The Case of False Confessions - Henry McCollum and Leon Brown

📻 Episode #374
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jul 10, 2023

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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.

This update shares the fabulous news that in 2021, Henry and Leon were compensated $75 million dollars – the largest wrongful conviction verdict in history.

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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts

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00:04:09
“Speaker 1: been known for social strata and racial strife. It's a Speaker 1: place where a small group of elite white men descended Speaker 1: from colonial landowners, dominate everything from the lumber business to Speaker 1: the illegal drug trade to the courtrooms. Meanwhile Native Americans, Speaker 1: poor whites, and black people get the scraps. On September”

00:14:51
“Speaker 1: The second problem. There was a pretty obvious alternative suspect, Speaker 1: a man named Roscoe Artists. Artists lived near the field Speaker 1: where Sabrina's body was found, and he had a disturbing history. Speaker 1: Only a few weeks after Henry and Leon were arrested, Speaker 1: Roscoe Artists had murdered an eighteen year old girl in”

00:25:47
“Speaker 1: DNA evidence of the real killer, and on September second, Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were exonerated in Speaker 1: a Robinson County courtroom as the burden of wrongful conviction Speaker 1: was lifted from him. Leon Brown smiled big, but all Speaker 1: Henry mccoum could do was sit back in his chair,”

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