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Wrongful Conviction

#217 Jason Flom with Kevin Dykes

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 14, 2020. In June 1986, Kevin Dykes witnessed the attempted murder of 2 people and the actual murder of a 3rd person in his neighborhood in Compton, CA. Kevin decided to go to the police, partly out of fear of reprisals by the killers who knew he witnessed the murder. The prosecutors then used his knowledge of the crimes that he witnessed against him and charged him with all 3 crimes. Learn more and get involved at: https://www.change.org/free-kevin-dykes https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1 and PRX.

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0:00.0

Since our initial release of Kevin Dyke's story, there have been some new developments,

0:04.4

and this is a re-release of that story with new content.

0:10.7

As a child in the late 1970s, Kevin Dyke accidentally killed his best friend when they were

0:15.6

playing with a gun, sending him to Juvie for involuntary manslaughter. When he got out,

0:20.7

he turned to petty drug dealing in Compton, California. Fast forward to 1986,

0:26.0

after a terrible assault that led to a four-month hospital stint, Kevin continued

0:30.4

peddling drugs from his temporary wheelchair for two men named Slim and Hondo.

0:34.7

Kevin rented a bed in a trailer home in his landlord's driveway where Slim and Hondo

0:39.0

occasionally hid weapons. That June, two incidents occurred just days apart,

0:44.4

resulting in one murder and two attempted murders. The first during a party when Kevin

0:49.4

booted his friend E from for being belligerently drunk, Slim and Hondo followed E from stabbing him

0:54.5

several times. A neighborhood mother Mrs. Bradley came to E from aid only to get stabbed as well.

1:00.8

Kevin intervened, jumping from his wheelchair to stop the assault before it turned fatal.

1:06.3

A few days later, Slim and Hondo accused Kevin's friend Otis Perry of stealing their gun from

1:12.0

Kevin's trailer home, stabbing him 81 times. Unable to stop the murderous frenzy and fearing

1:18.4

for his own life, Kevin helped them clean up before going to the police a few hours later.

1:23.4

A few days after that, Kevin was arrested for cocaine possession and put into a special

1:28.0

holding tank for state's witnesses. Then, three jailhouse snitches claimed that Kevin had confessed

1:34.2

all three attacks in exchange for leniency in their own cases. Kevin Dykes is serving life

1:41.0

in prison on the word of three notorious jailhouse snitches. This is wrongful conviction with Jason Voile.

1:55.1

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2:00.4

presented in immersive 3D audio. If I am under arrest, you have to tell me what I'm charged with.

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