He had a buck knife, binoculars around his neck. He had a fedora with a feather on it, sunglasses, a rifle. Jim Tracy: Who looked like a conservation officer. And all of a sudden, they heard the zipper on the tent go up.īrenna Farrell: And what they saw was this middle-aged man peering into the tent. Jim Tracy: Heard somebody walking outside their tent. And on Sunday, they woke up, and about 9 AM. It was a grass clearing, they set up two tents and went to sleep for the night. Pulled off the road, a side road off Route 30. Jim Tracy: Three men and a woman, go camping in the Adirondacks. Jim Tracy: So, Saturday night, July 28th, 1973, four young people. Jim Tracy: I live in the foothills of the Adirondacks.īrenna Farrell: Which is where this story begins. He's interviewed hundreds of people, and I think the reason he's been so focused on it is that it's pretty close to home for him. Jim Tracy: For the Post-Star in Glens Falls.īrenna Farrell: He's been reporting on this story since about 2000. Jim Tracy: My name's Jim Tracy, and I'm an award-winning journalist. So if you're listening with kids, you just know that going in, and you might want to skip this one.īrenna Farrell: So, to get this story started. Jad Abumrad: And let me just jump in and say, this episode contains some violence, and explicit imagery in it.
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Robert Krulwich: At the Columbus School of Law, where she teaches legal ethics, and she sat down not too long ago with me and our producer, Brenna Farrell, who brought us this story, and under whose skin it also seems to have gotten.īrenna Farrell: Yeah, it just made me not know whether to side with my head or my heart. Lisa Lerman: I'm a law professor at Catholic University. Once you start thinking about it, it won't go away. Lisa Lerman: This case, it's what my husband and I refer to as a mental magnet. Robert Krulwich: Well, it's actually, it's really more than just a legal case. Jad Abumrad: This is Radiolab, and today, we have a legal case.