January 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Jason Fallon, a sensitive and creative young man from Providence, Rhode Island, was tragically killed in an alleged hit-and-run on October 30, 2022. Despite the incident occurring in a well-lit area, Jason's case is mired with inconsistencies and insufficient investigation by law enforcement. His sister, Kristin, faces numerous obstacles in seeking justice, with unclear witness statements and missing critical evidence like surveillance footage. The driver that struck Jason has high-level political connections and a criminal history. Could it have affected the outcome of Jason's investigation?
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Jason Fallen was a young man whose life was cut
short in a hit and run incident in Providence, Rhode Island,
a driver in a rental car. Conflicting stories and vanishing
video footage has left Jason's story unsolved in his family
seeking answers. This is navigating advocacy. I'm Melissa and I'm Whitney.
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We were connected with Jason's sister Kristen through a fellow podcaster, Charlie.
You've heard us talk about her a million times. She's
amazing Charlie from Crimelines. Go listen if you don't already.
I had the opportunity to meet with Kristen and learn
more about her brother. Kristin described Jason as an easy
and sweet child with a creative, imaginative mind. He loved
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to dress up in hats and funny costumes and was
very sensitive. He went to a Catholic school and played
Little League baseball. He loved to ride his bike all
over the neighborhood and collect baseball cards. Jason loved animals
and music. His family always rescued the neighborhood's shreys. One
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story that Kristin shared with me was about when they
had rescued an entire colony of feral cats and were
able to find loving homes for most of them. But
a colony of cats seems like so many cats. It
does like a whole town'sworth, like every cat that's in
the town. I don't know a lot of cats, That's
all I have to say.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm so glad they were able to find homes for
most of them. But of course, you know how it
is when you take in an animal, it's so much
harder to part with them, So of course every single
one didn't find a new home.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
They kept quite a few.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
One cat that they chose to keep was named Holly,
and she was an older cat that would sleep with Jason.
I personally don't have a cat, and I always find
it funny when I stay with you, Melissa, that your
cat seems to get whatever the cat version of Zumi's
is at night. And I guess I didn't realize that
cats must be like a nocturnal creature.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, my cat always does that, and I just I
thought it was because it was kind of firal when
we found her. But very weird to know other cats
do that, so it might just be something they do.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Jason's cat, Holly, was similar in that manner. She would
nip at his nose when he was asleep and wake
him up. Another test another testament to jay and sensitive
and empathetic nature, is when he found a garbage bag
moving on the side of the road. Inside of this
bag was an abandoned, tiny, tiny black and white kitten
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that was starving and quite literally on her deathbed. Jason
and his family nursed her back to health and she
ended up living to be twenty years old, which you.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Know, cats lived that long. I didn't know that either.
We really need to learn more about that apparently, But
that's like so sad. I'm so glad he was able
to like take her and keep her and give her
such an amazing long life.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
As a teenager, music began to really impact to Jason's life.
He had fallen in love with bands like Fish, Max Creek,
and The Grateful Dead. He enjoyed going to the live
shows and listening to the messages about peace and love.
Jason became what is known as a Deadhead, and he
attended over a hundred of their live shows, traveling with
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other Deadheads and following the bands and describe their live
shows as a spiritual experience. I have seen several documentaries
about Deadheads, describing the community of Pacifists as a kind
place where you can share your opinions and have the
freedom to just be yourself. And Jason fit in perfectly
with this gentle, kind and soft hearted nature. He was
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a giver, even though he had very little to give.
He would let friends stay at his apartment, feed them
and keep them warm when they had nowhere else to go.
Jason used his creative side to make tied i T
shirts or jewelry, to barter for food or tickets or
sell for income.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, Jason just sounds like a real EmPATH where everyone's
emotions like really affect him, and he's like that spiritual
and creative person. It's very interesting that he feels so
much what definitely can lead to some mental health struggles,
and Jason did suffer from not only addiction, but mental
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health issues as well. For years as an adult, he
was actually unable to work due to his severe anxiety.
Jason was sexually assaulted when he was just twelve years
old by a stranger. He had been riding his bike
when a man stopped and pulled him into the car.
In the nineteen eighties, assaults were less reported than they
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are now, especially when it comes to a sexual assault.
Against sexual assault with a male being a victim. It
was one of those situations that people really just swept
under the rug and told the victim to forget about it,
just move on with their life. And this was the
case for Jason as well his parents. Jason told his
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parents about what had happened, but they were really not
equipped with the proper tools to help him. Jason never
received the help he needed and he turned to drugs.
I mean, having to feel all those emotions and not
really know how to navigate that at such a young
age and not really getting any outside support was just
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had to have been so difficult for him, and we
see it now.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
There's been so many studies when it comes to major
traumas of that nature of why people do turn to
drugs because they're trying to numb those feelings because they
have no other tools of how to process that exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
There was also a short time that Jason was imprisoned
for low level drug charges, and during his incarceration, he
was placed in solitary confinement on more than one occasion,
once for weeks, another for close to a month. Having
existing mental health struggles, solitary confinement can have extreme side effects.
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When he was released from prison, he began making plans
for his future. He wanted to make changes and do
different things. I couldn't imagine being in solitary confinement. I
do not like to be alone with my thoughts very often.
That's probably why I like to stay very busy. I
don't like to be alone period. His turning point began
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when he took in a cat name Shrimp, which is
such a cute name. Shrimp had been passed around through
a few different families, but never truly cared for. He
had never received any veterinary care up until Jason took
him in. Trimp was everything to Jason. He helped Jason
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handle the severe anxiety that plagued him. This anxiety really
hindered him from working, so he was trying to get
He was in the process of getting disability benefits, but
he also had goals of working towards receiving a certified
alcohol and drug counselor certification that he could help others
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struggling with the same battles that he fought. He is
just like a like you said, he was a giver,
but this is like truly giving. He knew the struggles
that he went through most of his life, and he's like, hey,
how can I give back to these people? I just
I have to. It's just so heartwarming, it really is.
