Prejudicial Effect

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

Western Sound and Pushkin Industries

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Fred’s trial is the longest and most expensive in Santa Barbara history, and the dory plays a starring role. Stan Roden, the DA, wants to send Fred to the gas chamber at San Quentin. At the heart of the trial are two conflicting sets of autopsies. Which expert is to be believed?

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:21.3	When I first got in touch with Fred's daughter, Kirsten, she told me she and her sisters
0:25.8	had tons of materials related to Fred's case. Court filings, notes, pictures, police
0:31.8	reports, tapes of the actual investigation into Fred. All this stuff was sitting in boxes
0:38.5	in a hay loft at Heidi's place in Colorado, which is actually her grandparents' ranch,
0:43.8	where her mother Jean grew up. So over the summer when all three sisters, Heidi, Kirsten,
0:50.0	and Kim were going to be together at the ranch. I went out there to meet them and have a
0:54.9	look at the trove of documents. We climbed into the hay loft and opened a box. It was full
1:03.8	of letters the sisters had written to Fred. Heidi pulled one out. It was in her handwriting.
1:12.0	Okay, so this is dated April 18, 1981. So weeks after he was arrested? Yeah, weeks after.
1:21.8	Dear dad, how are you? I'm fine. By the way, I'm 10 years old. Just FYI. I had a fun time
1:30.3	talking to you. I hope you have a happy, happy Easter. I miss you very, very, very much.
1:37.4	Here's a joke. Knock, knock. Who's there? Boo, who? Why are you crying? I wish you could
1:43.0	come out of jail soon. You never did anything wrong. I love you. We're on your side. Love
1:48.8	Heidi. PS, please write back. I love you. It started raining. One of those afternoon summer
1:59.1	storms you get in Colorado. Heidi pulled out another letter. April 16, 1981. It says,
2:09.0	what have you been doing? We can see you Sunday. I love you very, very much. You would never
2:14.2	do anything so wrong. You're so nice to mom and Doug. And then it says, muffet and lady
2:21.4	are not getting along. Those are dogs. Lady, their beagle, who survived the journey to
2:30.2	Bird Rock. She'd gone with the sisters to live with Fred's brother Ron and his wife Elizabeth,
2:36.0	who had a Christmas tree farm, far away from Malibu. I'm going to flip that in after you
2:46.4	are clearly innocent and the dogs are fighting. Eventually, lady went to live with Vernice
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