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The Case of False Confessions - Henry McCollum and Leon Brown
📻 Episode #162
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 12, 2020
About This Episode
I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death.
The Case
I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death.
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside a decades-long fight for the truth. The story of Henry McCollum and Leon Brown is living proof that false confessions can send innocent people to death row.
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00:03:40“Speaker 1: next afternoon, September twenty sixth. That's when Sabrina Buoy is found, Speaker 1: and it's one of the worst discoveries imaginable. Sabrina is Speaker 1: lying in a soybean field, dead, surrounded by empty beer Speaker 1: cans and cigarette butts. She's been beaten and raped. She Speaker 1: isn't wearing anything except for a bra that's been pushed”
00:14:23“Speaker 2: of background that suggested they were capable of the horrific Speaker 2: nature of this crime. This was the work of a Speaker 2: sexual predator, probably a single sexual predator. Because of the Speaker 2: way the crime scene presented itself. This is not some Speaker 2: huge community that is beset by violent crime, and the”
00:25:05“Speaker 2: Await day, y'allo? Speaker 1: No, what's my name's name? Speaker 1: Yea love y'all y'all do you think to make a Speaker 1: doubly official? Both Henry and Leon received pardons from the Speaker 1: North Carolina governor in June twenty fifteen. Joe Freeman Britt Speaker 1: remained a firm believer in their guilt. When he heard”
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