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Letters from Sing Sing

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4.9 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dan checks out JJ’s alibi and pours over the 2,000-page trial transcript. It’s clear to him the trial was strange and he’s left with more questions.

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0:00.0	I'm just a family.
0:14.6	Pictures, school, papers that I've kept.
0:21.4	He always got very good grades.
0:24.5	This is excellent.
0:25.7	He loved dinosaurs.
0:27.0	He did a dinosaur project.
0:29.2	And you could see that he was such a happy person, always with the smiles and the laughter
0:37.0	and friends.
0:38.0	He had a lot of friends.
0:40.8	I'm with Maria Velasquez, JJ's mother.
0:44.2	She's showing me his childhood drawings, old report cards, photos of JJ when he was a kid.
0:50.2	I used to feel like a taxi driver running them to the movies, running them to shows, running
0:57.9	them all over the place.
0:59.2	Because he always, oh, my mom will take you, my mom will take you.
1:02.7	And I wind up like with five or six boys in my car driving them to the movies, taking them
1:07.2	bowling, doing all kinds of things, you know.
1:12.8	Maria lives in Havestra, a town in New York on the Hudson River.
1:17.4	Directly across the water is Sing Sing, the maximum security prison where her son is
1:22.0	locked up.
1:23.8	Maria pulls out another set of photos.
1:27.4	These look more recent.
1:28.9	In them, JJ's older.
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