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Speaker 2: I think that when it comes to certain particular depths,
Speaker 2: I think that sometimes we put on the front with
Speaker 2: the world like we've gotten over it.
Speaker 3: I used to watch the unsolved Myschivy shows and I
Speaker 3: often thought about calling How can a person get killed
Speaker 3: and no one knows anything. She said, you have to
Speaker 3: forgive the person they killed your brother, And I don't
Speaker 3: even know this person.
Speaker 4: Is Terry, And I said, it may be that this
Speaker 4: does not ever go to a court, even with Craig's cooperation,
Speaker 4: that this is ever going to see the inside of
Speaker 4: a court. This all may be just to give Aron
Speaker 4: Wood's family some sense of understanding.
Speaker 1: By the summer of two thousand and six, roughly two
Speaker 1: years into their investigation, Scott and Terry had made real progress.
Speaker 1: The two federal agents had obtained a confession from the
Speaker 1: alleged accomplice, Craig Peterson, and with the help of the
Speaker 1: Philly PD. The agents had identified the man they leave
Speaker 1: to be the victim, Aron Wood. For years, the Wood
Speaker 1: family had wanted answers about Iran's death. They yearned for
Speaker 1: closure and for justice. Now finally there was some movement,
Speaker 1: A case was mounting against the alleged shooter, Tom Geybison.
Speaker 5: Was definitely a different type of case. I don't think
Speaker 5: there's been really anything similar to it since that I've heard.
Speaker 1: That's Carmen Weinberger. Back in two thousand and six, she
Speaker 1: was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia. She worked in
Speaker 1: the homicide unit, and she was assigned to work on
Speaker 1: this case.
Speaker 5: You know, a skinhead coming to Philadelphia to kill somebody.
Speaker 5: A cowardly act when it all boils down to it,
Speaker 5: a cowardly act.
Speaker 1: By this point in her career, Carmen had been a
Speaker 1: prosecutor for well over a decade.
Speaker 5: So when I graduated at high school, I knew I
Speaker 5: wanted to be a prosecutor. When I went to to
Speaker 5: the University of Pennsylvania, I knew I wanted to be
Speaker 5: a prosecutor. When I went to Temple Law School, I
Speaker 5: knew I wanted to be a prosecutor.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you knew you wanted to be a prosecutor,
Speaker 1: just ad bit. Carmen's father had also been an assistant
Speaker 1: district attorney, and Carmen says her dad raised her to
Speaker 1: be tough.
Speaker 5: He said, always do the right thing, and don't take
Speaker 5: any blank off of anybody. You can fill in the blank.
Speaker 1: Carmen says she took this advice to heart, didn't take
Speaker 1: blank from anybody. And this was important because she's a
Speaker 1: woman of color, which at the time was a real
Speaker 1: rarity in the homicide unit at the DA's office in Philly.
Speaker 1: Carmen was helped out in part by her mentor. His
Speaker 1: name was Roger King. He passed away in twenty and sixteen,
Speaker 1: but at the time Roger was a legendary figure in
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia DAE. It was Roger who first helped Carmen
Speaker 1: land a spot in homicide unit back in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands, and Roger was the lead prosecutor on this case.
Speaker 1: After thirty five years in the courtroom. This was actually
Speaker 1: going to be Roger's last case before he retired, and
Speaker 1: he'd brought Carmen on board to help him win. Carmen
Speaker 1: had seen many grisly murder cases, but there was something
Speaker 1: about this one that seemed especially unsettling.
Speaker 5: Not that any murder isn't disturbing, but this particular murder
Speaker 5: and the reason for it, the hate. This was a
Speaker 5: hate crime. It's hard to fathom the depraved nature of
Speaker 5: someone that could just kill someone in cold blood based
Speaker 5: on the color of their skin. It was bad luck
Speaker 5: for that man to be found in North Philadelphia that
Speaker 5: night in April of nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 1: The authorities believed that man was Iron Wood, and now
Speaker 1: it was up to Roger Carmen and the DA's office
Speaker 1: in Philly to see this through to ensure that the
Speaker 1: Wood family got the closure and the justice that they needed.
