#389 Guest Host Maggie Freleng with Quincy Cross

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

18-year-old Jessica Currin’s burned and decomposing body was discovered on August 1, 2000 behind Mayfield Middle School in Mayfield, KY. Jessica had lacerations on the back of her head, nose and chin, and stab wounds. The medical examiner also believed she had been strangled but there was no evidence to support this theory. The case went cold for a few years, until a couple of supposed eyewitnesses came forward, motivated by promises of reward money, and told inconsistent stories that they and multiple others had kidnapped, killed, and raped Jessica. They said Quincy Cross was one of the people involved, and that he was the person who hit and strangled Jessica. Based on this unreliable testimony, as well as a jailhouse snitch, and despite a lack of physical evidence connecting him to this crime, Quincy was convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder of Jessica Currin and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Maggie Freleng talks to Quincy Cross and Miranda Hellman, Quincy's attorney.

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0:09.8	A young family is tragically murdered.
0:12.5	At trial, prosecutors argue that it was someone close to the mother, while the defense claims
0:17.1	it was a cartel hit, would reasonable doubt prevail.
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1:25.9	On the morning of August 1st, 2000, a woman's partially burned and decomposing body was found
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