E65 Fred Zain: Forensic Fraud
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Fred Zain: Director of Serology at the West Virginia state crime lab and Chief of Physical Evidence at the medical examiner’s office in Bexar County Texas. These are two titles Zain held, but titles don’t tell the whole story. Not even half of it! This episode details Zain’s faulty forensic work (we’re being kind here), the effect it had on many people and a two states’ justice systems, and the aftermath of it all.
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The following are links to some of the resources or references we discussed during or reviewed in preparation for this episode:
A Trail of Misconduct and the Need for Reform - Innocence Project
Scores of Convictions Reviewed as Chemist... - Los Angeles Times
Who was Fred Zain? | News | herald-dispatch.com
Glen Woodall - Innocence Project
Glen Woodall - National Registry of Exonerations
Medical examiner's suspect work puts hundreds of cases in doubt
Man whose convictions were overturned after 27 years in prison settles suit for $3 million
West Virginia | WV Innocence Project
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/161258NCJRS.pdf
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