The Case of Ken Middleton

📻 Episode #248
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Mar 09, 2022

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About This Episode

The Case

On February 12th, 1990, a tragic accident occurred in which it is believed that Kathy Middleton mishandled a gun in her left hand, accidentally shooting herself one time in the head. The state turned this tragedy into a homicide investigation, sending her husband Ken Middleton to prison for life plus 200 years. In 2004, Ken had an opportunity to present to his motion trial court evidence of ineffective assistance of his counsel, as well as ballistics evidence that proved that the state's theory was impossible. Before the judge ruled, the state offered Ken freedom through an Alford plea, and he refused. Eventually, the judge granted him a new trial, but the state simply challenged that ruling on jurisdictional grounds, leaving Ken in prison ever since. A 2021 law now specifically grants that motion trial court the necessary jurisdiction, yet Ken and his family still await justice from prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.

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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts

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00:05:25
“Speaker 3: truck and brought the gun in the house. It had Speaker 3: been in Arkansas since i'd went to Colorado Elcott in Speaker 3: the fall before, and there's a big snow and rain Speaker 3: and stuff in Colorado and it got wet, so I Speaker 3: picked it up and brought it back to Missouri. I”

00:22:56
“Speaker 3: residue on my hands or long sleeve shirt, or blood Speaker 3: or not the nails on my lone sleeve shirt. Speaker 1: And they said he put a bootprint on the wall, Speaker 1: which was false. It had been there weeks prior, and Speaker 1: in order for that bootprint to get there, his leg”

00:39:20
“Speaker 2: of the prosecutors and the quote ineffective performance of the Speaker 2: defense council. And at the end of the testimony, former Speaker 2: Governor Teesdale was asked what he would have done if Speaker 2: this case had been presented to him in his capacity Speaker 2: as governor, and he replied that this was the worst”

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