#258 Maggie Freleng with Melvin Ortiz

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On December 23, 1997, a botched robbery at a popular pizza restaurant in Reading, PA resulted in the death of its beloved owner, George Clauser. A reward in the paper led police to 19 year old Melvin Ortiz, when two individuals with obvious agendas implicated him. Despite 19 alibi witnesses placing Melvin at a birthday party at the time of the crime, Melvin was sentenced to spend life in prison without parole. Maggie speaks to Melvin Ortiz at SCI - Dallas, PA., Marc Howard J.D., Melvin's advocate, and Victoria Blanco, Melvin's fiancee. To learn more and get involved, visit: If anyone has any information on this case, please email [email protected] https://www.freemelvinortiz.org/ @freemelvinortiz on instagram, twitter, facebook, tiktok https://www.change.org/MelvinOrtiz https://www.instagram.com/freemelvinortiz/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNCpeXu5tURsdkRezBY2EVQ https://fundly.com/support-ortiz-family https://lavaforgood.com/with-maggie-freleng/ Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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0:00.0	So Jason, I wanted to ask you about relationships in prison, like intimate relationships.
0:10.3	I'm always so surprised when people are able to have an intimate romantic relationship
0:17.3	and keep it for decades.
0:19.3	Is that something that surprised you?
0:21.3	Yeah, I'd be surprised if I wasn't surprised, you know.
0:26.3	It's a remarkable testament, I think, to people on both ends of that equation, right?
0:31.0	You know, and of course, you know, anyone who's ever been in a long distance relationship
0:35.2	probably knows how that can be tricky, right?
0:38.7	But you're always right.
0:39.7	And then you have people in your business all the time.
0:42.4	It's the opposite of spontaneous and romantic, right?
0:45.3	And yet true love finds a way.
0:51.8	And I thought, with that recent thing, he would only have 14 years left Maggie.
0:55.9	I've gone up to myself.
0:56.9	Well, I can wait for two years for him.
1:00.1	That's what my gut in my heart was telling me.
1:07.2	From Lava for Good, I'm Maggie Freeling.
1:09.6	And this is Rumble Conviction with Maggie Freeling.
1:12.9	And today, Melvin Ortiz.
1:22.6	On the evening of December 23rd, 1997, two masked gunmen walked into Effie's Pizza Village
1:29.8	in Redding, Pennsylvania to try and rob it.
1:33.0	But things went awry.
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