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Accused

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Accused

Cincinnati Enquirer

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.47.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Coming Sept. 8: When Elizabeth Andes was found murdered in her Ohio apartment in 1978, police and prosecutors decided within hours it was an open-and-shut case. Two juries disagreed. The Cincinnati Enquirer investigates: Was the right guy charged, or did a killer walk free?


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The team of the Christmas of Kuroka killed him.

0:05.0

We tried everything possible to get him help.

0:17.0

It sounds like there's a lot of missing pieces that weren't followed up on him.

0:25.0

I'm probably one of them.

0:29.0

He wasn't let me out of there until I confessed to it.

0:35.0

Sometimes the truth is more important than justice, you know?

0:40.0

There are about 191,000 documented toll cases in the United States as we speak right now.

0:46.0

I do think all those parents and all those are going to get fair justice, hell alone.

0:56.0

Three days after Christmas in 1978, a 23-year-old woman named Elizabeth Andes

1:01.0

was found dead in her apartment in Oxford, Ohio.

1:06.0

That's very attractive and pretty together, very independent.

1:13.0

You know, a lot of guys had crushes on her.

1:16.0

Police saw it as an open-and-shot case, quickly arresting her boyfriend and charging him with murder.

1:21.0

But after I'd been in there a while and said, you know, this is like a crime of passion.

1:26.0

He says, you know, you confess to this and you'll get 25 years and get out.

1:32.0

And if not, I'm going to hang your ass out to dry.

1:35.0

And that's that intimidate.

1:40.0

That freaked me out right there.

1:42.0

He was acquitted, but officials said the jury got it wrong.

1:45.0

And I vividly remember Mr. Andes standing up and saying, then who killed my daughter?

1:54.0

That's the question to journalists from the Cincinnati Inquirer have been working to answer for nearly a year.

2:00.0

This is an open case. Don't give her anything.

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