Introducing: SUSPECT

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

An apartment complex hosts a big Halloween party with themed rooms and costumed partygoers. By the end of the night one of the party’s hosts is murdered. And the partygoers are the main suspects in the eyes of the police: was it the guy in the devil mask, the guy dressed as Jesus, the bank robber, the construction worker? As a complex investigation winds its way through forensic evidence, witness testimony, DNA, and even a psychic, the police zero in on one suspect in particular -- but why? From Campside Media and Wondery, the makers of Chameleon and the Shrink Next Door, comes SUSPECT. Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson (Over My Dead Body) return to the scene of the crime to uncover what happened, and speak with everyone about a party that still haunts them a decade later. It’s a series about cutting-edge science and mislaid justice, race and policing, and the kinds of weighty choices that cops and prosecutors make every day. Choices that, once made, are difficult to reverse. wondery.fm/Suspect_TrueMurder

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, I just started listening to a new true crime mini-series from Wondery
0:05.6	and Campside Media that I'm completely hooked on.
0:09.5	It's called Suspect.
0:11.8	It starts in October 2008.
0:14.6	The residents of a Redmond apartment complex were throwing a big Halloween party.
0:19.9	Dozens of people in costume mingling, drinking, and dancing, but after the party started to
0:24.5	quiet down, one of them was murdered in her home.
0:28.7	The police spent weeks piecing together the night with hazy recollections, body DNA evidence,
0:34.4	and dozens of party photos.
0:36.3	Eventually they had a suspect.
0:39.6	History kept changing.
0:41.6	His DNA was at the crime scene.
0:44.4	When he finally came in for questioning, the detectives felt like they were breath away
0:48.8	from a confession.
0:51.0	But that didn't happen.
0:53.0	And so the police decided to focus their attention on another man.
0:57.7	A man with a criminal record whose DNA was also found at the crime scene.
1:03.2	And he just so happened to be the only black man at the party.
1:07.7	Suspect starts out as a compelling who done it, and then becomes a story about cutting
1:12.3	edge forensic science and misled justice.
1:16.7	About race and policing, and ultimately the kinds of weighty decisions that cops and
1:22.0	prosecutors make every day.
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