Maurice Shema
speaker
415 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Maurice Shema’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
After the interview, Judith identifies David Wood in a photo lineup and takes police to where she was raped.
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Johnny says it's around 50 yards from where the murder victims were found.
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Within a few weeks, the police arrest David Wood for Kelling's rape.
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David Wood denies ever having raped Judith Kelling, but he's convicted and sent to prison.
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Meanwhile, Johnny continues trying to prove that David Wood is also the desert killer.
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It ends up taking him and the prosecutors more than four years.
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Their main piece of physical evidence is a collection of orange fibers, threads, possibly from a blanket.
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The police find some near one of the victims' bodies in the desert.
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They find similar ones in a vacuum cleaner at David Wood's apartment.
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The other big thing that helps Johnny?
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Testimony from those two men who had been in prison with David Wood.
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When Wood is finally put on trial for the murders, they both swear, under oath, that David Wood confessed to them that he was the desert killer.
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Nearly five years after the rape conviction, a jury finds David Wood guilty of murder.
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He's sentenced to death.
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So yeah, this is the case that Greg Warchuk is trying to fight.
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A hideous case in which the jury needed less than 90 minutes to hand down a death sentence.
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A case that, over the course of three decades, numerous appeals courts have found no reason to question.
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But Greg is adamant that the cops, the prosecutors, the jury, the judges, they all got it wrong.
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My producer Alvin Melleth and I meet Greg for the first time in mid-December 2024 at the El Paso County Courthouse.
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Greg looks a little like a younger Dick Van Dyke, if you know that reference, which Greg would.
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