Episode 34: Henry Lee Lucas - Kathleen Doyle Case & FBI Fraud Part 1 — Transcript
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- 0:19air Vick hi Jonathan we've had a good
- 0:22week man we've had a cool week real cool
- 0:24it's very exciting seeing all this
- 0:26publicity coming out about Netflix the
- 0:30confession killer a confession killer it
- 0:32airs day after tomorrow December the 6th
- 0:36I'm super excited I'm starting to see
- 0:38all this press come out about I saw the
- 0:40Rolling Stone article and I think it was
- 0:42like slate news did one and every day
- 0:45it's going nuts
- 0:46yeah daily beast newspaper in Boston
- 0:50newspapers all over the country
- 0:52everywhere except Waco I don't know why
- 0:54you know like who'd I ever piss off in
- 0:58Waco I don't get it but everywhere but
- 1:00Waco has run this story
- 1:03and when I say Waco I'm talk about the
- 1:04Waco newspaper I don't I don't want to
- 1:06have to be like able Reena and just
- 1:08refused to talk to them you know but you
- 1:11know but the TV stations have already
- 1:14looked at it and put some you know
- 1:16you've had four four stations we have a
- 1:18another news news crew coming Monday to
- 1:21do our Monday or Tuesday maybe choose
- 1:23maybe to do an interview yeah don't
- 1:25scare them
- 1:25but look at the calendar whatever it is
- 1:27we'll be here whatever you got on your
- 1:29calendar will be here we've got some
- 1:32good reviews too here's one from
- 1:35Christina more seriously y'all growing
- 1:39up in Waco I remember hearing about
- 1:41three news items number one Henry Lee
- 1:45Lucas number two Lake Waco triple
- 1:48murders
- 1:49number three Vic fazil but I was too
- 1:52young to understand any of it now that I
- 1:55have found the Vic fizzle podcast I
- 1:57can't get enough of this crazy period in
- 2:00Texas history now there is going to be a
- 2:03Netflix documentary on Henry Lee Lucas
- 2:05and I can't wait I highly recommend the
- 2:08big fizzle podcast
- 2:10christena more thank you
- 2:13sounds nice really nice thank you very
- 2:15much Christina
- 2:17keep listening do review so I can send
- 2:20you some Snickers wagon swagger book or
- 2:25something we still have a copy of last
- 2:29great days of radio to give away we have
- 2:31one one left back there we left that
- 2:33ball up from here yeah and if somebody
- 2:37if we get more than one you know what
- 2:39more than one review as long as it's not
- 2:41a hundred of them I'll buy a couple more
- 2:43of those books and drive it down the
- 2:45temple and have Lin seinem Lin wants to
- 2:49have me on his podcast I don't know what
- 2:51we'll talk about but yeah I want to be
- 2:54on Lin's podcast he started one recently
- 2:56and it's it's going crazy
- 2:58so yeah it's called planet logic planet
- 3:00logic Lin Willy like I've said before I
- 3:04don't agree with much anything Lin said
- 3:06but he's my dear friend and I love him
- 3:08and I recommend his podcast I really do
- 3:11yeah get a different point of view
- 3:13yeah a different point of view he
- 3:14doesn't believe in global warming and I
- 3:17I guess I do the scientists do and so
- 3:23I've been listening to what scientists
- 3:25have to say about it there we go
- 3:27there you go okay we're sorry science
- 3:31that won't send you to hell if you
- 3:33believe in science at all or if you even
- 3:36believe in hell personally I do not well
- 3:41that's good my dad you know he's a
- 3:42Southern Baptist preacher oh yeah
- 3:44he's blind and deaf and crippled now but
- 3:47he still got his mind he's funny as hell
- 3:49I talked to him every day but he used to
- 3:52have this phrase when he was preaching
- 3:54life's short
- 3:56death certain hell's hot and eternity is
- 3:59long it spread out that word long it had
- 4:05like eight O's in it let me get through
- 4:07hard yeah he they don't make him like
- 4:12him anymore he was a different kind of
- 4:13preacher he felt like if he didn't go
- 4:15for at least an hour yeah he hadn't give
- 4:17them their money's worth
- 4:20that's funny yeah people be looking at
