110: It's Always the Husband: The Michael Morton Story

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In 1986, a young mother was brutally murdered in her Austin, Texas home, early in the morning, while still sleeping in her bed. Her husband had left for work at 5:30am. Her three year old son was left alone in the house. Unfortunately, the night before, her husband had become disappointed when his wife had been too tired to make love. Michael Morton loved his wife, but he left a note for her that would definitely sting any wife. And based mainly on that note alone, corrupt investigators made sure he spent 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife, Christine Kirkpatrick Morton.

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0:30.1	Southern-fried true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and
0:34.7	there may also be some explicit language used. Listener discretion is advised.
0:41.3	There is a common saying in true crime. It's always the husband. We are usually joking,
0:50.7	but the jokes are based on unfortunate statistics. But what if actual investigators felt that
0:56.4	they were in a way and went no further? English jurist William Blackstone wrote in the
1:01.8	1760s quote,
1:03.8	It is better that 10 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. Some scholars say
1:11.3	that principle goes back further to the Salem Witch trials in 1692 when Minister Mother
1:16.8	wrote,
1:17.8	It were better than 10 suspected witches should escape than that one innocent person should
1:23.2	be condemned. If you really dig into that quote, it goes back hundreds of years in all
1:28.5	types of situations. American Founding Fathers John Adams and Benjamin Franklin both said
1:35.2	and wrote versions of that same quote when establishing American common law, much of which
1:41.3	was based on some principles of the British legal system. But our Founding Fathers felt
1:46.7	so strongly about this principle that the American justice system was founded on it. Those
1:53.8	accused of committing a crime no matter how heinous or violent are presumed innocent until
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