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The Case of Angela Garcia
📻 Episode #422
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Jan 29, 2024
About This Episode
In November of 1999, a fire broke out in Angela Garcia’s home in Cleveland, OH. Angela jumped out of a second-story window and ran for help, but her two young daughters died of smoke inhalation. Several months later, she was charged with their murder and received two life sentences. “I didn't hurt my daughters…I loved…
The Case
In November of 1999, a fire broke out in Angela Garcia’s home in Cleveland, OH. Angela jumped out of a second-story window and ran for help, but her two young daughters died of smoke inhalation. Several months later, she was charged with their murder and received two life sentences. “I didn't hurt my daughters…I loved them like I love myself,” Angela tells Maggie. “I always believed that the truth would prevail…that's what the news teaches you to think. So why would I ever think that the system would let me down?”
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:04:33“Speaker 1: Do no wrong. How was she as a mom? Speaker 3: She was a good mom. Yeah. I kept the kids Speaker 3: a lot because I had a younger son, so so Speaker 3: they can play together all the time. So basically I Speaker 3: had them mostly all the weekends.”
00:18:30“Speaker 1: And as we've seen in so many wrongful conviction cases, Speaker 1: that jailhouse confession never actually happened. Speaker 4: Years later, Tim would write a letter to Angela indicating Speaker 4: that you know that was a lie, and what he Speaker 4: said was that the police approached them. After her first”
00:31:17“Speaker 3: Decision to make it now? You know, come on, does Speaker 3: somebody's life you don't just tell them, make a decision Speaker 3: to make it now. Speaker 2: I cried so hard, and I remember praying to God Speaker 2: and asking God, like, whatever you want me to do,”
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