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But on the night of October thirtieth, twenty twenty two,
his life came to a sudden and violent end. At
seven forty six pm, Jason was struck near one hundred
and thirty Smart Street, which was a well lit area
and had dry road conditions. Sunset had occurred over two
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hours earlier, but visibility was not obstructed at all. Like
I said, the street lights were on, it was very
well lit. There was no real reason that a car
would hit him even though it was nighttime. Jason's Case
five is riddled with inconsistencies. Witness reports, EMS reports, and
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even information given by law enforcement has all become very confusing.
The EMS report that we do have a copy of
states that there are witnesses, but we come to find
out that these witnesses are actually the people in the
vehicle that hit Jason. There was obviously the driver and
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then there was two passengers. So they had told EMS
that Jason was lying in the road before he was hit.
There are other reports I'm not quite sure where they
came from, that he was struck while he was trying
to just cross the street. So I don't know. This
is what we're talking about when it's just very confusing
about what actually happened that night. EMS noted that the
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stories of the people in the vehicle sort of change
several times. There was some conflicting details about whether Jason
was run over or hit Directly following the incident, police
never canvassed the neighborhood for evidence. In fact, the investigation
seemed to be severely lacking. The police reported Jason's death
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as a traffic fatality, but the car was never mentioned
in the report. It's all just so strange. It was
like an investigation was never done. A police officer showed
up there when the EMS were there as well, but
other than that, they never did anything else with it,
which is so strange. Right, there was no procedures followed.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You know, you're supposed to take statements of everyone, even
just think of a regular fender bender car accident here.
When that happens, a law enforcement officer comes out and
they take the story from both sides. They write it down.
They listen to everyone that's around, They take witness statements
from people in the parking lot. If you got in
the fender bender in a parking lot, like, they ask
all the people, and there's paperwork of all that. In
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Jason's story, there's not There's no paperwork that can be
found exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I work in the car insurance industry, and there's police
reports for everything. No one is even hurt in that
automobile accident, and there's still usually nine times out of
ten of police report. We have to figure out who's liable,
who's at fault. For any insurance benefits to ever be paid,
you have to determine who's at fault and what percentage
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they're at fault. This was It seems like it was
not done at all, agreed.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Jason's sister Kristen wasn't even directly notified of her brother's death,
which seems strange because when she talks to them later,
it seems as though they knew who Jason was. Kristin
went five days without speaking to him, which was extremely unusual.
Her concerns were heightened because the last time she had
spoken with him, he was clearly upset. He was audibly
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emotional and shared with that he had gotten involved with
some rough people and he was worried. He didn't provide
any details, just continuously told her that he was in
a hole he wasn't sure he'd be able to get
out of, and that things were bad. She finally received
a call from Jason's best friend, Harold, after Harold's mother
had seen an advertisement placed in the Providence Journal asking
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the family of Jason Fallon to contact the Medical Examiner's office.
Harold had called them first and was told that Jason
was a victim of a hit and run and that
charges would quote definitely be filed in the case. Kristen's
aunt called the next day, getting the same information as Harold.
When Kristin herself called and was able to speak with
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the medical examiner, the conversation was much more in depth
and I'm sure that Kristin asked more questions. She seems
the type of person to probe more. She needs more answers,
needs more information.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, exactly, and as close as they were, I mean,
she wanted to know what happened well with the next steps,
what she needed to do, that kind of thing got Yeah,
that's just amazing that you know she knew the wherewithal
to Actually, hey, let's start asking questions. As soon as
I got this information.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Precisely, the medical examiner read through the preliminary report that
had come in with Jason's body. It stated that Jason
was walking across the street at one thirty Smart Street
when he had been struck and killed. The report also
said that the driver fled the scene, but that police
were aware of who it was and that an arrest
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had been made or was imminent. The medical examiner shared
the reporting officer's name and badge number and explained to
Kristen that she would need to call law enforcement for
more information about the arrest. Obviously, the medical Examiner's not
going to know what happened with that. That's not her job,
not her responsibility. So when Kristen called the police, she
spoke to a captain, and this captain gave her information
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about the death of an another man that had died
the same evening, and when she corrected him, he laughed
and said, oh Jason, Like, I know, I gave you
the wrong information. Meant to tell you about Jason. He
then told Kristin that the female homeowner of one thirty
Smart street was going or had emailed ring footage to
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the officer on site. The captain explained to Kristen that
the footage showed Jason falling into the street, the car
turning right onto Smart Street, and then hitting Jason. Kristin
and her aunt were the ones who had identified Jason's body,
and they were shocked at the amount of trauma that
had happened to Jason. His left eye was blackened, swollen,
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and bruised. Kristen's aunt noted that it appeared as if
he had been in a fight or had been beaten.
It just seemed more than a hit and run. She
also noted that he had abrasions on his forearms and
right hand, and they were more reminiscent of defensive wounds
than if you were hit by a vehicle. It was
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almost as if he had put his hands out to
protect himself. The autopsy report that Kristen got later had
no mention of this black and bruised eye.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
But they saw it. They're and eyes. They took photos.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Why that seems like a very strange thing to leave
out of an autopsy report that its sole purpose is
to document every injury in every mark and every tattoo
in every bruise you left out or black and bruised eye.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, very strange. I mean they will things could be
like a centimeter and they would typically notate to that.
The fact that they didn't on the a bruised eye
is i insane. So the report also stated that there
was a fourteen x four centimeter abrasion along his jawline
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and chin. He had fractures to the ribs on both sides,
and injuries to his knees and shins. However, there were
no skull fractures. The autopsy noted a focal hemorrhage in
the left temporalis muscle, which is really a sign of
a severe blow to his head.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Which if you have a black and bruised eye but
you don't have any damage to your skull, those occipital
bones r out there around your eyes are extremely fragile.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
They're thinned.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
If you were hit enough to cause a black eye,
you would think there'd be some sort of bone damage
as well.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Exactly, especially if it's a car doing the damage. There's
a big difference between somebody getting punched in the eye
and the amount of force behind that, and then the
force behind a car hitting you or you getting hit
by a car and then thrown on the ground, and
possibly that causes Injuri. It's very different. We have researched
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so many cases and are by no means medical professionals,
but these injuries don't seem to be adding up. To
be honest, I'm glad I was able to sleep well
last night because this is confusing, and without solid sleep,
I would not be able to follow this story seriously.
