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The Case of Marcus Wiggins
📻 Episode #211
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jun 30, 2021
About This Episode
At age 13, Marcus Wiggins became one of many young black men to be tortured into a false statement by sadistic Chicago PD Detective Commander Jon Burge and his “Midnight Crew.” When an eyewitness foiled their first frame job, Marcus’ mother Carolyn successfully sued and exposed these men, leading Burge’s underlings to embark on a…
The Case
At age 13, Marcus Wiggins became one of many young black men to be tortured into a false statement by sadistic Chicago PD Detective Commander Jon Burge and his “Midnight Crew.” When an eyewitness foiled their first frame job, Marcus’ mother Carolyn successfully sued and exposed these men, leading Burge’s underlings to embark on a vendetta to frame Marcus Wiggins for murder. After another failed attempt in 1994, they succeeded and sent Marcus to prison in 1999 for a crime that he did not commit.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-marcus-as-a-free-man
Northwestern University Students’ Documentary, “Heroes for a Semester”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtWjeFkIbM
Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - The Midnight Crew released on October 26, 2020: https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/podcast/s12e7-wrongful-conviction-false-confessions-the-midnight-crew
Righteous Convictions - Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx released on April 26, 2021: https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/podcast/s12e49-righteous-convictions-cook-county-states-attorney-kim-foxx
https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom
In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:04:46“Speaker 2: is is that people actually heard screams in the police station. Speaker 2: And all the while that this was going on, there Speaker 2: was a witness that could exonerate Marcus. That did exonerate Speaker 2: Marcus a guy by the name of Sean Tyler. And Speaker 2: the police were so on to Sean Tyler that a”
00:18:52“Speaker 1: to sign a similar document. Speaker 3: What a coincidence. Speaker 1: Jesus Christ's that's a mafia. Speaker 2: And he recanted to three different people. He recanted on Speaker 2: the witness stand in the trial. He recanted to Marcus's Speaker 2: appellet attorney, and then he recanted to another woman, Tracy Ross,”
00:31:57“Speaker 1: and then Marcus. Speaker 3: Justice requires us to stop waiting for things to become Speaker 3: a hashtag before we stand up and do something. You know, Speaker 3: as we think about the one year anniversary of us Speaker 3: watching George Floyd lose his life, you know, we as”
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