Speaker 1: Carmen's task was to marshal all the evidence she could.
Speaker 1: She would have the help of the Philly PD and
Speaker 1: also of Scott and Terry, the two federal agents, and
Speaker 1: she and Roger King had one more card to play,
Speaker 1: arguably their best. They could convene a grand jury, which
Speaker 1: is basically like a preliminary hearing, but it's held in secret.
Speaker 1: The defendant doesn't even know it's happening. The prosecution can
Speaker 1: subpoena witnesses require them to testify so it's like a
Speaker 1: test run the prosecution and can see how strong the
Speaker 1: case is before making a final decision on whether to
Speaker 1: go forward and seek an indictment. If there was an indictment,
Speaker 1: Tom Guybison would be arrested, there'd be a trial, likely
Speaker 1: a very high profile trial, and Carmen's boss, the legendary prosecutor,
Speaker 1: Roger King, would have his final day in court in
Speaker 1: rather dramatic fashion. But Carmen knew it all came down
Speaker 1: to evidence. It had been almost twenty years since iron
Speaker 1: Wood was murdered, and that's the challenge with cold cases.
Speaker 1: Evidence vanishes, memories fade, witnesses slip away, which is why
Speaker 1: the grand jury was so important, so the prosecution could
Speaker 1: figure out was this a case they could win. I'm
Speaker 1: Jake Calpern and this is Deep Cover Season four, The
Speaker 1: Nameless Man, Episode four, the grand Jury. Throughout the summer
Speaker 1: of two thousand and six, the two federal agents on
Speaker 1: the case, Scott and Terry, were still scrambling. They were
Speaker 1: working together with the PHILLYPD to look under every stone
Speaker 1: and gather as much evidence as they could in preparation
Speaker 1: for the grand jury. So far, here's what they had
Speaker 1: They had an ex girlfriend named Patricia Miller. You heard
Speaker 1: about her episode one. She's the one who claimed that
Speaker 1: Tom had bragged about killing a black man. She said
Speaker 1: Tom had a newspaper article covering the man's death and
Speaker 1: boasted that this was his doing. The FEDS also had
Speaker 1: a confession from Craig, the man claiming to be the accomplice.
Speaker 1: Craig said that he and Tom had driven into Philadelphia
Speaker 1: in the spring of eighty nine and used a thirty
Speaker 1: eight caliber revolver to murder a black man. But what
Speaker 1: else could the FEDS find? Was there any physical evidence
Speaker 1: or were there any other witnesses who could help corroborate
Speaker 1: Craig's story, witnesses who Carmen and Roger could then bring
Speaker 1: before the grand jury. So Scott and Terry, they weren't
Speaker 1: done yet. There were a few leads they were still
Speaker 1: chasing down. I'm going to tell you about three of them.
Speaker 1: Three leads they hoped would tip the balance in the
Speaker 1: case and provide Carmen and the prosecution just what they needed. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's start with the smoking gun. And I mean that
Speaker 1: quite literally, because if Scott and Terry could find the
Speaker 1: actual murder weapon, the thirty eight that Tom Guybison supposedly
Speaker 1: used back in eighty nine. Well, that'd be huge in theory.
Speaker 1: They could then match the gun with the bullet that
Speaker 1: killed the victim because they had the bullet it had
Speaker 1: been recovered from Iran's body. Problem was, according to Craig,
Speaker 1: Tom said he was going to get rid of the
Speaker 1: murder weapon, so maybe it had been destroyed. No one
Speaker 1: knew for sure. Then one day Terry was talking with
Speaker 1: his boss over at the ATF and Terry mentioned this
Speaker 1: problem they were having finding the murder weapon.