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in our show notes. I want to take a second
to commend Kristen on her ongoing pursuit for knowledge and
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understanding every possible aspect of her brother's case. She had
a forensic pathologist informally review the reports. This pathologist stated
that these abrasions on Jason's arm could have come when
his body was moved from underneath the vehicle The pathologist
also said that on the autopsy, it was noted that
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Jason had severe trauma to his liver and spleen that
would indicate being hit with a lot of force. It
was stated that they were quote completely pulpified. His gallbladder
and diaphragm had ruptured, like Melissa said, his ribs and
Sternham had fractures. All of the trauma on his arms
and face. And I'm in no way or shape or
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any sort of form a medical professional, but these are
extensive injuries. Let's pause here for just a moment. Also,
I want to describe this area a little bit more.
Smart Street, Job Street and Milano Street all intersect. However,
it is not a perfectly perpendicular intersection.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's a little more off center.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's what we in the South, or at least us
from Texas call a jig jag. I don't know if
anyone else calls them that, but it is not a
perfect the perpendicular intersection.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I've never called it a jigjag, but literally, I can
picture a jig Jack wrote it in my head. Well
and good, I'm glad you can understand it. It's a jigjag.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Because the reports state that the car that struck Jason
was turning right at the intersection from Job Street, which
is the road that Jason lived on on too Smart Street.
Where Jason was struck was within thirty to forty feet
of this intersection. So I'm confused at how he could
have been hit hard enough to have extensive internal injuries
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when the distance from the corner to where Jason was
hit was so short. It's also worth noting that multiple
people had told Kristen that it was a hit and run,
and that Jason's body was not recovered from underneath the car,
so the confusion continues.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, it's just so many inconsistencies. Which way is it?
And I feel like somebody should know. Goodness gracious, you
can tell well from the autopsy, the injuries. You should
be able to tell if he was on the ground
run over and the car sped off, or if he
was on the road and run over and got caught
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under the car and it essentially stopped on top of them.
I feel like they should know. This is basics.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
According to the EMS, the car was nowhere near Jason's
body when they arrived. Jason's phone, wallet, and money were
not found on his body, So how they identified him
so quickly was surprising.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And if he left home.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Wouldn't he have taken those items with him When they
searched his apartment later, they were never recovered there either. Also,
he had told a friend that he was meeting someone
that night and that friend stated that Jason had left
with these items. So why weren't they found?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Where? Where are these items? Yeah, that's the question, and
they still have not been recovered to this day. Clue
where these items are? Oh? Jason's sister tried to retrieve
the footage from the nearby ring camera through a foyer request,
but was denied. This ring camera footage has been a
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point of contention in Jason's case, from the first conversation
with the captain that said it was being emailed to
it being listed on the police report, but then there
are reports stating that the footage just doesn't exist. Also,
many homeowners reported issues with their system. The male homeowner
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at one thirty Smart Street stated when he was interviewed
by a private investigator months later, he said that he
and his wife were watching TV when they heard the
emergency vehicles. He then claimed he checked his camera to
discover the batteries were dead. He said that he told
law enforcement that he did not have any footage and
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that his wife had never spoke to police about this.
He confirmed that they did not witness the accident at all.
They were watching TV. So the same officer who had
written the report that went in with Jason's body was
supposedly the one who was supposed to retrieve the footage
originally from the female homeowner. Also, this doorbell camera is roughly,
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I don't know, eighty feet from where Jason was supposedly standing.
Ringing cameras only trigger on when there's roughly thirty feet,
So if this footage did actually exist at some point,
what motion triggered it? But it's not like we can
find it. Everyone now is stating that this never existed.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Right, And it's also I'm not sure how it works
on the forensic side of things when it comes to
ring doorbells and subpoenas and investigating things. But if it
was digital at some point, it should be recoverable, especially
soon after it happened.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Kidta.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It's got to be on a server where, even if
you don't pay for the service, for it to record automatically,
for you to pull it yourself. It's got to be
somewhere right digitally.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
And if the supposedly the officer knew right then that
there was this Ring Cameron footage right away, there's no
reason why someone didn't go retrieve it if it actually
did exist or it not being emailed, I don't it's
just so crazy. So the private investigator canvassed the neighborhood
and did not find one house that actually had footage
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of the accident or a single witness. EMS told the
er doctors that the driver's story kept changing about how
Jason was hit. Did Jason actually collapse in the road
before being hit, or was he struck while walking in
the version that was documented in the medical records, Jason
was walking. In the EMS patient care report, they stated
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some people on scene stated the patient was lying in
the road and only noticed him once their car rolled
on top of him. Was listed as the quote from
the driver and his passengers. These inconsistencies make it difficult
to reconstruct the actual sequence of events and to figure
out what actually happened to Jason that night.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
When Kristen had spoken with the captain originally before receiving
these reports, she specifically asked him did the driver swerve,
did he hit his brakes?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
What did he try to not hit Jason?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And the captain told her that the driver thought Jason
was a bag of garbage and simply drove over him.
But in all of the written documentation, that's never written down.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's just so weird to me too. I mean, even
for trash, especially you're only going fifteen twenty miles an hour,
you can easily swerve around the trash so that you're
not running over a whole bag of trash.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I also have PTSD about trash being in the highway.
