Dig Season 1 Trailer

Dig

Louisville Public Media

Louisville, Documentary, Truecrime, Kentucky, Society & Culture, News, Society & Culture/documentary, Investigation, True Crime

4.6 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A woman told Louisville police she was raped in January 2018. She expected them to quickly try to arrest the suspect. But an officer on the scene that night didn’t seem to believe her. The detectives weren’t convinced that a crime occurred. And a prosecutor rejected the case well before an arrest was even under consideration. In the first season of Dig, a new podcast from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, we bring you the results of a yearlong look at how rape cases are investigated in Louisville. What we’ve learned: here, the police defer to prosecutors on rape cases -- and prosecutors reject the vast majority of cases presented to them. Due to this unusual relationship, most people accused of rape here will never face consequences. Most won’t be arrested or convicted. And the case will be closed anyway.
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0:00.0	From L.P. App.
0:02.0	Louisville Public Media.
0:04.0	911, where is your emergency?
0:07.0	The Louisville Mary out downtown.
0:09.0	Tell me exactly what happened.
0:10.0	I was just screaming at him, what happened, what happened happened why is all this blood here
0:14.8	my heart felt like it was sitting outside of me I couldn't breathe I couldn't
0:22.4	talk like I was on the verge of like a panic attack.
0:26.0	I understand that you've been drinking tonight.
0:28.0	Excuse me?
0:30.0	I know I was drugged. I felt like I was like trying to convince them or something.
0:34.7	She's strong. So we don't know how much we can't believe that or.
0:38.4	There was so much talk about make a case for the prosecutor, the prosecutor was the Wizard of Oz.
0:45.6	A defense is always going to say if there's DNA it's he said she said or vice versa.
0:49.6	We have reviewed case files where only the victim was interviewed the suspect was never
0:54.4	interviewed I'm not going to sit here and allow you to act like my detectives are not
0:58.1	thoroughly investigating cases. The implication that you make when you phrase it that way is that we know who a bunch of rapists are and we choose not to prosecute them.
1:07.0	Rapeists can pass in Louisville, I guess.
1:10.0	Coming December 5th, the results of a year-long look at how rape cases are
1:16.0	investigated in Louisville, Kentucky, why most people accused of rape will never
1:20.4	face any consequences.
1:22.5	They won't be convicted or even arrested.
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