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Speaker 1: Crime Lord hourly update, Breaking crime news Now, I'm Dave Mac.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Duncan was convicted of first degree murder in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety eight after being charged with raping and drowning twenty

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Speaker 1: three month old Haley Olivau, the daughter of his then

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Speaker 1: girlfriend Alison Layton Stapham. By Mark. Evidence since debunked as

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Speaker 1: junk science, was used to get that conviction. The innocents

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Speaker 1: probably agreed to take on the case, and after nearly

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Speaker 1: three decades on death row, Jimmy Duncan is out of

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Speaker 1: prison on bail. Prosecutors were seeking to keep Duncan in

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Speaker 1: prison while his case is reviewed by the Louisiana Supreme Court.

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Speaker 1: Fourth Judicial District Court. Judge Alvin Sharp throughout that conviction

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Speaker 1: in April, after hearing expert testimony that the forensic evidence

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Speaker 1: that helped put Duncan on death row was not scientifically

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Speaker 1: defensible and that Hailey's death appeared to be the result

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Speaker 1: of an accidental drowning. Family members of the victim had

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Speaker 1: this to say about Duncan being released on bail.

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Speaker 2: Evident's presented in court in September of twenty twenty four

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Speaker 2: that led to Jimmy Christian Duncan's conviction being vacated in

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Speaker 2: April of twenty twenty five, we have changed our minds

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Speaker 2: about his guilt. We agree with the judge's ruling that

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Speaker 2: there isn't any evidence for sexual assault, murder, or bite marks.

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Speaker 2: We don't believe there is any evidence for any crime

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Speaker 2: at all. We also know evidence that would have exonerated

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Speaker 2: Jimmy was ignored, lost, or sealed from the jury and

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Speaker 2: testifying experts at trial. It's our opinion today, after reviewing

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Speaker 2: the evidence and testimony, that the jury simply wasn't given

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Speaker 2: the truth.

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Speaker 1: In the recent past, similar faulty forensic bitemark evidence has

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Speaker 1: led to vacated convictions and dropped charges. In his order

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Speaker 1: at granting Duncan bail, citing the new evidence presented at

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Speaker 1: an evidentiary hearing last year, coupled with Duncan's lack of

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Speaker 1: prior criminal history, Judge Sharp wrote, the presumption is not

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Speaker 1: great that he is guilty. Attorney said in a statement

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Speaker 1: that Sharp's ruling earlier this year provided quote clear and

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Speaker 1: convincing evidence showing that mister Duncan is factually innocent. They

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Speaker 1: added the Duncan's release on bail marks a significant step

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Speaker 1: forward for mister Duncan's complete exoneration. Duncan's vacated conviction is

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Speaker 1: still being reviewed by the Louisiana Supreme Court, but he

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Speaker 1: was released after posting a one hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars bond. He plans to live with a relative in

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Speaker 1: central Louisiana. During Duncan's bail hearing, the mother of the

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Speaker 1: girl who was accused of killing told the judge that

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Speaker 1: she had become convinced of Duncan's innocence. Instead, Stathan believes

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Speaker 1: her daughter, who she said had a history of seizures,

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Speaker 1: had accidentally drowned in a bathtub. The Innocent's Project investigation

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Speaker 1: revealed that in the weeks prior to her death, Hailey

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Speaker 1: suffered from a series of seizures and injuries, including one

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Speaker 1: that happened from a fall and led to a week

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Speaker 1: long hospitals day. They also found that warm baths could

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Speaker 1: increased the risk of subsequent seizures. Statham says her daughter

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Speaker 1: wasn't killed, Hailey died because she was sick. Statham told

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Speaker 1: the court she believes that her family and Duncan have

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Speaker 1: been destroyed by the lie. She believes prosecutors and forensic

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Speaker 1: experts had concocted. Prosecutors had relied on bite mark analysis

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Speaker 1: and an autopsy conducted by two experts who were later

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Speaker 1: linked to at least ten wrongful convictions. Duncan's legal team

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Speaker 1: described the pair as discredited. Charlatan's Mississippi based forensic dentist

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Speaker 1: Michael West and pathologist Stephen Hayn examined Haley's body. The

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Speaker 1: bitemark analysis that helped convict Duncan was discredited, and a

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Speaker 1: video recording of the examination shows dentist West forcibly pushing

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Speaker 1: a mold of mister Duncan's teeth into the child's body,

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Speaker 1: creating the bite marks later used to convict him. A

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Speaker 1: state appointed expert unaware of this method testify during trial

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Speaker 1: that the bite marks on the body match Duncan's. Haley's

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Speaker 1: mother says the horror story that they put out and

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Speaker 1: desecrated my baby's memory makes me infuriated. During the bail hearing,

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Speaker 1: an Innocence Project lawyer representing Duncan, m Chris Fabricant, said

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Speaker 1: bite mark evidence is junk science, and there is no

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Speaker 1: more prejudicial type of junk science that exists than bitemark

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Speaker 1: evidence pathologist Stephen Hayin is deceased, and dentist West says

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Speaker 1: DNA testing has made bitemark analyis is obsolete. However, Wes

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Speaker 1: still defended his work in other cases that led to

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Speaker 1: overturned convictions. The parish testimony led to two Mississippi men,

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Speaker 1: Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer, to serve a combined three

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Speaker 1: decades in prison in two separate cases for the rape

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Speaker 1: and murder of young girls until DNA evidence cleared them

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Speaker 1: of the crimes. Since nineteen seventy three, more than two

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Speaker 1: hundred people on death row have been exonerated, including twelve

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Speaker 1: people in Louisiana. More crime and justice news coming out.

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Speaker 1: In the midst of an undefeated season and in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: chasing a state championship, Union high school football coach Travis

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Speaker 1: Turner goes missing. State police special agents from a Bureau

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Speaker 1: of Criminal Investigation office were sent to his home not

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Speaker 1: to arrest him, but to talk to him as part

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Speaker 1: of an investigation. On the way to the coach's home,

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Speaker 1: officers are notified the coach is gone. A search of

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Speaker 1: the area nearby was conducted with drones, dogs, and rescue teams.

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Speaker 1: As the search continues for the runaway coach. Charges are filed,

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Speaker 1: including possessing child pornography and using a computer to solicit

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Speaker 1: a minor. Virginia State Police say Turner is now wanted

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Speaker 1: on warrants of five counts of each charge, adding that

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Speaker 1: additional charges are pending as an investigation continues. They did

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Speaker 1: not share details about what prompted the charges. Turner's wife, Leslie,

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Speaker 1: denies the charges, saying, quote, none of that is true.

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Speaker 1: He's a good dad and a good husband unquote. Turner

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Speaker 1: is the football coach at Union High School in southwest

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Speaker 1: Virginia's Wise County. Union has put together an impressive undefeated

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Speaker 1: season through the first round of the state playoffs. Union

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Speaker 1: High School assistant coach Jay Edwards has since stepped in

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Speaker 1: two handle all coaching responsibilities. As the search continues. For

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