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Suspect Convictions

19: The Wrong Collar

Suspect Convictions

Kast Media

Society & Culture, Government, News

4.2802 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Rachel’s Casey’s duplex erupted into flames in July 2001. and her 7-month-old baby died. An arson investigator used a dog to search the fire scene and the dog “alerted” to the possibility that a flammable liquid was used.  But a subsequent laboratory test found the canine was wrong. Despite this, Rachel was prosecuted and found guilty of arson and murder. She had served 14 years of a life sentence when a law professor investigated the case and found the earlier investigation was faulty and relied on “junk science.” Sponsor: RXBar.com/Suspect

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1:04.4

I saw my three older daughters because they were running around and they were screaming.

1:09.4

But my baby daughter, I was having a part-time getting to her

1:14.1

because the house was so much in smoke and fire and flames.

1:21.0

People learned or thought they learned how to investigate fires

1:24.7

from basically their buddies down at the firehouse.

1:29.5

Yeah, it's impossible to cross-examine a dog.

1:39.5

So if she had been, you know, a middle-class housewife

1:43.4

and had a husband who was off on a business

1:46.2

trip and her house went down, she would be treated a little bit differently than a single

1:51.0

mom with many kids working three jobs, just trying to make it.

2:09.6

I've seen officers beat up inmates down to officers having affairs with inmates. The judge said that she felt like justice had prevailed in this case.

2:27.1

Rauchel Casey is a woman who has suffered much.

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