My name is Maggie Freeling.

I'm a journalist and producer and this is unjust and unsolved.

A podcast about people who I believe are wrongfully incarcerated for crimes that are actually

unsolved.

You've surely heard stories like these on the news, but the thing is, the ones you've

heard about barely scratch the surface.

People data is hard to come by, but the Innocence Project gives a conservative estimate

that about 20,000 innocent people are currently locked away in US prisons.

After reading some of these stories, I felt compelled to do something.

So I sent 20 letters to people who are locked up despite evidence pointing away from them.

Some responded through mail, some emailed, and some called me on contraband cell phones,

all wanted their stories to be heard.

So I left my public radio job and decided to do just that.

In each episode, I speak with those people.

They're loved ones, supporters, lawyers, two shed light on how they wound up incarcerated

for decades despite the evidence and how that means the crimes they were convicted of

are still unsolved.

This week I'm telling the story of Nikki Zinger.

On March 10, 1991, Nikki's mother Linda Holley was found dead in her magnolia Arkansas

home.

The crime was brutal.

She was stabbed, beaten, and left for dead.

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