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The Case of Amelia Bird
📻 Episode #337
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Feb 27, 2023
About This Episode
As a child, Amelia’s family members severely abused her. She resorted to drugs and relationships with older men as coping mechanisms. In January of 2006, when Amelia was 16, she confided in an ex, Chad, who was 19, about her suffering. Then, in an effort to win her back, Chad entered Amelia’s family home while…
The Case
As a child, Amelia’s family members severely abused her. She resorted to drugs and relationships with older men as coping mechanisms. In January of 2006, when Amelia was 16, she confided in an ex, Chad, who was 19, about her suffering. Then, in an effort to win her back, Chad entered Amelia’s family home while they were all asleep, and shot her parents. Amelia’s father survived but her mother was killed. Despite a lack of hard evidence and a questionable investigation, police decided that Amelia told Chad to kill her parents. After being threatened with the death penalty, Amelia accepted a plea deal. Now serving two life sentences, clemency is Amelia’s only hope. Maggie speaks to Amelia Bird, Amelia’s mentor, Nola Ewers, and Amelia’s attorney, Anne Geraghty-Rathert.
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00:04:27“Speaker 2: My mom was very like quiet and meek, and no Speaker 2: matter what happened to her, like she would just take Speaker 2: it and keep going. I knew she was scared of Speaker 2: him because she had left him twice the time Mother's Speaker 2: Day and then another time she had left him again,”
00:17:14“Speaker 2: that altercation. And I'm like, no, I haven't seen him Speaker 2: in a long time, Like I don't know where he is. Speaker 2: They asked me about what TV shows I watched, like Speaker 2: it made no sense to me. Speaker 1: To Amelia, the questions seemed suggestive, leading and confusing.”
00:29:51“Speaker 1: difficult to fight for. Speaker 6: If there is no DNA. Those cases become far more Speaker 6: complicated because it's often, you know, one personon's word against another. Speaker 1: This is especially common when women are involved in wrongful convictions. Speaker 6: So I think currently, out of the hundreds of people”
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