#319 Jason Flom with Terrence Hobbs

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

One month apart in 1996, two crimes occurred in Portsmouth, VA. Terrence Hobbs was arrested and convicted for both of them, but he committed neither. In the first, two individuals were shot and killed, and in the second, a bank robbery occurred that hurt no one. Terrence’s ex-girlfriend was a victim of the double murder, and prosecutors fell back on the convenient assumption that the ex-boyfriend was jealous and must have been responsible. Once a few convicted felons were offered and ultimately given mercy in the form of sentence reductions for their own crimes, prosecutors had what they needed to connect Terrence to and incriminate him for the crimes. Despite solid alibis and an entire lack of physical evidence tying Terrence to either crime, Terrence was convicted, and is currently serving multiple life sentences.

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1:26.4	It was the summer of 1996 in Portsmouth, Virginia, and Terrence Hobbs had just started dating
1:39.7	Devana Byers, a young woman who shared a five-year-old daughter with one of the biggest drug dealers in town.
1:45.8	When the FBI pressed Devana about eating her eggs with Monday laundering, she agreed to testify against
1:51.4	him in his federal drug charges, planning to skip town afterward. Devana and Terri's budding
1:57.9	romance fizzled as a result. On July 20, 1986, shortly after her testimony, the bodies of
2:04.5	Devana Byers and another lover Leon Porter were discovered having both been shot once in the head.
2:11.0	Investigators immediately honed it on Terri Hobbs, Devana's most recent ex.
2:15.9	But with no physical evidence to corroborate the theory, the case went cold.
2:19.7	As the summer wound down, a bank robbery occurred in nearby Virginia Beach.
2:24.5	While facing unrelated charges, an old junior high acquaintance of Terri's Eric Cook,
2:30.0	alleged that he had called Terri from jail and that Terri had confessed to both the bank robbery
2:35.5	and the July double homicide. At the bank robbery trial, the bank teller and another employee
2:41.6	corroborated Eric Cook, which must have meant that Terri's fingerprints had just been missed
2:47.3	by the crime scene technicians. At the double homicide trial, five witnesses,
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