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The Upright Shoe: How One Witness Sent a Man to Prison

The Upright Shoe: How One Witness Sent a Man to Prison

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The Upright Shoe: How One Witness Sent a Man to Prison

A single black pump stood upright in the center of a blood stain with no body and no second shoe - an object that became the most argued item in Grover County courtroom history. The case turned on one witness who said she saw a man from across a dark street at 11:17 p.m., but her own optometrist's records later suggested she could not have seen clearly enough to be certain; how did that shoe and one uncertain sightline decide a man's fate?

In this episode, we tell the story of the State of Ohio versus Casper, laying out the timeline, the witness account, the physical evidence found in a work van, and the surviving victim's injuries to ask whether what one woman thought she saw should have been enough to convict.

Person: Brenda O'Connor
Person: Rachel Quinn
Person: Troy Casper
Date: March 6-7, 2011
Location: 914 Arnett Street, Grover County, Ohio

- A single black pump was found upright in the center of a blood stain with no body and no second shoe.
- Rachel Quinn looked out her bedroom window at 11:17 p.m. on March 6, 2011, and estimated she watched a man beside a dark van for 30 to 40 seconds.
- Brenda O'Connor, age 26, was found alive six hours later in a crawl space three blocks away with a fractured orbital socket, broken collarbone, and two cracked ribs.
- Investigators searched Troy Casper's van 11 days after the attack and found a rubberized bypass bar consistent with the side door technique and an electrical cord spool consistent with the ligature used.
- Property manager Ed Toll confirmed Casper had worked at 914 Arnett in October 2010, was given the four-digit lockbox code, and the code was not changed afterward.

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