Ep 8 of 10: Holes in the Case (Part 2)

Strangeland

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True Crime

4.2 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It’s courtroom 101: the prosecution’s trying to make a case, the defense is trying to get their client off, and it’s the jury’s job to figure out the truth. But how much of the science that’s presented at court is actually scientific? Ben and Sharon look closely at specific pieces of evidence presented at trial and find out that some of the bedrock assumptions about evidence and crimes… could be wrong.

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0:00.0	In the Miracle Mile Massacre, three people were killed, but only one of them was tied up,
0:09.6	bound and gagged with tape.
0:11.9	That was Trees' home.
0:14.6	On the sticky side of the tape, investigators found the glove fragments that led to the
0:19.2	conviction of Robin Cho for the murders.
0:22.8	But there was more there, and it really complicates the story.
0:28.5	On the other side of the tape, the non-sticky side, crime scene investigators discovered
0:34.4	a palm print.
0:36.7	Right after the murder, an LAPD criminalist compared photographs of this palm print
0:42.0	with reference samples and found a match.
0:46.0	Pyong Song, Trees' home's husband.
0:50.8	But in trial, the prosecution presented expert witnesses who said it was not a match.
0:58.4	So who's right and who's wrong?
1:01.5	And what other evidence presented a trial just doesn't add up?
1:06.7	Turns out there's a lot of stuff that happens in courtrooms that experts say shouldn't,
1:14.0	and not just in Robin Cho's trial.
1:17.3	More holes in the case on this episode of Strange Land.
1:21.4	I'm Ben Adair.
1:23.8	And I'm Sharon Choi.
1:25.3	You're listening to Strange Land Season 1.
1:27.8	The Cretan murders.
1:50.0	This is episode 8, holes in the case, part 2.
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