The Hammer That Convicted Him - Evidence No One Read
The Hammer That Convicted Him - Evidence No One Read
A discarded hammer found in a roadside ditch after a December storm carried blood that matched a murdered 61-year-old teacher - and a single partial fingerprint that matched the county's own evidence technician. How did one exhibit, logged as Exhibit 14 in Harwick County Superior Court case CR-7741, become the hinge for an arrest, a dismissal, two convictions, and a destroyed object that nobody read closely enough?
In this episode, we walk through the timeline from the plow blade striking the tool on the morning of December 9, 2011 to the…
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