Speaker 6: I said, I don't know how I'm gonna find this thing.
Speaker 1: I said.
Speaker 6: I said, he might even throw it in the river.
Speaker 6: Who knows. And my boss says to me, you know
Speaker 6: what he said? Actually he said, I was on an
Speaker 6: audit a few months ago, and you know they have
Speaker 6: guys evidence of out there on the first Guns case.
Speaker 1: The first gun case, if you recall, back in the
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties, Tom Guybison had been arrested and imprisoned on
Speaker 1: a gun's charge. He had since been released, but the
Speaker 1: evidence from that case, the weapons that the FEDS had seized,
Speaker 1: were still apparently in storage, and Terry's boss over at
Speaker 1: the ATF knew this because, quite by chance, he'd been
Speaker 1: involved in a routine audit of stockpiled evidence, kind of
Speaker 1: like spring cleaning, like when you open that dusty room
Speaker 1: in your basement and go through all the junk that
Speaker 1: you haven't touched in years. The FEDS they do this too,
Speaker 1: with all their old evidence. Anyway, Terry's boss remembered seeing
Speaker 1: Tom's old guns. So Terry gets on the phone with
Speaker 1: someone over at the ATF and.
Speaker 6: Asks, Hey, do you have any thirty eight Calvary volrus
Speaker 6: flowing to Tommy and your evidence? She goes yes. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 6: oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: So now all they have to do is run a
Speaker 1: test at the ballistics lab to see if there's a match.
Speaker 1: Terry asked for the test to be expedited then weighted
Speaker 1: with baited breath, but when the examiner called back, he
Speaker 1: told Terry that there was a problem with the bullet.
Speaker 6: It's too deformed. I can't make a definitive match. I
Speaker 6: can't match up the lands. And they're called lands and
Speaker 6: grooves in a barrel of a firearm that make a
Speaker 6: unique microscopic signature where you can say, hey, tick a fingerprint.
Speaker 6: This was the same gun because I can't do it.
Speaker 6: It's too deformed.
Speaker 1: So Lead number one didn't pan out. Maybe this was
Speaker 1: the weapon, maybe it wasn't. There was just no way
Speaker 1: to know for sure, which meant it was of no
Speaker 1: real use to Carmen Roger and the prosecution. Lead number
Speaker 1: two involved, of all things, a high school prom. You
Speaker 1: may remember that Craig, the alleged accomplist, said that the
Speaker 1: murder occurred in the spring of eighty nine, the spring,
Speaker 1: and Creig remembered this because he said it happened shortly
Speaker 1: before prom that both he and Tom attended. Tom went
Speaker 1: with his girlfriend at the time, another teenager named Jen.
Speaker 1: We're just going to use her first name in order
Speaker 1: to protect her identity. The agents Scott and Terry decided
Speaker 1: they should really talk with Jen and see if she
Speaker 1: remembered anything useful from the time. So they met Jen
Speaker 1: briefly at a coffee shop. They explained, we want to
Speaker 1: talk to you about Tom Guybison. Jen was visibly shaken,
Speaker 1: but she agreed to have a sit down with them.
Speaker 1: A short while later, they met up at her house,
Speaker 1: and this is when Jen started talking about her prom
Speaker 1: back in eighty nine. Her prom was held at the
Speaker 1: DuPont Hotel in downtown Wilmington. This is a grand old
Speaker 1: hotel to nineteen thirteen, with crystal chandeliers, parquet floors, gilded
Speaker 1: trim the whole deal. Jen says. At some point during
Speaker 1: the prom, Tom got in an argument with another prom goer.
Speaker 1: Things apparently got heated. Tom readied for a fight, and
Speaker 1: he rolled up his shirt sleeves, revealing an elaborate spider
Speaker 1: web tattoo that he'd recently gotten. In the end, tempers cooled.
