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Baltimore's Blind Eye: The Case of Phylicia Barnes (part two)
On the morning of April 20th, 2011, workers near the Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River spotted something in the water.
It was Phylicia.
In Part Two of our Phylicia Barnes episode, we cover the discovery of her body, the homicide ruling, and the man investigators believed was responsible. We walk through three separate trials spanning nearly a decade — a conviction, an overturn, a mistrial, a dismissal, and a final acquittal. We talk about what that process cost the Barnes family. And we talk about the extraordinary legacy they built in Phylicia's name when the legal system gave them…
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