- 4:23their watch
- 4:24we gonna make it home for the ball game
- 4:25oh man this I got a I got a email from
- 4:31an attorney named Gerry Ward Jay Ward
- 4:38Gerry remember we I couldn't think of
- 4:42the DA and Lubbock's first name right
- 4:45we're about the lemons case uh-huh okay
- 4:47Darnell was all I remembered and she
- 4:50wrote me she said the former Lubbock
- 4:53DA's first name is JimBob JimBob JimBob
- 4:56sounds like something a little bit come
- 4:59up it would John Bob been mobbed and the
- 5:02egg Bob and all of that yes funny well
- 5:04this was Jim Bob Darnell and Jerri Ward
- 5:07rice me and she says that his first name
- 5:10is Jim Bob
- 5:11she said he also convicted a guy named
- 5:14Tim Cole Tim was later exonerated oh wow
- 5:19yeah after dying in prison because of
- 5:21his his asthma wasn't properly treated
- 5:24so here's somebody later exonerated who
- 5:28actually died in prison because they
- 5:30didn't get proper medical care get the
- 5:32puffer in time there's something wrong
- 5:34with that yes what's wrong with that
- 5:36something wrong with that and she goes
- 5:39on she says this is regarding the
- 5:40podcast where you mentioned that the
- 5:42love of police were refusing to let
- 5:44people look at the files on the Debra
- 5:47Sue Williamson case right but I want to
- 5:50point out something else she said just
- 5:52because I had a conversation with Jim
- 5:56Bob Darnell I didn't like and because he
- 6:00really gave Bob and Joyce aluminum's a
- 6:02hard time - yeah yeah I mean he wanted
- 6:04to believe that Henry Lucas had killed
- 6:06Dennis Williamson and so we were we were
- 6:10crossways with each other on that and I
- 6:13would say we were adversaries over that
- 6:15but just because that you disagree with
- 6:17somebody it doesn't mean they're a bad
- 6:19person right and Jerry has let me know
- 6:22that she worked for Jim Bob Darnell back
- 6:25in the summer of 79 as a law clerk and
- 6:28through part of 81 about a year after
- 6:32that she was an ad a an assistant DA for
- 6:35him oh cool
- 6:37and she says that he was a nice guy and
- 6:39I believe that he was truly remorseful
- 6:42about Tim Cole yeah
- 6:45when Tim Cole was was on rated and after
- 6:48he was that died in prison so thank you
- 6:51Jerry Jerry is a lawyer out in West
- 6:54Texas she mainly does health care
- 6:58consultation business stuff cool look
- 7:03her up Googler Jerry J erri or an
- 7:06attorney you need an attorney out there
- 7:08Styx's she went to Texas Tech Law School
- 7:11yeah now I think she graduated in 1980
- 7:14so she may not have known Frank Newton I
- 7:17love Frank Newton Frank Newton was my
- 7:19Civil Procedure professor at Baylor
- 7:21uncle and he went to Texas Tech
- 7:25somewhere around 1980 81 somewhere in
- 7:28there and became the Dean of that law
- 7:30school
- 7:30Dyce yeah so good old Frank Newton he
- 7:33was smart I mean that guy was smart he
- 7:37could quote the law backwards and
- 7:39forwards and when you got out of his
- 7:41class you knew Civil Procedure nice I
- 7:44still I still know things that Frank
- 7:46Newton taught me in that class yes dice
- 7:49can still hear his voice matter of fact
- 7:52he asked me a question one time and I
- 7:54and I was toward the end of the class
- 7:56and he had gotten right past where I had
- 7:58finished reading and I didn't know the
- 8:00answer so in my typical style I made
- 8:02something up and he looks at me he goes
- 8:05fazil how to beat you the stick with a
- 8:08nail in it and yeah you you cannot say
- 8:12that now you can't now but he was
- 8:14laughing well he said it I mean he was
- 8:16the nicest guy I just I just love him
- 8:19last I heard he was running a he may be
- 8:23retired now
- 8:24but for a while there he was running a
- 8:26nonprofit out of Corpus Christi it was
- 8:30helping put computers and iPads and
- 8:34things like that in students hands
- 8:36that's good yeah really good call and
- 8:39this was back when the internet was just
- 8:40really getting started
- 8:41so Frank Newton if you know Frank tell
