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The Forgotten Tape That Sent a Killer to Prison After 33 Years
The Forgotten Tape That Sent a Killer to Prison After 33 Years
A single four-minute twenty-second microcassette sat untouched in a detective's box for thirty-three years while the wrong man lost everything; a fleece-lined brown glove, a porch light still on at 6:17 a.m., and a utility vehicle "on and off" in the alley were all recorded in the files. Who made the April ninth, 1983 call to the Water Authority that preceded a witness recantation and ultimately reopened the case?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of evidence pulled from old canvass notes, employment records, and the…
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