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Hello and welcome to The Daily Beans. I am your host, Alison Gill. We have a very special show today. Today we're going to talk about a podcast that everybody needs to hear. It's relevant to the past. It's relevant to the Trump administration coming into office. It's relevant

to Biden still being in office and having the pardon power. So today I want to welcome the host

of the podcast. It's called The Alley. It's about DC's eighth and H case. It's hosted by

Shannon Lynch and produced by New America. So please welcome to the Daily Beans, Shannon Lynch.

Hi, Shannon. Hi, Allison. Thank you for having me.

I am so excited to talk to you. This series is incredible. And, you know, when I say here in the

intro that it really kind of draws on past stuff, it reminds me so much of the Central Park Five and,

you know, what Donald Trump did to them. Then, you know, they emerge and now they're the

exonerated five. One of them ran for one city council office in New York. So let's talk about

the alley, this case, because until you dropped it into my radar, I hadn't

heard about this, which is surprising. I'm kind of shocked that it didn't get a lot more coverage

and that it stayed off my radar, maybe not so much locally. But tell us a little bit about this

case and why you wanted to bring it to the forefront by doing a series on it.

Yeah.

So on October 1, 1984, Catherine Fuller was murdered in an alley near the intersections of 8th N.H. streets northeast in D.C., hence the name of the case, the 8th and H case.

And she had been brutally beaten and sodomized with an object that was never recovered.

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