Hello everybody once again this is Connor Hall the producer for wrongful conviction filling in for Jason Flom I hope you enjoy it

On February 24th 1998

84-year-old Minnesota, Evelyn Mallin, was discovered in her ransacked bedroom, strangled and beaten to death.

Her small apartment was attached to her convenience store,

but the store was undisturbed, including any signs of forced entry.

But instead of focusing on personal or business relations with access to her keys,

the investigation targeted an indigenous man named Brian Pippett and four of his male relatives.

Despite no evidence connecting them to the scene,

credible alibis, and an equally incredible theory of guilt.

One of them made a statement. Two more pled. One was acquitted, but

Brian wasn't so lucky. This is wrongful conviction.

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Welcome back to wrongful conviction where we have a story about a group of

indigenous men, about an hour's drive north of Minneapolis, St. Paul, the Milax Band of Ojiboy, to be exact.

But the theory of their involvement in the murder was so lazy and full of holes that authorities must have known it was also full of something else.

And joining us to tell his story, still in a Minnesota prison, is Brian Pippett.

Welcome Brian.

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