The Interpreter's Mistake: How One Sound Nearly Ruined A Man
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The Interpreter's Mistake: How One Sound Nearly Ruined A Man
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A single left shoe, upright on a rear service step, and four mistranslated words changed the course of a murder case-sending one man to prison for thirty-two years while another nearly went to trial for the crime. Which four words turned an appearance into an admission, and how did an unqualified interpreter become the hinge on which justice nearly failed?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the missing evening of October 12, 2009 to the interview five days later that produced the contested phrase, following how procedural choices and one interpreter’s certification status shaped the charges-could a single consonant shift decide guilt or innocence?
Person: Mara Voss
Date: October 12-14, 2009
Location: Caldwell Street building, Millhaven
Person: Gary Wagner
Date: October 19, 2009
- Mara Voss arrived in the United States in 2004 and was 31 years old at the time of her death.
- Her body was found on the morning of October 14, 2009; medical examiner placed time of death between 9:00 and 11:00 PM on October 12, 2009.
- The upright left shoe was photographed at 10:03 AM on October 14, size seven brown leather flat, heel flush against the second concrete step.
- Gary Wagner was arrested seven days after Mara Voss’s body was found and interviewed at 2:17 PM on October 19, 2009 at Millhaven Central.
- Interpreter Vincent Mohr was certified for Polish and Slovak but listed as qualified for Czech without further verification; his written rendering was "I knew the way in" while linguist Yvonne Šimek later translated the audio as "I know how it looks."
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