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Ione Cychosz\u2019s life ended in the worst possible way. Her body was discovered in a vacant lot. She\u2019d been beaten, stabbed, and bitten. There were no witnesses. And since it was the 80\u2019s, investigators didn\u2019t test for DNA. So they turned to a relatively new form of science \u2014 bite mark analysis. A forensic dentist examined the bite marks and told detectives that the killer was missing an upper front tooth. It didn\u2019t take long for investigators to find 20-year-old Robert Lee Stinson. Robert lived near the crime scene and was missing a right front tooth. The detectives knew they had the right guy. There was just one problem: They didn\u2019t.\xa0
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\nThen, Brandi tells us about the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Interestingly, when John Hinckley Jr. set out to murder Ronald Reagan, he didn\u2019t have a political agenda. In fact, John later admitted that he opened fire on the president in an attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster. He\u2019d become obsessed with Jodie ever since he saw her in the movie Taxi Driver. His trial drew worldwide attention and forever changed the way we look at insanity pleas.\xa0
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\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.
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\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cFalse Positive: When Forensic Science Fails,\u201d Vox video
\n\u201cRobert Lee Stinson,\u201d National Registry of Exonerations
\n\u201cRobert Lee Stinson case,\u201d Wikipedia
\n\u201cRobert Lee Stinson,\u201d Innocence Project
\n\u201cInnocent man piecing life together after conviction,\u201d by Dinesh Ramde for the Associated Press
\n\u201cA long ride for me,\u201d by Dinesh Ramde and Todd Richmond for the Associated Press
\n\u201cMan sentenced to life for murder,\u201d Associated Press
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\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cThe John Hinckley Case\u201d by Denise Noe, Crime Library
\n\u201cThe Trial of John W. Hinckley Jr.\u201d Famous-Trials.com
\n\u201cJohn Hinckley Jr.\u201d wikipedia.org\n