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The Case of Keith LaMar
📻 Episode #585
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Aug 06, 2026
About This Episode
On April 11, 1993, a riot broke out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, OH, primarily due to tensions between the prisoners and the guards. The riot went on for 11 days resulting in 10 deaths and millions of dollars in damages. 23-year-old prisoner Keith LaMar was a witness to the riot, and…
The Case
On April 11, 1993, a riot broke out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, OH, primarily due to tensions between the prisoners and the guards. The riot went on for 11 days resulting in 10 deaths and millions of dollars in damages. 23-year-old prisoner Keith LaMar was a witness to the riot, and although there was no physical evidence linking him to any involvement in the riot, the prosecution focused on him presumably because he refused to aid them in their investigation. Many incentivized and coerced prison informants testified that Keith was the leader behind the riot while the prosecution failed to present the exculpatory evidence in their possession that others were responsible. Thus, Keith became one of the five prisoners convicted of the murders and blamed for the riot. Keith was sentenced to death. Jason talks to Keith LaMar and Keegan Stephan, Keith's attorney.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:08:25“Speaker 3: went before the judge and he lined us, all us, Speaker 3: about six of us altogether, in our families, and he Speaker 3: went down the line. He was giving guy six months Speaker 3: for each offense that they'd had. And he said, Joe Bruce, Speaker 3: this your third time in front of me, eighteen months.”
00:31:58“Speaker 3: I'll facing execution in less than six months. I would Speaker 3: never spent the last thirty years inside the check of Speaker 3: family at the beds. I went twenty years without touching Speaker 3: my family. I've been on I don't know how many Speaker 3: homeless strikes. I would never have to go through any”
00:55:41“Speaker 2: Right, how was he supposed to defend himself with these Speaker 2: sort of phantom statements with no names attached. So how Speaker 2: did the ruling get around that obviously clearly logical conclusion. Speaker 4: They said that they weren't exculpatory, which sort of follows Speaker 4: the prosecutor's very narrow defence of Brady, which is that”
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