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The Case of Michael VonAllmen
📻 Episode #315
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Dec 08, 2022
About This Episode
On October 10, 1982, a 22-year-old woman was abducted at gunpoint outside a tavern in Louisville, KY and taken to a nearby park where she was beaten, raped and robbed. The victim described her assailant as about 5’ 11” tall, weighing more than 200 pounds and with blue eyes and curly dark brown hair. Michael…
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The Case
On October 10, 1982, a 22-year-old woman was abducted at gunpoint outside a tavern in Louisville, KY and taken to a nearby park where she was beaten, raped and robbed. The victim described her assailant as about 5’ 11” tall, weighing more than 200 pounds and with blue eyes and curly dark brown hair. Michael VonAllmen, despite having brown eyes, was picked out of a photo lineup and charged with the crime. With no physical or forensic evidence tying him to the crime, and 3 alibi witnesses, VonAllmen was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison on the strength of the victim’s identification.
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00:05:15“Speaker 1: remember things exactly, it's not the way the mine works, Speaker 1: especially not with visual images. Then, Jennifer Thompson does the Speaker 1: best job of anyone I know talking about this. Remember Speaker 1: she was called the perfect witness in a case where Speaker 1: she herself was raped, and for the entire horrible ordeal,”
00:21:39“Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt would just shrivel up. They'd Speaker 1: give you some bs about you needing to take some Speaker 1: courses AA, sex offender rehab, etc. Even though there was Speaker 1: so much doubt in your case, and you did pursue Speaker 1: those avenues as well. Now before you were eventually paroled,”
00:34:55“Speaker 2: This is not right. Speaker 3: This man did not do this, and we know who did. Speaker 3: And we took that to court. There's a procedure, it's Speaker 3: sort of a safety valve in the law that allows Speaker 3: for you know, break glass and turn the knob here,”
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