Pastoral Care

Forensic Files

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When the body of a female prison guard shows up in a landfill, investigators suspect the prisoners in the facility where she worked. The medical examiner found an important clue, a "signature" element, which figured in two other murders.

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0:00.0	Just 90 miles north of New York City, a female correctional officer was discovered missing
0:09.0	from her post at the prison.
0:12.1	There was no trace of her anywhere inside the prison.
0:15.7	None of the inmates or guards knew where she went or reported seeing anything suspicious.
0:23.4	How could a guard simply disappear in an overcrowded maximum security prison?
0:39.1	Green Haven State Correctional Facility, one of the toughest maximum security prisons in
0:48.0	the United States.
0:51.0	A violent, overcrowded space that is home to 1800 of New York State's most violent
0:57.2	criminals.
0:58.2	Green Haven, I think at that time, had to be considered our supermax prison in the state.
1:03.6	And everybody in there had a long time.
1:05.8	Everybody in there was a vicious criminal.
1:07.6	There were no newcomers.
1:09.4	It was a pretty, pretty bad place as far as the population was concerned.
1:14.1	More than 500 prisoners inside Green Haven were convicted murders.
1:19.6	1981 was the first year female correctional officers worked in this all-male maximum security
1:27.2	prison.
1:28.2	There were 50 on staff, all new to the job.
1:33.3	One of them was 31-year-old Donna Péaint.
1:36.5	If I want to describe Donna and her personality, I would describe her as a very strong,
1:41.7	well-informed, independent, determined person and with a strong sense of justice.
1:52.2	Donna had three children.
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