The Case of Walter Goudy

📻 Episode #278
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jul 21, 2022

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The Case

On October 3, 1993, 21-year-old Marvin McCloud was leaving an after-hours club in Anderson, Indiana, when he was shot and killed in his car by two gunmen, Romeo Lee and Khaidi Harvell, who drove off in Romeo's half brother Walter Goudy's car. Months later, Walter Goudy went to that after-hours club in the same car, and the police brought him in for a one-person show up in which a passenger in the car, Jill Barclay, identified Walter, mistaking him for Romeo. Initially, Walter was charged with murder and attempted murder, but the charges were dropped after 16 alibi witnesses placed Walter over 40 miles away at the time of the incident. Later that year, the lead detective Rodney Cummings was elected county prosecutor and re-indicted Walter. Regardless of the fact that Romeo Lee confessed, naming himself and Khaidi Harvell, who was also identified separately, Walter was still prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to 110 years in prison.

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00:05:27
“Speaker 2: and her brother best friend was Kitty Harvell. Me and Speaker 2: her brother became real cool like my brother in law. Speaker 2: He let me know one day, Man, my god, you Speaker 2: ain't get out now, don't you look out for him? Speaker 2: Kydie got out. I'll take him shopping. I'll take him”

00:21:53
“Speaker 3: evidence was the viewing of the witnesses of Harvel as Speaker 3: the other shooter, So this was a videotape. Well, under Speaker 3: any and of law, a videotape cannot be considered work product, Speaker 3: but police reports can. So the police reports that were Speaker 3: exculpatory were tender to the prosecutors. They weren't Cummings because”

00:37:56
“Speaker 3: drop the charges. And I will say that Rodney Cummings Speaker 3: was quoted as saying at the time that mister Brown Speaker 3: didn't have the guts to retry Walter. Speaker 1: Whoa the guts right after the I don't even know Speaker 1: how to dignify that with words. After the evidence that”

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