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Wanda Lopez was a little freaked out. She was working the evening shift, alone, at a gas station in a rough part of town, and a sketchy dude was outside the store with a knife. She called the police, but they brushed off her concerns. The guy hadn\u2019t done anything! He wasn\u2019t even inside the store! But the man\u2019s presence set off Wanda\u2019s alarm bells. So she called 911 again. The dispatcher didn\u2019t like Wanda\u2019s tone (!!) but sent officers to the scene when he overheard the man attack her. It was too late. Wanda didn\u2019t make it, but at least there were eyewitnesses who could tell the police who\u2019d done it. The murderer was a thin, 5\u20199\u201d Hispanic man with curly, ear-length hair. He was wearing a flannel jacket. Or was it a white button up? Tomayto, tomahto!\xa0
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\nAfter a 45-minute manhunt, they arrested Carlos DeLuna. Carlos claimed he was innocent. He\u2019d seen another man commit the crime \u2013 a man who was also named Carlos. Carlos Hernandez. But Carlos DeLuna was full of shit. Right?
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\nThen Brandi keeps the bummers coming with another family annihilator. On a weekend in July of 2003, Joanie Harper, her children Marques, Lyndsey, baby Marshall and mother Earnestine Harper were all murdered in their home. The killer made a lame attempt at staging a break-in, but because they\u2019d seen Dateline, investigators immediately turned their suspicion on Joanie\u2019s husband, Vincent Brothers. But Vincent had been out of town during the murders, and he had the receipts to prove it.\xa0\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\n\u201cThe Phantom\u201d documentary\n\u201cThe Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution,\u201d by James S. LIebman\xa0 and the Columbia DeLuna Project\xa0\n\u201cThe wrong Carlos: How Texas sent an innocent man to his death,\u201d by Ed Pilkington for The Guardian\n\u201cCarlos DeLuna\u201d entry on Wikipedia\n\u201cYes, America, we have executed an innocent man,\u201d by Andrew Cohen for The Atlantic\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cThe Harper Family\u201d episode Family Massacre\n\u201cThe Mystery of the Lost Weekend\u201d episode Dateline\n\u201c'That\u2019s A Lot Of Hate\u2019: Dead Insects Lead Detectives To Man Who Killed 5 Family Members\u201d by Joe Dziemianowicz, oxygen.com\n\n\u201cDEFINING CASES: Bugs and sex: Vincent Brothers\u2019 2007 multiple-murder conviction came down to insect parts and his smugness on the stand\u201d by Jessica Logan, The Bakersfield Californian\n\u201cBrothers attorneys blame woman for murders\u201d by Jessica Logan, The Bakersfield Californian\n\u201cVincent E. Brothers\u201d murderpedia.org\n\n\u201cVincent Brothers\u201d wikipedia.org\n\n
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