidence that there was no party at all, Hope was arrested, tried and convicted. Maggie speaks to Hope White, Brittany White, Hope’s sister, and Hope’s attorney, Miranda Hellman, Attorney at the Kentucky Innocence Project.
https://dpa.ky.gov/home/about-dpa/who-we-are/kip/
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:04:36“Speaker 1: same Hope at heart. Speaker 3: I remember she had and it seems like such a Speaker 3: small thing now, but she had went to the gas Speaker 3: station and got bug juice, which is these little juices Speaker 3: made for kids, and she had already gave them theirs,”
00:17:14“Speaker 5: A spray that reacts to black light, and it will Speaker 5: react when it hits certain things. So one of the Speaker 5: big ones' is blood or bodily fluids. So the quote Speaker 5: at trial was that when they hit the black light Speaker 5: in Tammy's house that it lit up like a Christmas tree,”
00:29:18“Speaker 2: Like I said before, I've struggled with oppression my whole life, Speaker 2: and I really struggled. I'm hurting myself for years because Speaker 2: I didn't have them in my life anymore and because Speaker 2: of what had happened to me. And I'm just grateful Speaker 2: that I was strong enough to be able to know”
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