The Glove, The Translation, The Sentence That Sent Her Away
The Glove, The Translation, The Sentence That Sent Her Away
A seemingly unburned white leather glove found pressed into a transformer after a meltdown would later undo a first-degree murder prosecution; before that, two translated sentences put a woman behind bars for 157 days. Which detail in a fourteen-page interrogation transcript and a lone glove in an evidence archive unraveled the entire case?
In this episode, we tell the story of Gloria Moore and the chain of events from the October 14-15, 2011 night shift to the trial minutes that hinged on a single Spanish verb and one translator's…
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