138: The Case of the Norfolk Four

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

On July 8, 1997, a young sailor returned home after a week at sea, and found his wife dead in their bedroom. Michelle Moore-Bosco had been raped and murdered. Police quickly zeroed in on a neighbor who insisted he was innocent. But after 10 hours of coercive interrogation, he confessed. Six months later, when his DNA was not a match, police changed their theory of the crime. Now, instead of clearing the neighbor, they insisted he didn’t act alone. Over the next few months, police would claim up to 8 suspects had attacked Michelle. Four would actually be indicted. It would take over a decade to prove their innocence, even though police had a DNA match and confession from Michelle’s real killer.

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1:00.7	Southern fried true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners and there may also be some explicit language used
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1:15.2	In 1748
1:20.8	Voltaire wrote of the great principle that is better to run the risk of sparing the guilty than to condemn the innocent
1:28.4	At about the same time William Blackstone wrote the law holds that it is better that 10 guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
1:37.6	Most of us can quote Blackstone in our sleep. It is the basic tenant of our justice system
1:42.9	At least it's supposed to be
1:46.3	Somewhere along the line between Voltaire and the Central Park 5 case the American justice system became more interested in getting a conviction
1:54.9	At any cost
1:56.4	Tunnel vision by investigators is not uncommon and can lead to coercive interrogation tactics
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