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Trial in a Trial

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NHPR

True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.4803 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A new true crime story is told and when juries hear it, it leads to different results for all three defendants.

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0:00.0

Previously on Bear Brook Season 2, a true crime story.

0:07.4

Right from the top again, Jason.

0:11.2

When were you first contacted?

0:14.7

July 27th, 1988.

0:17.2

You do what?

0:19.1

Kill Sharon Johnson.

0:21.6

By whom? Tony Puff.

0:22.6

I want you to explain to the jury, if you will, and I know it's very difficult to do this,

0:28.6

but I must ask you, how does Tony Pup feel about having participated in a murder Sharon Johnson.

0:38.3

I feel bad, and I'm sorry it took place.

0:44.3

I wish it would never even happen.

0:48.3

Karen basically said to me,

0:51.3

all kinds of promises have been made to him,

0:54.6

and I trust Roland Lammy explicitly,

0:57.6

and we got into kind of a heated discussion.

1:02.5

I never doubted for a minute that she was made promises.

1:05.4

Lammy made promises to her that he could never possibly keep. By the year 1991

1:18.6

by the year 1991, the state of New Hampshire had their story of who killed Sharon Johnson.

1:25.6

They had arrested three people and charged them all with capital murder.

1:31.6

Ken Johnson, Tony Puth, and Jason Carroll waited in separate jails for their day in court.

1:38.5

None of them could afford to pay for their own attorney, so the court assigned them each

1:42.6

a different team of lawyers.

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