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The Case of Maggie Freleng on Quincy Cross and Graves County
📻 Episode #544
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 25, 2025
About This Episode
Jason Flom sits down for an interview with Maggie Freleng, the Pulitzer prize-winning producer, journalist and host of Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County. In this special episode, Maggie talks with Jason about her experiences reporting this show from a small town in Kentucky for over 2 years, and how truth and justice can…
The Case
Jason Flom sits down for an interview with Maggie Freleng, the Pulitzer prize-winning producer, journalist and host of Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County. In this special episode, Maggie talks with Jason about her experiences reporting this show from a small town in Kentucky for over 2 years, and how truth and justice can get lost in the pursuit of retribution.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
Short excerpts from the episode's official published transcript, with timestamps — listen from these moments, or read the full transcript via the podcast's own platforms.
00:02:05“Speaker 4: like it was a music award or something. Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So Maggie was kind of fly down and Speaker 1: offered to present me with this award, and the day Speaker 1: of the awards ceremony, which supposed to be that night. Speaker 1: I get a call from Maggie in the afternoon and”
00:09:38“Speaker 4: there was no evidence at all, zero that she was Speaker 4: sexually assaulted, so then this story doesn't even come about Speaker 4: until four or five years later when Susan and the Speaker 4: reporter get involved and it's actually the reporter who picks Speaker 4: up on while her underwear wasn't on her, so there”
00:16:55“Speaker 1: that means in practical terms is they basically, what it Speaker 1: means in simplest terms is they never get in trouble Speaker 1: for doing this stuff. Almost never. This one stinks from Speaker 3: That's what it is. You just said. Speaker 4: It's the top down and these people, these humans are”
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