NICK YARRIS MY MOTHER BELIEVED IN ME WHILE I SAT ON DEATH ROW FOR 23 YEARS — Transcript

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1. 0:01now what were you
2. 0:04saying now what's all this this is the
3. 0:08diagram so you went to the place yes and
4. 0:12you made a diagram of the the murder
5. 0:16scene
6. 0:17everything this is everybody that I
7. 0:20wrote a letter
8. 0:21[Music]
9. 0:24to this is in the detail from the 20th
10. 0:28of December
11. 0:31and this
12. 0:33is the
13. 0:37letter St everything I did for the 26 of
14. 0:42January do you remember coming out of
15. 0:44the preliminary hearing where they had
16. 0:45Frank Kaminsky in the building yeah
17. 0:48hiding in hiding in the in the room and
18. 0:51what and what and why couldn't you go in
19. 0:53well I wasn't allowed to the whole they
20. 0:55had the whole building shut right yeah
21. 0:57and he had a tag on the back of his cat
22. 0:58it was a new Cod
23. 1:08paper
24. 1:09dear
25. 1:11yeah dear Madam that's an answer you got
26. 1:16I'm writing this letter on on the many
27. 1:19misjustice that have been to my son
28. 1:22Nicholas these are all the this is the
29. 1:25letter that I mailed to
30. 1:28everybody judge
31. 1:31said told remember when he told you to
32. 1:34go to hell no I told him to go to hell
33. 1:36oh one of you
34. 1:37did that's it all of cheap
35. 1:44Justice just so many people huh yeah lot
36. 1:49of people a lot of people there
37. 1:53too this is the just years of your
38. 1:56investigation you had all these files
39. 1:57huh yeah I should have been I should
40. 1:59have been in I
41. 2:06Asian ACLU yeah I went to Federal
42. 2:10Building walked in near so this is for a
43. 2:13guide that you would say dear sir I am
44. 2:15writing this letter on the many
45. 2:17miscarriages of justice that have been
46. 2:19done to my son Nicholas sheris during
47. 2:22his murder trial in Media Court Delware
48. 2:24County Pennsylvania throughout the year
49. 2:271982 on his behalf I have filed a
50. 2:30complaint with the Federal Bureau of
51. 2:32inst investigation for the great
52. 2:34Injustice that had been done in our
53. 2:35justice system and because of the
54. 2:38many civil rights that were denied him
55. 2:41in our whole family then the harassment
56. 2:44and the prosecutor had to do which we
57. 2:47had to
58. 2:49withstand there was 200 mistakes there
59. 2:51was 200 mistakes in his whole trial
60. 2:54there were 38 other mistakes the
61. 2:55attorney prepared for a motion for new
62. 2:57trial but only argued two of them
63. 3:00my son is scheduled to be moved to
64. 3:03Huntington prison this week oh this is
65. 3:06Janu oh
66. 3:0783 yeah that's right before I went to
67. 3:10hell in Huntington yeah oh do you
68. 3:13remember that place remember you go all
69. 3:15way up in the damn mountains up
70. 3:18her look at this all the people she
71. 3:21wrote to just the addresses of all these
72. 3:24people y
73. 3:26Congressman Senator congressman
74. 3:30Congressman here's letters you Janu oh
75. 3:34this is more of your diary look January
76. 3:3726 1982 I went up to take a shower I had
77. 3:43come out of the bathroom I went to the
78. 3:44bathroom Windows lower the shades when I
79. 3:47noticed in the front of my house four
80. 3:49cars pull up in the concession double
81. 3:52parking two men got oh this is when they
82. 3:54searched the house
83. 3:58yeah
84. 4:02okay yeah they they they took dirty rags
85. 4:06Underpants they told you and like you
86. 4:08said I told them I told them they were
87. 4:10my daughters and they oh you oh yeah
88. 4:15your grand and Graham was still alive
89. 4:17because my grandmother was sickly but
90. 4:19they said they had to take them they
91. 4:22took them out of Grandma's room yeah
92. 4:24then they got a black man and sign a
93. 4:26piece of paper because he was from
94. 4:28Philadelphia and I was a Philadelphia
95. 4:31Police Department and detective Martin
96. 4:33handed me two pieces of paper and they
97. 4:35left they arrived around 6:30 and they
98. 4:38left around
99. 4:419:00 that was a bad night that was a bad
100. 4:44night babe how about that you got all
101. 4:46these records yeah I kept Everything Lee
102. 4:50shamberg lie detector oh effle Bailey
103. 4:56yeah e uh remember I was going to go on
104. 4:58the show but uh they wouldn't let me go
105. 5:00on cuz I was up in Huntington I remember
106. 5:04that us Congressman light detector yeah
107. 5:07Hollywood California I talk to everybody
108. 5:10you didn't care you talk to anybody look
109. 5:11at all the number look little phone
110. 5:13numbers Compassionate Friends
111. 5:17KYW FBI yeah I call well I went there
112. 5:22and here's some of the actual evidence
113. 5:26papers huh oh this is precious yeah that
114. 5:30was look at
115. 5:33that
116. 5:34well that's for all the work you did
117. 5:37sweetie yeah scen of crime yeah look at
118. 5:41that you did that look at that
119. 5:44investigating yeah about that oh you you
120. 5:48like the you like James Rockford I was
121. 5:51uh FBI agent you're FBI agent Jim
122. 5:55Rockford you you was in The Rockford
123. 5:58Files huh
124. 6:00attorney Sam Stratton file 12 subpoenas
125. 6:03or all are denied Sam Stratton told
126. 6:07us look at this all these
