#252 Jason Flom with Allan Woodhouse and Brian Anderson

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On July 17, 1973, 40 year old father of two and local chef Ting Fong Chan was beaten and stabbed to death on his way home from his night shift in Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA. A witness saw silhouettes of 4 or 5 men with long hair. Under the assumption that the men were Native American, police began to canvas the local indigenous population. A man named Adam Woodhouse told investigators about a recent gathering at his home with a few other indigenous men. Even though this gathering did not take place on the night of the crime and nothing suspicious was described, police rounded up Clarence, Russell, and Allan Woodhouse, as well as Brian Anderson. Four false statements were extracted and written in a language that neither of the accused fully understood. Not surprisingly, none of the physical evidence matched the four young men. Despite this, their alibi witnesses, and accusations of police brutality, the jury chose to believe the false confessions. For more information or to get involved, visit: https://www.innocencecanada.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCS7uL2jLzU 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	On Tuesday, July 17, 1973, a local chef and bother of two, Ting Feng Chan, walked home
0:09.4	from his night shift in Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. At around 6am, his body was found beaten
0:15.6	and stabbed at death near a construction site. An eyewitness saw the assailants through
0:19.9	the darkness and described the group as four or five men with long hair. The police
0:24.5	asked if the assailants may have been indigenous, the eyewitness couldn't say either way. Without
0:29.4	a definitive answer, investigators began can't passing the local indigenous population and
0:33.6	a man named Adam Woodhouse told them about a recent gathering at his home, attended by
0:38.1	Clarence and Russell Woodhouse as well as their cousin Brian Anderson. However, this gathering
0:43.4	happened on Thursday night, not on Monday into Tuesday, the night of the crime. Despite
0:49.5	the confusion over the date, as well as the uncertainty over the assailant's ethnicity,
0:54.5	Clarence and Russell Woodhouse, Brian Anderson, as well as their younger friend Alan Woodhouse,
0:59.2	underwent a series of coercive and in some cases violent interrogations, resulting in four
1:04.7	false confessions written in the language in which none of them were entirely equivalent.
1:10.3	The trial consisted of the presentation of these alleged confessions against four matching
1:15.8	recantations, as well as alibi witnesses and accusations of police misconduct and vitality.
1:22.8	50 years later, Brian Anderson and Alan Woodhouse share their harrowing story and the struggle
1:29.3	to clear their names. This is wrongful connection.
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