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411: #411 Jason Flom with John Jerome White
Manage episode 390488210 series 3540136
Early on the morning of August 11, 1979, an intruder broke into a Manchester, GA home to find a 74-year-old woman asleep on her couch. The man beat and sexually assaulted the woman and then demanded all her money. She gave the attacker cash from her purse and then he left through the back door.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment, but no rape kit was collected due to the extent of her injuries. At the victim’s house, Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) crime scene investigators collected pubic hairs from a bed sheet that had been on the couch at the time of the rape. Police then created a composite sketch of the attacker from the victim’s description, and a GBI agent who was investigating John Jerome White on another charge thought he resembled the sketch. White was convicted on May 30, 1980 of rape, assault, burglary, and robbery.
To learn more about the junk science of hair microscopy evidence:
https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/152-wrongful-conviction-junk-science-hair-microscopy-evidence/
To learn more and get involved, visit:
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/from-2007-snapshot-eyewitness-mistake/TxDolwbHy82ba4w1eefq8H/
https://www.georgiainnocenceproject.org/
Wrongful Conviction is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Manage episode 390488210 series 3540136
Early on the morning of August 11, 1979, an intruder broke into a Manchester, GA home to find a 74-year-old woman asleep on her couch. The man beat and sexually assaulted the woman and then demanded all her money. She gave the attacker cash from her purse and then he left through the back door.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment, but no rape kit was collected due to the extent of her injuries. At the victim’s house, Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) crime scene investigators collected pubic hairs from a bed sheet that had been on the couch at the time of the rape. Police then created a composite sketch of the attacker from the victim’s description, and a GBI agent who was investigating John Jerome White on another charge thought he resembled the sketch. White was convicted on May 30, 1980 of rape, assault, burglary, and robbery.
To learn more about the junk science of hair microscopy evidence:
https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/152-wrongful-conviction-junk-science-hair-microscopy-evidence/
To learn more and get involved, visit:
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/from-2007-snapshot-eyewitness-mistake/TxDolwbHy82ba4w1eefq8H/
https://www.georgiainnocenceproject.org/
Wrongful Conviction is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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