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Unjust & Unsolved

4: Rosa Jimenez

Unjust & Unsolved

Daisy

True Crime

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In 2005 Rosa Jimenez was sentenced to life for the murder of a three-year-old child in her care. Twenty-year-old Rosa was babysitting twenty-one-month-old Bryan Gutierrez at her house when he came into the kitchen choking. Bryan was choking on a paper towel and at Rosa’s trial experts said it was impossible for him to get it lodged in there himself. A re-trial for Rosa has been granted, but the process will take months or years and she has developed stage four kidney disease and is starting dialysis this month. The DA can release her now but they won’t. Rosa has been in prison for seventeen years.

Learn more about Rosa's case and how to help:
https://www.innocenceproject.org/free-rosa-jimenez/?p2asource=pc_09242020

For more information and a complete list of sources for this episode, visit:
www.unjustandunsolved.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Maggie Freeling.

0:04.0

A majoring list and producer and this is unjust and unsolved.

0:09.0

A podcast about people who I believe are wrongfully incarcerated for crimes that are actually

0:15.7

unsolved.

0:16.7

You've surely heard stories like these on the news, but the thing is, the ones you've

0:21.4

heard about barely scratch the surface.

0:24.6

The Innocence Project gives a conservative estimate that about 20,000 innocent people

0:30.4

are currently locked away in US prisons.

0:34.4

After reading some of these stories, I felt compelled to do something.

0:37.8

So I sent 20 letters to people who are locked up despite evidence pointing away from them.

0:43.5

Some responded through mail, some emailed, and some called me on contraband cell phones.

0:49.1

But all wanted their stories to be heard.

0:52.2

So I left my public radio job and decided to do just that.

0:58.4

In each episode, I speak with those people, their loved ones, supporters, and lawyers,

1:03.4

to shed light on how they wound up incarcerated for decades, despite the evidence, and how

1:08.7

that means the crimes they were convicted of are still unsolved.

1:13.7

This week, I'm telling the story of Rosa Jimenez.

1:16.7

A woman convicted of murdering a one-year-old boy years ago?

1:20.0

On January 30, 2003, 20-year-old Rosa Jimenez was babysitting her neighbor's 21-month-old

1:26.5

child when the unthinkable happened.

1:28.7

In 2003, Jimenez was babysitting a 21-month-old when the baby choked on a lot of paper towels.

1:34.7

Rosa says it was an accident that the young boy had put the wad inside his own mouth.

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