Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
Falsely Accused of Murder - The Hurricane Carter story
02 Feb 2025
This is the story of Rubin Hurricane Carter, the man who was falsely convicted of murdering several bystanders in a bar.
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So this famous professional boxer is minding his own business and he suddenly gets arrested and goes to prison for life. And he didn't even do anything wrong. Let me explain. Now the guy, let's call him Hurricane. He's a middleweight boxer and he regularly fights at Madison Square Garden. And bro's got a decent record and he eventually becomes known as The Hurricane.
And one night, Hurricane, he's out on the town and he sees his friend and sparring partner, this guy, John Artis. And they go to a nearby bar called The Night Spot. And they have some drinks and they have a good time or whatever. And they leave and they're driving home. Meanwhile, about a half a mile away, two other men go into a different bar called the Lafayette Bar and Grill.
And at that bar, these two men suddenly pull out pew-pews. And they just start blasting. Blam! Blam! And the customers inside, they all scream and they freak out. And blam! A bullet hits a customer. And then blam! Another one. And then blam! Another one. And then blam! The bartender gets shot. And then the two gunmen, they run. And they hop into their white Chevrolet and they flee.
And unfortunately, two of those customers and the bartender end up unalived. And another customer ends up in the hospital. Now, during all this chaos, there are two shady ass dudes hanging around the bar. These two guys, Alfred and Arthur. And Alfred and Arthur, they see everyone panicking and not paying attention, so they go over to the register in the bar and they steal a bunch of cash from it.
Like I said, they're shady ass dudes. So then police show up and they talk to all the witnesses, including Alfred and Arthur, and they get descriptions of what the two shooters look like. Thin black men around 5'11 driving a white Chevrolet. So police search the area and they can't find a white Chevrolet, but they do find a white Dodge.
So they pull over that white Dodge and in that Dodge happens to be Hurricane and John Artis. Now, Hurricane isn't thin and he's not 5'11", so he and John Artis don't match the description of the men who shot up the bar. Regardless, police make them go into the bar and the witnesses there are like, nah, it ain't them. But police aren't done.
They then drag Hurricane and John Artis to the local hospital, and one of the bar customers is there, the one who got shot, the one who got injured, and he's in critical condition. And police ask him if Hurricane and John Artis are the men who shot up the bar, and even he is like, nah, bro, those aren't the guys who shot me. So police have no other choice.
They have to let Hurricane and John Artis go, and they all just move on with their lives.
until several months later police are still working on the case and they turn to Alfred and Arthur to help them out now allegedly they offer them some things like they offer them early parole from their previous sentences they offer to overlook the fact that they took money out of the register that night and most importantly they offer them a
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