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Barbara Bradley Hagerty

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Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

Young was struck on the head with a blunt instrument, which cracked his skull in five places. He was then placed in the trunk of his BMW and taken to West Dallas. Despite the lethal blow to his head, somehow he managed to open the trunk lid and fall out. And the assailants panicked. They drove the car into the alley, into an alleyway, and then they ran away.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

And Jeffrey Young died in the hospital at 3.05 a.m. So for the first couple of days, the neighbors said, you know what? We didn't see anything, nothing. But police were under this enormous pressure to solve the case. I And also, Jeffrey Young had a really powerful connection. His father was one of Ross Perot's top executives. So after Young's death, Ross Perot posted this huge reward, $25,000.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

And Jeffrey Young died in the hospital at 3.05 a.m. So for the first couple of days, the neighbors said, you know what? We didn't see anything, nothing. But police were under this enormous pressure to solve the case. I And also, Jeffrey Young had a really powerful connection. His father was one of Ross Perot's top executives. So after Young's death, Ross Perot posted this huge reward, $25,000.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

And Jeffrey Young died in the hospital at 3.05 a.m. So for the first couple of days, the neighbors said, you know what? We didn't see anything, nothing. But police were under this enormous pressure to solve the case. I And also, Jeffrey Young had a really powerful connection. His father was one of Ross Perot's top executives. So after Young's death, Ross Perot posted this huge reward, $25,000.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

And that was a lot of money back then in 1987. Right after that, three witnesses come forward.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

And that was a lot of money back then in 1987. Right after that, three witnesses come forward.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

And that was a lot of money back then in 1987. Right after that, three witnesses come forward.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

So the first one was a 42-year-old woman named Gladys Oliver. And her house looked down on the alley, and she said she knew the two men running from the BMW. They were her neighbors. So this wasn't a stranger identification. This was a friend or neighbor identification. Ben Spencer, she said, and another man named Robert Mitchell ran away from the car.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

So the first one was a 42-year-old woman named Gladys Oliver. And her house looked down on the alley, and she said she knew the two men running from the BMW. They were her neighbors. So this wasn't a stranger identification. This was a friend or neighbor identification. Ben Spencer, she said, and another man named Robert Mitchell ran away from the car.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

So the first one was a 42-year-old woman named Gladys Oliver. And her house looked down on the alley, and she said she knew the two men running from the BMW. They were her neighbors. So this wasn't a stranger identification. This was a friend or neighbor identification. Ben Spencer, she said, and another man named Robert Mitchell ran away from the car.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

And after she gave her statement to the police, she suggested that they talk to two teenage boys who just might have seen the same thing. The police went to talk to the two teenage boys and they corroborated her story. So that afternoon... Four days after the crime, police went to Ben's house and arrested him.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

And after she gave her statement to the police, she suggested that they talk to two teenage boys who just might have seen the same thing. The police went to talk to the two teenage boys and they corroborated her story. So that afternoon... Four days after the crime, police went to Ben's house and arrested him.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

And after she gave her statement to the police, she suggested that they talk to two teenage boys who just might have seen the same thing. The police went to talk to the two teenage boys and they corroborated her story. So that afternoon... Four days after the crime, police went to Ben's house and arrested him.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

Aisha, years later, I interviewed Ben in prison, and he recounted that arrest as vividly as if it had happened just yesterday. He told me that on March 26, that day, he'd been suffering from a migraine headache, and he went home to sleep it off. And here's what he said, and just as a note, it's a little noisy because we were in the visiting room and there were a lot of people there.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

Aisha, years later, I interviewed Ben in prison, and he recounted that arrest as vividly as if it had happened just yesterday. He told me that on March 26, that day, he'd been suffering from a migraine headache, and he went home to sleep it off. And here's what he said, and just as a note, it's a little noisy because we were in the visiting room and there were a lot of people there.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

Aisha, years later, I interviewed Ben in prison, and he recounted that arrest as vividly as if it had happened just yesterday. He told me that on March 26, that day, he'd been suffering from a migraine headache, and he went home to sleep it off. And here's what he said, and just as a note, it's a little noisy because we were in the visiting room and there were a lot of people there.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

It's like a bad dream. But, you know, afterwards, after I met Ben, he wrote me a letter to explain what had been going through his mind. And shockingly, he was not panicked. He didn't freak out. This is what he wrote, quote, Well, I wasn't really scared at first.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

It's like a bad dream. But, you know, afterwards, after I met Ben, he wrote me a letter to explain what had been going through his mind. And shockingly, he was not panicked. He didn't freak out. This is what he wrote, quote, Well, I wasn't really scared at first.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

It's like a bad dream. But, you know, afterwards, after I met Ben, he wrote me a letter to explain what had been going through his mind. And shockingly, he was not panicked. He didn't freak out. This is what he wrote, quote, Well, I wasn't really scared at first.

Up First from NPR
The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

I knew that they had made an awful mistake when they arrested me, and I believed that it was just a matter of time before they figured that out.