Chapter 4: If Not Elwood, Who?

Accused

Cincinnati Enquirer

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

While investigators testified at trial that Elwood Jones was always their best and only real suspect in the 1994 slaying of Rhoda Nathan, the police files say otherwise. Three people – two with violent criminal pasts on their records – seem equally as suspicious, so much so they were given lie-detector tests in the days after the murder. Do their alibis hold? And if Elwood as such a good suspect with such good evidence to indicate his guilt, what took the police and prosecutors a year to indict him?

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0:00.0	Join 1v3 Plus and Apple Podcasts or the 1v3 App to binge all 7 episodes of Accused
0:07.7	Season 4, The Impending Execution of Elwood Jones, Early and Add Free.
0:13.6	Since Nadie and Choir in USA Today's subscribers can also listen early and add free by going to
0:19.2	Accused Podcasts.com.
0:48.1	The way police in Blue Ash Ohio told it, Elwood Jones wasn't on the radar as a possible
1:05.8	suspect in the 1994 murder of Rhoda Nathan until they'd learned he'd hurt his hand the
1:11.9	same day Rhoda was beaten to death.
1:15.4	Others remember it differently.
1:27.3	Having read through thousands of pages of transcripts and police notes, I can't tell
1:32.4	which answer is right and I suspect I'll never know for sure.
1:36.5	What I do know is that police did look at a few employees other than Elwood.
1:42.1	Police with criminal records on par with or worse than Elwoods.
1:47.7	Employees who don't appear to have even been asked for their alibis and who aren't mentioned
1:52.0	as having been seen by co-workers during the crucial 30 minute span in which Rhoda was killed.
1:58.6	I know all that.
2:00.8	I also know that police got a tip about somebody else entirely, somebody not employed at the
2:06.2	hotel who supposedly confessed to his wife that he had killed Rhoda Nathan and framed
2:12.2	a black man for it.
2:14.3	And I know it's that potential suspect that could lead to Elwood getting the only thing
2:19.7	he's ever asked for.
2:21.6	A new trial.
2:31.5	This is accused season 4 of the impending execution of Elwood Jones.
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