#283 Maggie Freleng with Marni Yang

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In October 2007, 42 year old Rhoni Reuter was shot and killed in her Chicago, IL apartment. She was 7 months pregnant by her boyfriend, Shaun Gayle. Gayle, a Chicago Bears 1985 Super Bowl winner, allegedly had 17 other girlfriends at the time. Marni Yang was one of them, and police began looking into her and her son as suspects. In an attempt to protect her son, Marni confessed to the crime. While she adamantly declares the confession was false, this, along with other circumstantial and potentially outright false evidence, led to Marni’s conviction and life without parole sentence. Maggie speaks to Marni Yang, her daughter Emily Yang and her attorney, Jed Stone. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.amazon.com/My-Mom-Marni-Andrew-Yang/dp/1949809129 To learn more about false confessions, listen to Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions: https://lavaforgood.com/false-confessions/ 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 Maggie, what about you?
0:03.0	Is there anything that could make you confess to a crime you didn't commit?
0:08.4	I don't have kids, but I imagine maybe a situation where I would be looking to save somebody
0:19.8	that I knew was for sure innocent like a child or maybe even my mom or maybe there would
0:26.4	be a situation where I would falsely confess to something to save somebody.
0:35.6	I had reached a point where I felt so beaten down after seeing my son and daughter go through
0:48.4	a mental breakdown.
0:50.9	I had just decided I'm just going to tell them whatever they want to hear.
0:57.9	From Lava for Good, this is wrongful conviction with Maggie Freeling.
1:01.8	Today, Marnie Yang.
1:13.6	On October 4th, 2007, 42-year-old Ronnie Reiter was going about her morning at her apartment
1:20.3	in Deerfield, Illinois.
1:22.3	Suddenly, neighbors heard a short scream, loud bangs, and a crash followed by silence.
1:32.3	When police arrived, they found Ronnie lying face down on her kitchen floor in a pool
1:36.7	of blood.
1:37.7	A single bullet wound to the back of her head was the cause of death.
1:41.7	She had also been shot two times in the stomach.
1:44.7	Ronnie was seven months pregnant, the bullets killed her unborn child.
1:52.9	At the crime scene, police found no indication of a struggle nor were any items missing
1:57.4	from the house.
1:58.4	But what they did find was a threatening note inside Ronnie's purse, discussing her boyfriend
2:03.8	and baby's father, Sean Gale.
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