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misconduct. a true crime podcast

Carlos DeLuna

misconduct. a true crime podcast

misconduct. a true crime podcast

True Crime

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This episode takes us to Texas, to the port city of Corpus Christi where a case of mistaken identity and tunnel vision could have led to the wrong man being executed.



Misconduct is a bi-weekly true crime podcast hosted by Colleen. New episodes are available on Thursdays. More information can be found here: www.misconductpodcast.com


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0:00.0

Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app.

0:22.3

Welcome back to misconduct. I'm your host, Colleen. Thank you so much for hanging in there. I know this episode was posted a couple of days late, but between traveling and getting back to work, I realized I just wasn't going to be able to finish editing in time.

0:39.0

I did want to say a huge thank you to everyone who said hi at the Manchester and London

0:45.0

meetups. I had so much fun and I'd never been to either city before, so I had such a blast

0:50.9

exploring while I was in town. It was so nice to hang out with Ben and Rosie, who were such great hosts, and it was really nice to see Justin and Aaron from Gen Y. I also met so many UK podcasters who were all so lovely and it was so cool to meet them in real life after interacting with them on social media and Twitter for the last couple of years.

1:14.8

Then I went to Chicago for the True Crime Podcast Festival, which was also just so cool.

1:20.7

It was the inaugural event, and I'm already looking forward to going back next year.

1:25.2

Thank you to everyone who stopped by my table and I'm sorry for running out of stickers so quickly.

1:31.2

I ended up leaving like half of them back home in California.

1:35.1

And if you didn't make it out this year, definitely look into going next year.

1:39.3

I'll for sure update an episode when I have information about the location and the dates.

1:46.2

So with all that, let's get into the episode. I'm going to be here. Oh, This episode takes us to Texas to the Port City of Corpus Christi where a mistaken case of identity and tunnel vision could have led to the wrong man being executed.

2:39.0

On the evening of Friday, February 4th, 1983, Corpus Christi police responded to a call about an armed

2:48.1

robbery in progress.

2:51.1

Wanda Jean Lopez was the only employee working at Sigmore-Shamrock, a gas station located in Corpus

2:58.2

Christie.

3:00.6

Wanda, a recently divorced single mom, worked as a clerk at the station, and had worked there

3:06.5

without notable incident for a year, although she did often remark to her parents that she was fearful of working alone and at night.

3:16.8

Police would regularly patrol the area and drive by the pumps to make their

3:22.3

presence known and help the lonely clerks

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