A annals of new york crime. If they are found guilty, i think they should be executed. He said kill them. They must have done it. I started hitting her and stuff. Shesen and the ground. The press didnt ask whether they were coerced into a confession. They played the boys against each other to get their arrests and convictions. Their words are their words. It could be tantamount to someone having a gun to your head. There is no coercion. These kids attacked this woman. There is proof they were innocent in the crime. The police know there is a missing man a rapist out there. Politics, race. What do we want . Justice. The Justice System all are going to come together like a firework. No i absolutely loved central park. It was a release to be out there in nature, to see the beauty of the park, as well as the skyscrapers and lights of new york city and the sense that, wow, this is my city. Im here in my park. Central park is like center of the universe kind of. It makes you feel, on a beautiful day, that the center of things is kind of great. It just stretches forever, it seems, through the heart of that city, 600 football fields. Imagine that. Its supposed to be a refuge, a haven, an idyllic place. But by the 1980s, this place that was meant to be a central recreation hub for the entire city really becomes more of a barrier. Night would fall, and it would change. It would become a place where youd be nervous about going. Central park became like a metaphor for the broader dysfunction in new york city. I think you could maybe best understand that as the new york between scorseses taxi driver they will wash all the scum off the streets. And spike lees do the right thing. What are you doing . In the late 80s, new york city was very tense. It was a place where people were fearful fearful of crime, fearful of being mugged, of being attacked. [ sirens ] it was a very violent time in the city. This new drug had emerged in the 1980s which was crack. And it had this immediate, devastating impact. This has reached epidemic proportions. Crack was like the ebola of drugs. It just ravaged the place and it just took the homicide rate through the ceiling. 88, 89, you had about 1,900 to 2,000 murders a year citywide. And the victims are a huge majority of them were people of color. At the same time that all of these things are happening, you have the emergence and really dominance of wall street culture. Were going to turn the bull loose. [ cheering ] hundred . Bobby, bobby, bobby. Nine. Thats the best offering. Now it was about making money and making as much money as possible. And during that time period, the movie wall street came out. Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Anything else you want to buy . Any Good Properties . What about central park . No, i think that should be preserved and left and donald trump should not be allowed to touch central park. A lot of people are very relieved. The rich are doing really, really well in new york city. Wall streets exploding with obscene riches. And theres this gulf thats always been in new york city between rich and poor. But now its even more pronounced. And in the more affluent, read that white communities, there wasnt crime. So if crime was seeping into those communities, there was cause for hysteria. How many houses around here have been broken into by blacks . Well, in 1989, you must remember that the city was in a real divisive, polarized condition. Three white teens arrested in the shooting death last night of a 16yearold black youth. He was killed because he was black. This was a time in new york city where if you were black and you went into the wrong neighborhood, it would not be considered unusual for a mob to try and physically attack you. Thats how bad Race Relations were at the time. A black guy gets killed and youre making the biggest stink about it. When a white girl, a white girl gets raped. Big deal. A white girl. Big deal. A white girl theres turmoil and theres greed and theres poverty. And theres fear and violence. And it is all wrapped up in one big, tumultuous, single city between the east and hudson rivers. This is a sort of cauldron in which the central park jogger narrative emerged. On april 19th, 1989, i went to work like i usually did. I worked in new york city for salomon brothers. I always wanted to work in new york. It was a sense of accomplishment, and i was devoted to it. I stayed until after 8 00, and then i went home. I ran in the park probably four to five days a week. I loved the freedom of the park. It just gave me a sense of vitality. At the same time as a young solomon brothers banker is stepping out of her east side home and starts running toward central park, theres a group of at least 30 young people, about a mile and a half away, and theyre about to come into the park. 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You go from hanging out with friends, thinking that youre going to, you know, go skateboarding in the park or walk around the lake to mayhem. On the night of april 19th, 1989, approximately 30 to 40 teenagers assembled at the Northeast Corner of central park. We just got a call about a Disorderly Group of about 30 to 40 males inside central park acting disorderly and harassing people. I was working a 4 00 to 12 00 with my partner. And we started to get a lot of radio runs of a group of black and hispanic teenagers assaulting and harassing people. Pick up of an assault at 102 and east drive in central park. Its a roving band. Basically we took over that whole park, just walked down the street and beat people up. We walking on the road towards downtown, and somebody recognized an older man walkin across the road, and he had a bag in his hand. And then a buncha, you know, other kids went punchin him, kickin him and all that. I remember violence. It was real hectic. It was crazy. You standing there and watching somebody get beat. It was unreal. Its almost like moths being drawn to fire. A child can be a witness to something without being a participant in something. Meanwhile, a high speed tandem bicycle driven by patty dean and gerry malone, theyre making their way north on the east drive. We were riding the tandem through central park. We saw this whole line of kids. I remember thinking, i wonder why theyre here so late . It was a man and a female ridin the bike. I dont know who it was, but one person said, get them. All of a sudden, they jumped across the road. It was actually terrifying. They were ripping at my arms and legs and clothing. As a woman, you immediately wonder whats going to happen. We all started chasin the bike, and basically they got away. I would run to the park, usually entering at the 84th street entrance just by the metropolitan museum of art. I would go to the 102nd street cross drive that would go from the east drive of the park over to the west drive of the park. The