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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He would have heard about it already.
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Plus, he knows they're not above lying.
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George returns to prison.
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Not long after, he writes to an El Paso prosecutor about, quote, improprieties that I am aware of.
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He says he knows the informants are fabricating their stories.
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The prosecutor never writes back, but the letter does make its way into David Wood's case file.
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Eventually, David Wood does go on trial for the murders.
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George is never called to testify.
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But the two other guys become the star witnesses for the prosecution.
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The jury convicts David Wood, and he's sentenced to death.
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Court documents show that after the trial, one of the informants received $13,000 in reward money.
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The other got his own capital murder charge dropped.
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I identified more than a dozen officers, detectives, and supervisors who were involved in David Wood's case.
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I wanted to ask them about George Hall.
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Some were dead, one had dementia, one hung up on me, and others never responded.
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But the one detective who did speak to me extensively about the case called George's whole story, quote, preposterous.
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It's pretty well documented in court records and a media account that George and the other two men were brought in together and interviewed by the El Paso police.
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But the detective said he couldn't imagine his colleagues taking prisoners out for a joyride and showing them case materials in order to get them to snitch.
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For more than 30 years after David Wood's trial, George kept tabs on the case, Googled it from time to time.
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In 2009, he read that David Wood's execution was called off.
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