The Night of the Party

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams were charged with the murder of Jeanette “Baldie” Williams in Jacksonville, Florida on May 2, 1976, neither of them were worried they would be convicted. They had dozens of witnesses that could confirm that they had been at a party when the shots were fired. But during their trial, not a single one of those witnesses was asked to testify. The prosecution’s entire case rested on the testimony of a woman named Nina Marshall, who'd been in bed with Jeannette Williams at the time of the shooting. Nina Marshall herself had been shot three times, but said she recognized the men who had shot Jeanette Williams, and that they were Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams. We speak with Nathan Myers, the director of the Conviction Integrity Unit for Florida’s 4th Judicial Circuit, Shelley Thibodeau, and with forensic artist Jim McMillan. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.1	In 1976, an 18-year-old named Nathan Myers graduated from high school and moved into an
0:37.1	apartment on Morgan Street in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:41.3	His roommate was a 26-year- old woman named Jeanette Williams.
0:45.0	Everyone called her Baldy.
0:47.0	She worked at a car wash.
0:49.0	And Nathan says they were great friends.
0:52.0	She cooked big dinners for him every Sunday. And then, one night in May, Nathan was invited to a birthday party on his street.
1:00.0	And my uncle, he the one really told me about a party. I was, I put off a trip because I was going to go to Philadelphia at night.
1:12.0	But he said, well, you, we need to go to Philadelphia that night.
1:12.8	But he said, well, you, we need to go to this party.
1:15.7	And I said, I probably the people that are going to bring you with me.
1:19.2	I said, okay.
1:21.2	And I went to the party.
1:27.0	Nathan Meyer spent a lot of time with his uncle, Clifford Williams, even though Clifford Williams was much older than Nathan,
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