whole thing was very chaotic. We were getting a lot of 911 calls. People were coming into the precinct. We had other people stopping cops who were on patrol. Theyre attacking joggers around the reservoir in the vicinity of 96th street and east drive kay. 96 and east drive . They head south toward the reservoir. A serious head injury on this complainant. Can you have a bus respond forthwith to 95 and east drive . The last of the joggers to be attacked was beaten with a pipe in the head. Victim looked like his head got dunked in a bucket of blood, he was beaten so badly. You got an e. T. A. On that bus . This guy has a serious head injury. Hes losing a lot of blood here. People were punched in the face and pulled off their bicycles and robbed of their watches. I mean, it was kind of a crazy series of incidents that took place in the park. The calls kept coming in, so we canvassed the area. We pulled out of the park at, i think at 100th street and central park west. And, boom, there they are. Theres a group of about 20 or 30 of them. Once we came out of the park here, we saw them across the street. So what we did was we pulled over right over here at the curb. Everybodys just started runnin. They chasin a large group over there, about 30 to 40 people. Theres a big foot chase. A couple of cars come, scooters. And when it was all said and done, we had five kids. At first, it seems like a relatively minor thing. Theyre gonna send these kids to family court. Theyre gonna send them home and have them, you know, come back again later. And then this woman is found in the park, covered in blood, near death. On that night, a little before midnight, a womans body was found about 50 feet down from this area where im standing right here. This is the 102nd street cross path. There were two guys making their way from the west side to the east side. They thought it was a mans body, and then they heard moaning. Trish, not conscious. Barely, barely alive. She actually had been dragged down to the stream in the ravine that most new yorkers dont know about it. Have never seen it. An ambulance was called. It took a while to get into the wooded area. The discovery of trish meili lying in a ravine changes everything. The word we got back from the hospital was that she was in extremely Critical Condition and a good possibility that she would die. So i call for crime scene and my homicide squads and began our investigation. [spanish recording] so again, using para, youre talking about something that is for someone. Pretty good. Could listening to audible inspire you to start something new . Download audible and listen for a change. For people 50 and older colat average risk. Ing honey have you seen my glasses . Ive always had a knack for finding things. 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This is the cheekbone, and it was crushed severely. Her body was just so swollen, unrecognizable really. My left eye socket had been crushed in. And the force of that blow was so strong that my eyeball exploded into the thin plates of my orbital floor. And when that happens, the entire cheek bone falls inward. And then i had several skull fractures, and there were deep lacerations. We all know what rape is. I mean, Everybody Knows what that is and describe it. But theres nothing like seeing Something Like this. The atrocity of such an act. This morning, detectives walked through the woods picking up evidence from a joggers night of terror. We ended up with five arrests. Two of the five were Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana. The detectives who were handling it asked me to hang on to them so that they could interview them. I heard the phone ringing. And thats when the detective told me to come to the precinct to get my son. I went to the desk, and i asked them. I said, wheres my son . And he said, well, were doing some paperwork, and you can see him shortly. They came to my house around 3 00 the morning. And when we got there, i seen my son inside a room with other kids locked in a room. We had to go back out and start getting more of the kids that were involved in the attack. That included yusef salaam, korey wise and Antron Mccray. But by the evening of the 20th, we had all five in custody. Im looking for my son. Yeah, where was he . Hes been in the precinct since they took him from when he went to the store. I was out here with a whole bunch of other reporters and cameras, and we were waiting and waiting and waiting for information. Because in those early hours, there was an investigation going on behind closed doors. There was intense pressure to solve the case. This was the crime that had to be solved. Over the course of the next couple of days, there are these interrogations at length. Here we are at the 20th precinct on the Upper West Side of manhattan where police are still questioning some of the young suspects they believe were involved in last nights attack. Those who are 14 and 15 are supposed to have a parent or guardian present. And largely they do, but even the parents i think are pretty naive about whats going on. They were telling us that kevin is gonna come home with us. That hes a good boy. They know he didnt do anything. They used us. They used our lack of knowledge of the Justice System against us. And and our trusting in them, they used it against us. We had all these kids now in custody, and they were all starting to talk and give stories about what happened. The cops are doing what cops do, which is, in these investigations, they can lie. They can say they know more than they do. They can say theyve got evidence that implicates a suspect trying to get him to confess. They did all of those things. So these interrogations, theyre not recorded in any way, right . Theyre not even written down. These are the rules i was handed and thats what we play by. I really didnt know what my mouth just felt like scrambled eggs. I really didnt know what was going on. I just wanted to get the hell home. When i was in the room, i didnt know what was going on. I just know that i didnt have nothing to do with anything. The lead investigator in my case, he became fed up and he slammed his fist on the table and he said, youre going to give me what i want . And he lunged at me. If you take an individual thats 15 years old and you put that individual in a room by themselves with two to four to six officers, some of them wanting to attack you, that individual would be terrified. It could be almost tantamount to someone having a gun to your head. The cops were proud that they did what cops do, which is they told teen one that number two and number three were implicating one. So youd better get out ahead of this. They told teen four that there was evidence that had been found, and if you dont get out in front, youre gonna be implicated. I didnt know who did it. I just know i didnt do it, so