track 68: sabrina buie

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Summary: On September 24, 1983, Sabrina Buie, 11, went to her friend’s house to drop off a bike.  Her sister, Tenita, who was 4 years old at the time, notes that it was the last time she saw Sabrina alive.  Detectives are eager to solve this case by any means necessary, but will this stance benefit Sabrina’s family or torpedo the case?

An image of Sabrina Buie.

A photo of brothers Henry McCollum (left) and Leon Brown (right), who were wrongfully convicted for the murder of Sabrina Buie.

An image of Roscoe Artis, who was on death row for an unrelated murder. Although his DNA was later found to be linked to the murder of Sabrina Buie, he died of old age before charges could be filed.

This episode was made possible because of the below sources:

TV SHOW:

Death Row Stories, Season 3, Ep. 1, https://www.discoveryplus.com/video/death-row-stories-us/two-brothers

YOUTUBE CLIPS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxSeTtpqjD0

(Two brothers wrongfully imprisoned for three decades in the killing of an 11-year-old-girl were pard) (June 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EjjOkpLyC0

After 31 years on North Carolina's death row, Henry McCollum walked out of Central Prison a free man (Sept 2014)

ARTICLES:

https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/crime/2014/09/04/sabrina-buie-s-family-stunned/22155787007/

https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Sabrina-Buie-A-Girl-s-Father-P3CSAG3TU5ZW

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/us/north-carolina-brothers-death-row-settlement.html

https://ncnewsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Mccollum-Brown-Request-for-compensation.pdf

https://abc11.com/child-rape-murder-red-springs-1983-killed/293662/

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/27/opinion/l-even-brutal-cases-show-death-penalty-is-unconstitutional-319430.html 

https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/POLI203_Sp18/KenRose/McCollum-Order.pdf 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/us/joe-freeman-britt-called-americas-deadliest-da-dies-at-80.html 

https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/who-is-on-north-carolinas-death-row/#:~:text=North%20Carolina%20has%20a%20total%20of%20137%20people%20on%20death%20row. 

https://nccadp.org/stories/henry-mccollum-leon-brown/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/02/dna-evidence-north-carolina-death-mccollum-brown-artis 

https://www.charlottecriminallawyer-blog.com/convict-whose-dna-cleared-two-men-also-suspected-1980-murder-gastonia-woman/ 

https://wcsj.law.duke.edu/2021/10/event-recap-henry-mccollum-leon-brown-attorneys-talk-wrongful-convictions/ 

https://ncnewsline.com/briefs/national-reports-highlights-troubling-career-of-recently-deceased-nc-prosecutor/ 

https://www.heritagefhredsprings.com/obituary/Tenita-Buie

COURT DOCUMENTS:

https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/212313.P.pdf 

https://law.justia.com/cases/north-carolina/supreme-court/1993/2a92-0.html