#303 Jason Flom with Billie Allen

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On March 18, 1997, two men exited a minivan and walked into the lobby of a bank in St. Louis, MO wearing ski masks and armed with semi-automatic rifles. Shots were fired and a security guard, Richard Heflin, was shot and fatally wounded. Billie Allen, aged 19, was arrested at about 2am the next morning and taken to police headquarters where he remained in an interrogation room, handcuffed to a table, for the next several hours. Later that morning, he was positively identified in a line-up by two forestry workers who had come across an individual in the woods. According to the police, after being told of these identifications, Billie Allen said he wanted to discuss the robbery, recanted his request for a lawyer and made statements incriminating himself in the murder. Billie Allen was charged with committing an armed bank robbery and using a firearm to commit a crime of violence. He was convicted on both counts and sentenced to death.

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0:00.0	Yellowstone, television's number one show is back on Paramount Network.
0:03.6	I John Dutton, who solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the State of Montana,
0:08.4	against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
0:10.8	Featuring an all-star cast led by Academy Award winner Kevin Costner,
0:13.9	the invasion is over. They will fight you dirty.
0:16.0	Is there any other way?
0:17.2	As the Dutton family fights to protect their legacy, they'll learn power has a price.
0:21.1	Signed as a declaration of war.
0:23.2	We're already at war.
0:24.2	Yellowstone, new episodes Sundays at 8 p.m. Eastern exclusively on Paramount Network.
0:32.8	On March 17, 1997, two armed and masked men robbed a bank in St. Louis, Missouri
0:38.5	and badly shot a security guard named Richard Heffland in the process.
0:43.2	As part of their plan to destroy evidence and evade capture, they had pre-soaked the Getaway
0:48.0	band with gasoline. But before they got to switch from the van to a second Getaway vehicle,
0:54.2	the van caught fire.
0:56.1	One assailant, Norris Holder, was arrested at the scene, but the second assailant escaped
1:00.6	and was described as a black man about five-nine with singed hair at an injured right hand.
1:06.5	Norris Holder told investigators that the escapee was named John, but later changed that name to Bill.
1:14.1	Police arrested in the Queens of Holders named Billy Allen.
1:19.2	Other than being black, Billy did not match the initial descriptions, but curiously was somehow
1:24.6	identified by four witnesses, including Holder. Imagine being selected for this jury and hearing
1:31.0	investigators testify about an alleged confession as well as that four witnesses, including the only
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