i was just trying to get everybody back. I was just blaming whoever. Thats how it went. Thats how it went for me. Hes like, well, do you know Kevin Richardson . I said, no, i dont. Never seen him before. And he says, well, we know he did it. And so when detective hartigan produced the picture of kevin, it was just about me getting out of it. All of these kids, and in many cases their parents, believed that they would get to go home if they implicated other people, if they were helpful in the right way. And they were desperate to get out of that room. No detective of mine would ever say anything like that, youre gonna go home. With a crime like is . Never. They played the parents against each other. They said, okay, well, we know he didnt do anything. But yusef salaam said he did this. So then you feel like, well, okay, he has to defend himself. So they played us against each other. They played the boys against each other. And they made up all of these stories to get their arrest and their convictions. How do you coerce somebody when hes sitting there with their parents . Its [ bleep ], okay . Theres no coercion. None of those detectives of their caliber would have to resort to walking anyone into a confession. Their words are their words. We dont put words in peoples mouths. This interrogation went on and on and on. Whether or not you believe there were coercive tactics, the amount of time itself that these teens had to spend in that Interrogation Room could in and of itself have caused them to say anything to get them out of there. It is now 3 30 in the morning of april 21st of 1989. In the early hours of the morning on the second day under questioning, the teenagers make a fateful decision. 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I was home in bed with my wife. We had just turned the lights out, and my Deputy Bureau chief called and asked if i could go up to the 24th precinct and assist Elizabeth Lederer, who was up there working alongside the police. Elizabeth lederer was the prosecutor in the central park jogger case. By all accounts, she was incredibly diligent. She was not one of these prosecutors who were just in it to win. You have the right to remain silent and to refuse to answer any questions. So, at this point, after a night in police custody, moved from precinct to precinct, Kevin Richardson implicated himself in this night of mayhem with numerous assaults and possibly the rape of trisha meili. Everybody was surrounding her when i came over there. Kevin richardson had a scratch under his eye. So the detectives asked him, how did you get the scratch under your eye . I got in the way. She got kind of, like, scratched me a little bit. Let me just ask you, youre saying that she scratched you and youre indicating a place on your face . Yeah, i think its on me right here. And its not just richardson. Other teenagers are implicating themselves on video, too. I started hitting her and stuff, and shes on the ground. Everybodys stomping and everything. This was my first rape. This i never did this before. This will be the last time doing it. Antron was going for her clothes, and lopez was pulling on her arms. And while he was doing that, you were feeling her breasts . With both hands . Yes. This is your father next to you . Yes. Theyre all making statements and open confessions. All of them except yusef salaam. He never goes on video and never makes a written statement. And the reason is because his mother comes in and says, no. I kept telling them, i wanted a lawyer. I told them several times. I had witnesses who heard me tell them. And they continued to do what they planned to do because they had an agenda. Was yusef there . Yusef . Yes. When i first saw those tapes, i didnt disbelieve them. Like anybody else, when i watch a confession tape my first impulse is, whoa, an innocent person really wouldnt do that. But you told that to the police before. Was it true . I dont remember saying that. My second impulse is to listen to the details and to be influenced by them. We seen this lady jogging. She had on blue shorts. But those just arent the facts. Trisha meili that night was wearing tights on her legs. She was jogging the thing around the reservoir. She wasnt jogging at the reservoir, which is more than half a mile away from where she was found. It was Kevin Richardson who said, volunteered, this is where i tackled the woman, the jogger, right about here. I said, well, how did her body get from here down to the ravine . Who took her down to the ravine . He said, i dont know. I said, what do you mean you dont know . I said, the body was found down that hill. He said, i dont know how she got there. To look back at these statements, there are huge problems. Theyre inconsistent within themselves. Theyre inconsistent relative to the other statements. And theyre inconsistent relative to the fact how did those marks get on her head . Knife. I shouldnt say those arent the marks of a knife. She has a fractured skull. She was hit by a very, very heavy object. Korey, you saw that picture. You dont get these lines you dont get a fractured skull from that. It looks like its more from like a rock. I did see kevin pick up a hand rock. A small hand rock and hit her across the face with it. Are you just saying that because i am asking . No. Why didnt you say it before . Me just taking a quick glance in the dark. I remember him picking up a rock out the dirt. The inconsistencies in korey wises statement and his statements about using a knife in the commission of the crime, i think, are just complete exaggerations. He was a very difficult person to interview because he kept changing his story. When you watch korey, its almost like hes desperate to get it right. He tells one story at this moment. He tells this story at another moment. Well, yeah, when you look at false confession cases, its because when they told the truth you didnt believe em and you made em change it. Another problem for the cops and the prosecutors was that every time they went to talk to another one of the central park five, they heard that different people were actually the ones that did it. Raymond had an arm. Steve had her legs, spread it out. Antron got on top. What was kevin doing while steve lopez was holding her hands and hitting her with the brick . He was having sex with her. You said that someone had sex with her. Yeah, it was kevin, raymond it was steve and raymond. Of course, there are gonna be some inconsistencies between the statements. And in my experience, when you take statements, theres kind of a range. Right . They minimized their own involvement in it by saying, but he did more than i did. I was playing with her legs. What were you doing to her legs . Huh . I was going up and down her legs. I wasnt doing as much as they were doing. I grabbed her arm and stuff. You were grabbing her arm . Yeah. The