In association with Netflix, Crime+Investigation's series I Am a Killer gives a fascinating and in-depth insight into the stories of prisoners on death row in America, awaiting their fate.
In this podcast we hear from producers Tom Adams and Danny Tipping on what it was like to make this powerful true crime documentary series.
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In association with Netflix, Crime+Investigation's series I Am a Killer gives a fascinating and in-depth insight into the stories of prisoners on death row in America, awaiting their fate.
In this podcast we hear from producers Tom Adams and Danny Tipping on what it was like to make this powerful true crime documentary series.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 9. In 1990, 19-year-old Robert Shafer and 16-year-old David Steinmeyer handed themselves into police in St Charles, Missouri and confessed to the killings of two men; Dennis Young and Jerry Parker. Shafer and Steinmeyer claimed at first that they had hitched a ride with the victims who they claimed attacked them and that they killed in self-defence. However, two years later, in July 1992, Robert Shafer confessed to killing both
men and requested the death penalty. Despite having requested the death penalty, just three weeks after arriving on death row, Shafer sought the help of an attorney to appeal his sentencing. Eventually in 2004 he succeeded in his appeal after it was ruled that he wasn’t mentally able to comprehend the consequences of representing himself in 1993. He is currently serving a life sentence. David Steinmeyer received a 12-and-a-half-year sentence for his part in the crime.
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