The Night That Lasted A Lifetime

Hidden Brain

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🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Not long after his sixteenth birthday, Fred Clay was arrested for the murder of a cab driver in Boston. Eventually, Fred was found guilty — but only after police and prosecutors used questionable psychological techniques to single him out as the killer. This week on Hidden Brain, we go back four decades to uncover the harm that arises when flawed ideas from psychology are used to determine that a teenager should spend the rest of his life behind bars.

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0:00.0	From NPR, this is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanthan.
0:07.5	On the night of the murder, there's bad weather in Boston.
0:11.9	It was raining night and I went back to the foster home.
0:16.5	Fred Clay knocks on his foster mother's door.
0:20.1	It's late autumn, 1979.
0:23.8	Fred has been away for a few days, visiting his cousins and mother in a neighborhood
0:28.3	known as Roslandale.
0:30.7	He knows he is probably in trouble with his foster mother.
0:34.3	He hadn't told her he was taking off.
0:36.1	I didn't run away, I just went out and they'd come back for a few days.
0:42.5	A man opens the door.
0:44.7	It's his foster mother's son.
0:46.6	He let me in the house and he was telling me that his mother wanted to talk to me about
0:51.9	me not being there for the last few days.
0:56.3	Thankfully for Fred, his foster mother isn't home.
0:59.7	She's a church.
1:01.3	So he let me in and I went back to my room.
1:03.9	I watched a load of TV, I got some of the e and I eventually fell asleep.
1:09.5	Around 9.30 as Fred sleeps, his foster mother returns home.
1:14.9	She locks the front door from the inside so none of the kids in the house can leave overnight.
1:21.6	She's the only one with the key.
1:24.3	So I was in that room all that time, sleeping.
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