teenagers believed that if they said something, they could get out of the Interrogation Room. All i had to do was tell the truth. I probably would have been home. What they didnt realize was the detectives handed them a shovel. According to the law of new york, by saying, i didnt do the rape, i just held her down, that is as guilty, under the law, as if saying, i climbed on top of a woman and raped her. And i think were at the point where were thinking there may well be a brain dysfunction as recovery proceeds. At least half a dozen reporters gathered around dr. Robert kurtz, asking for more details. The reporters descend on the hospital. We had to sort of hang out in the lobby and wait for the reports to come in from the doctor. When it becomes known that a group of teenagers of color are accused of doing this to that White Investment banker, that poor woman, its going to explode new york city. For people to go to their defense is unbelievable. Politics, race. If it was a black woman, yall wouldnt even be here. Emotions. Youre a liar. The Justice System, all are going to come together like a fireball. There is a donald trump connection to this case. You Better Believe that i hate the people that took this girl and raped her brutally. And all the while this investigation is going on, trisha meili is clinging to life in Metropolitan Hospital. She was in a coma for about a week. And then she started opening her eyes and looking around. Can she talk . Will she say she remembered something . 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She had no sense of the magnitude of the news, of the story. They found her enter raped her. South and north of the park. The headlines were just extraordinary. The media was all over this thing. According to police, they bragged and laughed about the rape and beating. This was one of the most compelling stories that new york could see, that a reporter could cover. It took politics, power, rape, racial politics, controversy. People were so angry about what happened. I just want to come up here and find somebody and do bodily harm. So there were a total of ten people over several months who were charged and either convicted or plead guilty to various crimes in central park. The d. A. Decides to charge a group of teenagers in the attack on trish meili. One of those, steve lopez, decides to plead to a lesser charge when hes offered a deal. Some witnesses against him had evaporated. And that left five. Five teenagers Kevin Richardson, Antron Mccray, yusef salaam, Raymond Santana, korey wise. Kids, really. The hysteria that was being drummed up in the press fed into the fear that already existed because of the high rates of crime in the city. And the phrase that was used that was a new phrase was the wilding. They go around and they do crazy things. Sometimes they do it for fun. Sometimes they it for money. They do it just to do it. We started hearing this term, wilding, this phenomena where kids of color go berserk and try to harm people. The wilding phenomenon. Its all over the newspapers every day, every news broadcast. Wilding. Wilding. Wilding, by any name, it means terror. They were the wolfpack. They were described in these beastly terms, which are signature racial, racist terms. They were monsters in the minds of the media and the public that feared them. That fear of the sexual violation of white women at the hands of black men is a fear that goes all the way back to the days of slavery in this country. And it is inextricably connected to the history of lynching, mob violence, all the kind of worst depredations that black people suffered. These kids were as everyday kids as you can be. They were just starting their high school careers. Antron played little league. Kevin danced in school. Yusef was an artist. They came from strong, supportive families. What they were not involved in were criminal activities. None of them had a record at that time. I think race played a big role. Had we been white youths, they probably would have, you know, contacted the legal aid people and probably had some lawyers down there to speak to us. But because we were from black and latin communities, because we were from, some of us, impoverished homes, its like, hey, whos going to mind that another black youth or another latin youth is off the street . Theyre criminals anyway. If it was a black woman, yall wouldnt even be here. Channel seven, anybody else, the post, anybody else news would not be here. Okay . And it all contributed to this heightened sense of fear in new york and this thirst for vengeance. There was this rising tide of these boys becoming the symbols of all that was wrong in new york. This is why we need to come down on these young teenagers, these thugs. We do not want to see racial hysteria used to predetermine the rights of some teenagers. Even in the black and latino community, we that wanted to stand for them were in the minority. It was by no means a popular stand. It couldve been me. Couldve been her. Couldve been any of us. I aint got no patience with none of them. I hope you get them. I think those guys should be sent away for life. And the press who rely on the police for their information about crimes, or largely rely on the police, felt that the case was solved. I think that it was this kind of assumption, well, they must have done it. Right . They confessed. People were in a frenzy. The people werent all that concerned about fairness and about justice. That plus a very live and active newspaper war between the tabloids, it led people to places they really shouldnt have gone. You Better Believe that i hate the people that took this girl and raped her brutally. In a fullpage ad scheduled to appear in tomorrows new york city newspapers, millionaire Businessman Donald Trump calls for the reinstatement of the states death penalty. Donald trump at the time was kind of a swaggering real estate developer, man about town. How does it feel taking pictures of these playboy bunnies . Well, somebody has to do it. What donald trump did was whip up the climate of frenzy around this case a notch higher. Were you prejudging those arrested . No. Im not prejudging at all. Im not in this particular case. Im saying if theyre found guilty, if the woman died, which she hopefully will not be dying, but if the woman died, i think they should be executed. Hes saying, kill em and i never, ever could describe how enraged i got to call for these kids to be, in effect, lynched. Legal lynching. It should be played out in a court of law, not in the newspapers, not on tv. Those people who made this a media frenzy and set us up so that we could be convicted in the press before we even went to trial. How do you find a jury thats gonna be impartial with five men that theyve read deserve to be lynched . It skews the jury. It has to. You would like to execute them now. Is that your position . Castrate em. They cant rape again. This is before the arraignment. This is before anything resembling a trial. They were not gonna get the benefit of the doubt in that atmosphere. The key victim people are waiting to see if they hear from is the central Park Investment banking jogger herself. 