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Corpus Delicti

148: Delayed Justice: William Dillon

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

WIlliam Dillon was arrested for murder after cops became suspicious of his knowledge of the area. Scent dogs were brought in that linked clothing found on the scene to him. The problem is, these particular scent dogs were later found to be highly inaccurate, leading to questions about Dillon's involvement in the crime.

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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3177

https://www.floridainnocence.org/william-dillon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dillon

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/john-a-torres/2020/02/18/killer-william-dillon-case-commits-suicide/4747639002/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Jen.

0:25.3

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.5

And welcome back to Corpus Delicti, the delayed justice series.

0:31.3

Fair warning.

0:32.4

I feel like I say fair warning all the time,, it is currently the night before Thanksgiving here,

0:38.8

not when this comes out, but there's a lot going on in my house. There's cleaning and cooking.

0:43.6

I have threatened everyone to be quiet, but I cannot guarantee anything. So if there is something,

0:50.0

I will do my best to edit it out, but please give us grace during this time.

0:55.4

Yeah, there's a fortnight tournament going on downstairs.

1:00.7

So I am just thankful I'm behind a closed door now.

1:04.7

But without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into this week's story.

1:09.7

Jen found this story and it's actually going to tie into

1:13.9

the next episode as well, which by the way, we have this one. We're off for a week and then it

1:19.6

will be that next one. But these two tie together very closely without giving too much information

1:26.4

away.

1:33.1

So this week's episode happens on the morning of August 17, 1981.

1:40.8

A man named James D'Urvac was brutally beaten to death in a wooded area located the beaches on the coastal side of Florida.

1:42.7

Where the actual beating happened was near the beach, but not on the beach is on the coastal side of Florida. Where the actual beating happened was near the beach but not on the beach.

1:48.1

Now the same morning a hitchhiker was picked up wearing a shirt reading Surf It. The driver noticed

1:55.4

it because it was bright yellow and it had blood on it. Now the driver who picked up the hitchhiker was in a pickup truck

2:03.9

and he claims that the man was sweaty. Not only did he have blood on his shirt, he had it smeared

2:10.5

on his shorts and on his legs and the man wanted to go to a nearby tavern or a bar just three miles down the road.

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