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Bear Brook

Episode 9: The Reversal

Bear Brook

NHPR

True Crime

4.815.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The state of New Hampshire has made a sudden about-face: Prosecutors have now agreed to DNA test old evidence in Jason Carroll’s case. It’s the biggest development in the case in 35 years – and one step closer to possibly learning who killed Sharon Johnson.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on Bear Brook Season 2, a true crime story.

0:05.0

My main goal is to raise the concerns around this conviction to the extent that it would encourage the state to

0:14.8

revisit the evidence. The clerk who I know came over to chat with me and she said

0:20.8

that she had been listening to undisclosed. She's like, you know what, there's a big box in our basement with Jason Carroll's name on it.

0:30.0

Hey, the fucking nail clippings are here.

0:36.0

The nail clippings are here.

0:39.0

The nail clippings are here.

0:39.0

To the answer that who killed Sharon Johnson is very likely in that envelope right there.

0:43.2

It is possible that the answer to who killed Sharon Johnson is in this envelope in front of

0:47.8

us. It's been about 17 months since that day with the box. The box of evidence from the investigation into Sharon Johnson's murder. The box had the clothes

1:04.9

Sharon was wearing when she died. The knife police say she was stabbed with. The

1:10.1

fingernail clippings from Sharon's hands with blood on them, blood that might belong to her attacker.

1:17.3

For 17 months, Jason Carroll and his attorney with the New England Innocence Project

1:22.4

have been trying to get that evidence DNA tested.

1:26.0

They think there's a real shot that evidence could exonerate Jason.

1:30.3

But the state of New Hampshire didn't. You might remember they said there was quote no scenario where DNA testing could exonerate Jason.

1:38.5

So they objected to Jason's request for DNA testing. That is, until just a few days ago. So did you celebrate? Yes, I mean I think, I think I think I think I think I

1:58.5

I guess I would say yes I celebrated. It's weird to say that you would celebrate separately from Jason, right?

2:06.0

So like the weird thing was that I wasn't able to see Jason that night.

2:09.0

So I talked him on the phone and so to be able to say like celebrating something for someone it's like

2:14.8

celebrating somebody's birthday when they're not there. So when I was finally

2:19.6

able to talk with him about what happened, he was shocked, shocked, I would say. And he essentially

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