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These were the scapegoats, lambs led to the slaughter. How do you find a jury that will be impartial . It was fore gone conclusion i wish to god it was a hung jury. There was a huge problem in this case. Something that haunted me for years, we never got everybody. The semen that was recovered did not match any of the defendants. He is a done find psycho path. Did you atrack the central park jogger . Yeah, i did. I always knew there was at least one more person involved. And this sorry will change everything. It was a cauldron of emotion around this trial. And it was gonna be very hard to give them a fair shot. They were tried and convicted in the Kangaroo Court of public opinion, probably before the first weekend after the incident. The defendants are about to have their two months in court. Thats how long its expected to take. Raymond santana, yusef salaam, Antron Mccray they are finally through with the pretrial publicity and legal wrangling. The new york City District Attorneys Office is a crackerjack outfit. And they put their best people on this case. This was like the new york yankees playing against your High School Baseball team. You had Elizabeth Lederer and, of course, robert morgenthau. On the other side, the Defense Attorneys in this case were outclassed, outstrategized and outlived in terms of their ability to survive a case like this. 14 months after the crime was committed, the first of 2 trials in the central park jogger case. Outside of the courtroom, the atmosphere was pretty intense. There were always protesters. You lying devil bunch of racist dogs and devils down here. Al sharpton had rallied a lot of people on behalf of the five. No justice, no peace. No justice, no peace and there was always a line of people trying to get into the courtroom. There were people that wanted us dead. I mean, it became so dangerous that my mother camouflaged me, you know, just so that it could be all right for me to walk around. Ms. Lederer, how do you think its going . I know that elizabeth received death threats, so it was pretty serious. Those young men admitted to some part, what we call acting in concert in the law, of either striking trisha to bring her down to enable the sexual assault, holding an arm or a leg. The first trial involved three defendants Raymond Santana, Antron Mccray and yusuf salaam. Clearly, the statements were the most important evidence. What happened to her when she was on the ground . Lopez came, and he was holding her by her arms. He pinned her arms with his knees, and then he covered her mouth with his hand. And then he sees her start screaming, so he started smacking her. The looks on the jurors faces when they watched those videotapes told a devastating story for the defense. You could see it. The jurors were engaged. They were riveted. They nodded their heads in some cases. They were disgusted. Its clear, as it has been for a year, that prosecutors will depend on videotaped statements by the suspects themselves. But when the defense went on offense this afternoon, its strategy also became clear. The teens lawyers say confessions were cleverly staged. The initial statement that the jury has to decide is whether these statements are voluntary or involuntary. And i think thats a decision that the jury will not take a tremendously long period of time to make that initial decision. Did somebody take her clothes off . Yes. I have watched some of the videotapes that were released. What was he doing with his hands . He was covering her mouth. Every time she was talking, he was smacking her saying, shut up. He kept smacking her. It is very, very hard watching someone describe how people beat me, how people were trying to stop my screaming by beating my face. The key victim people are waiting to see if they hear from is the central Park Investment banking jogger herself. With the trial, Elizabeth Lederer gave me the choice if i wanted to testify. And i did. She came in a tinted van which sped by reporters. The central park jogger speaks in public for the very first time. She was unsteady walking to the witness stand, but deliberate. Scars were visible around her left eye. When i walked to the witness stand the first time, i remember i was very nervous. It was one of the most anticipated, riveting courtroom moments that i have ever experienced. Will she say she remembered something . The courtroom was as silent as a library. Trisha meili did not have any memory of the attack. But she was called to the stand. She talked about what her normal running practices had been, what she had been wearing. She identified her clothing. I thought, i know i have no memory, but i wanted people to know the condition that i had been left in. She was put on the stand even when she couldnt remember anything. And that is helping to remind the injujurors. This is what happened to her. She was sure of herself and intelligent and courageous to be sitting there facing the boys accused of doing this horrible crime. And somehow she made it through. The whole thing was very emotional and moving. They played on the emotions big time. They wanted you to see her with the slurred speech, the wound to her head. It was powerful. It was. I told myself and my fellow jurors, that is not what this case is about. Its about finding the right people. And we must not let our feelings of outrage about what happened to her cause us to to leap to any kind of premature conclusions. There was a huge problem in this case. The semen did not match any of the defendants. They didnt have dna evidence against these defendants. They didnt have physical evidence against these defendants. The fact that they didnt find any dna matches among the boys shouldve been of great concern. If you dont find their semen, its really hard to make the argument that they committed the rape. So we as prosecutors were completely upfront with the jury about the fact that semen had been recovered from trisha meili, the female jogger, which did not match any of the people that were on trial. And certainly, Elizabeth Lederer talked about it in the summation. They didnt care about the dna. They didnt care about who did this to this woman. They wanted to get this case off the books. And these were the scapegoats, lambs led to the slaughter. The trial of the three young men accused of attacking the central park jogger is coming close to the moment of truth the verdict. When the verdict came in, there was screaming and mayhem in the courtroom. Youre a lying whore low battery sound. do you want a charge . Yeah battery charging. how ya like that . How ya like that . How ya like that . 