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The Case of Tammy Poole
📻 Episode #285
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Aug 15, 2022
About This Episode
When Tammy Poole and her husband Michael Poole argued, Tammy says that Michael would threaten to commit suicide. Then on April 22, 2007, in their hometown of Chatsworth, GA, a rifle took Michael’s life. While Tammy adamantly claims that her husband tragically shot himself in front of her, a single declaration from a pathologist led…
The Case
When Tammy Poole and her husband Michael Poole argued, Tammy says that Michael would threaten to commit suicide. Then on April 22, 2007, in their hometown of Chatsworth, GA, a rifle took Michael’s life. While Tammy adamantly claims that her husband tragically shot himself in front of her, a single declaration from a pathologist led investigators to theorize that Tammy actually pulled the trigger. Despite numerous experts proving this pathologist wrong, and countless examples of an unfair trial with ineffective assistance, Tammy has been serving a life sentence in prison since 2008. Maggie speaks with Tammy Poole, Shanacy Densmore, Tammy’s daughter and Brandon Bullard, Tammy’s attorney. Author, podcaster and exoneree Amanda Knox joins Maggie at the top of the show to set the stage for this tragic story.
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00:04:57“Speaker 4: remember that being happy. Speaker 1: But Tammy's childhood was also filled with a lot of trauma. Speaker 4: My father drank a lot. My mother was a hoarder, Speaker 4: so there was a lot of things that went on. Speaker 4: I had different babysitters, so there was some childhood mental, physical,”
00:20:15“Speaker 4: position and I was just saying no, please, no, no, no, Speaker 4: And then he pulled me by my ankle off the Speaker 4: end of the bed and he was banging the gun. Speaker 4: It was a rifle. He was banging it against his Speaker 4: head and it was right there in front of my face.”
00:33:40“Speaker 1: doctor James Downs, who has been a forensic pathologist for Speaker 1: three decades. Doctor Downes says that the state's expert was Speaker 1: flat out wrong. The bullet didn't go downward as doctor Speaker 1: Oliver had contended, but traveled upward into Michael's head. Speaker 2: In doctor Down's.”
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