Speaker 1: At some point in the night, Tom apparently boasted about
Speaker 1: his tattoo, saying, quote, do you know what this means?
Speaker 1: Scott and Terry, they vetted this whole prom night story.
Speaker 1: They actually tracked down other people who had attended the
Speaker 1: same prom back in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 6: We actually got in contact with more people than I
Speaker 6: would have expected. I want to say, maybe six people,
Speaker 6: seven people that I was I think I was pretty
Speaker 6: surprised that we actually found them and talked to them,
Speaker 6: and they were willing to talk to us.
Speaker 1: Both Scott and Terry say that to a person, everyone
Speaker 1: they spoke with recalled Tom boasting about how and why
Speaker 1: he'd gotten his tattoo here's Scott.
Speaker 4: What Terry and I liked from talking to each and
Speaker 4: every one of them was they all told the same story.
Speaker 4: They all told it in the same sense of shock.
Speaker 4: They all relived that moment now feeling guilt. I think
Speaker 4: one even said, I always had it in the back
Speaker 4: of my mind that it was true, and I'm so
Speaker 4: upset I never told somebody so they could have looked
Speaker 4: into it.
Speaker 1: According to Jen, Tom had boasted about this murder on
Speaker 1: other occasions as well. Tom allegedly showed her a newspaper
Speaker 1: article from the Philadelphia Inquirer about a man who had
Speaker 1: been killed, and he claimed that he was responsible. Bottom line,
Speaker 1: Jen was another witness that the prosecution could bring before
Speaker 1: the grand jury to bolster their case. Of course, what
Speaker 1: she said didn't prove anything definitively, but the accounts from
Speaker 1: these two ex girl friends, combined with Craig's confession, felt substantial.
Speaker 1: This brings us to lead number three. Well, it wasn't
Speaker 1: so much of a lead as it was a memory test,
Speaker 1: a very very hard memory test. That's after the break.
Speaker 1: Aroan Wood was killed on the thirteen hundred block of
Speaker 1: North Stillman Street in Philadelphia, a block or so away
Speaker 1: from the walled campus of Gerard College. This was a
Speaker 1: known fact, and this got Scott and Terry thinking could
Speaker 1: Craig somehow independently verify that this was in fact the
Speaker 1: sight of the murder that he'd help commit, Because if
Speaker 1: he could verify this, well, then that might cement the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Up until now, Craig maintained that he could
Speaker 1: not recall an exact location or street name where it
Speaker 1: all went down. But it seemed like it was worth
Speaker 1: exploring this a bit further. Maybe they could test his memory.
Speaker 1: In other words, get him in a car, drive him
Speaker 1: to Philly, and just hope that he could lead them
Speaker 1: to the location. If this worked, it could really enhance
Speaker 1: the value of Craig's confession and helped tie it more
Speaker 1: directly to the murder of iron Wood.
Speaker 4: We say you to Craig, you were there, we weren't.
Speaker 4: Perhaps you blocked it out. Let's just drive and unblock
Speaker 4: your mind.
Speaker 1: The idea was that Craig might see something an exit ramp,
Speaker 1: a park, a building, some landmark that would spark his memory.
Speaker 1: It was a gamble. If it worked, it might really
Speaker 1: help their case. But the danger was if it didn't work,
Speaker 1: If They drove to thirteen hundred North Stillman Street and
Speaker 1: Craig said, no, this is not the spot. What do
Speaker 1: you do? Then the whole case could be at risk.
Speaker 1: In the end, Scott and Terry felt they had to
Speaker 1: give it a try, had to roll the dice. So
Speaker 1: they arranged to make a road trip. They put Craig
Speaker 1: in the car and they drove to Philly. All right,
Speaker 1: just situate me. Where are we in the city right now?
Speaker 4: We are in North Philadelphia, in and around Gerard College.