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The two defendants in the second trial were Kevin Richardson and korey wise. Whats the old sayin . If it aint broke, dont fix it . They used these confessions with effectiveness in the first trial, and the strategy was if it worked once, itll work again. Play the tapes and let the jurors judge for themselves. The tape was brutal. In fact, it was so graphic, some of the jurors, at least a couple of them, looked like they were having a hard time watching it. It was the confessions that were on tape that were the heart of everything. The prosecutor kept going back to that, emphasizing that, constantly hammered into us. Legal scholars have referred to confession evidence as the gold standard, the king of evidence. The sight and sound of an individual incriminating himself is as powerful as it gets. In 1990, it was hard to believe that the police would actually coerce children into making false confessions. I dont think any of us could completely grasp that idea at that point in time. In the prepodcast, documentary mode, prenetflix, people didnt know about false confessions. But the system knew about false confessions. In the second trial, the jury struggled with korey wises confessions. There were two statements. They were all over the place. The facts were contradictory, selfcontradicted. Who was the first person to have sex with her . It was raymond. Who was the first one who had sex with her . It was steve. In a sense, and ironically, korey wises lack of consistency ended up working in his favor at the trial. Because the jury wondered, was it just all wrong . Why do you want to change the statement you made before . When the detective came in my face arguing, cursing at me, hitting on me, i thought about it. I said to myself, you know, you said a lie. They took advantage of my whole little innocent being. Took advantage of all that. Now the jury all saw the confession tape of korey wise in its entirety tonight, and theyre upstairs working, deliberating, right now. It looks like they are going to make this night a late one. I didnt believe that he had anything to do with the rape. Korey wises confession didnt make any sense compared to anything else. It just didnt line up. Several of the jurors kept at me and at me. They pushed me to go to the other direction, and i wished to god i had just hung the jury on that. And thats thats been my biggest regret for 30 years. Tonight, two young men charged in that infamous attack face the prospect of spending several years of their young lives behind bars. The courtroom was hushed. The judge warned the spectators to be quiet. Then the jury foreman read the verdicts. Korey wise, found guilty of sexual abuse, first Degree Assault and riot. Then with respect to Kevin Richardson, guilty on every charge. The trial was very intense. Elizabeth lederer, to her credit, did a phenomenal job of putting the case together. When they read the verdict, it was like the worst day of our lives. It was like Somebody Just stabbing you in the heart. And the haunting image that i will never forget is of my brother, looking at us, crying. We were in shock. Then, outside, the family of Kevin Richardson aimed their grief at the press. One man with the family picked up a piece of concrete and looked like he was going to throw it. We like to believe that new york city is a gorgeous mosaic. Trials like this reflect the fact that theres a deep crack in that mosaic, especially as it relates to young black men. Mccray, richardson, santana, salaam, they all get five to ten, and they go away as juveniles. One of them, korey wise, is sentenced to 5 to 15 as an adult. Even when admitting their guilt and expressing remorse might have actually given them a shot at being paroled sooner, none of them would. I was in prison for a crime that i didnt commit. It was just really the, like, despair. You know you dont have your family around you. You want your family. You want to see your family and your loved ones. You want to see your friends. I saw life standing still. And the reason i say that is when you put someone in prison, the world outside moves forward. People have gotten older. People have moved on. Some have died, you know. Things have changed, but they dont hardly go anywhere. Then five years after the trials are over, the teenagers are in prison. Theres a milestone involving trisha meili. In the fall of 1995, i ran the new york city marathon. And i felt so proud of the hard work that had gotten me there. cause it was hard. I mean, i worked hard. And in that moment, i realized or i felt that i had reclaimed my park. And it was so exhilarating. Couple of years after trisha meili runs the marathon again, the teenagers who had been convicted start to come out of prison. Theyre in their 20s. And so ultimately the four men, who had been 14 and 15 at the time, were conditionally released based on, you know, time off for Good Behavior after about 7 or 8 years. Im so bitter. I got so much anger in me, you know . Im not the type of person to turn a cheek. I mean, we lost our lives. We grew up in the system. You know, i used to tell my brother, because you know what you did. God knows what you did. So it doesnt matter what any man has to say. You keep your head up high. People were outraged with the verdict. We found many people blamed the media. Can i ask you . No, i dont want to be asked anything. Why should you ask me anything . Youve done enough damage as it is. The media fell down on its job. I had put together a sample of 251 articles representative of the coverage. 12 articles not 12 12 articles in that sample used the term alleged. If theres a fault of some who covered the central park jogger story, it may be i wasnt skeptical enough. 