#358 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Dixmoor 5 - UPDATE

Wrongful Conviction

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

So their theory is that a wandering necrophiliac comes across the body and defiles it?

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell the story of how five Chicago teens were wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of their classmate - and how prosecutors tried to explain away the DNA that proved them innocent. This case happened during the early 1990s, when the media was saturated with misleading stories about youth of color committing violent crimes in groups. This "superpredator" narrative drove the wrongful prosecution of the so-called Central Park Five “wolfpack” -- but it didn’t stop there.

We are releasing this updated episode to share the news that, in 2021, Illinois passed a law banning police from lying to children during interrogations. If this law had been in place back in 1991, the Dixmoor 5 would never have been wrongfully convicted.

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1:41.2	Hey guys, it's Laura. Today I have some pretty great news to share with you.
1:45.5	Back in season one of False Confessions, Steve and I brought you the story of the Dix Morr 5,
1:51.2	a group of teenage boys who were interrogated for hours without lawyers or parents present.
1:57.4	One by one, they were each implicated in the crime and ended up spending about 20 years in prison.
2:04.0	Their confessions were in the form of sign statements. There was no recording of their
2:07.7	interrogations, but one of the reasons they confessed was because the police lied to them.
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