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The Case of Jason Flom on Nelson Serrano
📻 Episode #245
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Feb 16, 2022
About This Episode
Successful businessman and Ecuadorian-American immigrant Nelson Serrano was in Atlanta on December 3rd, 1997, when 4 people were murdered execution stye at his Bartow, Florida factory. It is believed that the intended target was his business partner, Phil Dosso’s son Frank who worked for the business while also involved in drug trafficking. After 3 years…
The Case
Successful businessman and Ecuadorian-American immigrant Nelson Serrano was in Atlanta on December 3rd, 1997, when 4 people were murdered execution stye at his Bartow, Florida factory. It is believed that the intended target was his business partner, Phil Dosso’s son Frank who worked for the business while also involved in drug trafficking. After 3 years of cooperating with an investigation that turned up no evidence linking him to the crime, Nelson retired to Ecuador. Investigators ignored statements implicating a NY druglord, and instead circumvented Ecuadorian sovereignty, kidnapping Nelson to stand trial in Florida. Focusing on a strained business partnership as Nelson’s alleged motive, the prosecution presented an absurd theory in which Nelson made an impossible round trip journey from Atlanta to Bartow supported only by false evidence to fool the jury into sending Nelson to death row where he remains to this day.
https://www.nelsonserrano.org/
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:06:12“Speaker 2: You can't do this. This is embezzlement, this is fraud. Speaker 2: And they said no, it's two against one. So they said, Speaker 2: all right, well then I got assue you. And it Speaker 2: didn't make any sense. We're doing incredible, our reputation in Speaker 2: the industry is at its highest. It didn't make any”
00:25:32“Speaker 3: down from Atlanta and committed these murders, you would have Speaker 3: to believe that he did that on a leap of faith, Speaker 3: with no knowledge that any of his targets would even Speaker 3: be on the scene at the time that he would Speaker 3: have arrived. He would have had to believe that someone”
00:41:27“Speaker 3: Human Rights has weighed in significantly. Where we are right Speaker 3: now is that the Supreme Court ordered a retrial on Speaker 3: the sentencing aspect of the case. What I'm doing cannot Speaker 3: actually find Nelson Serrano innocent. The federal appeals could actually Speaker 3: overturn the guilt or innocence portion of the case. So”
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