150: [Maggie Freleng] Communicate the Humanity
What Came Next
Broken Cycle Media
4.4 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Content warning: wrongful conviction, domestic violence, childhood abuse, robbery, death, and murder.
Maggie Freleng is an advocate, award-winning journalist, and producer reporting on wrongful convictions, the criminal legal system, and social issues. She's the host and producer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast Suave on PRX, as well as the host and producer of the Signal and Anthem award-winning podcast, Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng. She also hosts Up and Vanished Weekly podcast, and is here to share about her newest release, Bone Valley Season three entitled Graves County, as well as about her work across all genres of storytelling. The Broken Cycle Media team is extremely grateful for this illuminating conversation and for Maggie's expertise and advocacy.
Bone Valley, S3: Graves County
https://lavaforgood.com/graves-county
Suave on PRX:
https://play.prx.org/listen?uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Fsuavepodcast
Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng:
https://lavaforgood.com/with-maggie-freleng
Up and Vanished Weekly:
https://upandvanished.com/up-and-vanished-weekly/
Maggie on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/maggiefreleng/
For a list of additional resources and related non-profit organizations, please visit http://www.somethingwaswrong.com/resources
Sources:
Carson, E. Ann. “Prisons Report Series: Preliminary Data Release.” Bureau of Justice Statistics, bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/prisons-report-series-preliminary-data-release
“National Registry of Exonerations’ Annual Report Finds Majority of Exonerees Are People of Color and Official Misconduct Is the Main Cause of Wrongful Convictions.” Death Penalty Information Center, deathpenaltyinfo.org/national-registry-of-exonerations-annual-report-finds-majority-of-exonerees-are-people-of-color-and-official-misconduct-is-the-main-cause-of-wrongful-convictions
Ostoyich, Halle. WV Innocence Project | West Virginia University, 2 Oct. 2020, wvinnocenceproject.law.wvu.edu/innocence-project-blog/our-voices/2020/10/02/wrongful-convictions-the-facts
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you to Cash App for sponsoring this episode. |
| 0:03.3 | What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:08.0 | Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering, such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder. |
| 0:17.2 | I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor. |
| 0:20.5 | If you're in need of support, please visit something was wrong.com forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help. |
| 0:29.7 | Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media. |
| 0:38.4 | Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. |
| 0:42.4 | Thank you so much for listening. Maggie Freeling is an advocate, award-winning journalist, and producer reporting on wrongful |
| 1:13.8 | convictions, the criminal legal system, and social issues. She is the host and producer of the |
| 1:19.5 | Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast, Suave, on PRX, as well as the host and producer of the Signal |
| 1:25.8 | and Anthem Award-winning podcast, |
| 1:28.2 | Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freeling. |
| 1:30.9 | She also hosts Up and Vanished Weekly Podcast, |
| 1:34.1 | and is here to share about her newest release, |
| 1:36.7 | Bone Valley Season 3, entitled Graves County, |
| 1:40.3 | as well as about her work across all genres of storytelling. |
| 1:44.8 | The Broken Cycle Media team is extremely grateful for this illuminating conversation and for Maggie's |
| 1:51.2 | expertise and advocacy. |
| 1:58.1 | My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer-winning journalist and producer. |
| 2:04.0 | I'm also an adjunct professor. |
| 2:07.1 | I'm a mentor, and I'm a three-time cat mom at the moment. |
| 2:12.6 | I ask my mom a lot, why am I like this? |
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