#178 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tommy Ward Part 2

Wrongful Conviction

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🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tommy Ward Part 2

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0:00.0	To our listeners, this episode is part two of the story of Tommy Ward and Carl Fountainau.
0:05.8	Two days before we were scheduled to release this episode, Steve and I learned about breaking news
0:11.6	in Tommy's case, and it's the kind of news that reminds us why we do this work.
0:16.8	So we'll hear this episode as we originally recorded it, but with a special update at the end.
0:22.4	No spoilers, but for Tommy and Carl, it's starting to look like justice might not be just a dream
0:28.5	after all. Welcome to Wrongful Conviction False Confessions. I'm Lauren Nyrider.
0:38.5	And I'm Steve Drizen. Today we bring you back to Ada Oklahoma for the second half of our story
0:44.1	about Tommy Ward and Carl Fountainau. When we left off last week, Tommy and Carl were sitting
0:49.5	on Death Row after police turned Tommy's bad dream into a murder confession. This week
0:55.4	we'll tell you about some serious twists in the case, from the discovery of the victim's body
1:00.5	to the revelation of hidden evidence that turned this case upside down. We'll update you on
1:06.0	everything that's happened since the 2018 Netflix series The Innocent Man told Tommy and Carl's
1:11.1	story. There's been some very good news for one of them and a lot of hope for the other.
1:16.2	In 1980, cocaine was captivating and corrupting Miami. The car kills, they just killed everybody.
1:30.6	It was hell. Setting an aspiring private investigator on a collision course with corruption
1:35.4	and multiple murders. The detective agency would turn out to be a front for a drug pilot. Would
1:40.2	it claim you did it all for the CIA? I'm Lauren Brad Pacheco. Join me for murder in Miami.
1:45.8	I'm walking into the devil's den. Listen to murder in Miami on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts
1:51.7	or wherever you get your podcasts. In 1968, five black girls were picked up by police after running
1:58.8	away from a reform school in Mount Meg's Alabama. I'm writer and reporter Josie Defi Rice.
2:04.7	And in a new podcast, I investigate the abuse that thousands of black children suffered
2:09.7	at the Alabama industrial school for Negro children and how those five girls changed everything.
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