#515 Jason Flom with Allan Woodhouse and Brian Anderson

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On July 17, 1973, 40 year old father of two and local chef Ting Fong Chan was beaten and stabbed to death on his way home from his night shift in Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA. A witness saw silhouettes of 4 or 5 men with long hair. Under the assumption that the men were Native American, police began to canvas the local indigenous population. A man named Adam Woodhouse told investigators about a recent gathering at his home with a few other indigenous men. Even though this gathering did not take place on the night of the crime and nothing suspicious was described, police rounded up Clarence, Russell, and Allan Woodhouse, as well as Brian Anderson. Four false statements were extracted and written in a language that neither of the accused fully understood. Not surprisingly, none of the physical evidence matched the four young men. Despite this, their alibi witnesses, and accusations of police brutality, the jury chose to believe the false confessions.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Connor Hall, producer for wrongful conviction.
0:03.4	If you're looking for another gripping investigative series,
0:06.4	check out the brand new podcast Spotlight Snitch City.
0:10.0	Produced by the Boston Globe's award-winning spotlight team.
0:13.0	Snitch City brings you inside the secret world of police informants
0:16.4	through one small city at the forefront of America's drug war, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Over the last two
0:22.4	decades, the 250 member New Bedford Police Department has been a poster child for informant
0:27.9	misconduct. Lies, deception, cover-ups of cover-ups. And in the last few years alone, officers
0:34.0	have fabricated tips, carried on sexual relationships with informants, and even coaxed them to lie in court.
0:40.3	Featuring never-before-told cases, Snitch City investigates how officers have exploited the secrecy of the informant system to enrich themselves, break laws, protect drug dealers, and attack perceived enemies, all with impunity.
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1:05.7	On Tuesday, July 17, 1973, a local chef and father of two, Ting Fong Chan, walked home from his
1:13.1	night shift in Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. At around 6 a.m., his body was found beaten and stabbed
1:19.4	to death near a construction site. An eyewitness saw the assailants through the darkness and
1:24.0	described the group as four or five men with long hair. The police asked if the
1:28.4	assailants may have been indigenous. The eyewitness couldn't say either way. Without a definitive
1:33.1	answer, investigators began canvassing the local indigenous population and a man named Adam Woodhouse
1:38.3	told them about a recent gathering at his home, attended by Clarence and Russell Woodhouse,
1:43.1	as well as their cousin Brian Anderson.
1:45.2	However, this gathering happened on Thursday night, not on Monday into Tuesday, the night of the
1:51.4	crime. Despite the confusion over the date as well as the uncertainty over the assailant's ethnicity,
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