The Transit Pass That Sent An Innocent Woman To Prison
The Transit Pass That Sent An Innocent Woman To PrisonThe smell of copper and something chemical-sweet led a fourteen-year-old to a porch and a frozen hand on January 9, 2011-and a transit pass tucked in a cardigan pocket would send an innocent woman to prison for four years and fifty-three days. The pass was registered to Jean Armstrong, punched three times and reported lost four days earlier; how did that single piece of paper become the linchpin of a murder conviction?In this episode, we walk through the facts of the case as presented at the time: the discovery at 59 Dunbar Street, the…
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