#506 Jason Flom with Keith Harward

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the early morning hours of September 14, 1982, a man broke into a home in Newport News, Virginia and beat 30-year-old Jesse Perron to death with a crowbar. Then, over several hours, the attacker sexually assaulted Perron’s 22-year-old wife, Teresa, leaving bite marks during the assaults.

Teresa and Jesse Perron’s home was located near the shipyard where the U.S.S. Carl Vinson was harbored and where Perron worked as a welder. Over several months bite mark impressions were taken from hundreds of sailors on the Carl Vinson. Police had no suspects at that time.

Keith Harward had been among those whose teeth were examined in the immediate aftermath of the investigation, but he had been ruled out as the source of the bitemarks on Teresa by a civilian dental consultant working with the Newport News City medical examiner. When Harward came to court, Teresa was there, but could not identify him as the attacker.

After police asked Harward to submit to a second procedure to perform bite mark analysis, they determined that Keith’s bite marks matched the ones found on Teresa. Harward was subsequently convicted of capital murder, rape, robbery and burglary and sentenced to life in prison.

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0:00.0	Joel, the holidays are a blast, but the financial hangover, that can be a huge bummer.
0:06.0	If you are out there and you're dreading the new statement email that reveals the massive balance that you may have racked up, well, you could use her help.
0:13.6	That's right.
0:14.2	I'm Joel and I am Matt.
0:16.0	And we're from the how-to money podcast.
0:17.4	Our show is all about helping you make sense of your personal finances so you
0:21.7	can ditch your pesky credit card debt once and for all, make real progress on other crucial
0:26.2	financial goals that you've got, and just feel more in control of your money in general.
0:30.7	You know it. For money advice without the judgment and jargon, listen to How to Money on the
0:35.3	Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
0:38.8	podcasts.
0:42.2	I came from a beautiful neighborhood. I had a beautiful life.
0:47.7	I went to sleep because September 7th was the first day of my high school year. I was going to be a senior.
0:53.5	At 22, I was set to start college.
0:56.2	I woke up and my life was never the same again.
0:59.7	Cops came out with guns drawn and I never saw freedom ever since after that.
1:05.2	It's like Roach Motown. Once you get in, you're not getting out.
1:11.3	This is Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom. A true rock star of the Innocence Movement, Keith Allen Harward, along with one of his attorneys, Don Salzman of the great firm of Skadden.
1:43.5	Keith, you were just pretty much a regular guy from the Carolinas, serving in the Navy in
1:49.7	Virginia at the time, is that right?
1:52.1	Yes, I was stationed in Newport News at the time.
1:56.0	I was on aircraft care being built at the shipyard there, that's where it all all kind of took place fell
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