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And then suddenly, one of korey wises prison mates comes forward with a story that would change everything. And this story, the central park five, they are back in the headlines. A primetime investigation. The central park jogger. Out of the blue, a serial predator steps forward and turns the case upside down. Matias reyes is a convicted homicidal serial rapist doing 33 years to life in new york prison. I was a monster, man. I did some real bad things to so many people and harmed them in so many ways. Hes a bona fide psychopath. Hes a serial rapist. He raped his own mother. And he raped and murdered a pregnant woman in front of her own two children. And the babys saying, mommy, youre screaming. And she was like tossing me and screaming. Matias reyes came forward 13 years after the central park attack. He, at that time, was doing life for a murderrape conviction. And he had had an encounter with korey wise years earlier in the jail in Rikers Island in new york. Flash forward, he sees him in the prison in upstate new york. It seems matias reyes had a flash of conscience, and he decides hes going to take responsibility for the crime that he committed. He came forward to say that he had been the one who had committed the attack upon the jogger. Did you attack the central park jogger . Yeah, i did. Did you rape her . Yes. Did you beat her . Mmhmm. Did you leave her for dead . I thought i left her there for dead. Matias reyes manages to get the attention of Law Enforcement, and they do a dna test. And they take his dna and compare it, and voila, they have what they never had in the trials in 1990, which is a match. A perfect match. I always knew that there was at least one more person involved because there was unidentified dna. So when i heard the news that, you know, there was an additional person found whose dna matched that wasnt a tremendous surprise. But when he said that he and he alone had done it, thats when some of the turmoil started and wondering, well, how can that be . When i first heard that they got the matching dna with reyes, i was like, oh, thats great. We got the final guy, the guy who had gotten away originally in 1989. But then he turned around and said that he did it by himself. I was alone that night. Anytime i went out to do any of my crimes or anything like that, i was always alone. I saw the lady. She was jogging. I went behind her and i was zigzagging back and forth from one side of the road to the horse bridal paths, sometimes walking, sometimes jogging, just giving her enough distance, you know. At the right hand side, i saw a piece of branch there. I struck her over her head with the branch, and she fell forward. I grabbed her to drag her inside to the bushes. As i dragged her in there i remember that i took off her clothes. Reyes knew some things about the victim and the crime that had never been revealed, and that only a person who was there would know. I asked her can she give me the address to her hse because i found some keys in the little black bag, one of those bags that joggers sometimes wear. She didnt say anything to me. So i guess, i think that escalated the anger or whatever. I know the beating proceeded from there. I thought i left her for dead. We have news this morning on a case that stunned the nation. A man in a new york prison said that he was the guilty one, not them. And the case may be reopened. This after 13 years is chaos for the new york City District Attorneys Office, for the police department, for the political system in new york. What . We have the real rapist . They didnt do this . And it throws the whole thing upside down. When this individual came forward, it was like all the prayers that people had made in the past, all the times that my loved ones and people told me, listen, its going to be all right, the truth is going to come out. Its like, that has been answered. My prayers have been answered. The investigation into matias reyes and his story was conducted by the district Attorneys Office. Here i am being honest 100 with the District Attorney, telling them about everything, and things i got away with, things i didnt do. Because i didnt want to hold anything back. I went down there with an open book. The spring into the summer of 1989, there was a rash of violent rapes all along madison avenue culminating in the murder of a woman on 97th street. I think the eastside rapist they were calling him. Matias reyes was the east side rapist. The Police Officer investigating that had his dna marker in that file. One of the rapes associated with that case took place in central park, not far from where the ntral park jogger had been attacked. Hed committed a rape two nights earlier in central park, and he was right there all along. The rape on april 17th, we knew nothing about. None of us in homicide knew anything about april 17th. Sex crimes dealt with rapes, theres no sharing of information. Maybe there is today, but back then they had a full caseload. Ours was ridiculous. Dna dont lie. Dna dont lie. A case that really shocked this country is about to take another stunning turn. This morning the Manhattan District Attorney is going to ask to overturn the convictions of five people who were convicted in the 1989 crime of violently assaulting a young female investment banker. The d. A. Morgenthau believed that an injustice had been committed to the central park five and basically moved to withdraw the charges that they had raped this woman. 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When they got out i talked a lot to them. And they were just broken. This is home, everything changed aint it . And they were like, how do i pick up my life from here . What am i supposed to do . Even after it is proven scientifically with dna you didnt do the crime, you have people that say, yeah, you did it. That does not mean that the five former defendants are exonerated. It doesnt prove that theyre innocent. It just means that in the eyes of the law their convictions no longer exist. When matias reyes says he did it alone, its not just the prosecutors and cops who dont believe it. Trish herself doesnt think he could have done it by himself. There is, you know, medical evidence to support that more than one person was responsible for the attack on me. My injuries are different from what matias reyes claimed that he was the sole attacker. We have not discussed the attack with her. There were handprints pressed into her skin that looked red in outline. They were also different sizes. So it looks like, to me, more than one person doing that. The new York City Police department ends up feeling it needs to do something to tell its side of the story. And so the Police Commissioner decides to appoint michael armstrong, who would deliver the armstrong report. I was not considered a big procop person. Trying to piece together what happened 14 years after it happened was theoretical at best by anybody. Did any detectives tell you to change your statement . No. Are you doing this of your free will . Yes. I dont think there is any credible evidence at all that anything was done in an improper way to make them talk. So the policeled investigation concluded that the police didnt do anything wrong. We felt that the most likely scenario involved an attack by a large number of people, and then she was dragged into the woods, and there reyes, either by himself or perhaps with others, practically killed her and committed the horrendous rape. He jumps full throat into the realm of speculation. And once again, theres mud on the central park five. The difficulty i have with the armstrong report is that to say they had something to do with it, they werent convicted of something. They were convicted of the rape and the attack. So it seems to me like you just want to make something stick to justify the hysteria. Its not a very satisfying document if youre looking for hard proof. But it does become the basis of the city saying, were not sure enough about morganthaus conclusions that we want to issue an apology and pay a settlement to these kids. I think some kind of legal action should happen for what they did to innocent boys. The next chapter in the story is, they sue. They feel that they were railroaded into prison. They lost years of their lives. They want justice for it. They want money. Michael bloomberg is the mayor when this lawsuit is filed. And bloomberg was not going to settle this case. 