#121 The Tale of Righting Wrongs: The Wrongful Conviction of Bruce Lisker [Part 2]
The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast
Roseanne
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🗓️ 14 December 2019
⏱️ 107 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Adria from Oceanside, California, and you are listening to California |
| 0:09.4 | on orbital jigsaw network. |
| 0:15.4 | Okay, Dreamers, it is Friday morning and I am trying to get this out to you |
| 0:21.0 | as soon as possible. So hopefully it will be by the end of today. |
| 0:27.0 | This is the second part of our two-part series entitled The Tale of Writing Our Wrongs. |
| 0:34.8 | If you have not yet listened to Part 1, |
| 0:37.4 | pause this here and listen to episode 1. |
| 0:39.8 | First, so you can be up to speed with where we're at. |
| 0:45.0 | In part one, we went over the circumstances surrounding the March 10th, 1983 murder of Suburban |
| 0:51.1 | Wife and Mother, Dora Lisker. |
| 0:55.0 | She and her husband of 36 years, Bob, at the time they had a 17-year-old adopted son, Bruce, who quickly became the focal point of the investigation. |
| 1:07.8 | Because of his history of substance abuse and troubles getting along with his parents, Bruce appeared to be a likely suspect. |
| 1:15.7 | All the investigator on the case needed to do was prove it. |
| 1:20.1 | But would he be able to? Was the evidence there enough to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Bruce was the killer? |
| 1:28.0 | Were other suspects thoroughly investigated and eliminated. |
| 1:33.0 | Let's get into the remainder of the story and see if we can answer these questions. |
| 1:38.0 | We left off with Bruce and his dad coming to the decision that their best course of action might be to just |
| 1:45.6 | go ahead and plead guilty in juvenile court. |
| 1:49.2 | That way, Bruce would be able to serve a minimal amount of time and be home in just a matter of about five years or so. |
| 1:57.0 | Ultimately, their goal for both Bruce and Bob would be for Bob to live long enough to see Bruce free again someday. |
| 2:10.0 | While Bruce was awaiting trial, something else happened. |
| 2:15.0 | He was visited by a battery of psychologists in order for them to have a chance to speak to him and make a determination as to what would be the best direction to go in dealing with |
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