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NARRATOR: Three years
after Christa Worthington's
murder,
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investigators move in on the man
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they believe to be her
killer. [siren wails]
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HOLT: Police finally
believe they know
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who killed fashion
writer Christa Worthington.
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[suspenseful music plays]
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NEWS ANCHOR: He was found
through a DNA sample
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he voluntarily provided.
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STEVE LATART:
When news came out
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of who the DNA
was a match to,
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the town was floored.
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It was the last person
they'd ever expect,
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the town garbageman.
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It was a guy named
Christopher McCowen.
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REPORTER:
Did you kill Christa?
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NARRATOR: With Christopher
McCowen's arrest,
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the town of Truro
breathed a sigh of relief.
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But McCowen's story
was complicated.
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- Christopher McCowen's
story kept on changing
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while speaking
to investigators.
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It started off as he
didn't know Christa.
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Then, he said that
they had relations.
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And then it changed
one more time.
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- McCowen told the cops
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the night of the
murder, he was at a party
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with his friend
Jeremy Frazier.
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MANSO: He was too
drunk to drive.
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Frazier drove him
over to Christa's
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'cause he wanted
to have sex
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with Christa.
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McCowen claims he and
Christa are on the living room
couch
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while Jeremy
Frazier
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is robbing Christa's
belongings.
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McCowen says
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Frazier leaves,
Christa comes outside,
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screaming, "I want
my stuff back."
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[haunting music plays]
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LATART:
McCowen said Frazier
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turned around and
punched her in the face.
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And Chris admits
that he also did hit her, too.
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[suspenseful music playing]
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♪
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MANSO: McCowen claims Frazier
runs back to the house...
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LATART: McCowen said that
he could hear a scuffle
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from outside the house.
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And a few minutes later,
Jeremy came outside and
said,
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"Let's get out of here."
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MANSO: They needed
Frazier to contradict
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the un-tape-recorded
interview
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with McCowen.
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NARRATOR:
Jeremy Frazier denied
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ever being at Christa's
house that night.
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Plus, he had an alibi.
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A friend, who initially
denied being with him that
night,
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later changed his story.
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Frazier was never charged,
and McCowen was on the hook.
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LATART: McCowen,
years later, would say
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that he never actually
said that he and Frazier
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were at Christa's house
the night she was killed.
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According to him, it was
the police that said that.
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MANSO: They had
arrested McCowen,
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they had a DNA match,
they were gonna put him away.
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NARRATOR: The prosecutor
needed to connect
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the DNA to the murder,
so they called it rape,
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added burglary, and charged
McCowen with all three.
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BAILIFF:
Court, all rise.
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NARRATOR: The trial
for Christopher McCowen
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immediately devolved
into a circus of
stereotypes.
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[dramatic music playing]
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- Most people on the Cape
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refused to accept that Christa
would ever have sex
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with a black man,
let alone a black garbageman.
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The defense in
some ways used
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the assumptions that
the investigators
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had been making about
Christa's life all along,
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that everybody
in the town
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believed that this woman
would have sex with anybody.
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And so, if you said
she wouldn't have sex
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with a poor black man,
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that you were
essentially being racist.
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It was a smart argument
for them to make,
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after so many years of the
narrative being hammered
home
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of Christa as
this unsatisfiable
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femme fatale, promiscuous,
seductive woman.
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- She has been so
exploited in the courtroom.
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The whole trial just
became kind of really icky,
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disgraceful.
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Um, I felt terrible for her, I
felt terrible for her daughter.
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CARROLL: She was a mom
and she was a friend.
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She was a really
talented writer.
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And they were only seeing
this one aspect of her.
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NARRATOR: In the end,
Christa's character was
smeared
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all over again.
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And the stereotypes
around Chris persisted
anyway.
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- Court is now in session,
please be seated.
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- After eight days
of deliberation...
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...the jury finds McCowen
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guilty of murder,
rape and burglary.
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He's given three
concurrent life sentences
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without parole for his crimes.
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NARRATOR: Christopher McCowen
maintains his innocence,
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continuing to appeal
for a new trial.
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But for Christa
Worthington,
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the question of justice
goes beyond his conviction.
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Her legacy landed in the
hands of a small town
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who forgot she
was a real person.
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CARROLL: When we pick
apart a woman's sexuality
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and decide that we're going to
judge her life after the fact,
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we take away some really
elemental part of her humanity.
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In the end, it
doesn't matter
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who Christa was
having sex with.
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It doesn't matter
who she had a child with,
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if he was married,
if he wasn't.
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Christa's murder
was not her fault.
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NARRATOR: Christa
Worthington once said
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she wasn't
afraid of dying.
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Her greatest fear?
Never having lived.
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