And I think I've told you this before. My mom
once told me a story her dad accidentally hit a
box on a road that was full of puppies. And
now i never drive over anything ever in the road
because I'm always afraid there's going to be puppies inside
of it.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, my mind goes to something like that, like some
or nails, and and now I'm gonna have to buy
four new tires. Like I just don't want to run
over anything because I don't know what it is. So
I guess everyone is not the same.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Right, I just it just doesn't make sense to just
simply drive over it even if you thought it was garbage.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It just doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And in fact that there's not even a written statement
from the driver or the passengers of this car.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
There's no written statement of that.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
So let's go back to the fact that there isn't
a traffic incident, let alone that there is now a
deceased person. There is a traffic incident with no written statements,
which is wild.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, I mean you jaywalk. They have to write it
up sometimes if someone it's just it's mind boggling was done.
They were just like, oh okay.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Taking it a step further. There was no filled sobriety
test to be conducted, which I feel like should warrant one.
If his story is changing multiple times while on scene
to different people, there's got to be some confusion there.
Have you been drinking? Have you not been drinking? Someone
is now deceased. We should probably check that out anyway,
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But no FID sobriety tested.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Was this person on a phone where phone records pulled
to see if his phone was active at the time
of the accident.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Was did they look at the vehicle to see if there.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Was any damage to the vehicle and if there was
or wasn't, was it photographed?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Was that noted? Was they did they talk about the
car at all that hit Jason, because no one knows.
No one knows. I think I read that the car
was able just to drive away. The driver and the
passengers just drove away after EMS carded Jason off, like
and oh yeah, go ahead, like what they just drove away.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So even if they had it, and Kristen has requested
everything through a four yer request, she was denied this
alleged ring cam footage because we don't know if it exists.
It's Schrodinger's ring cam roo footage at this point, and
she asked for a nine to one call that had
to have happened. A nine to one one call had
to have come in or a call for emergency personnel
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because EMS responded, so who called nine one one?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Kristin doesn't know because.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
It's not listed. She wasn't given any of the documentation.
There was no investigation. There was no investigation. The only
record of the crime scene is by luck, the Google
Maps car.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Drove down that road the following day, which is absolutely
crazy because I barely ever I've seen like a Google
map car like twice in my whole life. The fact
that it was the very next day is is crazy.
But I'm so glad that it did go down that
next day because there's no footage, there's no photos of
the crime scene.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Apparently there isn't, so as it drove down Smart Street,
it obviously documents the road. It takes photos of the
road as it drives in the exact spot that Jason
was hit.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Were candles were placed there.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I don't know if it was that evening or that
next morning by the family members in that house on
the corner of the intersection. There's also a slide style
sandal in the street that Kristen beliefs may actually have
belonged to Jason, that was left behind. What Google does
document from an investigative standpoint, though, is that there are
no tire marks in the street, So if someone pilled
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out or slammed on their brakes, there's no evidence of
that on the ground. In the event of a traffic incident,
I would assume you have like a crash investigator, there's
got to be a our crime scene investigator. Someone has
to come out and like look around, do a little
bit of do a little bit of police.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Work, yep.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
A little bit of investigtion, yeah, collect some evidence, do
a little bit of math, maybe, like okay, this is
how fast you could potentially be going from here.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Take some angles, some photographs. There's a little bit of
work that should have been done.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Some markers put up, maybe spray paint on the pavement,
marking things.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Nothing. Nothing, it's insane. But let's talk about the driver.
He was not given the field sobriety test, like Whitney
had stated to Christensen, and to Kristen's knowledge, no statement
had ever been taken. He walked away or drove away
actually from that accident. His history is filled with theft,
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reckless driving, eluding police, failure to stop for an accident
resulting in damage, and even being questioned in relation to
a shooting. This like led the list of all of
his past infractions. There were multiple people in the car,
one that had multiple arrests, and she wanted us to
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change this connection and was a close relative to a
high ranking politician in that area. This politician had been
prominent in that area for over a decade, very well
known family.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
To say the least, we don't like to speculate, and
we don't like to point fingers at police, but did
the investigating officer put two and two together? And that's
why there's no reports, there's no investigation, there's no witness statements.
It's real shoddy police.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Work for a potential homicide. Yeah. And the fact that
if they're saying that this was just an accidental hit
and run, they're not going to do any arresting or
ticketingen literally anyone, then there should be no reason why
Kristen can't request all the INFRA. This is an open
and shutcase. Like they said, it's clothed, let's move on.
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Why won't they give up that information precisely? And this
driver also claims that he ran over garbage. Well, Jason
was wearing white clothing, so okay, white trash bag, let's
say that. But he was five foot ten inches tall, Like,
he's not small. He was a decent sized dude in
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a well lit area.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Kristen later confirmed through their rental car company that it
did have repair work done after it had been returned
to the undercarriage.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So what does that mean If.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
If a car has to be repaired, shouldn't law enforcement
have reached out to the rental car company to see
what repairs were needed.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I mean, wouldn't that be a natural progression of an investigation?
You would think you would think Jason's family deserves answers.
This case highlights the importance of community involvement. If you
have information about Jason's case, even if it seems insignificant,
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please come forward. Someone out there knows something that could
help Jason's family.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
The advocacy piece for this episode has been difficult. The
pressure is on Kristen to demand answers and to demand
law enforcement to investigate adequately because they didn't. So we're
going to start with the fire campaign. I know, I know,
it seems like those are our go to, but it
targets a demographic of people who may not hear about
Jason otherwise. So we will be continuing to help Kristen
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on our journey for justice.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
For those listening in the Providence Rhode Island area, take
a moment to share Jason's story. This world is a
lot smaller than you think. To literally everyone listening, check
your own home security systems, ensure that the cameras are functional,
and say footage from crucial dates. Small action like these
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can make a big difference in solving case like Jason.
We've actually had police come request our footage before when
it was a nothing. I mean, it wasn't nothing. Some
kids had stolen a car and bailed out, like two
houses down from me, so they had even requested footage
for that. They went door to door and nobody was
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hurt in this entire situation, and still police were doing
their jobs investigating a crime that was committed. Thank you
for joining us on Navigating Advocacy. If you have any
tips or information about Jason Fallon's case, please contact the
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four four to four zero zero. Asked them to answer
the questions that plagued Kristin and her family. Putting pressure
on the Attorney General can help. We want to thank
Kristin for sharing Jason's t story with us and for
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Jason Fallen was a young man whose life was cut
short in a hit and run incident in Providence, Rhode Island,
a driver in a rental car. Conflicting stories and vanishing
video footage has left Jason's story unsolved in his family
seeking answers. This is navigating advocacy. I'm Melissa and I'm Whitney.
