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Wrongful Conviction

#245 Jason Flom on Nelson Serrano

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Successful businessman and Ecuadorian-American immigrant Nelson Serrano was in Atlanta on December 3rd, 1997, when 4 people were murdered execution stye at his Bartow, Florida factory. It is believed that the intended target was his business partner, Phil Dosso’s son Frank who worked for the business while also involved in drug trafficking. After 3 years of cooperating with an investigation that turned up no evidence linking him to the crime, Nelson retired to Ecuador. Investigators ignored statements implicating a NY druglord, and instead circumvented Ecuadorian sovereignty, kidnapping Nelson to stand trial in Florida. Focusing on a strained business partnership as Nelson’s alleged motive, the prosecution presented an absurd theory in which Nelson made an impossible round trip journey from Atlanta to Bartow supported only by false evidence to fool the jury into sending Nelson to death row where he remains to this day. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.nelsonserrano.org/ https://twitter.com/free_serrano https://www.instagram.com/freenelsonserrano https://www.eventbrite.com/e/balanced-justice-project-innocence-and-death-row-the-crimes-of-bartow-tickets-260432489587 https://lavaforgood.com/with-jason-flom/ Wrongful Conviction is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1.

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0:00.0

Elson Serrano, emigrated from Ecuador to the US in 1964, building a family, a successful

0:09.4

business, and in the late 80s, joined forces with two partners, George González and Phil

0:14.6

Dazzo.

0:15.6

Meanwhile, Phil's son Frank had a side business, trafficking drugs from Miami to New York.

0:20.8

A 1996 drug bust left Frank a million dollars in debt to some dangerous characters which

0:26.6

coincided with an unapproved withdrawal.

0:29.2

I'm Munga Shatekler and it turns out astrology is way more widespread than any of us want

0:35.6

to believe.

0:36.6

You can find in major league baseball, international banks, kpop groups, even the White House.

0:41.9

But just when I thought I had a handle on this subject, something completely unbelievable

0:46.0

happened to me and my whole view on astrology changed.

0:49.6

Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, give me a few minutes because I think your ideas

0:53.6

are about to change too.

0:55.0

Listen to Skyline Drive on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your

0:59.8

podcast.

1:00.8

Hola, qué tan mi gente, es Chiquis from Chiquis and Show Podcast.

1:05.4

Welcome to the show.

1:06.8

I talk about anything and everything.

1:09.5

I did have a miscarriage when I was 19 years old.

1:12.7

And that's why I'm a firm believer and an advocate of therapy and counseling.

1:17.0

The person that you saw on stage, the person that you saw on interviews, that was my mother,

1:21.7

off stage.

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