#013 Jason Flom with Everton Wagstaffe

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.4 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Everton Wagstaffe was wrongfully convicted of the rape, kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Jennifer Negron in 1993. Everton’s conviction was based primarily on the testimony of Brunilda Capella, a 25-year-old, drug-addicted sex worker who claimed that she had seen Everton pull the victim into a Buick Skylark driven by Reginald Connor. It was later revealed, however, that the car had been parked at a church during the time that Capella claimed she had witnessed the kidnapping. The owner of the car testified that she had told the police this fact prior to Everton’s conviction, but the police didn’t write any reports of the interview. It was also revealed that Capella had been regularly providing information to the police at that time—remarkably, she testified for the prosecution in 20 cases. The Innocence Project consulted on the case and aided in testing foreign hairs found on the victim’s body for DNA, which revealed that the hairs had not come from Everton or Reginald Connor. The ruling to dismiss their charges, however, was primarily based on a revelation that prosecutors had buried evidence that Everton himself uncovered that police had targeted him before even speaking with the informant who provided critical testimony against the two men. In 2014, his conviction was ultimately vacated after serving 23 years in prison.

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0:00.0	Everton Wagsdaff is a source of inspiration to me that I am just super grateful to have.
0:11.0	I his talk that he gives at the end of the episode that you're about to hear,
0:16.0	which was, you know, just stream of consciousness.
0:19.0	Man, he drops some knowledge that I really needed to hear and I think a lot of other people do too.
0:26.0	So please listen all the way through to the interview I did with Everton Wagsdaff back when it first aired on February 27th of 2017.
0:36.0	The good news is, finally, after suffering through over two decades of wrongful imprisonment, Everton received a $14.6 million settlement in June of 2017.
0:48.0	Everton, you deserve all the happiness in the world and I wish you blessings on blessings. You are a hero to me.
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