4. The Garbage Man

A Killing On the Cape

ABC News

True Crime

4.5 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Three years into their investigation, police arrest and charge Christopher McCowen for the murder of Christa Worthington, but the arrest of a black man in the murder of a wealthy white woman would immediately ignite controversy. Support this podcast with a review --------> http://bit.ly/2xj9fk8 *** Can you help catch a killer? Check out our other series, "A Murder On Orchard Street." Listen and subscribe: http://apple.co/2xuXURv *** ** Subscribe to "Start Here," the new daily podcast from ABC News, available on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/2pvq8Ws), Google Podcasts (http://bit.ly/2JZSK70), or your favorite podcast app! "A Killing On the Cape" is a production of ABC Radio and ABC News "20/20." Subscribe to the weekly "20/20" podcast on Apple Podcasts (http://apple.co/2zKPW5c) or wherever you're listening right now. Find more ABC podcasts at http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last time on a killing on the cane.
0:05.0	The DNA was the single most important piece of evidence in this case.
0:10.0	Tim, and Toppy, and every other suspect wasn't going to be tried.
0:16.0	Without a match, no one was going to try.
0:20.0	None of the other suspects would have been charged.
0:24.0	The investigation really hit a dead end.
0:29.0	They found no evidence that any of the people they had been investigating were involved in Christ's murder.
0:37.0	So they turned to what many people call a forensic Hail Mary to try to get some leads.
0:44.0	The story centers around a case of rape and murder in Massachusetts.
0:47.0	It drew national attention because police tried to find the killer by asking every man in a small town to submit DNA.
0:53.0	Then after three years of searching, police finally got their break.
0:58.0	From ABC Radio in 2020, I'm Mark Remalard, and this is a killing on the cane.
1:23.0	Christopher McCowan was in his bed on a Thursday evening in April 2005.
1:28.0	When state police officers in those windbreaker jackets with the word police on the back came to his house and told him he's heading down to the state police barracks on the lower cave.
1:37.0	He was 33 years old at the time.
1:39.0	They gave him some shoes and a sweater.
1:41.0	They put him in cuffs before walking him out of his house and into the back of an unmarked police car.
1:46.0	I remember seeing the film of him and of being brought out of his house and he was just completely lost.
1:54.0	It was almost like he was in his pajamas.
1:56.0	He was in a pair of loose jeans and a t-shirt and he was stumbling towards the car.
2:01.0	Now this isn't the immediately leading up to the so-called interview.
2:07.0	That's Christopher McCowan's former attorney, Bob George.
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