Season 2: A True Crime Story

Bear Brook

NHPR

True Crime

4.8 • 15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit. The only evidence against him? His own taped confession. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth – and who gets to tell it?

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0:00.0	A terrible discovery in the woods of New Hampshire.
0:08.0	In 1988, just 15 miles away from Bear Brook State Park, police were called to the scene of a murder.
0:18.0	A woman, seven months pregnant, had been stabbed and strangled.
0:23.3	This time, police solved the mystery.
0:26.8	They tracked the killers and got them to confess.
0:30.6	Anyway, we got there, she struggled.
0:33.8	Jason drove the knife in her back.
0:37.2	Stabbed her again. I choked her, she fell to the ground.
0:43.0	How many times did you scam her?
0:45.2	All right.
0:51.1	But what if it was all a lie?
0:56.8	Coming February 20th from New Hampshire Public Radio, Bear Brook, Season 2, A True Crime Story.
1:05.7	I'm Jason Moon.
1:22.2	Thank you. A story about a man who's been in prison for more than three decades because of what he said to police as a 19-year-old.
1:26.6	A story about the power of words on tape.
1:30.9	They were going to be continued and repeated attacks that the police coerced, intimidated, promise, threatened.
1:39.9	Mothers will do whatever they have to do to try to protect the kids.
1:44.4	A story about what happens when an official narrative is challenged by news storytellers.
1:50.8	Our story can change. Their story just won't.
1:54.2	These convictions take on this mythical power.
1:59.2	Once this conviction happens, it's like that story is what happened.
2:04.1	Jason Carroll is where he belongs, where he deserves to be, and he needs to stay there.
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