#015 Jason Flom with Dennis Maher
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On November 16, 1983, a 28-year-old woman was attacked and sexually assaulted by an unknown male as she was walking home from work in Lowell, MA. The following evening, a 23-year-old woman was attacked less than one hundred yards away from the site of the first assault. Even though no biological evidence could link him to any of the crimes, Dennis Maher, who was a sergeant in the United States Army at the time, was arrested and charged with both attacks, as well as an unsolved rape from the previous summer. He was convicted based on eyewitness misidentifications made by the victims, all of whom identified him in photographic lineups. Dennis Maher is joined by attorney Alex Spiro and New England Innocence Project Director of Communications Hannah Riley.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to be one of those people who everyone in the world is going to think is a monster, |
| 0:21.9 | or suspect is a monster for the rest of my life, and I'm just going to have to come to |
| 0:24.9 | peace with that. |
| 0:27.5 | Somebody was able to look at my picture in the database and say that I was somewhere |
| 0:31.8 | where I definitely wasn't. |
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