#458 Jason Flom with Jeff Boppre

Wrongful Conviction

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🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On September 19, 1988, drug dealer Richard Valdez and his pregnant girlfriend Sharon Condon were shot in their house near Scottsbluff, NE. Police quickly focused on Jeff Boppre based on a purported “dying declaration” that Valdez, after being shot multiple times, wrote parts of Boppre’s name in engine grease on the ground next to him. The investigation was built against Boppre and he was convicted of two counts of first degree murder and sentenced to two life sentences.

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0:00.0	In the early morning hours of September 19, 1988, Richard Valdez and Sharon Condon were murdered in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska.
0:12.9	Scrolled in engine grease on the floor of their home, the letters JFF and B OPE.
0:21.6	Investigators sought out local man, Jeff Beaubri, who returned from a road trip to dispel suspicion,
0:28.6	but soon the two friends who were with him gave statements to the contrary.
0:32.6	Jeff faced a potential death sentence.
0:35.6	Yet, according to the first witness on scene, the message
0:38.9	in engine grease that tilted the investigation toward Jeff was not there when he discovered
0:44.8	the bodies. This is wrongful conviction.
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1:32.3	Welcome back to Ronful Conviction, where this week we're going for the first time to Scott's Bluff, Nebraska, where we came across a double murder scene that appears to have been, in part, staged, possibly driven in part by incestuous urges or a cocaine operation involving law enforcement. And calling in from a Nebraska state penitentiary, the man who had the
1:38.9	terrible misfortune of being one of the last to buy some of that cocaine, Jeff Bopry.
1:45.8	Jeff, thanks for calling in.
1:53.4	Well, thank you for what you guys are doing for the innocent. And joining him to help make sense of this crazy ordeal, his attorney Tom Ferrex. Tom, thanks for joining us. Absolutely. My pleasure.
2:00.3	So let's do what we do and start at the very beginning.
2:04.4	I was born in Mayville, North Dakota, to Florence Bopry and Dolores Bopry.
2:09.8	My parents were actually from a little town about seven miles from the Canadian border called Rala, North Dakota. And I got an older sister
2:20.1	and two younger brothers. We've always been a really close family. My dad was an alcoholic. My mom
2:29.1	was the peacemaker of everything. We did move around a lot. My dad was a mechanic and was a little
2:37.0	hot-headed if he was working a job and somebody pissed him off, then we were up and moving
2:43.0	around. So we wind up moving to Grand Forks, North Dakota, Petersburg, North Dakota, and then Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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