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The Case of Luis Vargas
📻 Episode #67
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Aug 20, 2018
About This Episode
In 1999, Luis Vargas was convicted and sentenced to fifty-five years to life in prison for three sexual assaults. He was accused of being the notorious “teardrop rapist,” a methodical serial rapist that terrorized women in Los Angeles. The real “teardrop rapist” would attack over 30 victims. Luis Vargas is joined by his lawyer, Justin…
The Case
In 1999, Luis Vargas was convicted and sentenced to fifty-five years to life in prison for three sexual assaults. He was accused of being the notorious “teardrop rapist,” a methodical serial rapist that terrorized women in Los Angeles. The real “teardrop rapist” would attack over 30 victims. Luis Vargas is joined by his lawyer, Justin Brooks, director of the California Innocence Project.
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00:07:19“Speaker 2: defining feature, so just a tattoo was very popular during Speaker 2: this era, those of us works of the criminal justice system. Speaker 2: It's seen this tattoo where it's one or two tear drops, Speaker 2: and all of the victims described their attacker that way,”
00:28:35“Speaker 3: your honor, can I please move around the court room? Speaker 3: Your honor goes like, what's the reason the DA, And Speaker 3: I'm surprised by that time, I had a hired attorney. Speaker 3: I'm surprised he did not object to that. But when Speaker 3: the judge asked her what was the reason, she said,”
00:48:08“Speaker 1: And in fact, if not for that, we probably very Speaker 1: likely wouldn't be talking to you today because you would Speaker 1: have been not only then you would have been roughly Speaker 1: and I'm sure there were others like like you said, Speaker 1: of those twenty two, and we know now that you know,”
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