Blanchard Road -
A Murder in the Finger Lakes
The remarkable story of Roy Brown and his fight to clear his name for a murder he did not commit, is chronicled in a new documentary, "Blanchard Road--A Murder in the Finger Lakes."
Fifteen years after being accused and convicted, Roy Brown tasted freedom again. An older weaker man barely looked like the threatening violent man police arrested in 1991.
From conception, documentary film maker Alex Dunbar led a team that spent nearly three years working on this documentary.
Dunbar says if a lot of these circumstances from Roy's story took place in a fictional film. people wouldn't believe it. because of the twists and turns this case took leading up to his release.
Investigative reporter, Jim Kenyon was on the story from day one - and stuck with it for fifteen years. His recollections over time are vivid and are central to the story telling of the film.
Kenyon says there was conflicting testimony between the defense and prosecution bite mark experts. Jim shared his insight about the Roy Brown case with Alex Dunbar and Andy Wolf during long car rides while tracking other news stories for WSTM. By the time Alex signed on, DNA was in play, but no one knew what the outcome would be for Roy Brown.
Roy's health was in such fragile shape, they didn't know whether he would live to get out of jail. The appeal process is lengthy and even if he was exonerated or got a new trial it could be years.
Their cameras were rolling when the joy of freedom filled Roy Brown and his family. Jim Kenyon endured harsh criticism from prosecutors in pursuing this story for a decade and a half. I kept it in the public eye. As far as me being responsible for any of it, it was Roy Brown's doing that caused him to be exonerated. If I played a role in keeping the public attention on it, that's fine with me.
By Matt Mulcahy Friday, September 26, 2008 at 5:53 p.m.
Source: http://wstm.com/news/story.aspx?id=198457
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