Speaker 1: So this is me and Scott this past fall. Basically,
Speaker 1: I asked Scott to show me where exactly they had
Speaker 1: taken Craig. So he drove around a bit in Scott's
Speaker 1: car in the vicinity of the murder site, just like
Speaker 1: he'd done with Craig back in two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: And right away I began to see the challenges that
Speaker 1: this memory test presented. Rowhouses. I mean, the blocks are
Speaker 1: kind of indistinguishable. I mean there's a few landmarks, but
Speaker 1: a lot of these blocks look almost identical to one another.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, I mean this is this is the beauty
Speaker 4: of Philadelphia. You just have these amazing row homes and
Speaker 4: you could see it's very easy to get lost, but
Speaker 4: it's also very easy to confuse one block from another.
Speaker 1: It was clear to me if this was a test
Speaker 1: of Craig's memory, the difficulty level was dealed up to
Speaker 1: expert mode. It had been nearly twenty years and it
Speaker 1: didn't make any easier that the city scape just unfurled
Speaker 1: like a vast, unvarying canvas. There was at least one
Speaker 1: feature of the landscape that did really stand out, the
Speaker 1: wall that surrounded the campus. It was a ten foot
Speaker 1: high stone wall that just went on and on for
Speaker 1: blocks and blocks. And if you recall, when Craig first confessed,
Speaker 1: he talked about seeing a wall near the murder site,
Speaker 1: so it seemed like this might be it the landmark
Speaker 1: that jogged his memory. But Scott says when he drove
Speaker 1: here with Craig down this very street, Craig could not
Speaker 1: give him a definitive answer. It was all just maybe maybe.
Speaker 1: Scott and I continued on following the wall for several blocks,
Speaker 1: then turned right on a north Stillman Street, headed down
Speaker 1: to the thirteen hundred block, and then we pulled up
Speaker 1: to the intersection where it happened where Iron was murdered.
Speaker 1: The mood, and the car turned somber. Neither of us
Speaker 1: spoke for a moment. At this point, I'd spent months
Speaker 1: looking into the story, and on the one hand, it
Speaker 1: felt strangely momentous to finally be here at the spot.
Speaker 1: Some part of me half expected to see a marker,
Speaker 1: a sign, even some wilted flowers, anything to indicate that here,
Speaker 1: right here, a man's life had ended suddenly. But in reality,
Speaker 1: there was nothing. It was just another intersection, similar to
Speaker 1: all the others, which apparently was exactly how it looked
Speaker 1: to Craig.
Speaker 4: We did come to this intersection, and there was not
Speaker 4: anything that I remember Craig saying without a doubt other
Speaker 4: than this very well could be it, but I couldn't
Speaker 4: tell you for sure.
Speaker 5: This is.
Speaker 1: So In the end, the gamble, it was sort of
Speaker 1: a push, not really a loss, but not a win either.
Speaker 1: And it also seemed to underscore a fundamental limitation with
Speaker 1: this case, a limitation that exists in so many cold cases,
Speaker 1: simply that time had passed seventeen years to be exact
Speaker 1: time in which memories had eroded, time in which the
Speaker 1: case may have weakened, and this would be the fundamental
Speaker 1: challenge for Carmen and the Philadelphia DA's office. There was,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, only so much that
Speaker 1: investigators could provide in the way of proof. Some of
Speaker 1: it was quite compelling, mainly the first person account from Craig,
Speaker 1: but there were holes, gaps in what was known, and
Speaker 1: these gaps would become unspoken invitations, courting the doubts of
Speaker 1: all those who might pass judgment. In preparing for the
Speaker 1: grand jury, Carmen, the Assistant DA, was clear eyed about
Speaker 1: the challenges they faced. I asked her what they had
Speaker 1: in terms of forensic evidence, not a.
Speaker 5: Big CSI case, forensically from the eighties, and you got
Speaker 5: a dead body, and you've got a bullet from the
Speaker 5: dead body. That's it.
Speaker 1: The strength of the prosecution's case hinged on three witnesses.
