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The Case of Junk Science - Footwear Comparison Evidence
📻 Episode #154
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 02, 2020
About This Episode
Josh Dubin speaks with Bill Osinski, journalist and author of “Guilty By Popular Demand.”
The Case
Josh Dubin speaks with Bill Osinski, journalist and author of “Guilty By Popular Demand.”
Even when done correctly, impression analysis of evidence, like shoe prints and tire tracks, is purely subjective. Many experts recognize its limitations. But one so-called “expert” in particular pushed the limits of this forensic discipline to produce horrific outcomes.
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00:04:00“Speaker 1: in your face and says you did this. We know Speaker 1: you did this. We found your bootprint down by the riverbank. Speaker 1: Once we match that boot to the print that was Speaker 1: left at that riverbank, it'll prove you were there. You Speaker 1: killed your stepdaughter, and then you, sick bastard, you cut”
00:17:04“Speaker 2: some body parts, heads and limbs in the cornfield. I mean, Speaker 2: it just it made absolutely no sense. They had no Speaker 2: evidence that he was actually back in town at night Speaker 2: trying to bury these bodies, but that's what they elect. Speaker 2: Dale was not a warm guy. I mean, you know,”
00:29:47“Speaker 2: the heads into a kind of a bear spot in Speaker 2: the middle of the cornfield that he knew about. And Speaker 2: Kenny the next few nights he would go out to Speaker 2: that railroad bridge and cry and moan, and friends saying Speaker 2: what's wrong, Kenny, And he told him, Yo, you wouldn't understand.”
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