HBO's "Who Killed Garrett Phillips?"! The Formula Never Gets Old!
Roberta Glass True Crime Report
Roberta Glass
3.3 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This episode was produced by Ati Abdo MacDonald
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'm Roberta Glass, and you're listening to my true crime report. |
| 0:05.7 | On October 24, 2011, 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was found barely clinging on to life in his home, |
| 0:14.8 | a victim of what would turn out to be a fatal attack. |
| 0:18.7 | The small town of Potsdam, New York, was shocked and saddened and wondered |
| 0:23.2 | who killed Garrett Phillips. There was only one person in Potsdam who disliked Garrett Phillips, |
| 0:30.2 | Oral Nick Hillary, Phillips's mother's ex-boyfriend. An HBO documentary directed by Liz Garbus follows the trial and ultimate |
| 0:42.0 | acquittal of Hillary, called, aptly enough, Who Killed Garrett Phillips? My guest today, Gary Meese, |
| 0:49.9 | is joining me to discuss the documentary, which he examined at length in two episodes of his podcast. |
| 0:57.2 | His podcast is called The Case Against the West Memphis Three Killers, and it's available on Podbeam. |
| 1:04.3 | He's also the author of three books about the West Memphis Three, Blood on Black, |
| 1:09.6 | Where the Monsters Go, and a bridged book of those two books |
| 1:13.9 | called The Case Against the West Memphis Three Killers. Welcome, Gary Nees. I'm glad to be here. |
| 1:21.1 | So your podcast is about the West Memphis Three case. What made you want to talk about the Garrett |
| 1:26.8 | Phillips documentary? |
| 1:28.7 | Well, I've been mostly interested up to this point in the West Memphis three case. |
| 1:34.0 | The truth is that is a source of new information. |
| 1:37.7 | It's pretty much been used up. |
| 1:39.3 | I'm not coming up with any new information. |
| 1:41.2 | I'm still putting together a podcast based on information I've already |
| 1:45.3 | gathered. And part of what has been happening is I've noticed, and you pointed this out some time |
| 1:51.5 | ago, is there's a whole pattern that's developed with wrongful conviction and wrongful accusations. |
| 2:00.1 | And there seems to be, from my standpoint, a systemic mechanism |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Roberta Glass, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Roberta Glass and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.