#070 Jason Flom with Susan King

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.4 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Susan King served nearly seven years behind bars for a crime she didn’t commit. In November 1998, a fisherman found the body of 40-year-old Kyle Breeden in the Kentucky River. He had been shot in the head twice with .22 caliber magnum bullets and his legs were bound with guitar amplifier cord. The crime went unsolved for eight years until May 2006, when Kentucky State Police began re-investigating. In April 2007, based on an investigation by state police officer Todd Harwood, Breeden’s on-again, off-again girlfriend, Susan King, was charged with murder and tampering with a crime scene. Harwood concluded that Susan shot Breeden twice in the head in the kitchen of her home following a quarrel. Susan, who had one leg and weighed 97 pounds, was accused of transporting the body to the river where she physically lifted Breeden’s 180-pound body over the railing of a Kentucky River bridge. She was also charged with trying to clean up the crime scene to hide evidence of the murder. In September 2008, Susan King entered an Alford plea to second-degree manslaughter in which she did not admit guilt, and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She served more than six years in prison before she was released on parole in November 2012.

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0:00.0	I've never been in trouble in my life. I didn't even have a parking ticket. I was brought up like cops or the good guys.
0:09.0	I didn't know what was going to happen, but I do know that everything was stacked against me. Everything, like everything.
0:17.0	This isn't supposed to happen this way. I'm innocent. I know I'm innocent. I know I had nothing to do with this. How is this possible?
0:28.0	I grew up trusting the system. I grew up believing that every human being should do the right thing.
0:33.0	And that's why even though I knew I was dealing with corrupt people, I wasn't going to brave anyone to get me out of prison.
0:39.0	Because I wouldn't live with the fact that I brave my way out of my wife's death.
0:44.0	I'm not innocent to prove I'm guilty until I prove my innocence and that's absolutely what happened to me.
0:51.0	Our system since I've been out 10 years, it's come a little ways, but it's still broken.
0:56.0	I totally lost trust in humanity after what happened to me.
1:02.0	This is wrongful conviction.
1:05.0	Welcome back to wrongful conviction with Jason Flam, that's me, I'm your host. And today I have an absolutely unbelievable story and an incredible person to share that story with you. Susan King is here. Susan, welcome to wrongful conviction.
1:34.0	Thank you. Good to be here.
1:36.0	And like I always say, I'm glad you're here, but I'm sorry you're here. So...
1:40.0	Thank you.
1:41.0	Susan, ever since I read your story, which must be a year and a half ago, I was transfixed.
1:47.0	Because even having been in this movement for 25 years now and having recorded 70 episodes of the podcast, your story sticks out in many ways.
2:00.0	Because it's so absolutely insane that I find myself telling the story to other people, and that can't be true, but I know it is. And you actually had to live it.
2:16.0	Well, she served six years behind bars after a Kentucky State Police Investigator said she killed a man.
2:21.0	Then in 2012, someone else confessed to the crime and now two years later, the case against Susan Jean King is finally dismissed.
2:29.0	King spent years in prison for what they call brazen misconduct by Kentucky State Police.
2:34.0	It comes after King served six and a half years in prison for the 1998 death of Kyle Deemy Breeden of Shelbyville.
2:41.0	The Kentucky Innocence Project told the court, when the Kentucky State Police Case went cold after a few years, trooper Todd Harwood picked it up.
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