The Trail Went Cold - Episode 22 - Doreen Picard and Susan Laferte

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

February 19, 1982. Woonsocket, Rhode Island. 27-year old Susan Laferte and 22-year old Doreen Picard are both attacked in the basement of their apartment house by an assailant who bludgeons them with a pipe. Doreen is killed and Susan remains in a coma for a month, but when she wakes up, she has no memory of the attack. Ten years later, a suspect named Raymond “Beaver” Tempest is convicted of Doreen’s murder and sentenced to 85 years in prison. However, since the prosecution’s case was fraught with problems, Tempest’s conviction is vacated in 2015 and the state is currently deciding whether or not to retry him. Is Beaver Tempest innocent of this horrific crime, or did they have the right guy all along? In this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we examine a very controversial case which has still not reached its final resolution. Additional Reading: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Doreen_Picard https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/07/13/man-murder-conviction-vacated-after-years/fbbdnVyj0rVKmI1N0WLdUJ/story.html https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20160714/ri-high-court-rules-beaver-tempest-is-entitled-to-new-murder-trial https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1935215/state-v-tempest/ http://caught.net/2018/beaver1.htm http://caught.net/pdf/tempestruling.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20141001230150/http://caught.net/cases/beaver1.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20150208032655/http://caught.net/cases/beaver2.htm The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	February 19th, 1982.
0:04.0	One socket, Rhode Island.
0:06.4	27 year old Susan Laferte and 22 year old Doreen Picard are both attacked in the basement of their apartment house by an assailant who bludgeoned them with a pipe.
0:16.0	Doreen is killed and Susan remains in a coma for a month, but when she wakes up, she has no memory of the attack.
0:25.2	Ten years later, a suspect named Raymond Beaver Tempest is convicted of Dorian's murder and
0:31.1	sentenced to 85 years in prison.
0:33.8	However, since the prosecution's case was fraught with problems,
0:38.3	Tempest's conviction is vacated in 2015,
0:41.8	and the state is forced to decide whether or not to retry him.
0:45.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.
0:53.0	Oh, uh, and uh,
0:55.0	and uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:04.0	uh, there's uh,
1:05.0	there's uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail went cold.
1:27.0	I'm your host Robin Mordor and today I will be examining a very controversial case which was supposedly solved 24 years ago,
1:36.4	but wound up becoming unsolved again last summer.
1:39.7	This story involves a savage 1982 attack on two women which left one of them dead and the
1:45.1	other one seriously injured. A suspect was eventually convicted of the crime and
1:49.6	served 23 years in prison but his conviction was recently vacated and the state
1:54.6	is currently deciding what to do next. As you probably know, stories about
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