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October 17, 2024 59 mins

This week, Drewby drive a couple miles to Bowdoin, Maine, to discuss the case of Sarah Cherry. Normally, we'd give you a case preview, but not this time. We've been working on this case for the better part of two years, and it's one that's extremely close to our hearts due to it's proximity to us. As I'm sure you know by now, we try our very best to present our cases as neutrally as possible - or at the very least, as neutrally as the readily available information will allow. This case is very difficult for us due to the fact that the police in charge of case botched it all ways possible. This included destroying DNA evidence, lying in court, altering documents, ignoring two very likely suspects, and railroading a local farmer on circumstantial evidence alone. Please listen to all of the evidence carefully and let us know your thoughts. Did the police get their guy? Or has an innocent man been locked up in our supermax for decades? This wouldn't be the first time... 

We want the right person behind bars. If that's Dennis, then I'm happy they caught him quickly. But they need to prove it, and without ignoring all other avenues of people who fit the profile much better than Dennis did. They didn't do that here.

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Source Material:

Human Sacrifice:On the Alter of injustice. By James P. Moore. New York, 2002. 

https://wgme.com/news/local/convicted-maine-child-murderer-dennis-dechaine-seeks-new-trial-due-to-new-dna-evidence-sarah-cherry-sexual-assault-murder-bowdoin-babysitting-1988 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dennis-dechaine-convicted-1988-killing-sarah-cherry-seeks-new-trial-dna-maine/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Dechaine_case

https://www.google.com/search?q=interviews+with+the+family+of+sarah+cherry+maine&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS881US881&oq=interviews+with+the+family+of+sarah+cherry+maine&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORigATIHCAEQIRigAdIBCDY2ODhqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:a74c7ddc,vid:zVIb2qplq_U,st:0 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KslcRNuk9iQ

https://casetext.com/case/state-v-dechaine-5

https://law.justia.com/cases/maine/supreme-court/1990/572-a-2d-130-0.html

https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/remember-sarah-cherry/179096

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2010/07/09/living/having-no-sympathy-for-convicted-murderer/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkEM8v7DgPw 

https://trialanderrordennis.org/index.php/dennis/dennis-s-timeline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKE-VKhUsks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAo5PWwcy0c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtFkVwc75Js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pWUBvUP6io

https://www.newspapers.com/image/831192220/?terms=sarah%20cherry

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