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I'm John Torres I'm a columnist for Florida State newspaper and the creator of the podcast Murder on the Space Coast
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you're right now working on Crosley Greene's case why why this case it has all the elements that we have been
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talking about on the podcast for years and years about Brevard County and troublesome incarceration arrests and
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convictions where people like Crosley Greene were arrested and tried with seemingly very little evidence in these
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cases your own paper called this period of time in Brevard County culture of corruption what do you mean by that well
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it just seemed like investigations weren't really followed through I mean a perfect example is the William Dylan
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case he was a high school dropout he had a previous arrest just an easy target he
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was going nowhere and you know he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and so it was just pinned on him and
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what they used was a dog handler who was proven to be a fraud later on and jailhouse informants who were given
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deals to say that he confessed to me seems like the same formula and all these it's the same exact formula but
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how unusual is that how many have these cases real questionable cases from that period of time I think it's highly
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unusual with the podcast we have done the cases of will and edge William Dylan Juan Ramos you have three overturns to
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by DNA won by a second jury trial when the dog evidence could not be introduced that was Juan Ramos who was also
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sentenced to die the Florida Supreme Court overturned it because it called the dog junk science and unproven
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I mean describe Brevard County Mims Titusville in the late 1980s is their way of putting this in context I think
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that back then especially we want to believe police officers we want to believe prosecutors we want to believe
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the victims of crimes it wasn't until years later when all these other cases began to come out of Brevard County that
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we saw well gee I mean this happens a lot