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Suspect

Five Shots in the Dark | Blind Spots | S3-E2

Suspect

Wondery | Campside

True Crime, Chameleon, Arpana Jinaga, Over My Dead Body, Matthew Shaer, The Shrink Next Door, Exhibit C, Eric Benson

4.26.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the days following his murder, Kasey’s family grieves his death as police begin rounding up witnesses and suspects. After conducting an array of interviews of residents, police focus their investigation on a local drug dealer named Leon Benson.

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0:00.0

Wundery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of Suspect, Ad Free right now.

0:05.0

Join Woundery Plus in the Woundery app or on Apple Podcasts. One day is 8 of the time.

0:13.0

And the time is now.

0:15.0

Campsite Media.

0:19.0

The day is 8.8 of 98 and the time is now 0.45 hours. The statement is being given in reference to criminal homicide 77607JJJana.

0:40.0

The statement is being given by Christy,

0:43.2

S-R-I-S-T-Y-S-S-C-H-M-T.

0:49.0

On the morning of August 8th of 1998,

0:52.0

Indianapolis Police recorded an interview with a woman named Christie Schmid, who stuffed

0:56.8

newspaper boxes for the Indianapolis Star.

1:00.3

The tape of that interview has survived nearly a quarter century later, but the sound is rough.

1:06.0

Schmidt's statement was recorded at the scene of a shooting, Schmidt had witnessed just an hour earlier.

1:12.0

So, before you even got out of your vehicle to start loading up that box, did you notice

1:20.0

I, I had noticed the Dodge Pick truck sitting in the lane of traffic.

1:27.0

Okay, what drew your attention to that?

1:30.0

Just, I think more or less it was the brake lights. I mean that the car was going and the brake lights were on.

1:37.0

Did you see anybody around the truck or see anybody in the truck?

1:41.0

As I was coming up the street I didn't notice anybody near it.

1:45.0

But when I got out, there was a man standing on the sidewalk

1:47.6

and I couldn't see the person inside just barely.

1:51.3

The back line. Schmidt was standing near a newspaper box,

1:55.0

near the corner of North Pennsylvania Street and East 14th Street,

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