#294: Renee Williams Interview - Part 1

Real Crime Profile

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week we sit down with Jim’s friend and colleague Renee Williams who is Executive Director of the National Center for the Victims of Crime in Washington D.C.. Renee explains how the center was founded by victims of crime, namely Alex and Ala Auersperg, children of Sunny Von Bulow, who’s husband Klaus Von Bulow was convicted of her attempted murder — a conviction reversed on appeal. Renee discusses the difficulties in getting victims the help they need and deserve.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:10.0	The Crime Victims movement arose out of a million cases of injustice.
0:17.0	Everybody's concerned about the rights of the perpetrator. No one's thinking that victims should have any rights.
0:23.0	And we're here. Treated with no dignity, no respect.
0:27.0	And these stories of injustice arose and they created a movement that culminated in President Reagan calling for a task force on victims of crime.
0:38.0	Suddenly crime became an issue, but not only was it about crime, but it was addressing the emotional, the physical, and the financial impact.
0:47.0	Believing them is a really important validating them, you know, you're not alone. It wasn't your fault.
0:54.0	I think the struggle for victims' rights can give meaning to the work of professionals in the field today.
1:01.0	Multidisciplinary teams coming together, legislators really beginning to care about this issue.
1:07.0	It is those partnerships that are key and essential to the recovery of a community.
1:14.0	The past gives us every reason to have hope. We would be nowhere without that legacy.
1:20.0	And we hold on to that just as we continue to support each other and mentor that new group of advocates that are going to carry us into the future.
1:51.0	For OJ's trial of the century was the Von Buello case with its mix of high society, money, sex, and attempted murder charges.
1:59.0	It was a case that drew international attention, a book, and a movie as people wondered about the fate of a beautiful Eris who lay in a coma.
2:07.0	Now comes word that the woman at the center of it all has died.
2:12.0	She was the socialite Eris who lapsed into a coma 28 years ago and triggered two of the most sensational trials of the 1980s.
2:20.0	Martha Sonny Von Buello was 47 when Rhode Island prosecutors accused her husband, Klaus, of injecting her with massive doses of insulin.
2:29.0	Klaus Von Buello went on trial in Newport, Rhode Island today, charged with twice trying to murder his wife.
2:35.0	The allegation he wanted to inherit Sonny's family fortune and marry his mistress. The first trial made international headlines with Von Buello, a aristocratic and a loo, painted by prosecutors as a clever, gold-digging murderer.
2:50.0	Von Buello sat emotionless in the courtroom as the verdict was read.
2:54.0	The joy finds that the defendant Klaus Von Buello killed him.
2:59.0	But it was Von Buello's appeal that made Hollywood take notice.
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