Speaker 1: There were the two ex girlfriends, Jen and Patricia. They
Speaker 1: each claimed independently that Tom had boasted about committing a murder.
Speaker 1: The third witness was Craig, the alleged accomplice. Before the
Speaker 1: grand jury convened, Carmen spent time with each of the witnesses.
Speaker 1: She found them all credible and a bit nervous too.
Speaker 1: The girlfriends each claimed that Tom Guybison had been violent
Speaker 1: with him in the past. What's more, Carmen believed that
Speaker 1: by agreeing to testify, they were putting themselves at risk.
Speaker 5: Well, they know him better than anybody else, so they
Speaker 5: knew what he was capable of. It's not easy to
Speaker 5: get on the witness stand and talk about who you
Speaker 5: used to care about and how bad they were, the
Speaker 5: things that they did, whether you still love him or not,
Speaker 5: not an easy thing to do.
Speaker 1: The most important witness by far was Craig Peterson.
Speaker 5: I found him to be very credible. I also think
Speaker 5: he was remorseful, and I in a lot of ways
Speaker 5: felt sorry for him because I thought, just from the
Speaker 5: witnesses in general, Diabson was the bully to all of
Speaker 5: them in different ways, and I believe he was a
Speaker 5: bully to Craig Peterson.
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting you to say that you felt sorry
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I probably wasn't expecting say that either, but I
Speaker 5: did it. There was remorse, You could feel the remorse.
Speaker 5: You could see it in this guy, remorse to his soul,
Speaker 5: and in a lot of ways, I think him cooperating
Speaker 5: was purging what he did to him, trying to somewhat
Speaker 5: make amends to that person that they killed and to
Speaker 5: the person's family. And I don't feel that way about
Speaker 5: many defendants. I really don't, especially the homicide defendants. But
Speaker 5: I did feel that about him, and I still feel
Speaker 5: it to this day.
Speaker 1: Craig left a lasting impression on Carmen. She can still
Speaker 1: picture him in her mind's eye.
Speaker 5: I can recall Peterson because I looked at him and
Speaker 5: felt Peterson's the skinhead. He looks like he's mixed with black.
Speaker 5: I remember that he has an olive complexion that causes
Speaker 5: me to believe I'm biracial, so I pay attention to
Speaker 5: those things. I always thought he was mixed somewhere in there.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he was adopted. Maybe he didn't
Speaker 5: realize it, maybe he did, but I always thought, and
Speaker 5: to this day I can remember and see his faith.
Speaker 5: He looked like he could have been reletant. He was
Speaker 5: very fair, but he wasn't that fair.
Speaker 1: Carmen brought this up to me totally unprompted, though I
Speaker 1: wasn't entirely surprised because I had heard this same thing
Speaker 1: from Scott Duffy, the FBI agent. Quite the bombshell, or
Speaker 1: maybe I should say potential bombshell, because I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's true. If you recall, Craig went to federal
Speaker 1: prison in the nineteen nineties. His prison records list his
Speaker 1: race as white. But that's really all I can say.
Speaker 1: I've been in touch with Craig. We first spoke a
Speaker 1: few months ago on the phone. I had hoped that
Speaker 1: he'd go on the record and share his side of
Speaker 1: the story. I eventually sent him a letter with all
Speaker 1: the info that we've included on him in this series
Speaker 1: to give him a chance to respond, and this is
Speaker 1: what he wrote back. Dear Jake, I give my permission
Speaker 1: and ask to have the following herd. I've not responded
Speaker 1: because I've been contemplating for many hours the positive and
Speaker 1: negative things that can occur by participating in your podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm going to decline, but would like to say my life,
Speaker 1: my beliefs, and views are very different now. I do
Speaker 1: sincerely regret any harm I've caused to everyone involved. In
Speaker 1: the summer of two thousand and six, the grand jury convened.