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The Bloomberg Administration steadfastly took the position, the proper one, that in order for the plaintiffs to prevail, they had to show that there was some police misbehavior. Then along comes sarah burns, and she decides shes going to take a look at the case. I first learned about it in 2003. Had a summer job before my senior year in college, and one of those lawyers who i was working for was just then getting involved in the civil suit in this case. And i was really interested in that historical backdrop for this story, and the sense of the racism in the media coverage. I wrote a book about that case that came out in 2011. And then it became clear that making a film was actually maybe the best way to tell this story. She happens to be the daughter of ken burns. Ken burns is not just anybody. Hes the premier american documentarian. So in 2013, this documentary comes out. And its made by sarah burns, ken burns and david mcmahon. By interviewing the five, and putting them on camera in a way that they hadnt really been before, i think was a new thing. You wont forget what you done lost. No money can bring the life that was missing. Why me . Cursed god out a couple of times. My faith was gone. I lost seven years of my life. I lost that sense of being youthful. It changed our life. In 89, it was such a media frenzy that we were scared to speak. But now we take the central park five and we wear it as a badge. And people see us for who we are. When the documentary comes out, it succeeds not just in raising what reasonable would consider doubt as to the guilt of the central park five. It raises the possibility that theyre actually innocent. That film was made while we had the equivalent of a gag order from a federal judge. We could not speak publicly. The daughter of the filmmaker had worked for the legal team of the five. So i didnt exactly think wed get a fair hearing. Ken and sarah burns did this city and this country a huge disservice. They perpetrated this lie, they created this myth of these kids that were railroaded, and that never happened. When that documentary came out, it was a huge deal. I think the documentary really laid the groundwork for some of the steps that occurred afterwards. I think that the moral issue is quite clear. Bill de blasio is running for mayor in a different new york city. An injustice was done and we have a moral obligation. Heres this scar from the dark days that hasnt healed, the central park case. And he says as a campaign promise, ill settle it. They spent a lot of their lives in jail, in prison wrongly. We have an obligation to turn the page. We have an obligation to do something fair for them, for the whole city to turn the page and move forward. A federal judge has approved a 41 million settlement zsh the settlement in this case was 41 million. Most of the defendants each received 7 million. Korey wise received 13 million. This is amazing. Certainly, they were given a substantial amount of money. But they were not given back their good name. Its a classic settlement. On the one hand, the defendants get 41 million, and on the other hand, the city sticks by its cops and prosecutors and says, we are not going to hang them out to dry. They did not engage in police misconduct. They did not engage in prosecutorial misconduct. I just dont understand a settlement for that kind of behavior. Sorry. Thats outrageous. We were ready to go to the Supreme Court. I so wish that the case hadnt been settled. I wish that it had gone to court because theres a lot of information thats now being released that im seeing for the first time. I support the work of Law Enforcement and prosecutors at the time. They treated me with such dignity and respect. Depending on who you talk to, youll get a different take on the central park five. Now theyre arguably taking a victory lap. 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The central park five endured prosecution, humiliation, and prison. Now the Public Perception of them has shifted, and theyre arguably taking a victory lap. In 1989, they wrote about us in history books. They travel the country, speaking on college campuses, appearing on television, radio, podcasts. The fact that we survived now gives us a platform were we can impart information and education. Those kids are the winners. The five of them went to central park to beat up people, and they ended up with millions of dollars. And theyre heroes and civil rights icons. Its appalling. Its really disheartening and disgraceful. Anyone who is out there saying that theyre innocent and believing them, shame on them. Depending on who you talk to, youll get a different take on the central park five. But all people are in agreement about trisha meili and what she endured. And what shes doing with her life now. Shes advocating for the improvement of rape kits. I speak to groups all around the country, all different kinds of groups. My work now is standing with survivors of brain injury, of sexual assault, of other kinds of trauma. I believe they gain strength, too, to move forward. Could Something Like the central park five case happen again . Absolutely. The only safeguard that we have to prevent that from happening is history and our recognition of what happened in that moment. The reality is, if it happened today, the media would be compelled in large part, to listen to the same voices, and to come to the same initial conclusions. There are takeaways. The interrogation must be fully recorded, as simple as that. Thats transparency. And you know what my question is when you dont do that . What dont you want me to see . Fast forward, what we see now. We have black lives matter, where theyre picking up some of the threads. Its nor everyone in the streets it is the same cry that people of color have been making in this nation since the day we arrived. That we are human. That our lives matter. The feeling has been the system doesnt work for us. We have to make sure that we dont choose to highlight justice for one and ignore justice for others. 30 years later, there are no winners in the central park five case. The woman who was assaulted, the young men who lost years off their lives. But everyones trying to do the best they can with what they have