Welcome to Wrongful Conviction False Confessions.

I'm Lauren Eirator.

And I'm Steve Drison.

Today we'll bring you to Culpepper County, Virginia,

to tell you the story of teenage buddies Eric Weekly and Michael Hache.

Local police solved a murder case by coercing Eric into falsely confessing

and into falsely implicating his friend Michael as an accomplice.

For years, lawyers couldn't get justice for either of them

until Michael's mom found evidence that blew this case wide open.

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-top.

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 gonna find them there in the rail yard.

Undenail Morton, come with me to find out what waits for us in the city of the rails.

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

Or cityoftherails.com.

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

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

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