The Jogger Massacre Summary
• This documentary focuses on the accounts of the Central Park Five, Raymond Santana Jr., Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam; who were all accused of assaulting, raping and sodomizing a women in 1989 who was out for a jog in Central Park. At the time of the crime all 5 men were between 16 and 14 years old. The boys at the time had gone out together with their friends to Central Park and were causing ruckus, the friends who were about a group of 25 boys were assaulting people. The boys were later on in the same evening picked up by the Central Park police for causing ruckus in the park; however instead of being let go after a night in the holding cells, the police nailed them for the raping of the jogger, Trisha Meili. The police began to question the each of the boys who automatically denied that they raped the women; however the police would not accept the truth each of the boys was telling, and coerced the boys into confessing that they and the 4 other each took a part in the raping of the jogger. The documentary continues into the highlighting the extremities of the coerced confessions, the boys were held for 12 plus hours trying to get a confession without breaks, to the point where they confessed to gain mental relief so that they could
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The crime was committed by the East side serial rapist at the time, even though the police identified the semen found at the scene was none of theirs they still pinned the five for the crime. Likewise even though one of the cops who worked for both the serial rapist and jogger case had both semen samples he never cross checked the semen of the similar motives. The only time the five were acquitted for their crime was when Matias Reyes the man behind the decade old crime met Wise in jail and felt ashamed of sending innocent men to prison. All of the five in 2002 were admonished from their
The crime was committed by the East side serial rapist at the time, even though the police identified the semen found at the scene was none of theirs they still pinned the five for the crime. Likewise even though one of the cops who worked for both the serial rapist and jogger case had both semen samples he never cross checked the semen of the similar motives. The only time the five were acquitted for their crime was when Matias Reyes the man behind the decade old crime met Wise in jail and felt ashamed of sending innocent men to prison. All of the five in 2002 were admonished from their