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The Case of John Giuca Pt.1

📻 Episode #340
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Mar 09, 2023

⬥ STILL IMPRISONED

About This Episode

On October 12, 2003, Mark Fisher was found shot and killed in a driveway in Brooklyn, NY after spending the night hanging out with a group of his peers, including John Giuca and Antonio Russo. Upon interrogation, a few of the people that Mark had been with late the night before led police to believe…

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The Case

On October 12, 2003, Mark Fisher was found shot and killed in a driveway in Brooklyn, NY after spending the night hanging out with a group of his peers, including John Giuca and Antonio Russo. Upon interrogation, a few of the people that Mark had been with late the night before led police to believe that John and Antonio were involved in Mark’s murder. Despite no physical evidence and no eyewitnesses linking him to the crime, John was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison solely based on witness testimony.

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00:05:52
“Speaker 2: over there too, and I considered them family also. I Speaker 2: looked at it as I had two fathers, like two Speaker 2: men in my life who loved me and wanted to Speaker 2: see me succeed and support me. Speaker 1: Then your biological father ended up suffering a stroke when”
00:22:10
“Speaker 3: houses who said they didn't hear anything. Speaker 1: Which is completely unbelievable because I've been to this neighborhood Speaker 1: and the neighbors driveways are maybe at most twenty thirty Speaker 1: yards across the street from the other neighbor's front doors. Speaker 3: Six point thirty in the morning on a Sunday, and”
00:39:04
“Speaker 2: The jury thought that he took and past that polygraph Speaker 2: about it what he was saying now, It was never Speaker 2: cleared up that he took a polygraph to the exact Speaker 2: opposite of what. Speaker 1: He was saying now, that is really devious. Now they”

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