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Wrongful Conviction

#275 Maggie Freleng with Kenneth Nixon

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In the late night of May 19, 2005, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a Detroit, MI home, killing two children – a 20 month old girl and a 10 year old boy. One of the victims’ siblings led police to 19 year old Kenneth Nixon. Despite very inconsistent eyewitness testimony from the child, Nixon was convicted with the help of a prosecutor’s deal with a jailhouse informant and some unscrupulous prosecutorial methods. Maggie speaks to Kenneth Nixon, Nixon’s mother Tracy Nixon, and his attorney David Williams. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://fundly.com/organization-of-exonerees 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

Hi, Maggie. How you holding up in these crazy? It seems like things getting crazy

0:04.7

or every day. Yes, so I'm feeling really inspired today actually despite all of the horrible

0:10.1

things in the news because of these people that go to prison and get activated and inspired

0:20.4

to change for others. Yeah, these are people who've been through

0:24.9

hell and come out carrying buckets of water for the people that left behind.

0:28.9

Absolutely. I mean, I don't blame people who get out and say, I want to forget all of it

0:33.9

and live a normal life, whatever that might be for them. But I really do think that

0:39.3

change comes from those who have experienced what happened and know what goes on. And I

0:46.8

think that's so incredible and beautiful and inspiring.

0:51.9

If you're innocent and you're fighting, don't stop fighting. We understand you. We hear

1:04.7

you. We're going to wreck this system.

1:12.7

Some love for good. This is wrongful conviction with Maggie Freeling. Today Ken Nixon.

1:25.4

On May 19, 2005, 19-year-olds Ken Nixon was having a relaxing evening at home in Detroit

1:31.6

with his girlfriend Latoya and their baby son. The night slipped away as normally as it

1:37.3

could for the new parents until the early hours of the morning when suddenly the police

1:42.8

busted in. About three blocks away that same night, someone had thrown a maltov cocktail

1:49.3

at a second floor window of a home, killing two children. The other people in the building

1:54.0

were able to escape. And one of them said the person he saw through the homemade bomb

1:59.2

was Ken. But Ken and Latoya both say they were home at her house, both her aunt and her

2:06.7

neighbor say, Ken never left the house that night. But regardless, Ken wound up being

2:12.1

tried for arson and for the murders of both children.

2:19.0

I was thinking that they're going to figure this out. I was thinking logic was going to

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