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The Watch That Convicted Her: How One Blood Type Ruined Tammy

The Watch That Convicted Her: How One Blood Type Ruined Tammy

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The Watch That Convicted Her: How One Blood Type Ruined Tammy

A stopped Seiko on a dinner plate, a kitchen door left ajar, and a single blood type that sent a woman to prison-could one common antigen decide a life? The pool of B-positive blood found on a kitchen floor, a nine-day trial, and evidence that was visible from day one all point to a case where what everyone saw was not what they asked-so who did Beverly Crane’s blood and the B-positive trace really belong to?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of discoveries from the morning William Rafferty found the watch to the trial that followed, following the physical evidence, witness accounts, and the quiet detail that went unnoticed for fourteen years. How did a B-positive blood type, shared by one in eight people, become the central fact that unraveled-or failed to prove-guilt?

Person: Beverly Crane
Date: September 9, 1986
Location: 714 Orrin Street, Caulfield Township
Case: Docket CR-87-0341
Prosecutor: Vincent Marsh

- A Seiko watch with a tan leather strap was found stopped at 11:14 on a white porcelain plate at 8:45 AM on September 9, 1986.
- Three blood deposits were collected: a smear on the door frame (matching A-positive), a mixed partial handprint on a refrigerator handle (A-positive and B-positive), and a pooled deposit near the kitchen counter base (B-positive).
- Beverly Crane was 38 years old and worked as a billing coordinator at Taft Regional Medical Center in Portsmith.
- Tammy Phillips had cleaned Beverly’s house six times between the prior year and March 1986 and had a prior unresolved $20 theft complaint filed in spring 1986.
- The nine-day trial opened in February 1987 before Judge Helen Pryce, where a statistician testified that B-positive occurs in approximately 12% of the population (about one in eight people).

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