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The Case of Jason Flom and Laura Nirider with Brendan Dassey
📻 Episode #225
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 02, 2021
About This Episode
This is a re-release of an episode that originally aired on October 2, 2019.
The Case
This is a re-release of an episode that originally aired on October 2, 2019.
In 2006, 16 year old Wisconsin special education student Brendan Dassey gave a videotaped confession to the murder of a young woman named Teresa Halbach. Brendan recanted his confession immediately, but was still convicted and sentenced to life in prison even though there was no evidence connecting him to the crime and the confession is widely recognized as false and coerced. In this episode, Laura Nirider, acclaimed attorney and host of Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions, arranges Brendan Dassey's only interview from behind bars with Jason Flom. Listen in as Laura and Jason dissect the false confession to the crime that is the subject of the Netflix hit Making a Murderer.
https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom
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00:05:23“Speaker 1: as a business lawyer. I was going to go do that. Speaker 1: I had a job lined up after graduation. I knew Speaker 1: nothing at a law from here in town, here in Chicago, Speaker 1: And you know, I knew nothing about the criminal justice system.”
00:20:24“Speaker 1: does this work, right, So the way this basically works, Speaker 1: interrogation is generally a two stage process. The first half Speaker 1: is all about confrontation and reducing you down to hopelessness. Right, Speaker 1: we know you did this. I've got so much evidence Speaker 1: against you. No one is going to believe you when”
00:34:09“Speaker 1: Too, Yeah, even Australia, right, Australia, it's amazing, and also Speaker 1: some from Wisconsin. Right. Yeah, that's great. Speaker 2: So there's tens of millions of people now all over Speaker 2: the world, as you know, who have watched Making a Speaker 2: Murderer have learned about your story. Do you want to”
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