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The Case of Darrell Siggers at the 2024 Innocence Conference
📻 Episode #455
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jun 13, 2024
About This Episode
Shortly before midnight on February 16, 1984, James Montgomery was shot and killed as he walked with two friends on the eastside of Detroit, MI. Montgomery’s friends told police they recognized the gunman as 20-year-old Darrell Siggers who they had seen earlier in the night at a gathering. Despite no physical evidence linking him to…
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The Case
Shortly before midnight on February 16, 1984, James Montgomery was shot and killed as he walked with two friends on the eastside of Detroit, MI. Montgomery’s friends told police they recognized the gunman as 20-year-old Darrell Siggers who they had seen earlier in the night at a gathering. Despite no physical evidence linking him to the crime, Darrell was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole.
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00:03:52“Speaker 1: years old. He had two children with his ex girlfriend, Christine, Speaker 1: who threw a party on February sixteenth, nineteen eighty four, Speaker 1: attended by the victims in this case, Derek Lawson, Renard Jackson, Speaker 1: and James Montgomery. Speaker 3: There were a lot of people at the party, Daryl”
00:14:53“Speaker 2: chains on your wrists, chains on your legs, and then Speaker 2: they march you out and you got a duck or Speaker 2: they chain me to twenty other guys, and I feel Speaker 2: like a slave. First. When I got there, I'm seeing Speaker 2: all types of crazy stuff. You know what I'm saying.”
00:25:35“Speaker 2: lost all my family while I was in prison. I Speaker 2: lost my mother, my father, my oldest brother, youngest sister, Speaker 2: visually all my family. And so to lose her after Speaker 2: getting out was a punch in the gut. But you Speaker 2: go on, what else can you do?”
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Also on the podcast: #21 Floyd Bledsoe and Cornelius Dupree (Live from the Innocence Network Conference 2017) · #22 Kristine Bunch and Obie Anthony (Live from the Innocence Network Conference 2017) · #453 Jennifer McMullan at the 2024 Innocence Conference