True Crime Files Podcast- Roman Polanski Case- Episode 49

Описание: Today’s True Crime Files topic is titled Roman Polanski – Child Predator or Talented Film Director. Although certain groups would debate who he really is, nevertheless, everyone can agree that he is the ‘The World’s Most Famous Fugitive.’ Polanski has lived an exciting albeit tragic life starting as a youth growing up in the Jewish Krakow Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Everyone remembers the horror he lived through after the Manson Family killed his lovely wife Sharon Tate and butchering his unborn child that she was carrying.
However, there is another side to Roman Polanski that the public has not seen. He is a man who has an insatiable appetite for having sexual relations with very young women. One day in 1977, he arranged a photo shoot with a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson’s place on Mulholland Drive. With Jack out of town, Roman had this young girl all to himself. In order to create the proper mood for his conquest, he mellowed her out with drugs and alcohol. Soon the photo shoot progressed to a dip into the jacuzzi with all their clothes off. With no one around, he began performing various sex acts on the 13-year-old girl to satisfy his pleasure. When he quenched is lust, he drove the young girl home.
When the girl’s mother found out what happened to her daughter, she contacted the police and ultimately child molestation charges were brought against Polanski. To protect his career and reputation, he claimed that the mother and daughter had fabricated the entire incident and were trying to extort money from him. When he found himself in court realizing that the world was going to hear about his predatory conduct, he was eager to find away to settle the case without the girl testifying in open court what lewd acts he had committed on her. His attorney worked out a deal where he could plead guilty to a lesser charge to avoid going to prison. The case settlement required him to spend 90 days in a diagnostic study at the state Prison. After finishing one of his movies, he quietly checked into the state prison and started serving his 90 days. But for some unknown reason he was released after 47 days in the prison facility.
What happened next has been debated for over a half a century. Did someone tip him off that the judge was mad that he didn’t serve the entire 90 days? In this episode we will discuss what really happened to cause him to leave the USA for France and become a Fugitive for the rest of his life. I will relate what steps I took to capture Roman when he was flying to Canada to receive a film makers award. All these years he has been elusive and has avoided being captured. Dozens of attempts have been made to resolve this matter without success. Let’s examine the facts so you can decide what his punishment should be for sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl over 45 years ago.