Dana Gold Sits Down with Whistleblower on Admissible Podcast
Evidence is a key building block of our justice system. In our modern world, DNA and biological evidence is as irrefutable as science itself. However, what happens when it is flawed, disputed, or even manipulated? What happens when you are the person standing in the face of false evidence and calling out the truth? Admissible: Shreds of Evidence is a new podcast by Tessa Kramer exploring these concepts through the lens of a complicated and riveting story about exonerating wrongfully convicted black men from the 70s and 80s, the preserved evidence that saved them, and the whistleblower who tried to expose the truth to prevent wrongful convictions nearly 30 years ago.
Mary Jane Burton was a forensic serologist, someone who studies blood and other fluids from the body to identify and rule out suspects based off evidence found at the scene of a crime. She was highly respected in her community, working in the Virginia state crime lab, and was avid about saving evidence—even if this practice was neither safe nor in compliance with scientific protocols. Because of this practice, though, nearly 30 years later 13 wrongfully convicted men in Virginia were exonerated by conducting modern DNA testing on this preserved evidence. Burton was lauded in the press as a hero, someone who saw a future of forensic science no one else could. But that was far from the case.
Gina Demas was a young student working in Burton’s lab as an...
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