The Detective Who Buried a Man Alive: The Barry Gibbs Frame-Up
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The Detective Who Buried a Man Alive: The Barry Gibbs Frame-Up
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A postal worker, a decorated detective, and two witnesses - but only one man spent nineteen years in prison. This episode reveals how a single off-duty detective steered an investigation, coerced an identification, and left a Vietnam veteran to serve nearly two decades for a murder he did not commit. How did a routine life become perfect cover for a frame-up?
In this episode, we walk through the events of November 4, 1986, the roles played by the people at the Belt Parkway crime scene, and the gaps that turned a four-day trial into a nineteen-year conviction. What evidence was hidden, who was pressured, and how did the truth finally emerge?
Person: Barry Gibbs
Person: Louis Eppolito
Date: November 4, 1986
Location: Belt Parkway, Brooklyn
Duration: 19 years in prison
- Barry Gibbs was 38 years old, a postal worker and Vietnam veteran with no prior arrests.
- The victim was found strangled and thrown from a moving vehicle on November 4, 1986.
- A jogger named Peter Mitchell witnessed the body being thrown and later identified Gibbs at a lineup after Eppolito showed him who to select.
- Parks officer Gentili saw the driver at the scene but never identified Barry Gibbs and was not presented at trial by the defense.
- Barry Gibbs’ trial lasted four days and led to a conviction that resulted in 19 years of imprisonment.
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