"She had to start over"

The Daily Crime

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True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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WHAS11 Reporter Paula Vasan shares the story of Johnetta Carr, one of 23 people in Kentucky exonerated due to wrongful convictions. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.2	She had to start over.
0:02.3	She had to get a job.
0:03.3	She had to get back on her feet.
0:05.4	And in Kentucky, there is no compensation fund to help people who have been wrongfully convicted get back on their feet.
0:14.5	For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.
0:16.8	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:24.6	Thank you. You're listening to The Daily Crime. On October 23, 2005, at around 9 in the morning,
0:29.5	a man was found dead in front of an apartment building in Louisville, Kentucky.
0:33.7	Two and a half months later, police officers arrested 16-year-old Genetta Carr in connection to his death.
0:39.8	When I was 16 years old, a L&PD detective came to my friend's house, he put me in handcuffs.
0:46.2	In handcuffs and a yellow uniform.
0:48.3	You can see her enter this courtroom.
0:50.1	A judge reveals her fate.
0:52.2	Yes, sir.
0:52.9	Did you have any idea what was happening to you?
0:55.1	No.
0:55.7	In a federal lawsuit, Janetta Carr says physical evidence from the crime scene
0:59.4	excluded her from having any involvement in the murder,
1:02.7	but claims investigators fabricated and coerced false statements from a co-defendant
1:06.6	and from jailhouse informants.
1:08.8	Faced with those statements, she took an Alford plea,
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