19: Andre Brown
Unjust & Unsolved
Daisy
4.9 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Maggie Freeling. |
| 0:04.0 | A majoringist 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 |
| 0:15.8 | unsolved. |
| 0:16.8 | You've surely heard stories like these on the news, but the thing is, the ones you've |
| 0:21.5 | heard about barely scratch the surface. |
| 0:24.7 | The Innocence Project gives a conservative estimate that about 20,000 innocent people |
| 0:30.4 | are currently locked away in US prisons. |
| 0:34.4 | After reading some of these stories, I felt compelled to do something. |
| 0:37.8 | So I sent 20 letters to people who are locked up despite evidence pointing away from them. |
| 0:43.6 | Some responded through mail, some emailed, and some called me on contraband cell phones. |
| 0:49.2 | But all wanted their stories to be heard. |
| 0:52.3 | So I left my public radio job and decided to do just that. |
| 0:58.6 | In each episode, I speak with those people, their loved ones, supporters, and lawyers, |
| 1:03.6 | to shed light on how they wound up incarcerated for decades, despite the evidence, and how |
| 1:09.0 | that means the crimes they were convicted of are still unsolved. |
| 1:13.6 | This week I'm telling the story of Andre Brown. |
| 1:17.4 | On January 15, 1999, two teenagers were shot by a masked gunman in the Bronx, New York. |
| 1:26.8 | The gunman first shot one and then chased down the other and shot him before running away. |
| 1:32.8 | A witness says she saw the shooter remove his mask and eventually I did college student |
| 1:38.8 | Andre Brown in a photo lineup. |
| 1:41.7 | Andre was arrested and a year later he was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder. |
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