21: A Sketchy Investigation
Suspect Convictions
Kast Media
4.2 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Tyrone Hicks was once thought to be the “Bronx Rapist.” The woman who was attacked misidentified Tyrone as her assailant. DNA eventually cleared him of the crime – after he had finished serving his prison sentence. Journalist Scott Reeder explores how faulty identifications happen and what impact they have on individual lives.
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| 0:47.5 | People turn your backs on you when you label something. |
| 0:50.9 | Officers turn you back on you label something. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm on a strip of everything before my clothes. |
| 0:58.3 | After that, I was allowed to put certain parts of my clothes back on. And I was handcuffed to a |
| 1:06.0 | little rod, which was to the wall. so these people came again. |
| 1:11.6 | Well, historically there have been not particularly good practices by police in the whole |
| 1:25.6 | managing of eyewitness identifications. |
| 1:30.3 | I think that what happened is that they were trying very hard to solve a series of rapes, |
| 1:35.3 | that had happened in the Bronx. |
| 1:37.3 | There is a financial consequence which can provide a motivation for fighting to preserve convictions. |
| 1:50.0 | A composite drawing was made. Those are notoriously lame. Someone calls up, and doesn't say that they know Tyrone had anything to do with this incident. |
| 2:02.6 | They had no specific information about the incident, but they're like, oh, he looks like that sketch. |
| 2:07.6 | This is Scott Reeder, founder of suspect convictions. |
| 2:13.6 | There is no greater violation than being sexually assaulted. |
| 2:16.6 | I know this because when I was 12 years old, a man attacked me. |
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