73: Brock Turner & The Boy Who Thought He Pulled Off the Perfect Murder

Published: June 12, 2019, 6:01 a.m.

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\nNow back to our regularly scheduled programming: Shirley Kopitske was concerned. It had been days since she\u2019d heard from her adult son, Glenn. When she drove to his house to check on him, she discovered a horrifying scene. Glenn was dead, and had been for some time. An investigation would reveal that he\u2019d been shot and stabbed. Initially, investigators weren\u2019t sure who would commit such a heinous crime. But months went by, and a bold, unashamed suspect emerged. He blabbed his motive all over town. But when his trial rolled around, he changed his tune.
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\nThen, Emily Doe woke up in a hospital room with pine needles in her hair and blood on her hands and elbows. She had bruises on her body. Her underwear was missing. She remembered going to a party at Stanford University with her sister the night before, but after that, her memory went blank. Weeks later, she was at work when she came across an article about her attack. She learned that two Swedish exchange students were biking through campus when they spotted a man and woman behind a dumpster. It didn\u2019t take them long to realize that the man was thrusting on top of an unconscious woman. They yelled at him. He ran, but they caught him and pinned him to the ground. Emily\u2019s attacker was 19-year-old Brock Turner.\xa0
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\nAnd since this is apparently sooo important, you should probably know that he was a great swimmer.\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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\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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\u201cPeople v. Turner,\u201d wikipedia
\n\u201cBrock Turner Wanted Only Outercourse, Lawyer Argues in Appeal,\u201d by Daniel Victor for The New York Times
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\n\u201cFather of student convicted of rape: Steep price for \u201820 minutes of action,\u201d by Alexandra Samuels for USA Today
\n\u201cBrock Turner\u2019s mommy calls cops as protesters swarm house,\u201d by Lindsay Putnam for the New York Post
\n\u201cBrock Turner case goes to jury,\u201d by Sue Dremann for the Palo Alto Weekly
\n\u201cStanford swimmer denies alleged rape in police report,\u201d by Elena Kadvany for the Palo Alto Weekly\xa0
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\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\u201cGary Hirte and the Perfect Murder\u201d by Seamus McGraw, The Crime Library
\n\u201cAll-American Thrill Killer\u201d by Seamus McGraw, Stuff Magazine
\n\u201cMurder of Glenn Kopitske\u201d wikipedia.org\n