#337 Maggie Freleng with Amelia Bird

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As a child, Amelia’s family members severely abused her. She resorted to drugs and relationships with older men as coping mechanisms. In January of 2006, when Amelia was 16, she confided in an ex, Chad, who was 19, about her suffering. Then, in an effort to win her back, Chad entered Amelia’s family home while they were all asleep, and shot her parents. Amelia’s father survived but her mother was killed. Despite a lack of hard evidence and a questionable investigation, police decided that Amelia told Chad to kill her parents. After being threatened with the death penalty, Amelia accepted a plea deal. Now serving two life sentences, clemency is Amelia’s only hope. Maggie speaks to Amelia Bird, Amelia’s mentor, Nola Ewers, and Amelia’s attorney, Anne Geraghty-Rathert.

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0:00.0	The stuff they don't want you to know, podcast, explores the world of the unexplained.
0:05.6	Now host Ben, Matt, and Noel are returning to I Heartland in Fortnite, for a special
0:10.2	event at State Farm Park to dig into one of the wackiest conspiracy theories ever, that
0:15.0	the Earth is flat.
0:16.8	So be there starting Thursday, April 27th at 7pm Eastern, as the guys celebrate Earth
0:22.1	Day by debunking every flat Earth theory on the globe, head to State Farm Park right
0:26.7	in the middle of I Heartland for the biggest events happening in the metaverse.
0:30.9	A note for listeners, this episode contains discussion of suicide.
0:35.5	Please listen with caution and care.
0:45.5	For Amelia Bird, her world never felt safe.
0:49.1	From a young age, she was mentally, physically, and sexually abused by family members.
0:54.5	She tried to get help from anyone she could.
0:58.9	I went to my school counselor in Beg them to call DFS, call whoever to come get me, because
1:06.0	I could not live in that house any longer.
1:11.4	The counselor referred her to a mental health facility.
1:14.9	I told them I was suicidal, they, I would die before I ever went back in that house.
1:20.0	I can't do it no more.
1:23.8	When adults in Amelia's life continued to fail her, she turned to drugs, alcohol, and
1:28.3	older men for comfort.
1:30.0	But these avenues would lead not to escape, but to her biggest downfall.
1:36.6	I remember waking up and thinking that it was storming really bad, nothing you'd seen,
1:43.8	like actual seeing the lightning.
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