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Maurice Shema

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This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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They were blown away by the similarities between this man and David Wood.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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Similar builds, similar tattoos.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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On top of the similar trucks, they also both drove red motorcycles.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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I can practically see the gears turning in Greg's mind.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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And as the Whataburger fills with the sound of someone making the world's loudest milkshake, he tosses out one more question.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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Well, when you say that, how do you know that he's Skeeter?

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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Ramona says that she went to the cops back in 1987 and told them everything she learned about David Wood, about Judith Kelling, and about Michael Plyler.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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And she says the cops did nothing.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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They could have, for example, looked more into Plyler, gotten some DNA samples, polygraphed him.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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Instead, Ramona says, they simply told her to stay away.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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Ramona's whole story is wild, obviously.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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And as we wrap up at the Whataburger, it's not clear to me how Greg is going to use it all, whether he's going to try to corroborate any of these details.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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And I'm not sure that's really possible.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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I can imagine what a prosecutor might say.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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For example, the Judith Kelling story, that it wasn't David Wood who raped her.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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Well, the state could point to trial testimony from Kelling's sister, who said Judith identified David Wood as the rapist right after it happened.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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Greg could go after the sister's credibility, but the question remains, why would Judith Kelling make a grand revelation to Ramona, a teenager she just met?

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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There's also a question about Ramona's motivations.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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I found an old news story that says she was banned from the El Paso County Jail.

This American Life
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
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She had allegedly graffitied I Love David Wood on the wall of a visiting booth.