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Unjust & Unsolved

16: Tracy Alan Zornes

Unjust & Unsolved

Daisy

True Crime

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On Feb 19 2010, Tracy Zornes and some friends were hanging out drinking. Tracy left to see his girlfriend and when he came back, the apartment he was at was on fire. Tracy, avoiding a previous warrant for burglary, fled. Two weeks later he was arrested and charged in the stabbing, beating and arson murder of his friends Megan Londo and John Cadotte. Years later, a cop and a PI discovered evidence that Tracy, a Native American from a nearby reservation, did not commit the crime, and they know who did. They believe Tracy was railroaded because of long-standing bias against Native Americans in the region and country.

Learn more about Tracy's case and how to help:https://ww.change.org/tracy-allen-zornes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Maggie Freeling.

0:04.0

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

0:09.0

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

0:15.6

unsolved.

0:16.6

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

0:21.3

heard about barely scratch the surface.

0:24.4

The Innocence Project gives a conservative estimate that about 20,000 innocent people

0:30.2

are currently locked away in US prisons.

0:34.2

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

0:37.6

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

0:43.4

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

0:48.9

but all wanted their stories to be heard.

0:52.1

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

0:58.4

In each episode, I speak with those people, their loved ones, supporters, and lawyers,

1:03.4

to shed light on how they wound up incarcerated for decades, despite the evidence, and how

1:08.7

that means the crimes they were convicted of are still unsolved.

1:16.0

This week, I'm telling the story of Tracy Allen Zorns.

1:20.8

February 19, 2010, Tracy and some friends were hanging out at an apartment in Morehead,

1:26.6

Minnesota, drinking.

1:28.9

Tracy left when an argument broke out.

1:31.4

When he returned, he says the apartment was on fire, and he fled in a panic.

1:36.7

Three days later, 38-year-old Tracy was wanted for the murders of his two friends, 20-year-old

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