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The Case of Larry DeLisle
📻 Episode #184
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Feb 10, 2021
About This Episode
After a hot summer day - August 3rd, 1989, the DeLisle’s took their 4 children for ice cream along the Detroit River. A mechanical defect in their car caused the night to take a deadly turn that sent Larry DeLisle to prison for what should have been seen as a tragic accident.
The Case
After a hot summer day - August 3rd, 1989, the DeLisle’s took their 4 children for ice cream along the Detroit River. A mechanical defect in their car caused the night to take a deadly turn that sent Larry DeLisle to prison for what should have been seen as a tragic accident.
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00:04:30“Speaker 3: bought to go to Disneyland November of eighty seven, when Speaker 3: my father had committed suicide, we were talking about getting Speaker 3: rid of the aerostar, getting a cheaper vehicle so we Speaker 3: can knock our bills down to a point where we Speaker 3: can afford to buy a house. Well, when my father”
00:16:46“Speaker 1: when you didn't actually know what happened. In fact, you Speaker 1: could not have known that this car was defective, or Speaker 1: you wouldn't have been driving the damn thing. Speaker 3: He was asking what could have happened? Why the accelerator Speaker 3: had stuck? And I didn't know I had my shoes”
00:27:24“Speaker 3: over with, so the jury never got to hear it. Speaker 1: So you've been in prison of for thirty years. I Speaker 1: know you recently survived COVID on top of everything else, Speaker 1: But can you explain that the prison experience. Speaker 3: Oh that wasn't there for my wife at the funeral”
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