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Suspect Convictions

39: Something Stinks

Suspect Convictions

Kast Media

Society & Culture, Government, News

4.2802 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A police officer says Stanley Liggins lied about not seeing Jennifer Lewis before 6 p.m. the day she died. A witness says she smelled gasoline and saw a gas can in Liggins’ car the morning after the murder.

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0:00.0

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0:08.6

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0:27.0

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0:33.6

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0:38.5

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0:48.8

After you got done with the interview,

0:51.1

what did you find out about the taping capabilities of that room?

0:55.0

It's inoperable. Didn't work.

1:02.1

He recanted and said that he had lied, that yes, he had seen Jennifer before he got there.

1:12.7

My friend Dave Holden spoke from the grave Monday during the retrial of Stanley Liggins.

1:18.0

Dave was a good cop and a good friend.

1:21.3

And the Jennifer Lewis' death affected him greatly.

1:25.0

I remember City and McGuire's and Irish Bar in Davenport, Iowa, back in 1993.

1:30.3

It was well past midnight. He was drinking a beer and I was sipping my Diet Coke. Tears were

1:36.3

welling in his eyes. I thought of this tough detective sitting across the high top table from me, still greatly affected by this

1:46.0

tragedy. We were talking about Jennifer, Stanley, and the other girls he is alleged to have abused.

1:53.9

Three years had passed since the two of us had stood over that poor child's burning body,

1:59.4

but still neither of us is quite the same. My friend

2:04.2

Dave Holden died in 2009. But I thought of him Monday as an actor read Dave's testimony from

2:10.1

an earlier trial into the record. Did you conduct an interview? Is the better way to put it?

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