- 8:45him I said hi
- 8:46if you're out in West Texas and you need
- 8:48a good lawyer look up Gerry ward yeah
- 8:52we've got some other things to talk
- 8:54about
- 8:55we had another winner that I forgot to
- 8:58mention for our careless whispers book
- 9:00oh cool yeah right here in Waco chance
- 9:03cuts cool
- 9:04good old chance he's a friend of ours a
- 9:07fan of the podcast
- 9:08I like chance a lot and he's also got
- 9:13something to do with this baler
- 9:16Christmas that's coming at the channel
- 9:17tin puts on every year what is that it's
- 9:21a big musical and all the choirs and
- 9:25orchestras come together from all over
- 9:26Baylor and put on this huge Christmas
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- 10:46principal fazil let me look let me look
- 10:48wait a minute I think we had another
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- 11:10I grew up in Central Texas
- 11:12I remember watching all of this
- 11:14incredible story of Henry Lee Lucas
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- 14:38jump into the to the meat and potatoes
- 14:39of today what do you think all right
- 14:41so in one of our last episodes we were
- 14:44talking about the case of Kathleen Doyle
- 14:47and you know we we kind of touch base on
- 14:50a little bit but I think you and I both
- 14:52kind of Pumped our brakes on this thing
- 14:54because through reading about it we saw
- 14:57there's a whole lot more to it we wanted
- 14:59to talk a little bit more about it in
- 15:00depth in this episode and kind of spin
- 15:03off into an article that you found that
- 15:05had to do with with hair evidence with
- 15:09bite mark evidence and things that
- 15:11nature being called into question today
- 15:12and issues that they found with it right
- 15:14because on this case they actually had
- 15:19hair recovered from the murder scene yes
- 15:22that the crime lab said man
- 15:25next oddest tool and Henry Lucas right
- 15:28and now they have DNA proving who really
- 15:32committed this murder yeah yeah because
- 15:34this young lady was raped
- 15:35yes so let's talk about the facts of
- 15:38this okay so again we're top of the case
- 15:42of Kathleen Doyle who has now been found
- 15:46to be murdered by a gentleman named of
- 15:47Dennis and Bowman and more the tale is
- 15:50September 11th 1980 she was murdered in
- 15:53her home she was raped and strangled to
- 15:56death and her husband was in the
- 15:58military
- 15:59right he was a US Navy pilot Navy pilot
- 16:02stationed in the Indian Ocean he was on
- 16:04the other side of the world
- 16:06yeah I've been to the Indian Ocean by
- 16:08the way oh yeah I waded out to my knees
- 16:11in it it was warm
- 16:14it's like warmer than bathwater ooh and
- 16:17I was about to just dive right into it
- 16:19when I saw a snake slither by well I
- 16:23don't think I'll do that
- 16:24oh come on and some of my friends are
- 16:27going o come down the surfer Beach
- 16:28there's my snakes there's I don't care
- 16:30it was a snake in this ocean anywhere
- 16:32I'm not getting in it how bigger waves
- 16:34on the Indian Ocean I mean it was like a
- 16:35real waves out there was it more like it
- 16:37it depends on where you are already kind
- 16:39of thing it depends on where you are if
- 16:41it's it's kind of like Hawaii it depends
- 16:44on where you are there are some parts of
- 16:46Hawaii where the waves are really small
- 16:48in this paddleboard there are other
- 16:49parts of Hawaii worried if you don't
- 16:51know what you're doing those waves will
- 16:52kill you well you know and so there were
- 16:55I saw some good waves there but there
- 16:57were just certain spots and and one of
- 17:02the guys who actually put on the yoga
- 17:04retreat
- 17:05exhale yoga retreats his name is Jill
- 17:09seaman and he he and his wife Rachel
- 17:12they run exhale yoga retreats exhale
- 17:17exhale and relax how peaceful it is and
- 17:20they put on this yoga retreat in Sri
- 17:22Lanka that I went to they wear MC yogi
- 17:25and his wife Amanda were the teachers