127. 6:11records I had to I had to fight for what
128. 6:14I believed
129. 6:17in well Mom can I ask you something why
130. 6:21now that I've been set free did you get
131. 6:24any of your belief back in the system at
132. 6:27all no not really and that's the shame
133. 6:31that's the one great loss of it all that
134. 6:32you'll never get back huh if you're
135. 6:34going to be a lawyer be an honest lawyer
136. 6:36if you're going to be a judge be a fair
137. 6:38judge if you're going to be a prosecutor
138. 6:40be a good prosecutor that's what you say
139. 6:43don't be Liars or or just a win a case
140. 6:47don't be vicious I mailed all them
141. 6:49letters January the 30th
142. 6:531983 and that was four days right before
143. 6:56I got sentenced on your 50th birthday
144. 6:58remember
145. 7:00there here's my story January the 26
146. 7:041982 that's two days that's
147. 7:08s82 your truly Mrs yis I don't know who
148. 7:11I V this was but anyway I kept
149. 7:19them motion for neutral Nick was never
150. 7:23brought into court for the hearing they
151. 7:26used to hold my hearings they wouldn't
152. 7:27even bring me in remember I know Che me
153. 7:29not even saying them turny cool judge oh
154. 7:32this is a great takee cuz we ain't never
155. 7:34going to forget none of this are
156. 7:38we that's right I try to write
157. 7:40everything down on now you did a good
158. 7:43job I'm taking all them records back
159. 7:44with me that's what I came for that's
160. 7:47I'm going use some of them in my book
161. 7:49prom look here's all the letters I wrote
162. 7:51Nick hundreds and thousands look yeah I
163. 7:54know I seen them pages and pages I
164. 7:57there's that's the second page
165. 8:04can can I see your diet let me let me
166. 8:06look at this again that's your the
167. 8:09victim's house was here the car was
168. 8:12found right there she worked and this
169. 8:15and this is
170. 8:17um right here oh this is where she were
171. 8:19oh so oh I see what you're saying the
172. 8:22victim's work was right here at the
173. 8:24Tri-State Mall yeah this 95 right and
174. 8:28then the vi the car was found right
175. 8:31there the no the victim's house but the
176. 8:34the church and the car was right over
177. 8:35there this is where car found and this
178. 8:39is 322 this is upper Tri Chester and
179. 8:41that's coming off there and you drove
180. 8:43all that all around that area and you
181. 8:46made this is where husband and stopped
182. 8:48the police car at the Willow Brook
183. 8:51shopping center and told him his wife
184. 8:52was missing at 5:00 yeah and you even
185. 8:55rote all the times down and everything
186. 8:57huh yeah I don't you think I did did a
187. 8:59good job I think you did a great job I
188. 9:01think you man Jim Rockford would be
189. 9:04proud to have you as a partner
190. 9:14honey and that's what this is Governor
191. 9:17Williams Granton I wrot everybody the
192. 9:20Nick Yaris case huh
193. 9:23yep well I already gave you a kiss so I
194. 9:27think we're pretty much even for all the
195. 9:28work you did
196. 9:32well you know what n death row inmate
197. 9:34wi's new trial did you want that in here
198. 9:37I got that from Harold yeah just put
199. 9:39that in with it yeah that's
200. 9:40good how'd you like meeting a former
201. 9:43death row prisoner like that Harold
202. 9:44Wilson that man did 18 years mom he was
203. 9:48up Huntington with me oh yeah what the
204. 9:50big one or the little one no Vincent
205. 9:52wasn't on death yeah a big one Harold
206. 9:54yeah he was on death row with me in
207. 9:57Huntington and Green County together
208. 9:59what any of his family fought as hard as
209. 10:01I did oh I'm sure they did babe I met
210. 10:03his mom she's a nice woman just like you
211. 10:06sweetheart what is this that's another
212. 10:08article he he let me
213. 10:14have it was it was a bad bad time I know
214. 10:20what the repl it started in ' 82 when
215. 10:23did you when were you left free no it
216. 10:26started in ' 81 remember and it was de
217. 10:29December of ' 81 right before Christmas
218. 10:31start yeah and then I was let go in
219. 10:362004 it's 23 years
220. 10:42yeah doesn't seem real now does it oh
221. 10:50I you have peace with it Mom I'm the
222. 10:53peace with it I I'm just agravated it
223. 10:56what the what people said to me do you
224. 10:59know the oh you're the Killer's mother
225. 11:02and yeah I I had to fight so many people
226. 11:05on ignorance did do you remember
227. 11:08listening to talk on the radio about you
228. 11:11that time you said one time you heard
229. 11:12him on the radio you don't remember
230. 11:15probably no I don't remember I'm glad
231. 11:17you don't remember that was a long 23
232. 11:19years yeah but you know what they last
233. 11:22couple years they've been talking about
234. 11:24me again and now they don't want to
235. 11:28credit you for and my mom I know ain't
236. 11:31that something it's like oh he's doing
237. 11:32so good but it's not mother of the
238. 11:34Killer and now I'm the mother
239. 11:40nobody I would have think I would have
240. 11:42got a wilky button or something oh at
241. 11:44least a a kiss or something I love
242. 11:47you oh yeah was a long long 20