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The Case of Robert Roberson
📻 Episode #274
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jul 07, 2022
About This Episode
2 year old Nicki Bowman had a history of respiratory issues that were raging in late January 2002 for which she was prescribed a drug that is now known to cause fatal respiratory depression in children. On January 31, 2002, her father, Robert Roberson, awoke to her cry and found Nicki on the floor at…
The Case
2 year old Nicki Bowman had a history of respiratory issues that were raging in late January 2002 for which she was prescribed a drug that is now known to cause fatal respiratory depression in children. On January 31, 2002, her father, Robert Roberson, awoke to her cry and found Nicki on the floor at their home in Palestine, Texas, and after a while, they again both fell asleep. Robert later awoke to find Nicki unresponsive and turning blue, and immediately, took her to the hospital. Nicki was found to have a minor bump on the back of her head that could not account for severe internal issues - the triad of findings typically associated with Shaken Baby Syndrome. After voluntarily speaking with medical personnel and the police, Roberson was assumed to have murdered Nicki when he claimed that he “shook” her upon finding her unresponsive. The state cast unfounded aspersion of sexual assault, and Robert was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection.
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To write Robert:
Robert Roberson
TDCJ 999442
Polunsky Unit
In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:07:04“Speaker 1: constellation of findings absent any abuse, injury or trauma, which Speaker 1: certainly seems to be the case here with Nicki Bowman. Speaker 1: And I want to quote doctor guth Kelch here from Speaker 1: a twenty twelve article titled After forty Years of Consideration, Speaker 1: where he said, and I quote, I think we need”
00:27:17“Speaker 2: unmbraced fall where you hit your head not common, but Speaker 2: if it happens, especially in a young child, there could Speaker 2: be hours and even days before symptoms arise. You can Speaker 2: have a traumatic brain injury. And yet the manifestations aren't visible. Speaker 2: So that initial part of the hypothesis that instant loss”
00:48:22“Speaker 1: viral pneumonia. So some combination of these factors, maybe all Speaker 1: of them, stop Nikki from breathing. And then the efforts Speaker 1: made to save her only pumped more blood into her Speaker 1: cranium with nowhere for it to go. Then the experts Speaker 1: in two thousand and two saw all that blood and”
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