S15 Ep11: The Jailhouse Snitch

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Part of the evidence used by the State to convince the jury that Jodi was guilty was a series of notes (AKA kites) that Jodi sent while they were in jail. We learn about the kites, and the jailhouse snitch that testified at trial. Terrance Hunter testified that Jodi confessed to him.

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0:54.0	I'm Bob Roth. Oh, As we continue to explore the evidence presented at trial that led to Jody Hill's conviction, we're getting further and further away from anything substantive that actually connects Jody to the murder.
1:29.0	In last week's episode, I referred to the case against Jody as death by a thousand cuts.
1:34.8	The case was incredibly weak with no one piece of evidence that served as a smoking gun.
1:40.3	Instead, the prosecution presented lots and lots of obscure evidence and witnesses that when added together, left the jury with the impression that all signs pointed to Jody.
1:50.0	One of the most obscure parts of the case that you haven't heard about yet was a series of kites.
1:57.0	Kite is a prison term for a letter passed between inmates.
2:01.0	There are two schools of thought as to the origin of the term.
2:05.0	One is that back in the 1800s, inmates used to write letters on the wrapping paper from
2:09.6	kite-brand cigarettes.
2:12.0	And the others is that prisoners would write little notes and attach them to strings so that they could
2:15.8	swing the letters from one cell to the other, like flying a kite.
2:20.8	In any case, in today's prison and jail world, kites are generally passed from prisoner to prisoner, usually by just leaving them laying around in a common day room or common area.
2:30.0	If someone from dorm unit A needs to send a message to someone from unit A, they might leave a kite in a certain spot in the day room
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