#535 Ben Bowlin with Reynaldo Munoz

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On September 8, 1985, dozens gathered on Keeler Avenue in Chicago, IL for a friend's birthday party. In the early morning hours, while walking back to the party after getting cigarettes, 19-year-old Ivan Mena and 21-year-old Bouvier "Bobby" Garcia broke up a fight between 16-year-old Reynaldo “Scooby" Munoz and another partygoer. Munoz walked home after that fight, but Mena and Garcia returned to the party. Shortly after, around 4am, Mena and Garcia were shot. Garcia survived, but Mena did not. Within days, Munoz was arrested for the shooting, and as a result of misconduct from since-disgraced Chicago police detective Reynaldo Guevara and his partner Ernest Halvorsen, Munoz was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 60 years in prison.

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1:21.0	Take the kids to camp. You know what? It was expensive. But I was also thinking,
1:25.8	you have my kid, this is kind of priceless.
1:28.5	Take her, feed her, make core memories.
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1:47.7	On September 8th, 1985, in Humbold Park, Chicago, 16-year-old Ronaldo Munoz got into a fight outside
1:57.8	a.m. around 3 a.m.
2:05.4	And two of his friends, Ivan Meena and Bobby Garcia, broke it up.
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