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The Case of Keith Harward
📻 Episode #6
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 14, 2016
About This Episode
Keith Allen Harward, a Navy veteran, was wrongfully convicted of a 1982 rape and murder in Newport News, VA and served 33 years in prison. The assailant had broken into a home, killed a man and brutally raped his wife. Keith was convicted primarily on the testimony of two forensic dentists who said that his…
The Case
Keith Allen Harward, a Navy veteran, was wrongfully convicted of a 1982 rape and murder in Newport News, VA and served 33 years in prison. The assailant had broken into a home, killed a man and brutally raped his wife. Keith was convicted primarily on the testimony of two forensic dentists who said that his teeth matched marks on the victim's body, and he was convicted of capital murder. The Innocence Project performed DNA testing on the rape kit and numerous other pieces of crime scene evidence, and the testing excluded Keith and identified Jerry Crotty as the perpetrator. After the Virginia Supreme Court granted a writ of actual innocence, Keith Allen Harward walked out of prison on April 8, 2016 after wrongly serving more than 33 years of a life sentence.
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00:03:38“Speaker 1: because the Newport News shipyards is away from Norfolk, which Speaker 1: is normally where you would find sailors and uh, that's Speaker 1: what clue the men was the fact that he was Speaker 1: wearing a uniform. So apparently he had to be on Speaker 1: one of the ships or submarines that were there being”
00:13:57“Speaker 3: there was misconduct by law enforcement in his case, right. Speaker 2: So he did certainly hit the wrong kind of try Speaker 2: fact that you can't hit it any worse, and ended Speaker 2: up serving thirty three years in prison. And let's let's Speaker 2: talk about that, Keith. Every day's got to be held.”
00:24:41“Speaker 2: you know. So, So now take us to that moment Speaker 2: of justice finally being served. Speaker 3: Sure, so, we had DNA testing done on the evidence Speaker 3: that the Innocence Project had found, and the DNA results Speaker 3: came back. First, they showed that the the rape sample”
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