Welcome to Rungful Conviction False Confessions.

I'm Lauren Eiriter.

And I'm Steve Drizen.

Today we're going to tell you about a California man named Ricky Davis.

In 1985, Ricky and his girlfriend Connie found their roommate brutally stabbed to death.

Without any leads, the case went cold for 14 years.

That's when detectives convinced Connie that she had repressed memories of Ricky committing the crime.

Based on Connie's false statement, Ricky spent 12 years in prison, until very recently,

when he and his mother Maureen finally had something to be thankful for.

In 1967, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, flees Russia for her new home, America.

Hello, everybody. I am very happy to be here.

That story alone is worthy of a podcast, but Spedlana Spedlana is about what comes next.

And it's the craziest story I've ever heard.

It has KGB agents, a Frank Lloyd Wright commune, weird sex stuff, three Olga's two Spedlana's

and one neurotic gay playwright. That's me.

Listen to Spedlana Spedlana on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

When my daughter ran off to hop trains, I was terrified I'd never see her again, so I followed her into the train yard.

This is what it sounds like inside the box-car.

And into the city of the rails, there I found a surprising world, so brutal and beautiful, that it changed me.

But the rails do that to everyone.

There is another world out there, and if you want to play with the devil, you're going to find them there in the rail yard.

I'm Denon Morton, come with me to find out what waits for us in the city of the rails.

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