#545 Jason Flom with Fredrico Lowe-Bey

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On May 21, 1988, about 5:00 a.m., the victim, after an argument with her boyfriend, left his parked car and walked alone toward her home in St. Louis, MO. Shortly thereafter, three males pulled their car alongside her, jumped out of the car, grabbed the victim by the hair, pulled her into an alley, pushed her to the ground, and tore her dress. Two of the men held her down, while the third man sodomized and raped her. The victim identified the rapist as Fredrico Lowe-Bey.

Fredrico Lowe-Bey was charged and convicted for kidnapping, rape, and sodomy of the woman and received consecutive sentences of 35 years for each sex-offense count and 15 years for tampering.

Years later DNA testing has "affirmatively excluded Lowe-Bey", though he remains behind bars today.

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0:00.0	During the late 1980s, Frederico Lobe was routinely harassed by St. Louis police officers Ruben Hammond and James Long,
0:12.0	who previously attempted to convict him on what appeared to have been fabricated charges.
0:19.0	Then, on May 21, 1988, a woman claimed that she had been raped and
0:24.7	sodomized, and officers Hammond and Long had prepared a lineup for her in which she identified
0:30.2	someone who did not match her initial description, their recurring target, Frederico Lobe. But despite
0:36.8	multiple factors that damaged the credibility of this ID, Frederico Lobe. But despite multiple factors that damaged the credibility of this
0:39.6	ID, Frederico was sent away for 85 years. This is wrongful conviction.
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1:09.3	Welcome back to Ronful Conviction, where we head to St. Louis, Missouri, to discuss not only rape and sodomy allegations, but also a damning backstory that alone cast doubt on this conviction.
1:21.5	But before we introduced the man who has been surviving this ordeal for decades and decades now,
1:28.5	we're joined once again by his attorney from Centurion Ministries, Paul Castellero.
1:34.0	Paul, thanks for coming back.
1:35.9	My pleasure.
1:37.1	And with us today, calling in from a Missouri correctional facility, we have Frederico Lobe.
1:43.6	I'm sorry you're there, but we appreciate
1:45.5	you calling it. Definitely, you welcome.
1:48.0	So, tell us about growing up in St. Louis.
1:50.7	I had four brothers and two sisters. We all grew up in the St. Louis Housing Project.
1:55.8	My mother and father, they were good people, man. You know, my mother, she was a substitute schoolteacher. She was
2:01.8	also a cafeteria supervisor for St. Louis Public Schools. My father, he drove a truck for the
2:07.8	7-Up company. And growing up in the project, you have to have something to do, and I took a
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