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We were connected with Jason's sister Kristen through a fellow podcaster, Charlie.
You've heard us talk about her a million times. She's
amazing Charlie from Crimelines. Go listen if you don't already.
I had the opportunity to meet with Kristen and learn
more about her brother. Kristin described Jason as an easy
and sweet child with a creative, imaginative mind. He loved
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to dress up in hats and funny costumes and was
very sensitive. He went to a Catholic school and played
Little League baseball. He loved to ride his bike all
over the neighborhood and collect baseball cards. Jason loved animals
and music. His family always rescued the neighborhood's shreys. One
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story that Kristin shared with me was about when they
had rescued an entire colony of feral cats and were
able to find loving homes for most of them. But
a colony of cats seems like so many cats. It
does like a whole town'sworth, like every cat that's in
the town. I don't know a lot of cats, That's
all I have to say.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm so glad they were able to find homes for
most of them. But of course, you know how it
is when you take in an animal, it's so much
harder to part with them, So of course every single
one didn't find a new home.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
They kept quite a few.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
One cat that they chose to keep was named Holly,
and she was an older cat that would sleep with Jason.
I personally don't have a cat, and I always find
it funny when I stay with you, Melissa, that your
cat seems to get whatever the cat version of Zumi's
is at night. And I guess I didn't realize that
cats must be like a nocturnal creature.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, my cat always does that, and I just I
thought it was because it was kind of firal when
we found her. But very weird to know other cats
do that, so it might just be something they do.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Jason's cat, Holly, was similar in that manner. She would
nip at his nose when he was asleep and wake
him up. Another test another testament to jay and sensitive
and empathetic nature, is when he found a garbage bag
moving on the side of the road. Inside of this
bag was an abandoned, tiny, tiny black and white kitten
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that was starving and quite literally on her deathbed. Jason
and his family nursed her back to health and she
ended up living to be twenty years old, which you.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Know, cats lived that long. I didn't know that either.
We really need to learn more about that apparently, But
that's like so sad. I'm so glad he was able
to like take her and keep her and give her
such an amazing long life.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
As a teenager, music began to really impact to Jason's life.
He had fallen in love with bands like Fish, Max Creek,
and The Grateful Dead. He enjoyed going to the live
shows and listening to the messages about peace and love.
Jason became what is known as a Deadhead, and he
attended over a hundred of their live shows, traveling with
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other Deadheads and following the bands and describe their live
shows as a spiritual experience. I have seen several documentaries
about Deadheads, describing the community of Pacifists as a kind
place where you can share your opinions and have the
freedom to just be yourself. And Jason fit in perfectly
with this gentle, kind and soft hearted nature. He was
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a giver, even though he had very little to give.
He would let friends stay at his apartment, feed them
and keep them warm when they had nowhere else to go.
Jason used his creative side to make tied i T
shirts or jewelry, to barter for food or tickets or
sell for income.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, Jason just sounds like a real EmPATH where everyone's
emotions like really affect him, and he's like that spiritual
and creative person. It's very interesting that he feels so
much what definitely can lead to some mental health struggles,
and Jason did suffer from not only addiction, but mental
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health issues as well. For years as an adult, he
was actually unable to work due to his severe anxiety.
Jason was sexually assaulted when he was just twelve years
old by a stranger. He had been riding his bike
when a man stopped and pulled him into the car.
In the nineteen eighties, assaults were less reported than they
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are now, especially when it comes to a sexual assault.
Against sexual assault with a male being a victim. It
was one of those situations that people really just swept
under the rug and told the victim to forget about it,
just move on with their life. And this was the
case for Jason as well his parents. Jason told his
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parents about what had happened, but they were really not
equipped with the proper tools to help him. Jason never
received the help he needed and he turned to drugs.
I mean, having to feel all those emotions and not
really know how to navigate that at such a young
age and not really getting any outside support was just
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had to have been so difficult for him, and we
see it now.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
There's been so many studies when it comes to major
traumas of that nature of why people do turn to
drugs because they're trying to numb those feelings because they
have no other tools of how to process that exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
There was also a short time that Jason was imprisoned
for low level drug charges, and during his incarceration, he
was placed in solitary confinement on more than one occasion,
once for weeks, another for close to a month. Having
existing mental health struggles, solitary confinement can have extreme side effects.
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When he was released from prison, he began making plans
for his future. He wanted to make changes and do
different things. I couldn't imagine being in solitary confinement. I
do not like to be alone with my thoughts very often.
That's probably why I like to stay very busy. I
don't like to be alone period. His turning point began
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when he took in a cat name Shrimp, which is
such a cute name. Shrimp had been passed around through
a few different families, but never truly cared for. He
had never received any veterinary care up until Jason took
him in. Trimp was everything to Jason. He helped Jason
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handle the severe anxiety that plagued him. This anxiety really
hindered him from working, so he was trying to get
He was in the process of getting disability benefits, but
he also had goals of working towards receiving a certified
alcohol and drug counselor certification that he could help others
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struggling with the same battles that he fought. He is
just like a like you said, he was a giver,
but this is like truly giving. He knew the struggles
that he went through most of his life, and he's like, hey,
how can I give back to these people? I just
I have to. It's just so heartwarming, it really is.
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But on the night of October thirtieth, twenty twenty two,
his life came to a sudden and violent end. At
seven forty six pm, Jason was struck near one hundred
and thirty Smart Street, which was a well lit area
and had dry road conditions. Sunset had occurred over two
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hours earlier, but visibility was not obstructed at all. Like
I said, the street lights were on, it was very
well lit. There was no real reason that a car
would hit him even though it was nighttime. Jason's Case
five is riddled with inconsistencies. Witness reports, EMS reports, and
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even information given by law enforcement has all become very confusing.
