Attempted Rape in Sacramento
Joe was a 14-year old honors student who had never been in trouble with the law. In this episode, we examine how this short skinny bookworm happened to resemble the sketch of a rapist that was posted around his school and came to be misidentified by...
An episode of the True Crime False Memory podcast, hosted by Dr. Mitchell Eisen, titled "Attempted Rape in Sacramento" was published on November 13, 2019 and runs 25 minutes.
November 13, 2019 ·25m · True Crime False Memory
Summary
Joe was a 14-year old honors student who had never been in trouble with the law. In this episode, we examine how this short skinny bookworm happened to resemble the sketch of a rapist that was posted around his school and came to be misidentified by the witness and charged as an adult. The only problem was, the rapist was described as being 6’2” and weighing over 200 pounds, while Joe was a skinny freshman who was only 5’4”. Yet, memory plays tricks on witnesses, and in retrospect this witness now recalled her attacker as being much smaller than she originally recalled.
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