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True Crime Obsessed

52: The Central Park Five

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.234.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This one has it all, you guys: Garbage Cops, False Convictions, And An 80s Home Perm Gone Seriously Wrong (oh AND two IDIOTS riding a TANDEM BIKE in CENTRAL PARK at 10 PM in 1989. whatever, we'll get there.)

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged for brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling it "the crime of the century." But the truth about what really happened didn't become clear until after the five had spent years in prison for a crime they didn't commit. With THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, this story of injustice finally gets the telling it deserves.

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0:00.0

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0:29.0

Julian Pennsylvania Patrick Hines, Spada.

0:34.0

How appropriate that we're in the world famous Ripley Grimm.

0:46.7

We normally record at my house, but my family, my daughter and my husband are so, so, so,

0:51.3

so sick. You sent me the status picture. I know.

0:54.2

They were crumpled on top of each other this morning as, like, girls, like, it'll work.

0:58.0

What was it, bad pork, we think? We think it might be bad pork.

1:01.2

Oh, that's horrible. That is so, that really, like, my heart is like, it's awful.

1:05.6

That's the worst thing in the world.

1:06.6

I just called it check-in on them and he's like, I feel awful.

1:09.2

And that's the thing, like, even if you're sleeping, you're not resting.

1:12.2

I know. But when you're that sick, your body's just like, I can't make it like.

1:15.2

It's the worst. But I feel fine.

1:17.2

Hey.

1:18.2

Girl, I wanted to say, you guys, so this Asian McLean interview that we did, that's live

1:22.8

on the Patreon feed. People are loving it. It's a really great interview.

1:25.8

I wanted to tell you, like, we've been tweeting with Asia since we did the interview.

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