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The Case of Junk Science - Footwear Comparison Evidence
📻 Episode #396
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 09, 2023
About This Episode
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.
The Case
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.
Josh Dubin speaks with Bill Osinski, journalist and author of “Guilty By Popular Demand.”
Kate Judson, Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, updates Josh Dubin's Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:04:29“Speaker 2: Oh my god, you can't stand. Your body is trembling. Speaker 2: You try to restate what the officer just said. You're Speaker 2: trying to wrap your head around what this means. You Speaker 2: found their bodies, their dead bodies. The officer says, they Speaker 2: didn't find their whole bodies, just their torsos. Their bodies”
00:18:16“Speaker 4: about a little used car that the parents were supposed Speaker 4: to have given a net but hadn't yet, And out Speaker 4: of that argument, Dale went into a jealous fit and Speaker 4: pulled out a gun which they never found, and shot Speaker 4: his stepdaughter and a boyfriend, and then took them outside,”
00:31:11“Speaker 4: started screaming. She shot her. At that point, Chester and Speaker 4: Kenny dragged the bodies down to the riverfront at the Speaker 4: edge of the cornfield and dismembered them. And Kenny, maybe Speaker 4: with help maybe not, got the bodies back into the Speaker 4: cornfield and dug shallow holes and put the limbs and”
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