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The Case of Willie Timmy Donald
📻 Episode #301
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 20, 2022
About This Episode
On February 27, 1992, Bernard Jiminez, along with his wife, Kimberly Belinsky, and three children were robbed at gunpoint in a neighborhood in Gary, Indiana. Bernard and the gunman struggled and Bernard was fatally shot. Belinsky selected 23-year-old Willie “Timmy” Donald out of a photo lineup believing he was the gunman. Another woman who was…
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The Case
On February 27, 1992, Bernard Jiminez, along with his wife, Kimberly Belinsky, and three children were robbed at gunpoint in a neighborhood in Gary, Indiana. Bernard and the gunman struggled and Bernard was fatally shot. Belinsky selected 23-year-old Willie “Timmy” Donald out of a photo lineup believing he was the gunman. Another woman who was robbed in her home that same day selected Donald as well. Both women described their robbers similarly, they mentioned that the man had a severely scarred complexion, while Donald had no acne or other scars on his face. At the time of the robberies, Donald was car shopping with his sister and her partner. They both testified as to Donald’s whereabouts that day as did the car salesmen. With no physical or forensic evidence tying Donald to the crime, he was still charged and convicted of first-degree murder and two counts of armed robbery, and sentenced to 60 years in prison.
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00:04:35“Speaker 4: stopped by the police and he noticed the NISS and Speaker 4: automatically he thought the car was stolen, so we was arrested. Speaker 4: His uncle eventually came to the police station, run the Speaker 4: proper paperwork showing ownership of the car, and I was Speaker 4: released and was not.”
00:17:30“Speaker 3: actually robbed me. So the police went to her home, Speaker 3: they spoke with her, and then they went to mister Speaker 3: Donald's workplace. They checked out his time card, they spoke Speaker 3: to his supervisor, and they found that there was no Speaker 3: way that mister Donald could have been the man in”
00:29:29“Speaker 3: a driver's license, a resume. You know, how do you Speaker 3: craft a resume when there's twenty four years missing? So Speaker 3: think about how hard that is. And so when we Speaker 3: met and he shared those struggles, there was no question Speaker 3: that things needed to change for exigneries here in Indiana.”
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