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The Case of Junk Science - Bite Mark Evidence
📻 Episode #388
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 11, 2023
About This Episode
Like other forms of junk science used in criminal trials, bite mark evidence does not benefit crime victims or their loved ones. So why is it treated like credible science. It turns out that the charade of bite mark evidence is actually older than the United States.
The Case
Like other forms of junk science used in criminal trials, bite mark evidence does not benefit crime victims or their loved ones. So why is it treated like credible science. It turns out that the charade of bite mark evidence is actually older than the United States.
Kate Judson, Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, updates Josh Dubin's Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science.
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00:03:40“Speaker 2: over her neck, on her shoulder, her inner thigh, and Speaker 2: her arm. They tell you that the killer left those Speaker 2: bite marks that they can determine who committed this crime Speaker 2: just by taking a dental impression of their teeth and Speaker 2: matching it to the bite marks on the victim. And”
00:15:04“Speaker 3: possibly get about Ted Bundy. Speaker 4: Everybody believed he's guilty. Speaker 3: The only physical evidence in that case was the bitemark, Speaker 3: so it was touted as you know, bite marks are Speaker 3: the thing that finally brought Bundy down. And after Ted Speaker 3: Bundy was convicted and using bitemark evidence that really just”
00:25:27“Speaker 2: yet these so called facts about bitemarks are being used Speaker 2: to turn a jury against you. These supposed experts are Speaker 2: still being used to wrongly convict people all over the country. Speaker 2: There are people sitting on death row right now whose Speaker 2: cases are based on the junk signs of bitemark evidence.”
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