The EMS report that we do have a copy of
states that there are witnesses, but we come to find
out that these witnesses are actually the people in the
vehicle that hit Jason. There was obviously the driver and
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then there was two passengers. So they had told EMS
that Jason was lying in the road before he was hit.
There are other reports I'm not quite sure where they
came from, that he was struck while he was trying
to just cross the street. So I don't know. This
is what we're talking about when it's just very confusing
about what actually happened that night. EMS noted that the
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stories of the people in the vehicle sort of change
several times. There was some conflicting details about whether Jason
was run over or hit Directly following the incident, police
never canvassed the neighborhood for evidence. In fact, the investigation
seemed to be severely lacking. The police reported Jason's death
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as a traffic fatality, but the car was never mentioned
in the report. It's all just so strange. It was
like an investigation was never done. A police officer showed
up there when the EMS were there as well, but
other than that, they never did anything else with it,
which is so strange. Right, there was no procedures followed.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You know, you're supposed to take statements of everyone, even
just think of a regular fender bender car accident here.
When that happens, a law enforcement officer comes out and
they take the story from both sides. They write it down.
They listen to everyone that's around, They take witness statements
from people in the parking lot. If you got in
the fender bender in a parking lot, like, they ask
all the people, and there's paperwork of all that. In
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Jason's story, there's not There's no paperwork that can be
found exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I work in the car insurance industry, and there's police
reports for everything. No one is even hurt in that
automobile accident, and there's still usually nine times out of
ten of police report. We have to figure out who's liable,
who's at fault. For any insurance benefits to ever be paid,
you have to determine who's at fault and what percentage
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they're at fault. This was It seems like it was
not done at all, agreed.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Jason's sister Kristen wasn't even directly notified of her brother's death,
which seems strange because when she talks to them later,
it seems as though they knew who Jason was. Kristin
went five days without speaking to him, which was extremely unusual.
Her concerns were heightened because the last time she had
spoken with him, he was clearly upset. He was audibly
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emotional and shared with that he had gotten involved with
some rough people and he was worried. He didn't provide
any details, just continuously told her that he was in
a hole he wasn't sure he'd be able to get
out of, and that things were bad. She finally received
a call from Jason's best friend, Harold, after Harold's mother
had seen an advertisement placed in the Providence Journal asking
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the family of Jason Fallon to contact the Medical Examiner's office.
Harold had called them first and was told that Jason
was a victim of a hit and run and that
charges would quote definitely be filed in the case. Kristen's
aunt called the next day, getting the same information as Harold.
When Kristin herself called and was able to speak with
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the medical examiner, the conversation was much more in depth
and I'm sure that Kristin asked more questions. She seems
the type of person to probe more. She needs more answers,
needs more information.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, exactly, and as close as they were, I mean,
she wanted to know what happened well with the next steps,
what she needed to do, that kind of thing got Yeah,
that's just amazing that you know she knew the wherewithal
to Actually, hey, let's start asking questions. As soon as
I got this information.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Precisely, the medical examiner read through the preliminary report that
had come in with Jason's body. It stated that Jason
was walking across the street at one thirty Smart Street
when he had been struck and killed. The report also
said that the driver fled the scene, but that police
were aware of who it was and that an arrest
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had been made or was imminent. The medical examiner shared
the reporting officer's name and badge number and explained to
Kristen that she would need to call law enforcement for
more information about the arrest. Obviously, the medical Examiner's not
going to know what happened with that. That's not her job,
not her responsibility. So when Kristen called the police, she
spoke to a captain, and this captain gave her information
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about the death of an another man that had died
the same evening, and when she corrected him, he laughed
and said, oh Jason, Like, I know, I gave you
the wrong information. Meant to tell you about Jason. He
then told Kristin that the female homeowner of one thirty
Smart street was going or had emailed ring footage to
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the officer on site. The captain explained to Kristen that
the footage showed Jason falling into the street, the car
turning right onto Smart Street, and then hitting Jason. Kristin
and her aunt were the ones who had identified Jason's body,
and they were shocked at the amount of trauma that
had happened to Jason. His left eye was blackened, swollen,
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and bruised. Kristen's aunt noted that it appeared as if
he had been in a fight or had been beaten.
It just seemed more than a hit and run. She
also noted that he had abrasions on his forearms and
right hand, and they were more reminiscent of defensive wounds
than if you were hit by a vehicle. It was
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almost as if he had put his hands out to
protect himself. The autopsy report that Kristen got later had
no mention of this black and bruised eye.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
But they saw it. They're and eyes. They took photos.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Why that seems like a very strange thing to leave
out of an autopsy report that its sole purpose is
to document every injury in every mark and every tattoo
in every bruise you left out or black and bruised eye.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, very strange. I mean they will things could be
like a centimeter and they would typically notate to that.
The fact that they didn't on the a bruised eye
is i insane. So the report also stated that there
was a fourteen x four centimeter abrasion along his jawline
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and chin. He had fractures to the ribs on both sides,
and injuries to his knees and shins. However, there were
no skull fractures. The autopsy noted a focal hemorrhage in
the left temporalis muscle, which is really a sign of
a severe blow to his head.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Which if you have a black and bruised eye but
you don't have any damage to your skull, those occipital
bones r out there around your eyes are extremely fragile.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
They're thinned.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
If you were hit enough to cause a black eye,
you would think there'd be some sort of bone damage
as well.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Exactly, especially if it's a car doing the damage. There's
a big difference between somebody getting punched in the eye
and the amount of force behind that, and then the
force behind a car hitting you or you getting hit
by a car and then thrown on the ground, and
possibly that causes Injuri. It's very different. We have researched
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so many cases and are by no means medical professionals,
but these injuries don't seem to be adding up. To
be honest, I'm glad I was able to sleep well
last night because this is confusing, and without solid sleep,
I would not be able to follow this story seriously.