- 17:27yeah and then we had that big concert on
- 17:29the beach but that was at the Indian
- 17:32Indian Indian Ocean Sri Lanka is an
- 17:35island right there off of India the
- 17:37southern tip of India yes it's hot there
- 17:40here's a little little humid to go hot
- 17:42yeah real hot so anyway her husband was
- 17:47stationed in the Indian Ocean otherwise
- 17:49he'd have been a suspect because I
- 17:51always look at the husband for guest you
- 17:53know and fifty percent of time right
- 17:56it's right right but now her husband was
- 17:59serving our country in the US Navy so
- 18:03one of the one of the big things that we
- 18:04left out what we last talked about the
- 18:06case was this Bowman's history so this
- 18:11guy had actually had several criminal
- 18:14charges filed against him in the 80s and
- 18:15again this murder happened in 1980
- 18:22September 11th 1980 so he had a number
- 18:25of additional charges stacked against
- 18:27him throughout the eighties most
- 18:29specifically
- 18:30assault with the intent to commit
- 18:32criminal sexual conduct in 1981 so this
- 18:35is an entire year after after she had
- 18:37been murdered you know and what this
- 18:40article we have says is that he was out
- 18:42of motorcycle whipped out a a pistol and
- 18:45pulled some chick over into the woods to
- 18:47try to sexually assault her and somehow
- 18:49she got away you know and they actually
- 18:51caught him and gave him five to ten
- 18:53years for it just like with orange socks
- 18:56they had a good suspect on worn socks
- 18:59yup somebody who had done it before yes
- 19:01and as soon as they can pin it on Henry
- 19:04then they forget about it
- 19:06just this murder was pinned on Henry and
- 19:09artists yes you know and they didn't
- 19:12even bother to try to figure out where
- 19:14these guys were at the time didn't he
- 19:16well remember they actually went down
- 19:18and talked to Henry remember they went
- 19:20to the Williamson County Jail like
- 19:22hundreds of other police departments
- 19:24sent folks down to blames the county
- 19:25they talked to Henry and got there I
- 19:27don't know how long they would talk to
- 19:28him for what 5 10 30 minutes like how
- 19:30long did they even get with him they're
- 19:31so stacked on top of each other exactly
- 19:34and this article says that they visited
- 19:36Henry on death row yeah no Henry was not
- 19:39on death row at that time ya know ya
- 19:41know he didn't go to death row until
- 19:44after the Waco grand jury and
- 19:47after Henry decided he wasn't gonna
- 19:49confess anymore right Boutwell wanted to
- 19:53take Henry Lucas back to Georgetown
- 19:55after our grand jury was over and get
- 19:58him started confessing again he wanted
- 20:01to get his his his circus his show
- 20:04started again he called what me and
- 20:06Maddox were doing a service yeah he and
- 20:09Ed Walsh both though they threw that
- 20:11word around when fazil and Maddox
- 20:13finished their circus but he wanted to
- 20:15get Henry back to Georgetown he actually
- 20:17took Henry back to Georgetown and tried
- 20:19to get him to confess to some more cases
- 20:21man after our grand jury the sisters
- 20:24after all that national publicity and
- 20:26they were just ignoring it all they
- 20:28ignored Hugh Ainsworth's article they
- 20:32ignored all the national publicity that
- 20:34came as a result of our grand jury yeah
- 20:37they ignored all the evidence that was
- 20:39presented to him by Jim Maddox after the
- 20:42grand jury was over when we compiled the
- 20:44report they ignored it all said no
- 20:47you're gonna start confessing again and
- 20:49they kept threatening Henry with death
- 20:51row and he said just take me yeah and so
- 20:54he didn't get to death row until mid 85
- 20:58right right and he was interviewed for
- 21:02this I believe in 84 84 somewhere in
- 21:06there so that would have been in
- 21:07Georgetown that would not have been
- 21:09death row Henry did not see death row
- 21:12even though he had been convicted and
