#175 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Ray McCann
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
These police were willing to sacrifice one of their own just to close a case.
Laura and Steve tell us the story of a Michigan murder case with an unusual suspect: a small-town police officer named Ray McCann. After Ray helped investigate the disappearance of a little girl, he was wrongfully accused of her murder. In pursuit of their only suspect, police turned Ray’s whole life into an interrogation room.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Wrongful Conviction False Confessions. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Lauren Eirider. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Steve Drizen. |
| 0:09.1 | Today we'll tell you about a Michigan murder case with an unusual suspect, a small town |
| 0:14.4 | police officer named Ray McCann. |
| 0:17.5 | After Ray helped investigate the disappearance of a little girl, he was wrongfully accused |
| 0:22.1 | of her murder. |
| 0:23.4 | Cops turned on one of their own in one of the worst cases of tunnel vision we've seen. |
| 0:28.5 | In pursuit of their only suspect, police turn Ray's whole life into an interrogation |
| 0:33.5 | room. |
| 0:43.1 | In 1967, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, Flees Russia, for her new home, America. |
| 0:48.1 | Hello, everybody. |
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| 0:54.0 | That story alone is worthy of a podcast, but Spedlana Spedlana is about what comes next. |
| 1:00.0 | And it's the craziest story I've ever heard. |
| 1:02.9 | It has KGB agents, a Frank Lloyd Wright commune, weird sex stuff, three Olga's two Spedlana's |
| 1:08.8 | and one neurotic gay playwright. |
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| 1:18.0 | When my daughter ran off to hop trains, I was terrified I'd never see her. |
| 1:24.0 | I was like, I'm going to go to the beach again. |
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