#043 Jason Flom with Michelle Murphy

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.4 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On September 12th, 1994, 17-year-old Michelle Murphy found her 15-week-old son stabbed to death in her kitchen. After being questioned without a parent or guardian present, which was prohibited under Oklahoma law, Michelle falsely confessed to the crime. Her 14-year-old neighbor William Lee testified during the preliminary hearing that he had walked around her house that evening and reportedly saw Michelle with the dead infant but did not report it to the police. Testing of blood at the scene of the crime excluded Michelle Murphy as a suspect, but at trial prosecution falsely implied that it matched Michelle’s blood type. In 1995, she was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. She was forced to give her only living child up for adoption, daughter Michelle. In 2014, the Innocence Project joined Michelle’s defense team and conducted more DNA testing, yielding results that the bloodstains at the crime scene revealed that there was an unidentified male present that night. On September 12th, 2014, Michelle Murphy was declared innocent, after having spent 20 years behind bars.

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0:00.0	Back in 2017, I recorded an episode with Michelle Murphy, and Michelle was
0:08.1	wrongfully convicted of the murder of her baby Trevor of 15-week-old boy.
0:12.4	She was egregiously framed and served 20 years to the day in prison of a life
0:20.3	sentence. Upon her release, the judge said through tears that in his four
0:25.3	decades on the bench it was the worst miscarriage of justice he'd ever seen.
0:28.9	She's been fully exonerated and she is an extraordinary person who is full of
0:35.2	life, very brilliant, and is working at the bail fund in Oklahoma, helping to
0:43.4	free other women from sentences they don't deserve and getting them back home
0:49.4	with their families where they belong. Sad news is that in 2018 March of 2018
0:56.7	she lost a lawsuit that she filed against the city of Tulsa for violating her
1:01.2	civil rights. There are ongoing developments and hopefully this wrong will be
1:06.2	eventually righted, but it's shocking to say that now almost five years since her
1:10.5	release she has gotten nothing from the state of Oklahoma or anyone else for her
1:16.6	20 years of wrongful incarceration. Her daughter from whom she was taken at the
1:25.6	age of 17 when this tragedy happened. She was taken directly to interrogation.
1:31.0	She was interrogated for nine hours without an attorney, without a parent.
1:35.5	It was an illegal interrogation and from that interrogation she was taken to jail
1:40.0	and never saw her daughter again. The good news is that in 2018 in May she was
1:48.0	reunited with her daughter and I was there and it was an unbelievably
1:54.4	emotional scene. Her daughter not 25 has a daughter of her own and so there's
2:01.5	still a lot of healing to be done but Michelle is one of the strongest and
2:06.4	bravest people I've ever known and you have to hear her story to believe in
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