- 21:14sentenced to death right he never went
- 21:16to death row not until they were
- 21:19finished with him we're all used up
- 21:22Henry you're used up Henry we're gonna
- 21:25kill you now for something you didn't do
- 21:28so and another another twist to this
- 21:31case to is a adopted daughter of this
- 21:35Bowman guy went missing in 1989 so he
- 21:38served a five-year sentence for the
- 21:39attempted sexual assault with the gun
- 21:41there he got out in 85 he moves his
- 21:45family to like this just super out in
- 21:47the middle of nowhere wooded area and
- 21:48next thing you know this 14 year old
- 21:50stepdaughters missing just gone you know
- 21:52and he crates now by yeah she took some
- 21:54money and you know stole some money out
- 21:56of my wall and no one's ever seen her
- 21:57again and to this day she
- 21:59still missing I'm surprised they didn't
- 22:01pin that on Henry no that was 89 is that
- 22:05it too late that as too late so this was
- 22:08a bad dude Vick he was a bad person dude
- 22:12and right there in that area too yep
- 22:16so thank thank goodness they finally
- 22:18caught the guy that got him off the
- 22:20streets and worth where he belongs in a
- 22:22cell like a little animal that's true I
- 22:25mean to be 70 years old and have
- 22:27somebody knock on your door and get you
- 22:30for a murder that was committed what 40
- 22:33years ago yeah and with the stepdaughter
- 22:36you have to wonder I mean if I was if I
- 22:38had to take a guess I would have to
- 22:39think he probably killed her and threw
- 22:40out in the woods somewhere out by that
- 22:42oh yeah that place you're living oh yeah
- 22:44so be interesting to see if they ever
- 22:45get a confession out of them for it too
- 22:48much of a coincidence weird no way too
- 22:49much and she went missing right as she
- 22:52was accusing him of molesting her so he
- 22:56she'd gone to the authorities said this
- 22:57guy's molesting me and she's missing oh
- 22:59my goodness why didn't they do something
- 23:01well again he had this alibi yeah you
- 23:04know she you know we just told her that
- 23:07she was adopted so she's going through
- 23:08psychological times and stole money on
- 23:11my wallet and left yeah but you know I
- 23:15had one murder under spell a vicious
- 23:17murderer this this poor poor woman and
- 23:19she had turned him in for molesting her
- 23:21yes yeah yeah this is crazy
- 23:24well I'm happy he's he's behind bars but
- 23:27the thing that bothers me and what we
- 23:29talked about last time yes was that they
- 23:34had hairs from the murder scene that
- 23:37they said matched both Henry and artists
- 23:40yes so how did how did they get to that
- 23:42conclusion well you know we were talking
- 23:46about that and I said you know that's
- 23:49just not right something bothers me
- 23:51about that yeah and then a couple days
- 23:53later I come across this article which
- 23:58was it's out of slate okay and it's it's
- 24:03dated April of 2015 so I just I just
- 24:06found it doing a little bit of Internet
- 24:08research okay they talk a lot you
- 24:11this about a Washington Post article
- 24:13there just kind of rehashing the
- 24:14Washington Post article okay but the
- 24:19headline is pseudoscience in the witness
- 24:23box
- 24:23the FBI faked an entire field of
- 24:28forensic science oh yeah oh boy says the
- 24:32Washington Post published a story so
- 24:36horrifying that it will stop your breath
- 24:39the Justice Department and FBI have
- 24:42formally acknowledged that nearly every
- 24:45examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit
- 24:49gave flawed testimony in almost all
- 24:53trials in which they offered evidence to
- 24:56against criminal defendants over more
- 24:59than a two decade period before the year
- 25:022000 Oh No flawed testimony in almost
- 25:07all all trials which they offered
- 25:12evidence think that that is horrifying
- 25:14so what went wrong the post continues of
- 25:18the 28 examiner's with the FBI
- 25:22laboratories microscopic hair comparison
- 25:26unit 26 of them overstated forensic
