#262 Maggie Freleng with Brian Parnell

Wrongful Conviction

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On August 28, 1997, Brian was staying overnight at his girlfriend’s house with his cousin, girlfriend, and girlfriend’s sister in West Philadelphia, PA. 45 minutes away, restaurant owner Gus Boulias was killed in his home. A detective, relying on the questionable analysis of a partial fingerprint, decided that Brian was the killer. Even though the state presented no murder weapon, no witnesses, no motive, and no connection to the victim, Brian was convicted of second-degree murder and burglary and sentenced to life in prison. Maggie speaks to Brian Parnell at SCI Coal Township in PA., Marc Howard J.D., Brian's advocate and Tamara Parnell, Brian's sister. This episode features a portion of #156 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Fingerprint Evidence with host Josh Dubin released on September 9th, 2020. For more on the junk science of Fingerprint Analysis, click the link below: https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/podcast/s12e14-wrongful-conviction-junk-science-shaken-baby-syndrome To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.justiceforbrianparnell.com/ https://twitter.com/justice4parnell https://www.instagram.com/justiceforbrianparnell/ https://www.facebook.com/justiceforbrianparnell Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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0:00.0	I have a question for you Jason. Fire away. You know sometimes when I talk to people and after
0:05.9	decades in prison, 20, 30, going on 40, something years, how many people of you experience that
0:13.1	do have such a strong support system? Like they still have their parents, brothers, sisters,
0:20.0	connected with their children that they might have had before prison?
0:23.8	Well, I don't know the percentage, but I can tell you this, for the people that do,
0:28.0	it's a literal lifeline. Just knowing that there's people out there that love you, that care
0:33.7	about you, that are concerned for your well-being, it can be literally the thing that saves people
0:40.3	and it can be the thing that helps to free them. It's like a gaping hole, as is if his family is
0:49.3	incarcerated along with him. In other words, we're doing the time with him.
0:58.4	From Lava for Good, this is wrongful conviction with Maggie Freeling. Today, Brian Parnell.
1:11.6	On August 20th, 1997, Constantineus Boulius, also known as Gus, finished closing up his two
1:18.6	pizza shops in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He went home to his wife, Daphne and two children.
1:24.7	Sometime later that night, Daphne woke up to a loud bang. She found Gus lying on the floor,
1:30.3	shot in the back. Daphne and her children tried to help and called 911. Gus was taken to the hospital,
1:37.5	but by the time he arrived, it was too late. Gus Boulius was gone.
1:42.2	The police were in the hospital.
1:46.4	Responding officers took note of evidence at the scene, collecting hair samples and several
1:51.5	partial fingerprints. But after searching the house, detectives decided, even with nothing
1:57.5	actually taken from the home, that it was a robbery gone wrong. Detective Kenneth Beam ran the
2:03.9	prints through databases in Pennsylvania and surrounding states, but no match turned up. Eventually,
2:10.4	the case went cold. Four years later, Detective Beam took the prints to the FBI to run them through
2:20.5	their national fingerprint system. Suddenly, he had a suspect. 29-year-old Brian Parnell.
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