The Case of Jason Strong

📻 Episode #47
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Mar 05, 2018

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The Case

In December 1999, the body of an unidentified young woman was found beaten to death in a forest preserve near North Chicago in Lake County, IL. Ten days after the body was discovered, Jeremy Tweedy, Jason Johnson and Jason Strong were brought in for questioning after Tweedy mentioned the woman's death to an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute. Police charged 24-year-old Jason Strong with first-degree murder and concealing a homicide and charged Tweedy and Johnson with concealing a homicide. Officers furnished a narrative about the circumstances of the victim's death to the two purported "witnesses," Tweedy and Johnson, both of whom agreed to testify against Jason Strong in exchange for lesser prison sentences. On October 18, 2000, Jason Strong was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 46 years in prison.

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00:04:45
“Speaker 1: So I didn't understand why this was happening. I was confused. Speaker 3: But when you say they were asking did you see Speaker 3: anything to do anything about? What? Was it a specific Speaker 3: crime that they were asking about. Speaker 1: Yeah, they had discovered a Jane Doe's body in the”

00:18:34
“Speaker 1: that before I was free. Speaker 3: Did you have any clue who might have done something Speaker 1: No, we do now, we do now, but here So Speaker 1: for many many years, I actually thought Jeremy Tweety was Speaker 1: the guy because he was so quick to make up”

00:32:19
“Speaker 1: and it just I was able to let it go. Speaker 3: That's an amazing picture that you're painting right there, and Speaker 3: it's it's actually really heartwarming to think about all the Speaker 3: other guys, you know, who are still facing their own Speaker 3: demons and their own sentences, but the fact that they”

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