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If you don't write it down, don't freak out. It's
in our show notes. I want to take a second
to commend Kristen on her ongoing pursuit for knowledge and
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understanding every possible aspect of her brother's case. She had
a forensic pathologist informally review the reports. This pathologist stated
that these abrasions on Jason's arm could have come when
his body was moved from underneath the vehicle The pathologist
also said that on the autopsy, it was noted that
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Jason had severe trauma to his liver and spleen that
would indicate being hit with a lot of force. It
was stated that they were quote completely pulpified. His gallbladder
and diaphragm had ruptured, like Melissa said, his ribs and
Sternham had fractures. All of the trauma on his arms
and face. And I'm in no way or shape or
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any sort of form a medical professional, but these are
extensive injuries. Let's pause here for just a moment. Also,
I want to describe this area a little bit more.
Smart Street, Job Street and Milano Street all intersect. However,
it is not a perfectly perpendicular intersection.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's a little more off center.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's what we in the South, or at least us
from Texas call a jig jag. I don't know if
anyone else calls them that, but it is not a
perfect the perpendicular intersection.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I've never called it a jigjag, but literally, I can
picture a jig Jack wrote it in my head. Well
and good, I'm glad you can understand it. It's a jigjag.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Because the reports state that the car that struck Jason
was turning right at the intersection from Job Street, which
is the road that Jason lived on on too Smart Street.
Where Jason was struck was within thirty to forty feet
of this intersection. So I'm confused at how he could
have been hit hard enough to have extensive internal injuries
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when the distance from the corner to where Jason was
hit was so short. It's also worth noting that multiple
people had told Kristen that it was a hit and run,
and that Jason's body was not recovered from underneath the car,
so the confusion continues.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, it's just so many inconsistencies. Which way is it?
And I feel like somebody should know. Goodness gracious, you
can tell well from the autopsy, the injuries. You should
be able to tell if he was on the ground
run over and the car sped off, or if he
was on the road and run over and got caught
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under the car and it essentially stopped on top of them.
I feel like they should know. This is basics.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
According to the EMS, the car was nowhere near Jason's
body when they arrived. Jason's phone, wallet, and money were
not found on his body, So how they identified him
so quickly was surprising.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And if he left home.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Wouldn't he have taken those items with him When they
searched his apartment later, they were never recovered there either. Also,
he had told a friend that he was meeting someone
that night and that friend stated that Jason had left
with these items. So why weren't they found?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Where? Where are these items? Yeah, that's the question, and
they still have not been recovered to this day. Clue
where these items are? Oh? Jason's sister tried to retrieve
the footage from the nearby ring camera through a foyer request,
but was denied. This ring camera footage has been a
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point of contention in Jason's case, from the first conversation
with the captain that said it was being emailed to
it being listed on the police report, but then there
are reports stating that the footage just doesn't exist. Also,
many homeowners reported issues with their system. The male homeowner
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at one thirty Smart Street stated when he was interviewed
by a private investigator months later, he said that he
and his wife were watching TV when they heard the
emergency vehicles. He then claimed he checked his camera to
discover the batteries were dead. He said that he told
law enforcement that he did not have any footage and
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that his wife had never spoke to police about this.
He confirmed that they did not witness the accident at all.
They were watching TV. So the same officer who had
written the report that went in with Jason's body was
supposedly the one who was supposed to retrieve the footage
originally from the female homeowner. Also, this doorbell camera is roughly,
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I don't know, eighty feet from where Jason was supposedly standing.
Ringing cameras only trigger on when there's roughly thirty feet,
So if this footage did actually exist at some point,
what motion triggered it? But it's not like we can
find it. Everyone now is stating that this never existed.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Right, And it's also I'm not sure how it works
on the forensic side of things when it comes to
ring doorbells and subpoenas and investigating things. But if it
was digital at some point, it should be recoverable, especially
soon after it happened.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Kidta.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It's got to be on a server where, even if
you don't pay for the service, for it to record automatically,
for you to pull it yourself. It's got to be
somewhere right digitally.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
And if the supposedly the officer knew right then that
there was this Ring Cameron footage right away, there's no
reason why someone didn't go retrieve it if it actually
did exist or it not being emailed, I don't it's
just so crazy. So the private investigator canvassed the neighborhood
and did not find one house that actually had footage
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of the accident or a single witness. EMS told the
er doctors that the driver's story kept changing about how
Jason was hit. Did Jason actually collapse in the road
before being hit, or was he struck while walking in
the version that was documented in the medical records, Jason
was walking. In the EMS patient care report, they stated
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some people on scene stated the patient was lying in
the road and only noticed him once their car rolled
on top of him. Was listed as the quote from
the driver and his passengers. These inconsistencies make it difficult
to reconstruct the actual sequence of events and to figure
out what actually happened to Jason that night.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
When Kristen had spoken with the captain originally before receiving
these reports, she specifically asked him did the driver swerve,
did he hit his brakes?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
What did he try to not hit Jason?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And the captain told her that the driver thought Jason
was a bag of garbage and simply drove over him.
But in all of the written documentation, that's never written down.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's just so weird to me too. I mean, even
for trash, especially you're only going fifteen twenty miles an hour,
you can easily swerve around the trash so that you're
not running over a whole bag of trash.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I also have PTSD about trash being in the highway.
And I think I've told you this before. My mom
once told me a story her dad accidentally hit a
box on a road that was full of puppies. And
now i never drive over anything ever in the road
because I'm always afraid there's going to be puppies inside
of it.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, my mind goes to something like that, like some
or nails, and and now I'm gonna have to buy
four new tires. Like I just don't want to run
over anything because I don't know what it is. So
I guess everyone is not the same.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Right, I just it just doesn't make sense to just
simply drive over it even if you thought it was garbage.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It just doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And in fact that there's not even a written statement
from the driver or the passengers of this car.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
There's no written statement of that.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
So let's go back to the fact that there isn't
a traffic incident, let alone that there is now a
deceased person. There is a traffic incident with no written statements,
which is wild.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, I mean you jaywalk. They have to write it
up sometimes if someone it's just it's mind boggling was done.
