October 06, 2023

EP 49 | Shawn Drumgold, Roxbury, Massachusetts: The Sonoma Street Alibi (part two of the Tiffany Moore Murder)

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EP 49 | Shawn Drumgold, Roxbury, Massachusetts: The Sonoma Street Alibi
Part two of the Tiffany Moore murder case. In August 1988, Tiffany Moore was shot three times in what police would call a rival gang turf war on Humboldt Ave in Roxbury. The streets were not safe, Tiffany's own mother sent her away to keep her from the violence that was taking over their neighborhood, only for it to take her back in the cruelest way possible. The city was outraged and put pressure on the Boston Police to solve her murder and do something about the violence. Her death was covered nationwide and would symbolize the disorder that ruled the streets, the kind of chaos that elicited fear among those who were outside looking in. Police targeted a low level drug dealer named Shawn Drumgold, painting him as a savage gang member. This episode is about a murdered child, drugs, gang violence, witness intimidation, police and prosecutorial misconduct, wrongful convictions, and a still-unsolved crime.

There is no justice in putting innocent people in prison.
The New England Innocence Project: newenglandinnocence.org

October 2 is International Wrongful Conviction Day
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JusticeforSeanEllis.com
Trial 4 is the Netflix documentary about Sean Ellis's wrongful conviction
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Two core sources (more will be listed in show note at crimeofthetruestkind.com)

Doubt Cast Over Tiffany Moore Verdict by Dick Lehr, Boston Globe, May 2003
Thanks to Dick and The Globe's great reporting or Shawn Drumgold might have died in prison.

Coming Home by Chris Wright, Boston Phoenix, Dec 2003

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