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The Case of John Jerome White
📻 Episode #307
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 10, 2022
About This Episode
Early on the morning of August 11, 1979, an intruder broke into a Manchester, GA home to find a 74-year-old woman asleep on her couch. The man beat and sexually assaulted the woman and then demanded all her money. She gave the attacker cash from her purse and then he left through the back door.
The Case
Early on the morning of August 11, 1979, an intruder broke into a Manchester, GA home to find a 74-year-old woman asleep on her couch. The man beat and sexually assaulted the woman and then demanded all her money. She gave the attacker cash from her purse and then he left through the back door.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment, but no rape kit was collected due to the extent of her injuries. At the victim’s house, Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) crime scene investigators collected pubic hairs from a bed sheet that had been on the couch at the time of the rape. Police then created a composite sketch of the attacker from the victim’s description, and a GBI agent who was investigating John Jerome White on another charge thought he resembled the sketch. White was convicted on May 30, 1980 of rape, assault, burglary, and robbery.
https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/152-wrongful-conviction-junk-science-hair-microscopy-evidence/
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/from-2007-snapshot-eyewitness-mistake/TxDolwbHy82ba4w1eefq8H/
https://www.georgiainnocenceproject.org/
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:04:31“Speaker 1: Nevertheless, the burglaries had you on the radar of the Speaker 1: local police when this terrible crime occurred, and it was Speaker 1: in the early morning hours of August eleventh, nineteen seventy nine, Speaker 1: when a man broke into the Manchester, Georgia home of Speaker 1: a seventy four year old woman.”
00:18:36“Speaker 3: inexperienced that I thought I was going home. Speaker 1: Can you take us back to that awful moment when Speaker 1: they read the verdict that. Speaker 3: It broke down and started crying. You know, I will convicted. Speaker 3: The rate robbery aggravated thought and two council burgery. And”
00:31:16“Speaker 2: got the notice to come pick him up, but literally Speaker 2: four days later his folks are on the way down Speaker 2: to Oglethort, Georgia to pick him up. So John was Speaker 1: John, what was your first meal? Where did you go? Speaker 1: What did you what did you do?”
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