They were just like, oh okay.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Taking it a step further. There was no filled sobriety
test to be conducted, which I feel like should warrant one.
If his story is changing multiple times while on scene
to different people, there's got to be some confusion there.
Have you been drinking? Have you not been drinking? Someone
is now deceased. We should probably check that out anyway,
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But no FID sobriety tested.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Was this person on a phone where phone records pulled
to see if his phone was active at the time
of the accident.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Was did they look at the vehicle to see if there.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Was any damage to the vehicle and if there was
or wasn't, was it photographed?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Was that noted? Was they did they talk about the
car at all that hit Jason, because no one knows.
No one knows. I think I read that the car
was able just to drive away. The driver and the
passengers just drove away after EMS carded Jason off, like
and oh yeah, go ahead, like what they just drove away.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So even if they had it, and Kristen has requested
everything through a four yer request, she was denied this
alleged ring cam footage because we don't know if it exists.
It's Schrodinger's ring cam roo footage at this point, and
she asked for a nine to one call that had
to have happened. A nine to one one call had
to have come in or a call for emergency personnel
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because EMS responded, so who called nine one one?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Kristin doesn't know because.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
It's not listed. She wasn't given any of the documentation.
There was no investigation. There was no investigation. The only
record of the crime scene is by luck, the Google
Maps car.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Drove down that road the following day, which is absolutely
crazy because I barely ever I've seen like a Google
map car like twice in my whole life. The fact
that it was the very next day is is crazy.
But I'm so glad that it did go down that
next day because there's no footage, there's no photos of
the crime scene.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Apparently there isn't, so as it drove down Smart Street,
it obviously documents the road. It takes photos of the
road as it drives in the exact spot that Jason
was hit.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Were candles were placed there.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I don't know if it was that evening or that
next morning by the family members in that house on
the corner of the intersection. There's also a slide style
sandal in the street that Kristen beliefs may actually have
belonged to Jason, that was left behind. What Google does
document from an investigative standpoint, though, is that there are
no tire marks in the street, So if someone pilled
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out or slammed on their brakes, there's no evidence of
that on the ground. In the event of a traffic incident,
I would assume you have like a crash investigator, there's
got to be a our crime scene investigator. Someone has
to come out and like look around, do a little
bit of do a little bit of police.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Work, yep.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
A little bit of investigtion, yeah, collect some evidence, do
a little bit of math, maybe, like okay, this is
how fast you could potentially be going from here.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Take some angles, some photographs. There's a little bit of
work that should have been done.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Some markers put up, maybe spray paint on the pavement,
marking things.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Nothing. Nothing, it's insane. But let's talk about the driver.
He was not given the field sobriety test, like Whitney
had stated to Christensen, and to Kristen's knowledge, no statement
had ever been taken. He walked away or drove away
actually from that accident. His history is filled with theft,
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reckless driving, eluding police, failure to stop for an accident
resulting in damage, and even being questioned in relation to
a shooting. This like led the list of all of
his past infractions. There were multiple people in the car,
one that had multiple arrests, and she wanted us to
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change this connection and was a close relative to a
high ranking politician in that area. This politician had been
prominent in that area for over a decade, very well
known family.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
To say the least, we don't like to speculate, and
we don't like to point fingers at police, but did
the investigating officer put two and two together? And that's
why there's no reports, there's no investigation, there's no witness statements.
It's real shoddy police.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Work for a potential homicide. Yeah. And the fact that
if they're saying that this was just an accidental hit
and run, they're not going to do any arresting or
ticketingen literally anyone, then there should be no reason why
Kristen can't request all the INFRA. This is an open
and shutcase. Like they said, it's clothed, let's move on.
(32:05):
Why won't they give up that information precisely? And this
driver also claims that he ran over garbage. Well, Jason
was wearing white clothing, so okay, white trash bag, let's
say that. But he was five foot ten inches tall, Like,
he's not small. He was a decent sized dude in
(32:27):
a well lit area.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Kristen later confirmed through their rental car company that it
did have repair work done after it had been returned
to the undercarriage.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
So what does that mean If.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
If a car has to be repaired, shouldn't law enforcement
have reached out to the rental car company to see
what repairs were needed.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I mean, wouldn't that be a natural progression of an investigation?
You would think you would think Jason's family deserves answers.
This case highlights the importance of community involvement. If you
have information about Jason's case, even if it seems insignificant,
(33:05):
please come forward. Someone out there knows something that could
help Jason's family.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
The advocacy piece for this episode has been difficult. The
pressure is on Kristen to demand answers and to demand
law enforcement to investigate adequately because they didn't. So we're
going to start with the fire campaign. I know, I know,
it seems like those are our go to, but it
targets a demographic of people who may not hear about
Jason otherwise. So we will be continuing to help Kristen
(33:34):
on our journey for justice.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
For those listening in the Providence Rhode Island area, take
a moment to share Jason's story. This world is a
lot smaller than you think. To literally everyone listening, check
your own home security systems, ensure that the cameras are functional,
and say footage from crucial dates. Small action like these
(33:57):
can make a big difference in solving case like Jason.
We've actually had police come request our footage before when
it was a nothing. I mean, it wasn't nothing. Some
kids had stolen a car and bailed out, like two
houses down from me, so they had even requested footage
for that. They went door to door and nobody was
(34:19):
hurt in this entire situation, and still police were doing
their jobs investigating a crime that was committed. Thank you
for joining us on Navigating Advocacy. If you have any
tips or information about Jason Fallon's case, please contact the
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Rhode Island Attorney General at four zero one two seven
four four to four zero zero. Asked them to answer
the questions that plagued Kristin and her family. Putting pressure
on the Attorney General can help. We want to thank
Kristin for sharing Jason's t story with us and for
(35:01):
allowing us to join her pursuit of justice.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
This episode is researched, written and produced by us with
the help of Kristen and her family. Please consider leaving
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