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The Case of Jeff Boppre
📻 Episode #548
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 23, 2025
About This Episode
On September 19, 1988, drug dealer Richard Valdez and his pregnant girlfriend Sharon Condon were shot in their house near Scottsbluff, NE. Police quickly focused on Jeff Boppre based on a purported “dying declaration” that Valdez, after being shot multiple times, wrote parts of Boppre’s name in engine grease on the ground next to him.…
The Case
On September 19, 1988, drug dealer Richard Valdez and his pregnant girlfriend Sharon Condon were shot in their house near Scottsbluff, NE. Police quickly focused on Jeff Boppre based on a purported “dying declaration” that Valdez, after being shot multiple times, wrote parts of Boppre’s name in engine grease on the ground next to him. The investigation was built against Boppre and he was convicted of two counts of first degree murder and sentenced to two life sentences.
https://www.change.org/p/state-of-nebraska-free-jeff-boppre-ec9e405b-9502-47e7-a4c3-36b47a0d5e01
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00:05:34“Speaker 4: It's almost like he was setting him up or something. Speaker 4: I don't know, but there are a string of just Speaker 4: incredibly strange assault of behavior. When I met John's sister Speaker 4: and this stuck with me, probably because of the age Speaker 4: I grew up in, and I asked her, just give”
00:20:41“Speaker 4: Then there's a fun guy named Mike Knu, a jailhouse snitch, Speaker 4: who testifies that Jeff confessed. Speaker 2: I think he said that I told him that you Speaker 2: should have heard the bit compleet for life and some Speaker 2: other stuff about val Daz kind of wrote nothing because”
00:34:24“Speaker 4: a test to say are you going to pursue this Speaker 3: But it also sent the message that we don't really care. Speaker 1: So John Yellowboy was free to assault Shila he regularly kidnapped, raped, Speaker 1: and beat her, and he did so continuously for months”
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