Hey, listeners, I just started listening to a new true crime miniseries from Wondery and Campside Media that I'm completely hooked on. It's called Suspect. It starts in October two thousand and eight. The residents of a Redman apartment complex were throwing a big Halloween party, dozens of people in costume, mingling, drinking, and dancing. But after the party started to quiet down,
one of them was murdered in her home. The police spent weeks piecing together the night with hazy recollections, body DNA evidence, and dozens of party photos. Eventually they had a suspect. His story kept changing. His DNA was at the crime scene. When he finally came in for questioning.
The detectives felt like they were breath away from a confession, but that didn't happen, and so the police decided to focus their attention on another man, a man with a criminal record whose deal was also found at the crime scene, and he just so happened to be the only black
man at the party. Suspect starts out as a compelling who'd done it, and then becomes a story about cutting edge forensic science and mislaid justice, about race and policing, and ultimately the kinds of weighty decisions that cops and prosecutors make every day, decisions that once made change lives
forever and are almost impossible to reverse. I'm about to play you a brief preview of Suspect, but while you're listening, make sure to follow Suspect on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or you can binge all nine episodes at free by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.
Wonder Campsite Media. At the time of the Halloween party in two thousand and eight, Jay was in his thirties, a successful programmer. He lived in the Seattle area, but he kept in touch with a lot of friends back home, including doctor Janaga, whose daughter had moved down the road from Jay to an apartment complex in Redmond.
Very beautiful girl and very brainy, and above all, she's very kidding.
I noticed that you speak about her in the present tense.
Yes. Yeah.
Three days after the costume party at the Valley View, Jay woke up, walked downstairs, checked his phone. He saw a bunch of missed calls from Arpana's dad. He called doctor Janaga back immediately and he could hear his friend was in a bad place. There was no sign of Arbana. She wasn't answering her phone. Her friends Sar and Malitha couldn't get in touch with her either. Jay hung up and tried Arpenhem's self. Nothing.
I called him back and saying that he's going to Iceman and what do you want me to do? And he said, can you go and check on her?
Jay had been d'arpin has placed once before, but all you remembered was that you had to walk up a set of stairs to the top floor.
To be honest, I don't even know that you need number, So that's why I took the steps. Then I was knocking on the wrong door. I knocked for almost like thirty forty seconds, no one was there. Then I waited, then again knocked. No one knows to play. That's where I saw the gentlemen. I don't even know who he is.
The guy Jay saw coming towards him was in his mid twenties with the goatee and sideburns, average build and height. It was Cameron Johnson arp In, his next door neighbor.
And I asked him, do you know this girl? He said, yeah, I know, So I asked him, like, which he lives by? Then me and Cameron we both were standing just in front of that apartment.
He Jay pushed gently on the door and a bolt fell off. Someone seemed to have bashed it in. The lock was broken and there were splinters all around the jam.
Then I turned to Camp and I asked like, hey, it looks like somebody broke her apartment. What the hell is going on? Right? So can you come and help me out? And he said okay. Then we both went inside apartment. I was relating at her.
Basically, Jay was yelling calling for Arpenau, but no one was answering. The two men crossed the threshold of the apartment, Jay noticed Arpina's motorcycle helmet was on the counter, which to him at least was notable. She wouldn't have ridden her bike anywhere without a helmet. She just too careful for that. So we speculated that either her bike, which had not been in the parking lot, was in the shop or Arpenau was still in the apartment. He headed
down a short hallway towards the bedroom. That's when he saw a figure lying on the floor next to the bed. I've spent the past two years talking to everyone involved in the investigation into the murder of our Panaja Naga. The cops is somebody lying to conceal something that they didn't want to tell us. The lawyers, we get the police's version of events, and then we usually get their criminal history.
But if those are the only facts, everyone would be guilty and.
The man ultimately charged with her murder.
They say things to scare you and be like, you need to just take this deal or we're going to give you one hundred years. There's bully tactics Man
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