One Minute Remaining - Stories from the inmates6 Elo 2025

Convicted on Bite Mark Evidence P4: The Charles McCrory Case

In 1985, Charles McCrory found his wife, Julie Bonds, brutally murdered in their Andalusia, Alabama, home. Just two small marks on her arm—misrepresented in court as a definitive “bite mark”—became the sole forensic evidence used to convict him for her murder.

A forensic odontologist, famed for testifying at Ted Bundy’s trial, claimed the impressions matched McCrory’s like a fingerprint. Yet decades later, that same expert fully recanted the testimony, acknowledging the scientific consensus now recognises bite mark evidence as unreliable “junk science”.

With no blood, no DNA, and hair in the victim’s hand that didn’t match McCrory’s, his conviction rested entirely on this flawed forensic interpretation. Over 40 years later, even as two independent forensic dentists testified that the so called bite mark was never human, Alabama courts repeatedly denied him a new trial, judging that his lengthy imprisonment still stood, and that procedural hurdles outweighed modern science

In July 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case. Justice Sotomayor warned that wrongful convictions like his, based on “faulty science,” are startlingly common and urged state and federal lawmakers to enact stronger safeguards to prevent miscarriages of justice.

VOTE FOR OMR AUSTRALIAN AUDIO AWARDS

EARLY AND AD FREE ACCESS: for as little as $1.69 a week!

Apple + HERE

Patreon and find us on Facebook here.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(382)

Punished at 63 for nothing! - David Talley

Today I catch up with David Talley — a man serving a 100-year prison sentence for crimes that should only have carried a decade behind bars.Now, more than 20 years later, David is still fighting for a...

1 Joulu 202523min

Nowhere else to turn - Jeremy Cain

Today I catch up with Jeremy Cain for an update on what’s been happening with his case since we last spoke.After his story aired on One Minute Remaining, the community of Pleasant Grove came together ...

26 Marras 202520min

Get busy living or get busy dying - Tariq Maqbool

Today I catch up with Tariq Maqbool to get the latest on his bid for clemency with the governor.We explore life inside prison and what happens when men become institutionalised, incarcerated for so lo...

24 Marras 202531min

Echoes from the Bayou P12 - Dwight Bergeron

We have just wrapped up the story of Dwight Bergeron who has served over 30 years of his three life sentences for what the authorities say was his crime of sexual assualt against his own children. I c...

19 Marras 202518min

Echoes from the Bayou P11 - Dwight Bergeron

Today we catch up woth the man they call 'The voice of reson' Michael Leonard from Leonard trial lawyers in Chicargo illanois to get his take on the case against Dwight Bergeron.In the sweltering bayo...

17 Marras 202532min

Echoes from the Bayou P10 - Dwight Bergeron

PLEASE BE ADVISED: This story contains subject matter that some may find upsetting. Listener discretion is advised.In the sweltering bayous of southern Louisiana, Dwight “Jerome” Bergeron grew up hard...

12 Marras 202529min

Echoes from the Bayou P9 - Dwight Bergeron

10 Marras 202518min

One Minute Remaining

Over the past three years, I’ve spoken with men and women incarcerated across the United States, from Florida to Alaska, New Jersey to Louisiana, and everywhere in between.In that time, I’ve told the ...

7 Marras 202534s