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Bear Brook

Episode 4: ‘Promises Have Been Made’

Bear Brook

NHPR

True Crime

4.815.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

One set of confessions leads to another and three men are arrested for Sharon Johnson’s murder.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on Bearbrook Season 2, a true crime story.

0:07.0

He told us that Jason had admitted moving the car and was involved somewhat.

0:16.0

The truth is, he asked me to prove I have not been a breaking point in you.

0:23.0

If you want to die, if you want a knife in that woman's car, I want to know.

0:30.0

He stood up and he just said it was a bunch of polcrop and that anything that he had said was true.

0:54.0

It's November 27, 1989, the Monday after Thanksgiving.

1:00.0

Tony Puff lands at the airport in Manchester, New Hampshire.

1:05.0

Tony walks off the plane and then waves hello to Detective Roland Lamy and the other officers who are waiting for him.

1:14.0

Tony has no idea that just two days ago, on Saturday, Jason Carroll confessed on tape to murdering Sharon Johnson.

1:27.0

And Tony has no idea that while he was in the air, police taped a second confession from Jason.

1:36.0

Right from the top again, Jason, when were you first contacted July 27, 1988 to do what?

1:44.0

Kill Sharon Johnson by whom? Tony Puff.

1:49.0

And Tony has no idea that on both of those tapes, Jason says Tony is guilty, too.

1:57.0

When Tony got on a plane in North Carolina that morning, he thought he was coming to team up with detectives again.

2:05.0

Just like he had several months earlier when he wore a wire and tried to get Ken Johnson to admit to the murder.

2:16.0

Detective Lamy and the other cops lead Tony outside to Lamy's car.

2:21.0

It's November and there's snow on the ground.

2:24.0

Tony is wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

2:27.0

He sits in the front seat and Lamy says as a precaution, he's going to read Tony his Miranda rights.

2:34.0

You know, just since they're going to be talking about the murder.

2:37.0

Tony says he understands it's just a precaution.

2:45.0

After about 15 minutes, they pull into a construction site.

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