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Corpus Delicti

149: Delayed Justice: Wilton Dedge

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A 17 year old girl arrives home to find a stranger in her room. After being attacked and repeatedly cut with a blade type knife, she thinks she sees the assailant at a gas station. With the help of scent dogs, the assailant was convicted. But was it the right one?
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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=3167
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=jlasc
https://convictingtheinnocent.com/exoneree/wilton-dedge/
Wilton Dedge Celebrates 15 Years of Freedom Today (innocenceproject.org)
Jd_issue_30_122805_2 (justicedenied.org)
K9s following weeks or months old tracks (caninetrainingacademy.com)
How Long Can Scent Survive? - Missing Animal Response Network

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Jen.

0:25.4

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.6

And welcome back to Corpus Delicti.

0:28.7

We are in our delayed justice series.

0:31.4

And tonight, we have a familiar name for you in our story.

0:35.6

Yeah.

0:36.0

So as we had mentioned in the last episode, you're going to hear

0:39.8

some of these names again. It's not a two for one, but it is a two for one, sort of. So this is

0:44.9

the follow-up to that. But yeah, real quick, two quick announcements. If you did not see it,

0:51.7

if you are a Patreon supporter, we moved to the date. And it's actually

0:55.7

tonight. It was supposed to be on Thursday. It is now tonight at 7 p.m. The second one is we

1:03.8

will have this episode, one more, and then we're off for a week again. That will be the week

1:08.6

after Christmas, basically just so that we don't have to

1:11.5

record and edit during the week of Christmas. So this one, another, and a break. But yeah,

1:17.9

without further ado, let's talk about this story that we've been talking about since last episode.

1:23.1

Now this week's episode brings back eyewitness testimony and sent dog evidence.

1:28.6

You may recognize a familiar name or two like we've spoken about before.

1:33.8

On December 8, 1981, a 17-year-old girl.

1:38.2

Now, we are just going to say Ms. Smith because she was a minor during this incident.

1:43.7

We do not want to release her name.

1:45.8

She was taking classes to become a cosmetologist. So she came home. Her hometown was Canaveral

1:53.8

Groves, Florida. Her family, which included her dad, sister, and stepmother were not home when she

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