Introducing Suspect

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True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A big Halloween party at an apartment complex in Redmond, Washington. Themed rooms and costumed partygoers. But by the end of the party, one of the hosts is dead. The police look to the partiers as the prime suspects: was it the guy in the devil mask, the bank robber, the construction worker? As investigators comb through forensic evidence, witness testimony, DNA, and even consult with a psychic, they zero in on one suspect in particular. But for what reason? Host and reporter Matthew Shaer (Over My Dead Body) returns to the scene of the crime, speaks with everyone about a night that still haunts them years later. It’s a series about race and policing, mislaid justice, cutting-edge science, and the kinds of weighty choices that cops and prosecutors make every day -- choices that, once made, are difficult to reverse.

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, I just started listening to an absolutely gripping true-crime miniseries from Wondery and Campside Media.
0:09.2	It's called Suspect.
0:11.2	The story begins in October 2008.
0:14.8	The residents of a Redmond Washington apartment complex were throwing a big Halloween party.
0:20.8	Dozens of people in costumes mingling and
0:23.5	drinking and dancing. But late in the night, after the party had started to quiet down,
0:29.7	one of them was murdered in her own home. The police spent weeks piecing together the night
0:35.6	with hazy recollections, spotty DNA evidence,
0:39.3	and dozens of party photos.
0:41.3	Eventually, they had a suspect.
0:44.3	His story, it kept changing.
0:46.3	His DNA, it was at the crime scene.
0:49.3	When he finally came in for questioning, the detectives felt like they were a breath away from a confession.
0:56.2	But that didn't happen. And so the police decided to focus their attention on another man,
1:03.0	a man with a criminal record whose DNA was also found at the crime scene. He was also the only
1:09.5	black male guest at the party. Suspect starts out as a
1:14.6	compelling whodunit and then becomes a story about cutting-edge forensic science and mislaid justice,
1:21.6	about race and policing and ultimately the kinds of weighty decisions that cops and prosecutors make every day.
1:29.7	Decisions that once made change lives forever and are almost impossible to reverse.
1:36.7	I'm going to play you a brief preview of suspect.
1:40.0	And while you're listening, make sure to follow Suspect on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music,
1:45.8	or you can binge all nine episodes ad-free by subscribing to Wondery Plus and Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app. At the time at the time of the Halloween party in 2008, Jay was in his 30s, a successful programmer.
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