Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 3: Marlin Barnes

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ABC News

True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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University of Miami linebacker Marlin Barnes and his friend, Timwanika Lumpkins, are murdered on campus in 1996, shocking the community. Originally Aired: 02/22/24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.9	Hey there, 2020 listeners.
0:33.6	This week, we're going to be bringing you episode three of Death in the Dorms, Season 2, a true crime series from ABC News Studios.
0:43.2	Today, we'll hear the story of Marlon Barnes, a linebacker at the University of Miami and his childhood friend, Tim Winika Lumpkins, whose visit to campus unraveled into a night of shocking events that nobody saw coming.
1:04.1	Miami in the 90s, this is the time of Hurricanes football.
1:11.6	He told me he was going to go to UM
1:13.6	and he was going to play football.
1:18.6	Saturday morning, April 13th,
1:21.6	I started paging him and I just kept paging him
1:24.6	and he never called me.
1:26.6	He had to survive a lot to get to UM.
1:33.3	For that to happen to him on campus, it was like, that can't be true.
1:38.3	Everybody's scared, nobody knows how it happened, why it happened.
1:42.3	The death of Marlon Barnes really rocked this program. Nobody knows how it happened, why it happened.
1:49.0	The death of Marlon Barnes really rocked this program. This was not a robbery.
1:51.0	Somebody meant to kill the person.
1:54.0	He has been brutally beaten.
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