- 25:31matches in ways that favored prosecutors
- 25:34in more than 95% of the 268 trials that
- 25:41were reviewed so far that is insanity
- 25:44ninety-five percent two people were
- 25:48doing it right out of the twenty eight
- 25:50twenty six percent basically were lying
- 25:54to favor the prosecution the shameful we
- 25:58had a favor the prosecution the article
- 26:00goes on the shameful horrifying errors
- 26:03were uncovered in a massive three-year
- 26:07review by the National Association of
- 26:09criminal defense lawyers and the
- 26:11Innocence Project oh wow yeah I'm a I'm
- 26:14a life member of the
- 26:16National Association of criminal defense
- 26:18lawyers oh yeah I have been for about 20
- 26:22years
- 26:22so I'm gonna get my money's worth out of
- 26:26that life membership but yeah yeah
- 26:28that's funny we've got a framed
- 26:33certificate in the conference room oh
- 26:36dear yeah it's near the portrait of John
- 26:40Wayne you have so many frame things I do
- 26:41and it lists from about 20 years ago
- 26:45they could get them all on one page then
- 26:47there's a bunch of us now and all the
- 26:48life members of the National Association
- 26:53of criminal defense lawyers nice yeah so
- 26:56anyway they were looking into this along
- 26:58with the Innocence Project and they've
- 27:00they've found that 95 percent were
- 27:05errors like that that's insane that's
- 27:08insane how many convictions are based on
- 27:10hair hair evidence tons tons time we
- 27:14found your hair at the scene and again
- 27:16to loop it back that's why we're talking
- 27:18about this case because in this case
- 27:19they said no no no Lucas and tools hairs
- 27:22were found at the scene it had to be
- 27:24them a guy named Peter new field he's
- 27:28founder of the Innocence Project he put
- 27:30it this way he said the FBI is
- 27:33three-decade use of microscopic hair
- 27:36analysis to incriminate defendants was a
- 27:39complete disaster yeah sounds like it
- 27:44the study was launched after the Post
- 27:47reported that flawed forensic hair
- 27:50matches might have led to possibly
- 27:52hundreds of wrongful convictions for
- 27:55rape murder and other violent crimes
- 27:59dating back to at least the 1970s oh my
- 28:04god yeah but yeah there it is there it
- 28:08is in 90% of the cases reviewed so far
- 28:11forensic examiners evidently made
- 28:15statements beyond the bounds of proper
- 28:18science Wow
- 28:21there were no scientifically accepted
- 28:24standards for for forensic testing none
- 28:28yet the FBI experts routinely
- 28:32and almost unvarying Lee testified to
- 28:36the near certainty of matches of
- 28:40crime-scene hairs to defendants I'm
- 28:42nearly certain this hair matches that
- 28:45defendant and it was a flat lie so these
- 28:49people are in here reviewing these hairs
- 28:50going you know the science isn't quite
- 28:51there yet to where I can properly do
- 28:53this and give you a total match and then
- 28:55just kind of goes to the to the feds
- 28:57it's like no no no that's that's good
- 28:58enough that's a match it's a match it's
- 29:00a match they they backed up their claims
- 29:06by citing incomplete and misleading
- 29:08statistics drawn from their own
- 29:11erroneous casework of course they were
- 29:14within their own fumes men they were
- 29:17huffing their own fumes Wow and people
- 29:21are going to prison based on this the
- 29:24National Association of chrome defense
- 29:26lawyers executive director Norman ramier
- 29:29said that the flaws in the system had
- 29:33been known for years now what we're
- 29:35finding was that the examiners wouldn't
- 29:38just simply say that there was a
- 29:40microscopic similarity between the two
- 29:43hairs but they would go beyond that and
- 29:46say it was a hundred percent match now
- 29:49you just can't do that
- 29:50come on essentially they mislead the
- 29:54jury into concluding that the evidence
- 29:56had a certain value that it didn't
- 29:59actually have
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