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- “When They See Us,” a four-part series premiering May 31 on Netflix directed by Ava DuVernay, is based on the lives of five men who were wrongfully convicted and sent to prison as teenagers for gang-raping and nearly killing Trisha Meili, a woman who was jogging in Central Park in 1989.
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Alexandra Templer as Trisha Meili in the Netflix drama When They See Us, which is based on the story of the Central Park Five. As the DNA evidence from semen found at the scene didn't...
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- What Happened on The Evening of 19th April 1989?
- What Happened Next?
- How Long Were The Central Park Five in Prison?
- When Were Their Charges Overturned? Who Was The Real Perpetrator?
- Where Are The Central Park Five Now?
- Who Is Linda Fairstein?
- How Was Donald Trump Involved in The Central Park Five Case?
- What About The Jogger's Story?
"The jogger case belongs to a historical moment, not any one prosecutor or detective; it grew in the soils of a rancid, angry, fearful time” – Jim Dwyer "The city was at the end of nearly four decades of decline in population, wealth and economic activity," Dwyer tells RadioTimes.com. "Guns were cheaper, more lethal and more available than ever. Th...
On 19th April 1989, 28-year-old white jogger Trisha Meili was severely beaten and brutally raped in Central Park. Her body was dragged over 300 feet to a shallow ravine, where she was left for dead. That same night, a group of ~30 black and Hispanic teenagers roamed the park. Some caused trouble, attacking cyclists and mugging passers-by. Five teen...
There were protests against the city's decision to take the young boys to trial. "Most of the skepticism was in African American and Latino communities, which had more familiarity with the injustices associated with law enforcement," Dwyer says. "It was not far fetched that young people had confessed to something they hadn't done. Interestingly, so...
McCray, Salaam, Richardson and Santana were all handed the maximum sentences for juveniles, 5-10 years. Wise, on the other hand, at 16-years-old, was tried as an adult, and sentenced to 5-15 years. Here’s how long they all served: Raymond Santana: 7 years 1. Kevin Richardson: 7 years 2. Antron McCray: 7 years 3. Yusef Salaam: 7 years 4. Korey Wise:...
In January 2002, Matias Reyes, a serial rapist who was active in New York City around the time of Meili’s attack, confessed that he had committed the rape. He was already serving a 33 years to life sentence for the murder and rape of a 24-year-old pregnant woman on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “DNA tests not only proved his involvement,” The New Yo...
Korey Wise runs the Korey Wise Innocence Project at Colorado Law School, which offers free legal counsel to the wrongfully convicted. He is the only member of the Central Park Five who stayed in New York City. Antron McCray lives with his wife and six kids in Atlanta, Georgia. In May, he told The New York Timesthat he still has complicated feelings...
The former head of the Sex Crimes Unit at the office of Manhattan’s District Attorney, who oversaw the prosecution of the Central Park Five. In the series, she is played by Felicity Huffman. She is also a best-selling author, known for her novel series based around fictional Manhattan prosecutor Alexandra Cooper. Fairstein left the DA’s office in 2...
Two weeks after the attack, long before the teenagers had been incorrectly found guilty of the crimes, Donald Trump – then a real estate investor with a thirst for press attention – took out $85,000 worth of newspaper ads, calling for their execution. “I want to hate these muggers and murderers,” Trump wrote. “They should be forced to suffer and, w...
The Central Park Jogger tells her story in the New York Times bestseller I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility.Trisha Meili breaks her silence in the book fourteen years after her attack made headlines. The book doesn't cover the actual attack as Trisha has no memory of it, but she does share anecdotes of her reunion with th...
Jun 12, 2019 · Alexandra Templer as Trisha Meili in the Netflix drama When They See Us, which is based on the story of the Central Park Five. As the DNA evidence from semen found at the scene didn't match any...
Sep 20, 2019 · When They See Us examines the role that the suspects' races played in their incrimination (all five were black or Latino), and the effect that the wrongful convictions had on them and their...
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Jun 13, 2019 · Writer-director Ava DuVernay’s sweeping, four-episode depiction of what led to the wrongful 1990 conviction (and eventual exoneration in 2002) of a handful of teenage boys from Harlem — Korey Wise,...
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May 31, 2019 · The Central Park Five is the basis for Ava DuVernay’s upcoming Netflix miniseries, When They See Us, which debuts May 31st. Here’s a timeline of the decades-long saga.
Sep 11, 2024 · It’s been five years since the release of Netflix’s crime drama miniseries When They See Us. The series is based on the story of five Black and Latino teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of raping and assaulting a white woman in Central Park in 1989.
