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The Case of Troy Coleman
📻 Episode #214
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jul 21, 2021
About This Episode
On September 26th, 1989, Kevin Jones and a friend drove to an apartment with $40,000 cash to buy cocaine. Jones went inside, while the friend waited down the block. Almost two hours later, the friend saw Jones’ car approaching him, but Jones was not in it. Jones was later found dead, wrapped up, beaten and…
The Case
On September 26th, 1989, Kevin Jones and a friend drove to an apartment with $40,000 cash to buy cocaine. Jones went inside, while the friend waited down the block. Almost two hours later, the friend saw Jones’ car approaching him, but Jones was not in it. Jones was later found dead, wrapped up, beaten and shot, in the trunk of that car. Troy Coleman, the owner of the apartment, was 60 miles away in Atlantic City at the time. Despite knowing of Coleman's whereabouts during the crime, prosecutors charged him anyway. Coleman was convicted and sentenced to life in prison where he has been for over 31 years, fighting for his freedom.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:05:19“Speaker 4: were going to stop and hassled by the police. And Speaker 4: I'm sure for people of color it was much worse. Speaker 1: In my research, I mean, these were in the thirty Speaker 1: ninth District, right, a section of North Philadelphia, which was Speaker 1: a working class, poor black neighborhood. Police routinely made false arrests,”
00:20:05“Speaker 1: insulation that Jones was wrapped in matched items from the apartment, Speaker 1: which just established the setting of the crime, but doesn't Speaker 1: necessarily implicate you, Troy. So what was presented at trial Speaker 1: that convinced the jury that they should find you guilty Speaker 1: of second degree murder, which, of course they ended up”
00:33:54“Speaker 1: not enough for you, consider some of the things that Speaker 1: are known about Arthur Sanders. He began with not knowing Speaker 1: Troy Coleman at all, then switched to he knew him Speaker 1: from around the neighborhood. More importantly, he had Kevin Jones's Speaker 1: pager and keys in his possession when Kevin went missing.”
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