E204: The Murder of Jessica Briggs and Conviction of Anthony Sanborn Part 2

Coffee and Cases Podcast

Allison Williams, Maggie Damron

Unsolved, Murder, Conspiracy, True Crime, Cold Cases, Mystery, Society & Culture

4.8 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On May 24th, 1989, the body of 16-year-old Jessica Briggs was pulled from the waters of Casco Bay in Portland, Maine. For some time afterward there were no names suspects; that is, until law enforcement honed in on Briggs' ex-boyfriend— Anthony Sanborn, also 16. Despite the fact that no forensic evidence from the scene matched Sanborn, there were three witness statements that would seem to provide motive AND put him at the scene. Based upon those statements, although Sanborn continued to state his innocence, he was convicted. Decades later, with the Innocence Project involved, a new investigation was launched and Sanborn was granted a post-conviction hearing. What private investigator Kevin Cady uncovered would turn everything on its head. Join me as I go through the case piece-by-piece with Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries and co-host of The Docket. Special thanks to Kevin Cady for allowing me to interview him for our coverage. Your insight and expertise were invaluable. If you love what you heard from Bob, and I know you did, check out his pods here: https://defensediaries.com/ Please consider subscribing and leaving a 5-star review. Please also consider supporting Coffee and Cases by joining us over on our Patreon page! Are you up-to-date on all our regular content? Get access to monthly mini-episodes as well as one full solved case per month by joining today! Be a part of the C & C Fam by going to https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcases to register! BlendJet Offer: Use my special link (https://zen.ai/coffeeandcasesblendpromo) to save 12% at blendjet.com. The discount will be applied at checkout! Motley Fool Offer: Save $110* off the full list price of Stock Advisor for your first year, go to fool.com/coffeeandcases [http://fool.com/coffeeandcases] and use promo code coffeeandcases and start your investing journey today! *$110 discount off of $199 per year list price.Membership will renew annually at the then current list price. Cure Hydration: Try Cure today and feel the difference for yourself! Use my special link (https://zen.ai/coffeeandcasespod20) for 20% off your order, coupon activated at checkout! Nom Nom: Try Nom Nom today; go to https://trynom.com/coffeeandcases and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to coffee and cases where we like our coffee hot and our cases cold.
0:41.5	My name is Allison Williams.
0:43.3	And my name is Maggie Damran.
0:45.1	We will be telling stories each week in the hopes that someone out there with any information concerning the cases will take those tips to law enforcement.
0:52.5	So justice and closure can be brought to these
0:54.6	families with each case we encourage you to continue in the conversation on our facebook page
0:59.6	coffee in cases podcast because as we all know conversation helps to keep the missing person in the
1:05.7	public consciousness helping keep their memories alive so sit back sip coffee, and listen to what's brewing this week.
1:13.1	In our last episode, you heard me begin to tell Bob Mata of Defense Diaries about the conviction
1:19.5	of Tony Sanborn in the murder of Jessica Briggs. If you haven't yet listened to episode 203,
1:26.1	please go back and listen to it.
1:28.6	In it, you'll hear about the testimony that led to the conviction of Tony Sanborn and about
1:34.7	his fight to prove his innocence since that time.
1:38.7	In today's episode, you'll hear more about the result of that fight and even more wild truths that came to light
1:47.5	thanks to the investigation done by Kevin Katie, who I spoke with to gain so much valuable
1:53.2	information for last episode and for this one. Since Bob Mata, with whom I spoke during that first
2:00.4	part of this episode, is very much focused on facts and just the facts without getting into the speculations, I end my discussion with him with the end of our discussion of the case itself. However, I will then, alone, do a little more speculative exploring by describing
2:21.0	other potential perpetrators that Kevin Katie and I discussed. Again, before starting, I urge you to
2:29.0	listen to our last episode for the first half of this case. In addition, you may be interested in following up by re-listening to episodes 197 and 198 on the Connecticut River Valley Killer, as well as episode 113 on Valerie Brooks to help form your opinion. Now, let's jump right back in where we left off our discussion
2:53.4	with Margaret Bragdon telling the court that it is now her belief that Hope Katie never saw
3:01.5	what she originally said that she did. Because of the post-trial juror interviews, we obviously know that it was
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