#259 Jason Flom with Alan Newton

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In the early morning hours of June 23rd, 1984, 2 customers, a man and a woman, left a Bronx bodega. The store clerk said that the woman went with the man willingly. According to the woman, she was abducted, dragged into a park, raped, and robbed. Then, while waiting for a cab home, the same man dragged her into an abandoned building, where she was again raped and robbed. This time, he cut her face, damaging her eyesight. A rape kit was performed at the hospital, and she was shown a mugshot book, from which she identified Alan Newton - a man who had spent the night at his fiancee's family's home in Queens. Unfortunately, Alan had to wait for over 22 years for both the DNA testing and the authorities to begrudgingly locate the biological evidence to finally corroborate that alibi. To learn more and get involve, visit: https://innocenceproject.org/ 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 June 23rd, 1984, around 4 a.m. at a bodega in the Bronx, a male customer bought beer
0:09.9	and a 25-year-old woman bought cigarettes.
0:13.1	It's unclear whether they knew one another.
0:15.5	The store clerk said that the woman willingly got into the male customer's blue and white
0:20.0	sedan.
0:21.0	However, according to the woman, she was abducted upon leaving the store.
0:25.5	Then, she was dragged into a park, raped, satomized, and robbed before chasing the man down
0:32.0	and getting her money back.
0:33.8	Then, while waiting for a cab, the same man dragged her into an abandoned building where
0:38.9	he again assaulted her, but this time, he cut her face with a razor blade, blinding
0:43.5	her in her left eye and threatening to kill her if she went to the police.
0:48.2	When she awoke, she called first responders and went to the hospital where she underwent
0:51.8	surgery and a rape kit.
0:54.2	This showed her a mugshot book and she chose to picture of a man named Alan Newton.
0:59.2	The store clerk identified Alan as well from a photo array.
1:03.1	But on the night of the crime, Alan had stayed with his fiance's family in Queens, all
1:08.0	of whom had said that no one had left in the middle of the night.
1:11.7	Curiously, no serology was presented at trial, only two very shaky IDs from the witness
1:17.8	and the victim who could not agree on whether the victim knew her a sale and or not.
1:23.0	The witness's DNA testing would be all that Alan needed to eventually disprove his accusers,
1:28.3	but only if the police could be bothered to locate the rape kit right where it had always
1:32.9	been for 22 long years.
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