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Suspect Convictions

14: Looking Back and Forward

Suspect Convictions

Kast Media

Society & Culture, Government, News

4.2802 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Willis Kern and Scott Reeder recap what they’ve discovered over the first 13 episodes covering Barton McNeil’s conviction. And they look ahead at what’s next for the Illinois Innocence Project, which is expected to file motions seeking a new trial for McNeil in the coming months.

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0:00.0

Your favorite podcast, Lost In, is back with all new episodes about people who disappear and go missing under the oddest of circumstances.

0:08.6

Our first story is about Ben Padilla, an American pilot, and a huge Boeing 727 airplane that disappeared from a runway in Africa just after 9-11.

0:19.2

Their disappearance sent governments around the world into a state of panic.

0:23.2

Was it terrorism, diamond smugglers, or was it something else?

0:27.0

We will also dig into the disappearance of three surfers in Mexico's ordinarily safe Baja region.

0:33.6

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0:38.5

And be sure to tell a friend Lost In is returning this month.

0:42.8

I cannot convey any better the traumatic words that you'd hear on this 911 tape.

0:49.6

And when I hear them today, my blood runs cold.

0:55.0

911, once you're on a first, I think the United Angeles, my daughter is... hear them today. My blood runs cold. Nine and one once emergency.

0:56.7

I need ambulance. My daughter is dying, I think.

0:59.5

Rescue is made a three-year-old female child. Unconscious, not breathing.

1:05.0

Katrina, it's Katrina. It's true.

1:19.5

He is wasting away a life in a jail for a murder he didn't commit and worse for his own daughter, the thing he loved.

1:26.5

There is a whole bunch of evidence now that links Masuk to the crime scene.

1:34.1

There is absolutely no evidence of any forced injury, any breaking in, and according to the defendant, the only people in that house with permission were himself and Christina.

1:41.1

This is suspect convictions with investigative journalist and series creator Scott Reeder.

1:45.9

I'm Willis Kern.

1:47.2

The past several weeks, we've tried to entangle the mysterious events that led up to the tragic death of three-year-old Christina Pneal,

1:53.6

whose lifeless body was found by her father Bart in their Bloomington, Illinois apartment, in June of 1998.

1:59.5

And we've also checked into the murder conviction several years later of Bart's former girlfriend,

2:04.2

Masuk. She was tabbed by Bart as the alternate suspect in the case, which found him sentenced

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