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Speaker 1: A warning. This episode contains language and depictions of violence

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Speaker 1: that may be disturbing to some listeners. I wanted you

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Speaker 1: to know that I put in a foyer request for

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Speaker 1: your nineteen eighty nine case. Can I send you the

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Speaker 1: stuff that I got? Yeah, I'm talking to Keith Lamar

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Speaker 1: about his nineteen eighty nine case, the one he pled

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Speaker 1: guilty to involving the shooting death of his childhood friend

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Speaker 1: Kenyata Collins, the case that sent him to prison in

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Speaker 1: the first place. What kind of stuff they sent me

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Speaker 1: the police reports? This story is ever evolving, and this

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Speaker 1: episode is going to be unlike any of the others

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Speaker 1: so far. What you're about to hear is a raw

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Speaker 1: conversation between me and Keith. There are some witness statements

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Speaker 1: and yeah, just some stuff that I would like to

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Speaker 1: ask you about because they said things that were different

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Speaker 1: than what you said. Yeah, Yeah, I love I love Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I've never really actually seen to believe it or not.

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Speaker 1: Things are about to get very real. Oh can I

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Speaker 1: lose you? No, I'm right here. I'm Leah Rothman. This

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Speaker 1: is the Real Killer, Episode six. This is my life.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? I'm well? How are you? I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, good good, Um, Well should we chat?

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Speaker 1: I'm nervous. My nervous laugh gives me away. It's been

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Speaker 1: five days since I sent Keith the police reports and

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Speaker 1: crime scene photos. In order to get the reports, I

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Speaker 1: submitted a FOIA request, which is a Freedom of Information

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Speaker 1: Act request, to the City of Cleveland's Public Records department.

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Speaker 1: When it comes in, I assume I'm going to read

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Speaker 1: a version of events that matches what Keith told me

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Speaker 1: in a previous episode that he shot Kenyatta Collins during

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Speaker 1: what seemed to be a robbery at the apartment where

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Speaker 1: he was dealing drugs. Remember, Keith was shot twice two

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Speaker 1: but the police report says something different. So I struggle.

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Speaker 1: I struggle with whether or not to bring it up

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Speaker 1: to Keith. I keep asking myself, does what happened in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine have any real bearing on what he

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Speaker 1: was accused of doing during the uprising? I mean, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't allowed in at Keith's nineteen ninety five trial because

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Speaker 1: it was a prior offense. So I waver on whether

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Speaker 1: to go there. It really comes down to an issue

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Speaker 1: of truthfulness. Although Keith has admitted and pled guilty to

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Speaker 1: killing Kenyatta Collins. Why would a story be different than

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Speaker 1: what was in the police reports. Not that I can

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Speaker 1: always believe what I read in police reports, because as

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Speaker 1: we all know, law enforcement gets things wrong a lot

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Speaker 1: of the time, especially when it comes to black men. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: I decide I'm going to ask him about it. But

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Speaker 1: before our call, Keith emails me and brings up something

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Speaker 1: that's on the second page of the report. It looks

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Speaker 1: like a photocopy of a post it with Seth Tiger's

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Speaker 1: name on it. Seth Tiger is one of the two

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Speaker 1: prosecutors who tried Keith's case for the state. Keith wonders

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Speaker 1: if I had actually gotten the reports from Seth Tiger.

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Speaker 1: I addressed that right off the bat. Okay, so, first

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Speaker 1: of all, I did not get the reports that nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty nine police reports from Stuff Tieker. Yeah, but the

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Speaker 1: fact that his name was only I mean, it's not

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Speaker 1: an uncustomary that they would request that information. But I

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Speaker 1: but I have a sad away for you know, when

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Speaker 1: we spoke last week, you're intimated that what you said,

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Speaker 1: obviously it's different from what you said back to that,

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Speaker 1: and that implies something different about you intended. But it's

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Speaker 1: not different from what I've last I've admitted some details

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Speaker 1: because it involves other people, but the admissions are not

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Speaker 1: like to deceive or to you know, mitigate what happened.

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Speaker 1: after Dan, you know, Carolyn comparison. That's what I'm saying. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I killed somebody. I admit that. So you know, whatever

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Speaker 1: questions that you have will respect to that. I try

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Speaker 1: not There's no sort of like gotcha. I'm not trying

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Speaker 1: because that's just what you do as a journalist, right

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Speaker 1: you just I don't think I don't think. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just saying that that just gives you some

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Speaker 1: when I was in the same similar situation within this

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Speaker 1: third day of the uprising. Keith is accused of calling

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Speaker 1: for Weaver's murder. But again, I didn't want to be involved,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's hard for people to understand that. So

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Speaker 1: they take the fact that I said I was asleep

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Speaker 1: And if I did, I would have bed guilty. That's

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Speaker 1: what my records suggests. I'm an admitted criminal, a murderer, thief,

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Speaker 1: fucked up. I was a fucked up place. There's no

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Speaker 1: on or right now whether a lot jay Z was

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Speaker 1: And then when you have my record and you put

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Speaker 1: And again, just to be clear, it was just that

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Speaker 1: So was everybody else. Who were you know, in that apartment.

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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with other what other people said.

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Speaker 1: It had to do with what you told police, right,

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Speaker 1: because it's just like what you told Yeah, what you

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Speaker 1: That's I would high most days that environment, that life

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Speaker 1: One of the sad things about you know, coming up

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Speaker 1: to the way that I did. You know that you

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Speaker 1: trapped around that. You know, that arbitrary violence, Like I said,

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Speaker 1: it's deeply credited and recognition of what I allowed myself

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Speaker 1: Legal counsel for AYR Media, Gianni Douglas, Executive producer for iHeartRadio,

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Speaker 1: Maya Howard