#290 Guest Host Patrick Pursley with Carl Williams

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On January 13, 1994, two men hijacked the car of three travelers at a gas station in Chicago, IL, killing Reginald Wilson and Felicia Lewis. Carl Williams was implicated in the crime by the two hijackers and eventually produced a confession after hours of abuse and coercion from detectives. Williams was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Patrick speaks with Carl Williams, and Attorney Karl Leonard, from the Exoneration Project at the University of Chicago Law School.

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0:00.0	Yellowstone, television's number one show is back on Paramount Network.
0:03.6	I John Dutton, who solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the State of Montana,
0:08.4	against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
0:10.8	Featuring an all-star cast led by Academy Award winner Kevin Costner,
0:13.9	the invasion is over. They will fight you dirty.
0:16.0	Is there any other way?
0:17.2	As the Dutton family fights to protect their legacy, they'll learn power has a price.
0:21.1	Signed as a declaration of war.
0:23.2	We're already at war.
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0:30.1	I'm Jason Flom, host of wrongful conviction.
0:33.0	Over the years, hundreds of exoneries have told me their stories.
0:36.1	And sadly, with the state of our criminal legal system, we're left with far more cases
0:40.3	than I can possibly handle alone.
0:42.5	So I've asked some exoneries to handle some of these cases, bringing the kind of perspective
0:47.6	to the interviews that could only come from living through their own wrongful convictions.
0:52.4	This is one of those interviews.
0:58.4	In the early morning hours of January 13th, 1994, Steven Fitch,
1:03.5	Reginald Wilson and Felicia Lewis were in Chicago driving in Wilson's car.
1:08.5	They stopped at a gas station so the two men could use the restroom.
1:12.6	When Fitch walked back to the car, he saw two men hijacking it, one driving and another in the
1:18.3	back with Wilson and Lewis, Fitch ran across the street and called the police to report the car
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