S6 Ep26: Herman Melgar
Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff
Bob Ruff
4.5 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do not do not fear. |
| 0:17.0 | I want to give you the body of the heart. |
| 0:22.0 | Do not fear. |
| 0:26.0 | Do not fear. |
| 0:28.0 | Do not fear. |
| 0:44.0 | In today's episode, we're going to back things up a bit. |
| 0:47.0 | Like I mentioned in this week's follow-up, I've been out of town all week, |
| 0:50.0 | so Mike and I had to put this week's episode together in a time crunch. |
| 0:54.0 | Several months back, we received a transcript of Herman Melgar's police statement |
| 0:58.0 | that he gave the deputy Garcia on the night his brother's body was found. |
| 1:02.0 | The interview was conducted in Spanish, and the transcript showed both the Spanish conversation |
| 1:06.0 | as well as the English translation. |
| 1:08.0 | A few weeks ago, I put out a request for help. |
| 1:10.0 | I needed a bilingual transcriptionist to listen to the actual audio |
| 1:14.0 | and create an accurate English transcript to compare to the transcript that we received |
| 1:18.0 | from the DA's office to check it for accuracy. |
| 1:21.0 | Two listeners, Maria and Azul, volunteered for the job. |
| 1:24.0 | Maria is a professional transcriptionist, and both she and Azul are native Spanish speakers. |
| 1:30.0 | Maria transcribed the interview in Azul double-checked her work. |
| 1:34.0 | From there, we turned the transcript over to listener Kaylee. |
| 1:37.0 | She's a theater teacher at Harold K. Middle School in Victoria, Texas. |
| 1:41.0 | Kaylee volunteered to have a group of her theater friends and former students |
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