Speaker 1: The prosecution called its witnesses, including Craig, Peterson, the two
Speaker 1: ex girlfriends, the two federal agents Scott and Terry and
Speaker 1: also Louby, the detective from the Philadelphia PD. Was that
Speaker 1: a winning hand. Well, the prosecution thought so, because in
Speaker 1: the end they decided, yes, let's do this. They asked
Speaker 1: for an indictment against Tom Geibison for the murder of
Speaker 1: iron Wood, and the grand jury gave them the green light,
Speaker 1: confirming that yes, there was probable cause to believe that
Speaker 1: a crime had been committed. Charges were issued against Tom Guybison,
Speaker 1: including murder in the first degree. When it came time
Speaker 1: for the arrest, Scott and Terry were actually the ones
Speaker 1: who planned it all out. It was an elaborate operation
Speaker 1: involving the FBI, the ATF, and the Philadelphia Police Department.
Speaker 1: Scott and Terry led the arrest team. They showed up
Speaker 1: early in the morning at the house where he was
Speaker 1: staying and just waited. Eventually Tom emerged. He was a
Speaker 1: big guy with the build of a weightlifter. He walked
Speaker 1: towards his car. Terry knew this was the moment, so like.
Speaker 6: Police, please get down, get down, and I'm I'm yelling.
Speaker 6: Others are yelling tough fur lungs and he just stands
Speaker 6: there like a deer in the headlights, just staring at it,
Speaker 6: staring at me, staring at them, and I could see
Speaker 6: in his mind. I can see in his face he's
Speaker 6: deciding what to do. He's got like a half a
Speaker 6: dozen dudes, you know, potentially going to light him up
Speaker 6: if he does something wrong, and he's just say he's
Speaker 6: he's literally thinking what am I going to do?
Speaker 1: Finally, Terry says, Tom put out his hands, surrendered, and
Speaker 1: that was it. Everyone took a sigh of relief. They
Speaker 1: read Tom his rights, handcuffed him, and informed him that
Speaker 1: he was under arrest for the murder of Iran Wood.
Speaker 1: He was extradited to Philadelphia, where he would eventually stand trial,
Speaker 1: and it would be quite a trial, Roger King's last
Speaker 1: case as a prosecutor, And as it turns out, King
Speaker 1: would be up against a formidable opponent, a lawyer who
Speaker 1: would make a tenacious defense of Tom Guybison and do
Speaker 1: everything in his power to find the moth holes that
Speaker 1: time had riddled into the fabric of evidence. It was
Speaker 1: a trial that would hinge on the credibility of three
Speaker 1: witnesses and a handful of crucial facts, a trial that
Speaker 1: would find its way into the newspapers and TV news
Speaker 1: passions about our nation's history of racist violence and about
Speaker 1: what constitutes reasonable doubt. Tom Guybison would profess his innocence,
Speaker 1: the Wood family would hope for justice, and a jury
Speaker 1: of twelve Philadelphians would argue, agonize and decide. Next time
Speaker 1: on Deep Cover.
Speaker 7: I believe Tom Guybison is innocent. They have no physical evidence,
Speaker 7: they had no gun, They had nothing but the ear
Speaker 7: witnesses of scorned girlfriends and Craig Peterson, who had been
Speaker 7: made an offer he couldn't refuse to escape prosecution in
Speaker 7: return for full community.
Speaker 1: Deep Cover is produced by Amy Gaines McQuaid and Jacob Smith.
Speaker 1: It's edited by Karen Schakerji mastering by Jake Gorsky. Our
Speaker 1: show art was designed by Sean Carney. Original scoring in
Speaker 1: our theme was composed by Luis Gara, fact checking by
Speaker 1: Arthur Gomperts. Our story consultant was James Foreman Jr. Special
Speaker 1: thanks to Jerry Williams, Sarah Nis, Greta Cone, and Jake Flanagan.
Speaker 1: I'm Jake Halpern