The Case of Sarah Cherry

This week, Drewby drive a couple miles to Bowdoin, Maine, to discuss the case of Sarah Cherry. Normally, we'd give you a case preview, but not this time. We've been working on this case for the better part of two years, and it's one that's extremely close to our hearts due to it's proximity to us. As I'm sure you know by now, we try our very best to present our cases as neutrally as possible - or at the very least, as neutrally as the readily available information will allow. This case is very difficult for us due to the fact that the police in charge of case botched it all ways possible. This included destroying DNA evidence, lying in court, altering documents, ignoring two very likely suspects, and railroading a local farmer on circumstantial evidence alone. Please listen to all of the evidence carefully and let us know your thoughts. Did the police get their guy? Or has an innocent man been locked up in our supermax for decades? This wouldn't be the first time...  We want the right person behind bars. If that's Dennis, then I'm happy they caught him quickly. But they need to prove it, and without ignoring all other avenues of people who fit the profile much better than Dennis did. They didn't do that here. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group: https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1 Instagram: miserymachinepodcast Twitter: misery_podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/kCCzjZM #themiserymachine #podcast #truecrime Source Material: Human Sacrifice:On the Alter of injustice. By James P. Moore. New York, 2002.  https://wgme.com/news/local/convicted-maine-child-murderer-dennis-dechaine-seeks-new-trial-due-to-new-dna-evidence-sarah-cherry-sexual-assault-murder-bowdoin-babysitting-1988  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dennis-dechaine-convicted-1988-killing-sarah-cherry-seeks-new-trial-dna-maine/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Dechaine_case https://www.google.com/search?q=interviews+with+the+family+of+sarah+cherry+maine&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS881US881&oq=interviews+with+the+family+of+sarah+cherry+maine&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORigATIHCAEQIRigAdIBCDY2ODhqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:a74c7ddc,vid:zVIb2qplq_U,st:0  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KslcRNuk9iQ https://casetext.com/case/state-v-dechaine-5 https://law.justia.com/cases/maine/supreme-court/1990/572-a-2d-130-0.html https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/remember-sarah-cherry/179096 https://www.bangordailynews.com/2010/07/09/living/having-no-sympathy-for-convicted-murderer/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkEM8v7DgPw  https://trialanderrordennis.org/index.php/dennis/dennis-s-timeline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKE-VKhUsks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAo5PWwcy0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtFkVwc75Js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pWUBvUP6io https://www.newspapers.com/image/831192220/?terms=sarah%20cherry https://www.newspapers.com/image/859157072/?match=1&terms=sarah%20cherry https://www.newspapers.com/image/831190672/?match=1&terms=sarah%20cherry https://www.instagram.com/find_gods_children/p/C9JCnY8Pej0/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/865624239/?match=1&terms=david%20guffey https://www.newspapers.com/image/865624239/?match=1&terms=david%20guffey https://www.newspapers.com/image/865624336/?match=1&terms=sarah%20cherry%20richard%20evonitz https://www.newspapers.com/image/865624268/?terms=sarah%20cherry%20richard%20evonitz https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549867/#:~:text=Rigor%20mortis%20appears%20approximately%202,after%20death https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5721493/ https://www.fosters.com/story/news/local/2008/02/26/maine-sheriff-under-investigation-for/52604322007/ https://www.mainepublic.org/courts-and-crime/2020-11-30/a-maine-sheriff-resigned-after-sexting-his-officers-the-full-story-is-even-darker https://www.pressherald.com/2019/09/23/police-again-arrest-former-sheriff-jail-chief-for-drunk-driving/ https://www.pressherald.com/2022/10/21/obituaryeric-ellsworth-wright/