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The Case of Lance Alford
📻 Episode #567
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Mar 26, 2026
About This Episode
In the evening of May 22, 2005, Salvador A. Martinez was shot and killed in Camden, NJ. The notorious Camden Police Department eventually set its sights on Lance Alford, and after coercing three supposed eyewitnesses to identify and testify against Alford as the perpetrator, Alford was convicted of first-degree murder. Based on this testimony alone,…
The Case
In the evening of May 22, 2005, Salvador A. Martinez was shot and killed in Camden, NJ. The notorious Camden Police Department eventually set its sights on Lance Alford, and after coercing three supposed eyewitnesses to identify and testify against Alford as the perpetrator, Alford was convicted of first-degree murder. Based on this testimony alone, Alford was sentenced to life in prison.
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00:03:58“Speaker 2: In seventh grade, I moved back to camp I say, Speaker 2: ninety two ninety three, comments like it's too hard out here, Speaker 2: pay the bills to move back to Cambon. So we Speaker 2: back out there in a hard place to go up. Speaker 2: So we're just trying to make ends, meeting survive, That's”
00:14:29“Speaker 2: drigging and you need see the guy get shy. You'd Speaker 2: seen his spot. He see two guys all black on Speaker 2: run from the crime. See he weighed a back in Speaker 2: a park. So they run towards film and keep runing Speaker 2: towards Silm till he's seen a face it.”
00:24:00“Speaker 4: right now, I'm a paralegal in a prosecutor's office and Speaker 4: I'm considering it. You know, longer term, the worst thing Speaker 4: that you can do as a prosecutor, hands down, is Speaker 4: what these people have done to Lance. Speaker 5: Julia, you know, how has your idea of the criminal”
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