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The Case of John Jerome White
📻 Episode #411
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 30, 2023
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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00:04:50“Speaker 1: So can you tell us a little bit about what Speaker 1: your life was like prior to all this insanity? Uh? Speaker 2: Well, I'm from the Smile what we'd like to call Speaker 2: it the railroad town, Uh, in Manchester, Georgia. Uh, that's Speaker 2: in South Georgia. I'm the only boy's six girls. I”
00:19:19“Speaker 1: lady who was a victim of a brutal assault. Speaker 2: They actually to peak me out in court why she Speaker 3: The problem with eyewitness identification is it's unreliable, but it's Speaker 3: incredibly powerful in court. You have a now seventy five Speaker 3: year old woman who is so traumatized the er didn't”
00:32:35“Speaker 1: So, Amy, what were the machinations that you had to Speaker 1: go through to finish the job and get him home? Speaker 3: Well, it was so quick. So you know, we get Speaker 3: all the information, but so does the district attorney. And Speaker 3: so of course when the district's attorney, and at that”
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