Framed by a Typewriter: How Harwick Arrested the Wrong Woman
Framed by a Typewriter: How Harwick Arrested the Wrong WomanFear that the system can be weaponized hits first: a ransom note demanding $40,000 appears on a car hood in Harwick County while the purported victim is safe 40 miles away - and the county's own evidence locker holds the exact typewriter allegedly used. Who could access a locked sheriff's basement, use a machine logged there since 1989, and leave one woman arrested for 63 days?In this episode, we tell how a routine morning in August 2001 led from a parking-lot envelope to an arrest based on a single piece of evidence, and why the…
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