The Trail Went Cold – Episode 107 – Jessica Baggen

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

May 4, 1996. Sitka, Alaska. While walking home from her sister’s place after celebrating her 17th birthday, Jessica Baggen is attacked on a bicycle path. Her body is soon found in a wooded area, where she has been sexually assaulted and asphyxiated to death. Eleven days later, a suspect named Richard Bingham turns himself in […]

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0:00.0	May 4th, 1996.
0:03.8	Zika, Alaska.
0:06.3	While walking home from her sister's house after celebrating her 17th birthday, Jessica
0:10.7	Baggan is attacked on a bicycle path.
0:13.4	Her body is soon found in a wooded area where she has been sexually assaulted and is
0:17.6	fixated to death.
0:19.5	Eleven days later, a suspect named Richard Bingham turns himself into the police, and after
0:24.8	making a videotape confession, he is charged with Jessica's murder.
0:29.2	However, none of the physical evidence matches Bingham, and it becomes apparent that his
0:33.2	confession was coerced by investigators.
0:36.0	When Bingham goes on trial, the jury finds him not guilty, and Jessica Baggan's real
0:40.8	killer is never found.
0:43.2	After that, the trail went cold.
0:59.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail went cold.
1:25.6	I'm your host Robin Warder, and we've got a pretty controversial case to cover today.
1:30.6	The 1996 murder of 17-year-old Jessica Baggan.
1:34.7	This story was originally requested to me by one of our previous trail went cold, listen
1:38.9	to your voice over contest winners, Loh Quinn Britain, and I never heard of this case
1:43.2	before.
1:44.5	Once I did some quick googling, many of the matches I got were websites and articles
1:48.8	which reference this case when discussing the topic of false confessions.
1:53.4	Shortly after Jessica's murder, police charged a suspect named Richard Bingham after
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