In April of 1987, a neighbor called 911, reporting that a man ran over with a baby who

was unresponsive.

This sparked an investigation into child abuse, but in spite of medical reports, a failed

polygraph and a reported confession, the family of Jacob Jeremiah Lundin is still fighting

for accountability and justice.

I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines.

Welcome to Crime Lines and this week's episode, disclaimer at the top that this is a kid

case.

I don't usually cover two in a row like this and I actually pretty much swore off child

abuse cases on the whole after I covered the case of Zara Baker on my old podcast.

Over the years as a true crime content creator, I have become very aware of what topics are

just not ones I can handle well mentally and emotionally speaking and child abuse cases

are pretty much near the top of that list.

This case is different though because I actually know one of the people involved you'll hear

his name repeatedly in this episode.

Eric Carter Lundin is a dear friend of mine and Jacob was his little brother.

That makes it harder to handle in some ways, but I also see the impact of not having justice

and knowing that there still could be justice in this case and knowing that I have a platform

definitely made me see that covering this case was what I was supposed to do.

The main sources for this episode were the case files sent to me by Eric and Eric's

own coverage of the story on his podcast true consequences, which is linked in the show

notes.

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