The Trail Went Cold – Episode 127 – Shareef Cousin

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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March 2, 1995. New Orleans, Louisiana. After leaving a restaurant with his date in the French Quarter, 25-year old Michael Gerardi is fatally gunned down by a trio of robbers. Weeks later, 16-year old Shareef Cousin is implicated in the crime and charged with first-degree murder. Even though Shareef seems to have an airtight alibi, […]

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0:00.0	Before we begin the episode, we would like to send out a special thanks to Greenchef,
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0:21.6	Once again, that's greenchef.us-cold75. Thank you and enjoy the show.
0:28.5	March 2nd, 1995. New Orleans, Louisiana. After leaving a restaurant with his date in the
0:37.8	French Quarter, 25-year-old Michael Gerardi is fatally gunned down by a trio of robbers.
0:43.9	Weeks later, 16-year-old Sharif Kuzan is implicated in the crime and charged with first-degree murder.
0:50.8	Even though Sharif seems to have an airtight alibi, Michael's date identifies him as the shooter
0:55.9	at trial and he has found guilty and sentenced to death. However, it turns out the district attorney's
1:02.7	office with held a sculpatory evidence and committed prosecutorial misconduct. After nearly three
1:08.7	years on death row, Sharif's conviction is overturned, but Michael Gerardi's real killers are never
1:14.9	found. After that, the trail went cold.
1:44.9	Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. I'm your host Robin
1:59.2	Warder and we've got a truly jaw-dropping story to cover today. The 1995 murder of Michael Gerardi
2:06.5	and the subsequent wrongful conviction of Sharif Kuzan. As you probably know, only a few days after
2:12.8	the release of this episode, I will be appearing on podcast row at crime con in New Orleans,
2:18.4	which is why I decided to select a New Orleans themed case this week. In the end, I wound up
2:24.1	falling down a rabbit hole and exploring one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice you'll ever
2:29.4	hear. The defendant in this story is an African-American teenager named Sharif Kuzan, who was only 16
2:36.0	years old when he was arrested for the murder of Michael Gerardi and 17 when he was sentenced to death
2:41.5	for the crime, making him one of the youngest people to ever be sent to death row. Given Sharif's
2:47.5	young age, this decision was bound to be controversial, regardless of whether or not he was guilty of the
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